Win Us! Trois chats du peeps cleanere!

I love these Chenille Cats Christmas Ornaments by Stephanie of Old World Primitives with Victorian cat heads, fat huggable bear bodies (not too hard or you'll crush them!) and a lot of funness going on who could resist! I had to have them and now you can too! Simply visit Stephanie's etsy shop and leave a comment below, winner will be announced on Friday!

Weekend WOW- Mommy I'm bored

See La Danse @ Film Forum in NYC (A newly released documentary about the Paris Ballet which investigates all of the proceedings that lead up to a final performance!) No tripping in this one, unless it's to d'light fantastique!

Carry around your wine tote (seen @Cup of Jo and found here) from the store to your house on foot with style, no tapping on the street, it's illegal, it's not a classy brown bag and don't ever ever drive your SUV while this is in your possession! btw it has a map of Manhattan on the back in case someone finds you stumbling they can deliver you to the pre-circled arrow on your handy street grid (I live here!)

Throw a tea-party with lots of Jam (spotted @ A Day That Is Dessert)

or go for a bike ride , get all big and flash that glare. Scare a few neighborhood dogs, keeps them on their toes! (Sort of like Kato and Inspector Clouseau)

Have a great weekend!

It's like Twilight, you don't know whether the vampire's gonna bite you or screw you

Lucia

Inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula which was the star of horror movies on Halloween night, yuck, with Gary Oldman's double bun up-do freakshow

"the saddest pumpkin ever" was disappointed by the moral standards of the vampires as well. (photo by ashleyg)

Paint your ass and drag your butt, you non-creative bitch!

All heart and soul, beep, beep, beep, turn off modem, turn off modem, turn off modem... Better to save that money you would have wasted on art for that nice condo in West Palm Beach when your 80, god willing. 

btw I think Dwell magazine should be re-titled "Dwell In Your Mind Neurotic", or "Get Out of Your Box F&#$ Head!"

News Flash Sir Edmund Hillary found reading Dwell, nuh-uh...

Hi, leafy face

"Hi, leafy face" by fine little day I love this photo! Nature is so inspiring! View my recent flickr gallery for more: Your moment of zen

NYC Marathon

Woman considers gender issues and carries her nationality, as Christ carried the cross, while running the NYC Marathon. Being French obviously means more than liking pomme frite and foie gras. It's sort of funny but losing those toe nails won't be! (Carrying the eiffel tower for 26.2 miles! Think bang, bang, bang, bang, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch.) And I thought me toes hurt from wearing 2 pairs of wool socks! At one point we heard that Lance circled this person with his arms in the air fist pumping and shouting number 8, number 8! 

(See more photos of the marathon here by Whimsy & Spice)

Strawberries print close up

strawberries print close up, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

yay, first batch of prints have arrived and they look amazing! I'm bustling around photographing, uploading, editing ack, super excited though! Visit my shop here to see more of these little berries!

Coffee Time

Ace hotel, NYC, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Hope you had a happy halloween...

...we had a swelled one!

Friday Wrapper-upper

This has been a bit of a crazy week, probably too much time spent online updating my new Special editions shop, reconnecting with internet peeps, discovering great new shops and amazing coffee, dreaming of travels to France and the Swiss Alps for the holidays (or maybe even permanently at this point!) and super excited about Halloween (Dance Macabre has been on repeat for the last 2 days!) Add two gray blustery days of wind and rain to the mix, crazy could be peeking it's head around the corner! Going to float my head off into a child's version of Halloween and let the Halloween Judge figure out the rest...

The Halloween Judge

Where my thoughts have wandered...

1.Stumptown Coffee, Ace Hotel, NYC photo by Arancia Project

2. Bon Hiver by Clare Owen found @SuzHOPkin

3. Vintage 1960s MARASCHINO Fair Isle Sweater by DearGoldenVintage

4. Nice Goats by will_davies

5. The Halloween Judge, by moi! featured on We Say Meow

Come walk with us!

We wore our pink jumpsuits just for the occasion!

And took the path less traveled.

We passed an old new england church

that may have had some spooky ghosts inside

and saw a lot of beautiful leaves when we looked up...

..and a lot of beautiful leaves when we looked down! (after last nights storm violently and with great menace blew them to the earth, rip rip slap slap)

Time to work on our leaf jumpin skills! (Of course our pile would have some knifes stickin up in it)

and when we finally made it to the beach and turned around..

we saw the moon and all was calm and peaceful.

