cats of my life…

As a child, I was the "smelly cat girl". Yup, you know who I'm talking about and yes, that was me. I've always joked that I'm going to write a book called, memoirs of a smelly cat girl, but who really wants to read of a crazed childhood of an only child with several cats? Not to mention, there are sooo many stories worthy of being heard and these days I'm actually working on "saving" my stories a bit.While I won't write a book about my life, I can't help but remember them all. While everyone has a story, I don't think everyone has albums of cats. My mother was obsessed with animals (see where I get it?) and took photos of them.ALL OF THEM.At some point, I decided I should paint the "cats of my life". I've been talking about this series for some time now, but I finally have started to work on it. Considering the number of cats that have been in my life, I figured I'd better get to painting them before I forget who they all are.Luckily, I have the photos..In order to paint the cats of my life, I first needed to sort through the cats.so many cats!!The painting itself will be large, with several 'mini-paintings' on it, painted on a wallpaper, painted wall. Some will be portraits with the cats name, and some will be scenes.Luckily, some of the photos are still labeled with the names..photo above: lower three cats are: Baby Fluffy, Wuzzy, and Ruby (all kittens of Benji)I'm sure I could name all these cats, but at the risk of looking too crazy, I'll just let you enjoy the madness.I've started sketching the cats. This is FuFu (also in the pile above somewhere) and some ideas for wall paper.I think this is going to be a very interesting painting! It will be a good project that will make me laugh and help me get through the fall.Enjoy!