Saturday Caturday Art - More AI Dream

Caturday Saturday Art

Today's Caturday art features a group of AI artwork dream of Cats Playing Cards made in Dream by Wombo. First, I used one of the Ts photos as the uploaded image that it uses as a reference. You can choose weak, normal, or strong for the influence of the photo on the creation. Normally I use weak for the influence and let it do more of the creating.

Next I used the prompt words "two red and white tabby cats playing cards" for some of these.  I also tried "two red and white tabby cats Gypsy reading cards" and it produced the cat woman card reader with red hair and white clothes. Funny!  Notice too that the cards in the image are not exact 52 deck of playing cards. There is just enough to let your mind imagine what cards they are.  

My choice for Art Style was different every time and this is where it gets confusing. I'm starting to recognize the style of some of them and have some favorites like Abstract, Realistic, Unrealistic, and Flora and Flora v2. They are the ones I need to write down when I pick them for future reference. I also need to add in the exact steps I used although they will always come out differently. Also, I use my computer and the browser to create these, not the app. I believe with the app you have ads pop up. It's pretty smooth with the browser version and I just save the images to a folder. 

Lastly, there is an option in Dream to purchase your creation or others as a canvas print. So if you create something really beautiful you can have a nice piece of canvas artwork. Pretty nice!   

We are joining Athena Cat Goddess for the blog hop #Caturday Art here:

Caturday Art Two Red Haired Tabbies go to the beach

 Caturday Art

How in the heck did we get here?
Artwork created in Dream by Wombo

This photo painting was created using the prompt: two red tabbies go to the beach and one of their photos. I don't remember what style I picked for it.

I had fun a while ago when I first started playing around with the AI Art in Dream by WOMBO.  I'm a little obsessive when it comes to online stuff, games, etc. That's why I have to be careful with online games or now, online art! :-)  A few days of obsessively creating these dream cards and I had to put that to rest so I could get working on my other art projects. It did give me some ideas on how to start to paint some pictures of Tommy and Teaghan. I am a watercolor artist and haven't even tried yet because I've been intimidated by all the white shadows in their fur. Now that I have played around with this AI art somewhat, I think I can use more vibrant colors and/or do some abstract paintings of them instead of trying to paint them exactly as they are.  

This AI art is easy to do, fun, and relaxing and a lot come out really interesting. Some day you'll be seeing a real painting from me instead of these dream cards.

Come see more art at the Caturday Art blog hop! 

Purrs and xo,

Tommy, Teaghan, and the Mom Brenda

Flashback Friday and Tommy and Teaghan's 6th Birthday!

 Flashback Friday and Tommy and Teaghan's 6th Birthday!

Here's the story of their birth from the post on 2/24/2017 by our kitties in Heaven, Beau Beau and Angie:

So the story continues! Beau Beau here, and I have finally managed to get my message through to the humans - our Mommy Brenda, and Mommy Colleen, the new human mommy (for now… MOL). Colleen is a furry special human mommy to about a squillion other kittehs.  We know cuz we met one of her special furry loves, Gwen, over here at the Rainbow Bridge.  Gwen came here to da bridge on 01-Dec-2014 before I got here and met me right away.  We have been watching over things along with Angie and sending our love to help heal our human’s hearts. Gwen told us how her Mommy Colleen was the mommy of a squillion Norwegian Forest Cat babies and had helped so many other rescue kitties back in the day to find new homes.  And so when our Mommy was ready and was looking for new kitties to bring home, she looked at a few rescue places and ended up looking online at a local CT Ragdoll breeder.  You see, she always had thought that Angie was a Ragdoll cat and wanted a nice loving soft kitty like that again.  But, while she was online we sent her to Colleen’s website, Finnishline Norwegian Forest Cats, where she saw many kitties who looked more like Angie.  In her heart she knew that this was the place.  Now, we knew she did not want an exact version of either of us but something about the beautiful NFC's there drew her in (yeah really it was us meowing into her ear).   

Then Mommy Colleen and Mommy Brenda started emailing each other and they talked and it was like they knew each other from lifetimes ago.  Well, ahem, that’s cuz we have been talking to both of them in their dreams every night and they just didn’t know it!  Our mommy and daddy decided they wanted not one but two new kitteh’s so they could keep each other company just like me and Angie did with each other. 

And the waiting began. Hoping for at least two kitteh’s that bond together is big order to put in with the Universe but we were all pulling for it. Mommy Colleen’s two beautiful kitty mommies, McKenzie, and Rhianna, were both pregnant and due February/March. So guess what?  The beautiful McKenzie had her 3 babies on February 24^th!  She had two boys and one girl. This is the Finnishline “T” litter so their names start with “T”. 

Here they are with their Mommy McKenzie (who by the way is another most wonderful mommy) : Left to Right: Tyler, Teaghan and Tomas.

