Category: Sabi Saturday prompt/Cactus Haiku

  I had the pleasure of visiting the Baltimore Museum of art on Saturday, March 7. This was my favorite piece from an exhibit featuring women artists. The artist repurposes wool, cotton and threads to “train” a tree to grow flat against a wall. I like the colors and swirls and the new to me […]

I bought these two books at a library used book sale. One is an address book and the other is a journal. Both have lovely wild flower illustrations and are like new, except… The address book has 2 entries! I googled the addresses and one is just an hour away in Memphis. The other is […]

Mary https://cactuscatz.com/sabi-saturday/sabi-saturday-week-20/ got me thinking rocks, and while hers were all shiny and polished, mine are…not. The chunk of history above is from a small creek behind Muncy Elementary School in Muncy, PA. My husband and daughter peeled off a layer and you can see some shells: This fossil has been in our garage for […]

https://cactuscatz.com/sabi-saturday/sabi-saturday-week-18/ Mary posts a pic of a few pieces of cat inspired jewelry she has found at thrift stores and that got me thinking jewelry. I have a couple feline inspired pins as well, so was initially going to compliment Mary’s post with a pic of my pins, but I have a few jewelry items […]

Well, this was a fail. I spread black acrylic paint on a pussy willow, a fern and a flower.  I will try another type of paint and maybe leaves, since they are a bit flatter. But it was fun making a mess. For whatever reason I have been into making collages, so I am on […]

Bought this art book at Goodwill last Saturday. So happy it has sections on architecture and photography, too. BUT there was a secret surprise inside! On page 193, a grocery receipt from February 1988. The receipt is from Gene Walters Marketplace, a now closed grocer from the Virginia Beach/Norfolk VA area, so the book traveled […]

My mother collected purple glass. Let me rephrase that. My mother COLLECTED PURPLE GLASS. The mantle was full of bowls, carafes, vases and chunks of purple glass. There was too much purple glass for just the mantle, the stuff was lined up on a desk next to the fireplace. Some glass was new, some antique, […]

  This Christmas cactus is Papa’s Christmas cactus, named because I adopted it when we cleaned out his house. It was one of the few items he tended to with regularity, bringing it one plastic cup of water each Saturday. My grandmother brought it to the house when I was in seventh grade, so it […]