Spay, neuter, love.

Days are beginning to get longer, which means spring is close! I'm a summer girl. I need long sunny days and afternoons spent in the garden or at the beach. I wait all winter for signs of spring. I have a countdown app on my phone that indicates how many days are left until the end of winter. That end never comes soon enough. At the same time, spring is also the season I fear the most. Spring is kitten season! Every year around May or June I get the 'gift' of a new unwanted and very pregnant mama cat, or unwanted kittens. I always search for new families for them, but it is becoming more difficult as time goes by. If you follow me on social media, you may have seen pictures of this kitten. Her name is Margherita and she was dumped here a few months ago. She has a cleft lip and a few balance issues which are improving with time. Due to her cleft lip, her nose has a funny flower shape and she snores a lot. She was quite shy and scared but now she's a force of nature: she plays continuously, eats like a cow and loooovvves to cuddle. Her coat was matted and…

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A 10-minute sketch

This is my cat, Margherita, the last addition to the family here at Cat Cottage. Well, this is her portrait of course, the first 10-minute sketch I made in a long time. I currently have a so-called day job and very little time to draw. I plan to leave this job as soon as possible because it is slowly killing me and my creativity. It's so bad when you don't have the time to do what you feel like you were born to do only because you have to survive, pay the bills and fit into modern slavery (because this is what we're talking about). Anyways, there is absolutely no freaking way I'm going to give up doing what I want to do and live the life I want to live. For how things are now, finding the time to do things you like is a rebellious act. So, last night I was planning how to find the time to draw every day no matter what and remembered what I used to do when I had a career in interior design and as much free time as I have now (almost none). I did this simple but efficient and fun exercise: I'd set a timer for the time I could…

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