Life is full of signs and signals.  Here are a few that we threw at them: my first name (Beau Beau) was “Tommy” when Daddy found me at the Meriden Humane Society back in ‘05.  Before she even knew that, Colleen said to Mommy, “Tommy” would be a good nickname for “Tomas”…  Wow! Tomas also has a beautiful white heart on his back – that wuz to get Mommy’s attention cuz she loves hearts.  Also, Teaghan has a couple of beautiful red spots on her back, just like Angie’s red spot she had on her back.  Both Teaghan and Tomas go limp when Mommy Colleen picks them up, just like we did when we got picked up.  McKenzie’s mom, Fiona, had her first litter on 27-Oct-2008.  Angie passed away on 27-Oct-2016. There are more signs that we are working on sending...

So after watching some behaviors of how the 3 “T”s get along, and the human Mommies talking,  so far it looks like Teaghan and Tomas will be the new kitteh's of the Swick/Bentley House!  

Finnishline Teaghan - (with Angie's red spot on her back)

Teaghan

Finnishline Tomas

Tomas and his white heart

All Photo credits and permission by Colleen McGrady of Finnishline Norwegian Forest Cats

Thankful Thursday - Nice Neighbors

The hyoomins went to visit our grammy up North for her birthday and we are thankful for a very nice, loving, and well cared for time while they were away. We got to have a great time with our nice new neighbors, our new furriends, Teresa and Rob. We reely like them cuz they were so nice to us and took great care of us. They came over a squillion times a day, took pictures of us every day and even took a video so we could say hi to Mommy and Food Daddy.  And we got lots of petting and rubs, got lots of play time in, and got lots of food. Plus we even got combed! 

We had lots of fun and it was a good time and we are thankful for our new furriends. And we are thankful and happy to see our hyoomins again. We did look out the front door this morning looking for Teresa (aka Aunt T) to see if she was coming back to give us more foods and lovins. Mom says she will come back soon to visit us. 

Tommy:  Here I am making sure I put my smells all over Aunt T's jacket. That way her furry girls will know who I am. 

Thank you Aunt T for the good combing. We look all nice and pretty now.

Ohhhh that's nice. Thank you Aunt T.

Heh heh, I got more of my furs for you to take home on your coat.

 Or schmaybe you can just take me home with you so I can meet your girls. 😻 

We were nice and relaxed and had a great time with Aunt T.

Thank you all for reading our story and reading about our new furriends, Aunt T and Rob. We all are so thankful for their loving care and making us all feel good, reassured, and less anxious about being apart. And now we are thankful our Mommy and Food daddy are home and so are they! Mom says they will return the favor and take care of Aunt T and Robs furry girls some day soon too. So thankful for good friends and neighbors! 

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Flashback Friday - Before the Ts

 Copy and Paste from Nov 2016. 

As Tommy and Teaghan's birthday is coming up I decided to take a look back at where we were before we got them. 

Back to Beau Beau and Angie:

The blog for Beau Beau and Angie was born on February 19, 2006.  It all started with a blog post that I had replied to somewhere about feeding cats tuna fish.  Next thing I know I was creating a blog so that I could reply to the tuna fish guy.  I didn't give it much thought about naming it, therefore the non cat specific url is swicks.blogspot.com. Cathy (who sadly is no longer with us) from Beau’s bloggie found my blog and sent a link introducing us to some of the few cat bloggers there were at that time.  Once that happened I decided to stick with the url and name of Beau Beau and Angie's Fur Days and we were off and on a roll. 

As I was looking back at those early days of the blog and my life with Beau Beau and Angie, I thought “wow, how did I make it through those years of my life”?  Then I realized that I made it through those years with my sanity because of them.  I was transitioning into a new life from a divorce in late 2002 and a new relationship with my boyfriend and his 14 year-old daughter.  I moved in with them and almost 3 years later along came Beau Beau and Angie just when we all needed them the most.

The furkids brought liveliness, energy, joy, love, fun, enjoyment, distraction from our problems, learning, growth, care giving, and immense entertainment to our everyday lives.  We worried about their health and well being a lot.  We loved them intensely.  We taught them about the big outdoors.  We gradually brought them outside so they could enjoy the weather and have some fun.  There are plenty of stories there!  During this time we got married.  My stepdaughter went to college.  We moved to another house.  Although it was only a mile away it was probably the most terrifying day of Beau Beau and Angie’s life (not to say our own with worry about them).  We moved out and moved into our new home in one day while they went to stay with our family for the day.  They lived with us in our house until they both passed, Beau Beau in December 2014 and Angie at the end of October this year. 

