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.

Thos. Moser

 We made the trek to Georgetown today and I fell in love with the furniture of Thomas Moser! Tom has known about his work for sometime and it was amazing to see in person. Thos. Moser is based in Maine and started by modernizing classic chair designs beginning with variations of the Windsor chair and colonial designs and moving to French provincial and different varieties now, it's basically like sculpture. The finely turned stays in the high back of the Windsor-esque high back rocker almost sung when picked up, like a finely made musical instrument. I'd fill a room with just his chairs! See more here and if the furniture's not in your budget quite yet check out his book Thos. Moser: Artistry in Wood which has some great chair pre-drawings and studio shots. (plus if your in NYC stop by his shop in SoHo on Wooster street and pick up a chair for me!)

Apples!

maryland apples, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Misty Valley Farm Stand, Baltimore, Maryland

The Heathens take on Baltimore

the heathens, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Maryland rose

maryland rose, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

corn eater

corn eater, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

F... ing with the NY Times

F... ing with the NY Times, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Pre-show drawing at The Charles

Happy Oktoberfest!

pumpkins, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

This week we'll be in Baltimore, us and Mikey Phelps doing the burbs in his Mercedes AMG.

Rainy day

window cats, originally uploaded by jamieshelman.

Feeling Fall-like

neuschwanstein castle schloss fall colors by mbell1975

Fall in Vermont by paul+photos=moody

by Flora Douville

by quaint handmade

by hrsmithjones

A few of my fall favorites via flickr!