Laurie Hardin: PFATT Marketplace is Updating

Monkey-Cats Studio

These are the reason for "Monkey-Cats" Studio receiving the name. Pretty cute when they were kittens but they are now 9 years old, still think they are kittens and try to fit in the same spaces on my studio table. For some reason these two have very long tails like a monkey and received the nickname monkey boys from my husband. We are sure they can swing upside down by those tails! Their real names are Jake and Elwood, after the Blues Brothers, because they try to do the right thing but they are just naughty.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

PFATT Marketplace is Updating

Time is flying and it seems my wings aren't flapping fast enough. Where is the time going? A month has already gone by and it is time for another PFATT Marketplace update on Tuesday, July 10th at 10 a.m. Pacific Time ( which is 11 a.m.-Mountain; noon-Central and 1 p.m.-Eastern), with a "Christmas in July" theme. (It has been so hot this summer that the thought of a snowy Christmas sounds very good at the moment!) UPDATE: BOTH SOLD, Thank you!!

I took the time in the middle of the Halloween madness currently happening in the studio to paint a Christmas candy cup with a little snowman on the front and wreath on the back for the update. These candy cups can be hung on a tree as well as to be used to hold a small bag of Christmas candy for decorating a small table space or where you just need that extra "something" in a Christmas grouping.

In addition to the Christmas candy cup, I will also have one Halloween figure available this month, Hubert B. Bones. Hubert carries a sign to communicate that he "will scare for candy" on one side, and the other side of the sign that says "Boo", to indicate how he plans to scare...which is important since he has no ability to speak.

Like many of my skelly boys he has a tremendous fondness for spiders. There is one on his sign, one on his top hat and one on the back of his vest.

Those busy little spiders created cobwebs for Hubert on his bow tie, vest, top hat and sign. There are many little details on this piece, hours of painting, and this will probably be the last full-sized Halloween piece I will offer on PFATT Marketplace until October.