All of their lives with us are here in these pages.  Memories of them are so close it’s like they are still here except for the stillness of the house without their presence.  They are now our Angel cats and their memories will live on for some time within these pages.  The blog went from Beau Beau and Angie’s fur days, to All About Angie after Beau Beau passed and now back again.  Many thanks to the beautiful job done by Ann from Zoolatry for the new header for the holidays! 

Starting after the holidays my husband and I are going to be searching for a couple of cats to fill our home with love again.  As before we know that it will be them that will find us actually.  We are thinking that Beau Beau and Angie will be guiding the process somehow.  The new ones will have big paws to fill for sure!  So stay tuned for the search, the adventures and the stories of our future furkids.  

Blessings and purrs,

Brenda

Happy Valentines Day from The Ts

 

Meomy painted and created this pretty Valentine's Day card for efurryone. We loves you all and many purrs and hugs on this Happy Valentine's Day.

XO

Tommy and Teaghan, and Meomy and Food Dad. 

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Thankful Thursday and Tommy with a T or a Heart

 Thankful Thursday and Tommy with a T or a Heart

For Valentines week we are looking at a heart today. Since Tommy was a teeny weeny kitten, we have always seen his back marking as a heart shape. What shape do you see? 

And we are soooo thankful to our first Hyoomin Mommy, Colleen, for taking care of us until we gotted to our new home with Food Daddy and Mommy.  And we are thankful for all the love and care have gotten these past years in our new homes. We are almost six years old! Oh my Cod!

Tommy with his heart shape.

Sort of a T or is it a heart?

What do you see? A heart or another shape?

Another view - kind of like a T

Purrs, Tommy and Teaghan  XO

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Wordless Wednesday High Birdie continued

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High High Birdie in the Sky

 

Tommy: What in the heck? How did that birdie get up there? 

Teaghan: I don't know but I sure am not going anywhere near that big scary thing that it's sitting on. 

Tommy:  I know, let's just keep an eye on it. And keep telling the hyoomins that it's up there. Schmaybe they will come and get it for us.

Teaghan:  Yeah, good luck with that one. MOL

Happy Tuesday efurryone!

Tommy and Teaghan.  Till tomorrow and see if the birdie is still up in the sky.

xo

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Awww Monday with the Ts

 

Happy Awwww yoo better watch out or that birdie will get you Monday!  Teaghan is staying safe on the ground watching the action while stuffed into her little cardboard box. :-). She gets her action attacking the box every now and then. MOL.

Have a happy Monday efurryone!  XO

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Purrs,

Tommy and Teaghan

Saturday Caturday - AI Artwerk

 Teaghan in AI mode

Artwork created in Dream by Wombo

Teaghan: 

Wooooweeee! Statikee Statikee Zappy goes me!  How do y'all like my floofy look? At least the AI art got it right with the correct number of paws. The whapping paw looks a little weird though.  Mom used a photo of me and the werds long haired tabby cat dream.  We like the artsy blues and flowers it came up with.  Sort of hippy-ish too but purrty.  Actually this could be either me or Tommy cuz we look so much alike. His nose isn't as straight as mine so this could actually be him. Haha! Enjoy!

Purrs, Teaghan

Wordless Wednesday - Patience

 

Purrs, Tommy and Teaghan xo

Change a Pet's Life Day - Fun and Food

Change a Pet's Life Day

Fun and Food!

This insulated shopping bag has two meanings, one it gives an opportunity for some playtime and attention and two, nutrition. This is what keeps the fresh food fresh and what the food comes home in! Yay! 

Also, this is one of the differences of us living in the South. We use these insulated bags and coolers a lot more than we used to when we go food shopping. It heats up quick in the South during the day in the Winter and some of our food shopping trips are 30 - 60 minutes away. Too long to keep meats in the car for the drive home. Annnnd some times we stop for a nice lunch while in the area. :-)  

Teaghan: Hey Mom! We going food hunting today? We going to 'Teeters to get us some stinky goodness and some good chick-hen?  Just make sure you don't put any veggies in here so my furs don't get on it.  😹

Hey what you doing in there Teaghan? 

Teaghan wanted to play and use it as a place to hide but Tommy was not amused that she was in there and tried to put the whap on her. 

Give your kitties some extra love today!

😍😍😍

 

Thankful Thursday Bird bath

We are thankful that we don't have to drink water out of a bowl that these pretty birds just took a bath in. MOL!

Video of birds taking a washy bath in Southport, down near the park on the water where all the people take their dawgs for a walk.  I hope the dawgs know their water bowl has been used by birds first! Hahahaha!

These birds were having a great ole time.

Hey dawgs, just wait a second till I'm done going to the baffroom and takin' a baff in yur dawg water...

A little beach area in Southport NC near where the big birds hang out

Have a blessed Thankful Thursday! And drink yur water!

