This Week

I've been finding the news so difficult to take these last couple weeks,
especially with the attack & murder of Cpl. Nathan Cirrilo at our parliament hill in Ottawa

& all the scary Ebola news...

so I've been diving into rabbit time & snuggles even more so lately.

Just laying on the floors hanging out with my babies is one of the best ways to settle my whole being.

 

So from that perspective...

from the floor with blankets & pillows. surrounded by bunnies in every room to hug & love,

with an Alice Hoffman constantly tucked under arm...and jazz tinkling & candles flickering....

The week was good and looked a little something like this....

 

 

 

It was good until Wednesday A.M. that is!
That's when Jaks stopped eating completely and went into g.i.stasis

(which fellow rabbit parents know is very serious & can quickly kill buns).

So medical bromide injections, Gas-X tablets, belly rubs, critical care feedings, forced movement,

very little sleep, etc were also our part of our week for 48 hours. 

 

Jaks is eating today though, so it's looking like he's on the mend, thank goodness.
He's the last of the original 'tough-nut' clan & the bridge to the new brigade.

 

Well it's time to turn off all the lights and hunker down with my guy & some take out,

It's time for our ritual Halloween 'Walking Dead' marathon.

Nightie night all & Happy weekend.

A VERY sick Jaks...

Well it's not looking like we'll be getting back to a new studio season quite yet.

We've had a very very sick bunny since Thursday morning...

one day Jaks was perfectly fine and the next something was drastically wrong...

In short (and sparing everyone details) what happened was that he was bitten by a bug & developed

the worst skin infection we've ever seen.

It seemed to develop and spread over night on his back & bum

It all started under a little matt of fur that we didn't even notice until it had all gone horribly bad...

but after a rough 48 hours, we're tentatively hopeful that we're taking steps toward healing...

though now we're also dealing with a very difficult case of g.i. stasis because of what happened.

After 3 days apart, Jinny is now allowed to be with him and she's really helping to keep

his spirits up & is giving him lots of kisses and snuggles...

(this was Jaks last month...most of his fur on the back end & legs has had to be shaved off :C)

He's still not out of the woods by any means, with the g.i. stasis still present and danger of infection in the wounds...so do please send our sweet boy some extra good vibes and positive thoughts & hope...

And maybe perhaps some good mojo for us too.

It's been so scary & unlike any rabbit ailment we've seen in 15 years of having buns.

Well this is about all I can manage to write this evening.

I'll hop in again as soon as I can, hopefully with some good news.

A Good Mail Day & An Old Illustration

Good Friday Everyone. I am busy working on some larger pieces, so I don't have any new imagery to show you, hopefully this coming week. Because I work on alot of different things, I am honestly questioning how feasible a 'daily' painting would actually be for me. I've tryed a few, but even still I think they are too complex to keep up on a daily basis...but I'll keep trying. I have a few product ideal on the go also and though it is nothing that I can share with you right now, I'll just say that I am super excited to have gotten a big slab of beautiful clay...now I just have to find someone with a kiln! and set up my sewing machine...no more hints, ha ha. Honestly at the moment, despite all the recent travelling and stress with Ella-Luna, I feel myself bubbling over with excitement over new ideas, not just for illustrations but for various hand-made products featuring my illustrations

In the meantime, let me show you an older image of mine, but one that I still really like. This one was done in 1997, while I was in college. It's done in pastel with coloured pencil and speaks of a something that is never far from my mind or heart...the seal hunt.

In 2007, over 215,000 harp seals were slaughtered for their fur. The Canadian government simply refuses to end this agonizing and sick practice, so it's up to us animal lovers to stand up again and again and keep fighting to protect those who can't protect themselves. We give money every year to the seal hunt protests and I strongly urge all animal lovers to follow suit. Those of us who aren't strong enough to stand on the front lines, can still help alot but donating, because the protests take alot of money. If the protesting stops, the light won't be shed on this matter...we must continually make the government and people aware that it's cruel and unnecessary and putting our beloved country in a very poor light. After all "The greatness of a country is reflected in how it treats it's animals". Visit http://www.hsicanada.ca/

I plan some new illustrations on this topic, which I am hoping to send to the seal hunt protest organizations to use for free.

On to something lighter...Today was a great mail day. I just love getting mail, buying stickers and paper and stationary etc really is one of my pleasures. With email however, my mailbox treats have dwindled. I am past complaining about it though, now I just really really enjoy it when I do get a treat by snail mail. Today I got a letter from my oldest friend Lisa...she sent me this cute 'yogi' card and her two sweet boys Noah and Ben made me some sun catchers...shaped like bunnies of course, ha ha. I just love them...thanks boys and thanks Lisa

Well, that's all for this week. Until Monday, be well...breath....and simply 'be'.