Celtic Loving Cup - Wedding Party T-shirts & Stuff
I've got a new design series available at my Art of FoxVox shop! If you or someone you know is planning a wedding with a traditional Irish/Celtic, medieval, or renaissance faire theme, check out this Celtic Loving Cup design - the loving cup is an Irish tradition where husband and wife share their first drink together from the same two-handled cup. This design has a two-handled chalice decorated with knotwork, the claddagh symbol, and an infinity symbol, as well as colored gems.
You can get just the chalice, or the chalice with 'bride', 'mother of the bride' etc - everyone in your wedding party, on many styles of t-shirts, sweatshirts, and pin-back buttons. A fun way to outfit people at the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner too.
I also made matching wedding invitations and thank you notes, as well as just the cup design itself on gifts like ceramic travel mugs, SIGG water bottles, tile keepsake boxes and more.
Available Designs... Just Married Betrothed Bride Groom Maid of Honor Matron of Honor Best Man Groomsman Bridesmaid
Junior Bridesmaid Usher Flower Girl Ring Bearer Mother/Father of Bride Mother/Father of Groom Grandparents of Bride/Groom Aunt/Uncle of Bride/Groom More! Click to see!
California Black-Tailed Deer Photo
Parts of the ground on the sage-covered hillside by our house are covered with dried Live Oak leaves, so when I heard the loud CRUNCH of something large walking slowly through, I grabbed my camera and tip-toed about 30 feet outside my door and there they were! Two California black-tailed deer (tail not shown)!
With the morning sun shining on them just so you can almost FEEL the velvet that's covering their antlers. You can see it in the image like a soft glow of bright light around them.
Oh, and you can click on the main photo or the one to the left here in the frame to get a framed or unframed print of this fortuitous morning sighting!
Coyote!
It's been an animal-ish kind of day already. On my morning walk with the dog, we saw three deer, one definitely an older buck as he good sized antlers (almost wrote 'a nice sized rack', but then I reconsidered.) Then, while I was eating breakfast, heard the chirping squirrel alarm go off outside and saw a coyote wandering around looking for his breakfast. And I was able to get a decent picture before I scared him off.
Coyotes are so rangy looking. Hard to picture this one wearing Acme rocket skates though. ;)
Egberta - The Teenage Years
Well, it looks as though we'll be keeping little Eggbert the dove, but I made John agree that we'd reached our upper limit for birdom right now. And another thing - we're 80% sure that Eggbert is a SHE, so she's now Egberta. The cool thing here is that the name Egbert/Egberta is Old English for "shining sword"! So yes, it's a weird name, but with a cool meaning, so we can keep it. Also because we can't stop calling her Eggie, so I'm glad to have a good excuse to keep the name.
And here's a recentish photo of Egberta - not a full grown dove yet, but sort of the equivalent of a teenager.
Since taking this picture we've moved her to a new, larger cage with nice perches and plenty of room to stretch her wings. And speaking of stretching her wings, yesterday I was adjusting something in her cage and she flew right out the large door, around the room, and landed on the sunny windowsill! Luckily, we'd been getting her used to us handling her (or maybe she was just really shocked at her own daring!), so she stayed still while I picked her up in both hands and put her back in the cage.
Celtic Stained Glass Spiral Fine Art Prints & T-shirts
I've got a newish Celtic design to share today! It looks like a stained glass window in a Medieval European church to me, and I love all the bright colors - very summery.
This artwork, on a black background, is also available as a framed or unframed fine art print via Imagekind - the print is tweaked slightly to be brighter in the middle like the sun is shining through the center of the window. Click here to see the Celtic Stained Glass Spiral fine art print and to purchase. Thanks for looking!
Eggbert - Day 21
Eggbert is still a bit smaller than the adult doves, but he's looking a LOT more dove-like and much less like a feathery fuzz ball. I know birds grow quickly, but to go from a small egg to this size in three weeks just amazes me. So herrrrrrre's Eggbert!
Eggbert - Day 16
Our baby dove Eggbert is growing fast! A few days ago he was out of the nest and on the cage floor for a little while, and today he's out and about, making it a regular habit. He's also been eating a little seed on his own, although he's still getting food from the parents too.
He's started to get some serious featherage going there, even his tail is more than a stub now, although you can't see it in the photo. Go Eggbert!