Purrs, Tommy and Teaghan

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Awww Monday Teaghan gets her Furs Combed

Awww, I'm so happy I get my food Daddy to give me a brushing. This is our new routine. I go tell him it's time for my daily combing to keep my furs beeeutiful. With all this fur I need him to do this. Tommy is waiting for his turn as you can see his tail next to my chair. Some days the amount of fur that comes off the comb is big enough to look like a newborn kitten! Oh my cod.  Better to keep us combed so we don't yak up a big one. Hahaha!

Wait your turn Tommy!

Make sure you get my pantaloon furs!  Hah!

Thanks Daddy you doing a great job! :-) 

Purrrrs and xo, Teaghan

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Thankful Thursday with more Pelicans and AI Cat Art

 

Artwork by the Mom (aka Brenda B)

We are thankful we live here in North Carolina now. There are so many birds in the back yard we can watch every day.  A lot of different kinds come here, a lot we are used to, and even the little Carolina Wren is here too. We think it followed us from Connecticat. So we are thankful we have all these birds to watch to keep us amuzed. But we do not get to see the big water birds other than when one flies above us. 

The above photo is some more Pelican love following yesterday's post. We kitties have never seen a Pelican before but Mom has and she painted this watercolor Pelican for us. It's a funny. The bird is sitting on the railing where the sign says not to sit on the railing. It's a fiesty Pelican! Hah! Mom says she wants to bring us on a little car trip to the water to see big birdies but Food Daddy isn't happy with that idea. Yah think?

Since we can't go to the water she made AI art from Dream by WOMBO showing us with a Pelican. She used a photo of us to start and the words "two red and white tabby cats with a Pelican bird". Ready for dis?...

Hahaha this one made US Pelicans!

 She made this one using Retro-futurism.

  

This one made the Pelican like us!

 This one might have been by using Paint in Dream by Wombo.

And this one shows us with birds in the background. A little more normal rite?

 And one more. This stuff can get a little addictive. Lots of Thanks to Cactus Catz for posting their AI art by Dream by WOMBO.  It's so much fun making the images but Mom can't get anything else done now! MOL!

This one again was made using Comic. It was an interesting take in that you can see the Pelican at the beach. Yesterday she spent almost ALL day trying to get one good one using AI art showing us at the beach. Guess we just needed to put in the word "Pelican". Wow. You can see how surprized we were to be looking at a Pelican straight on. Meow!

Have a wonderful Thursday everyone and come and join the fun and thanks at 

 Brian’s Home for Thankful Thursdays. 

Purrs,

Tommy and Teaghan

Wordless Wednesday - Brookgreen Gardens

 

Brookgreen Gardens - Limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt
Photo by Brenda B.

One of the best things about living in the south now is being able to visit the  fabulous Brookgreen Gardens. It's an awesome garden that is a National Historic Landmark filled with amazing sculptures and located in Murrels Inlet, South Carolina. We became members not too long after moving to NC because we knew we would be visiting often and would want to bring visitor's to see it as well.  It's a drive that takes under 2 hours so it's a good day trip. I laugh when I think about this now because hardly ever took a day trip that long when living in CT and now it's not a big deal. :-)

Looking for a photo for today's Wordless (wordy today...) Wednesday post, I ran across this one that I had taken on one of our trips.  Pelican's are one of my favorite birds and this is just an example of one of the many interesting things to see in the gardens.  I'll post some more photos here and there as we make more trips to the area.

This is the poem / limerick written by Dixon Lanier Merritt:

A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill will hold more than his belican. 

He can take in his beak

Food enough for a week,

But I’m damned if I see how the helican. 

___________________

Hmmm, I'm thinking I'll take the Ts for a little car ride to see the water and the big birds. Then again, schmaybe not... lol

 

Monday's Mews - Law Enforcement Day and Taking down the Christmas Tree

We are late again today as usual.  Well somebuddy has to be last right? :-)

It's Law enforcement appreciation day. We thank all our law enforcement brothers and sisters who serve and protect our communities.  People appreciate all kinds of different things every day and we think this one is impawtent.

And, today we are finally taking down the Christmas tree!!! We made a collage of some of our favorite ornaments. One is Mom's favorite wine. One is of a kitty but we can't remember who gave us dat one. One of our new furriends gave us a beachy kind with sand in it! Wonder how we can get in there? Another kind is a pretty resin ornament in the shape of a turtle. Then we have a Beech house one that Mom and Food Daddy got this year at a Christmasy thing because they were doing a Christmas thing a day (that didn't last too long... mol, and last is Grand Uncle Wilson Bentley's snowflake. We like that cuz we don't get to see many snowflakes anymore.

Ok on with the New Year! 

Purrs,

Tommy and Teaghan

Wordless Wednesday Teaghan Snore Fest

Snore fest by Teaghan

Purrs,

Teaghan