Landshark and a few twitter faves

Journal photo/ Bob Thayer

KateGabrielle 

  

my cat just punched me in the face.

rexparker 

  

My 8yo daughter came downstairs wrapped neatly in blanket. Me: "So, you made a dress?" Her, walking away: "Tunic" #pwnedbylittlegirl

frolicblog 

  

Yesterday I stood in line behind a dad and his 8 yr old daughter. The daughter was wearing a t-shirt that said:"My ex is a f***ing psycho!"

ohjoystudio 

  

cat lovers, you HAVE to watch this. so. darn. cute. http://www.wimp.com/ineffic...

Sting off on another cold and blustery walk with his miserable and snarling mutt

It's times like these that make me rue the lack of a Starbucks on the Island, as if there were I could deftly slip this thin and magical disc into my lint filled pocket while the friendly Barista carefully prepared my pumpkin spice latte, make it skinny please! 

Keep your eyes open for my new production line, Soul Cake t-shirts, in eye-popping Kermit green with Miss Piggy pink lettering- gonna love!

For now I may have to purchase If On A Winter's Night on Amazon, all in good fun Mr. Sumner, chin up, pip-pip!

Looks like another Sasquatch sighting!

Euro trip gone wrong, but oh so beautiful

Vineyards near Aigle, originally uploaded by will_davies.

I wouldn't even mind being dragged down this road by a chain hooked up to a rusted red Ford F150 pickup truck full of moonshine sodden toothless and mullet adorned rednecks! So fast that it would ignite the recycled polypropylene in my Patagonia vest, after being pulled from the seat of my quickly descending De rosa King.

Print Love and the Art of the Display

photo and display by caseybaudoin

Conifers of Canada poster by Lovely Design

photo and display by chez Larsson Where We Live by Amy Blackwell photo and display by Geninne Print by Camilla Engman Loving and having art is not done after the purchase, careful thought and consideration must be given to framing and hanging! I love all these prints but I really love the care and attention given by those who purchased them! Do you have a work by me or Tom displayed proudly somewhere in your house? If so please share! I've put together a new flickr group called The Dancing Cat just for this! You guys make the work sing!

Bicycle Diaries

David Byrne

Bicycle Diaries

(click to enlarge)

psst pass it on, 25% off!

Receive a 25% discount this weekend only on new prints in my Special Editions Shop! Just enter the word TWEETS when checking out! How cool is that?!

Clementine Trio

Ode to the simple things!

Two exciting things happened last night, I got my new German pens and we had sweet potatoes! I made this little sketch to celebrate! Who knew oven roasted sweet potatoes with a little butter, salt and pepper could be so spectacular!

Chanel 2

Dutch Wannabes

Dutch bikes continued, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Dutch

dutch, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

NEW Prints now available in my Special Editions Shop, including my simple dutch bicycle illustration- check it out! I've always wanted to own one of these! NYC shop A Black Bike stocks the real thing and states "the steel swanlike frame will make you feel you are riding the most elegant bike in town and is a true eye catcher." I hope my illustration captures the essence of such a chic bike in my own little whimsical style!

Cat Toss

Cat Toss, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Skates

skates, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Pumpkin Moonshine

Recently came across Pumpkin Moonshine by Tasha Tudor while visiting The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA. Good stuff. Also check out The Christmas Cat which I almost couldn't resist purchasing but held out for a liverwurst sandwich in the cafe instead- sustenance prevailed. 

Also saw some emotionally disturbing seagull paintings by Jamie Wyeth. Blood, guts, gore, sex, and oversized violent seagulls emerging from a field of flames as if from an Armageddon based movie. So freak show and disturbing, the cute seaside charmer with his sheeps clothing ripped away and the true filthy wolf inside revealed. All of this was punched home by a manic and loud presentation by his niece Victoria Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth's only grandchild. We love the Wyeths, crazy fiends of Halloweenianna who blow up the ashen remains of their dead, not the bucolic barn loving Americana that you think you know- asshole! Read more here A Portrait of the Wyeths

I can only imagine that Tasha Tudor shared the Wyeths eccentricity!

Mums on our windowsill

mums, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

We survived the storm! Currently reading the undersea version, ie soaked to the bone Sunday NY Times.

homebody

home cat, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Happy House Cat print now in shop!

Cool book!

Drawings of NYC by Berlin based artist Robinson from the early 1960's "New York Line by Line: From Broadway to the Battery" 

New version just released, beautiful layout and design with a fresh contemporary look at the big apple!

The bad dream

the bad dream, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

chronicle reader

chronicle reader, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Cats need a public!

yoga cats, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.