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Hah! Fooled ya! You thought this was going to be another kitty entry, didn't you? Well, it is in a way. I just finished some cat masks.
That's Bast (Bastet...Egyptian goddess of music, fertility and the Dance), a new Venetian cat, and Sekmeht (Egyptian goddess of war).
I've been making Bast masks for years. She's a perennial favorite. Sometimes, I even give her one shiny brass earring (because in sculpture she's often depicted that way). Utterly feminine mask & very cute.
I got the idea for Sekmeht almost verbatim from King Tut's famous golden throne. The blue simulates lapis inlay.
The Venetian Cat is by far my current favorite. I did it with the black and red juxtaposed...it's a calico! Once again, swirls = fun. I HOPE this is a popular mask, because I could make these all day.
Speaking of cats (here comes the "Kumo" part of this entry)...Kumo remains a funny funny little guy.
Some recent behavior developments:
* Any hair left in the drain of the shower is, once dry, apparently a great cat toy. I thought everyone was getting neater with their bathroom habits (a freaking miracle!!), and then I found Kumo's stash of swirled-up hair. Oh, for fun.
* In my sneakers, little toy mice. One in the heel of each sneaker. I think they're meant to be gifts.
* Low-fat cottage cheese is clearly too yummy to ignore, therefor negating the "no cats on the kitchen table" law.
* Kiba has not entered his dog bed in over a week. It now belongs to Kumo. I can't make Kiba get into it even if the cat isn't occupying it at the time...he just rolls his eyes at me, tucks his tail, and throws himself to the ground as if to say "this lowly dog is not worthy to share of the lion-kitty's bed". Kumo, meanwhile, watches with half-closed eyes from his new favorite bed (the pillow on the couch) and approves.
* My paint water is much tastier than the fresh water I fill the cat bowl with daily.
Yeah. It's like that. Anyway, he makes me laugh.
That's Bast (Bastet...Egyptian goddess of music, fertility and the Dance), a new Venetian cat, and Sekmeht (Egyptian goddess of war).
I've been making Bast masks for years. She's a perennial favorite. Sometimes, I even give her one shiny brass earring (because in sculpture she's often depicted that way). Utterly feminine mask & very cute.
I got the idea for Sekmeht almost verbatim from King Tut's famous golden throne. The blue simulates lapis inlay.
The Venetian Cat is by far my current favorite. I did it with the black and red juxtaposed...it's a calico! Once again, swirls = fun. I HOPE this is a popular mask, because I could make these all day.
Speaking of cats (here comes the "Kumo" part of this entry)...Kumo remains a funny funny little guy.
Some recent behavior developments:
* Any hair left in the drain of the shower is, once dry, apparently a great cat toy. I thought everyone was getting neater with their bathroom habits (a freaking miracle!!), and then I found Kumo's stash of swirled-up hair. Oh, for fun.
* In my sneakers, little toy mice. One in the heel of each sneaker. I think they're meant to be gifts.
* Low-fat cottage cheese is clearly too yummy to ignore, therefor negating the "no cats on the kitchen table" law.
* Kiba has not entered his dog bed in over a week. It now belongs to Kumo. I can't make Kiba get into it even if the cat isn't occupying it at the time...he just rolls his eyes at me, tucks his tail, and throws himself to the ground as if to say "this lowly dog is not worthy to share of the lion-kitty's bed". Kumo, meanwhile, watches with half-closed eyes from his new favorite bed (the pillow on the couch) and approves.
* My paint water is much tastier than the fresh water I fill the cat bowl with daily.
Yeah. It's like that. Anyway, he makes me laugh.
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Poor Kiba :) How do you deal with the dominance thing? I had a ferret named Lily once, and and when we got Chinook the other ferret, Chinook used to beat the tar out of Lily when Lily tried to sleep in her favorite spot. I always interfered until Chinook let Lily have her spot. Do you do that with Kumo and Kiba, or do you just let them figure it out for themselves?
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However, malamutes are very smart, creative thinkers, they will approach problems from all sorts of unconventional angles. And this pup, realizing that (1) his toy was RIGHT THERE under the bed and (2) he couldn't go UNDER the mattress to retrieve it...decided that the logical plan of attack was from above.
He didn't stop digging until he hit the box spring. ;)
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!!!!!!ZOMG!!!!!!!
*dies laughing!!!!!!!!!!
I JUST HAD to sign and respond back to that one!!!!! That was so freaking funny XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Ferrets can definitely be funny little creatures. My smallest, Lily, would unload our Christmas stockings every year after they were filled up with chocolate. I had this one bar, that was a foot long and about a half foot across (okay, maybe not quite THAT LARGE, but it was FREAKING HUGE!!!!) *and hard for ME to get into the stocking cause it was such a tight fit* and Lily always managed to get it pulled out of the stocking and she'd hide it under the dresser or the sock drawer. She'd also constantly unload our sock drawers into different areas, and when we bought a baby play-pen, she loved the netting and would scale that thing like crazy!
It's amazing what creatures can do when they put their mind to it!
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I can totally imagine that whole scene. I suppose the poor guy was banned from the bedroom after that. Oh, the things we put up with for our pets!
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lol...I just kind of let them work it out. They both have resilient egos and as long as no one gets too carried away, I figure what's a little hissing going to do?
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As far as Kumo's antics - we have to shake our shoes out before we can put them on. He likes to put his toys into things so that he can have fun fishing them out. Boots are the best. That can require the front half of the cat to crawl in. I've always had trouble keeping the cats out of my rinse water. They also like my toothpaste water when I'm trying to brush my teeth. Anything but their own.
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Our cats are just plain weird, I think. Dinah never messed with me like this, & Claudia was FAR too much the gentle lady to engage in such antics. Still, it's amusing as hell. ;-)
I don't mind the mice in my shoes...as long as they are TOYS. *shudder*
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And it sounds like Kumo and my cat Chloe would either be best friends or try to kill each other. They are so much alike!
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Kumo loves other cats...they'd probably get along great!
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I came to anthropology through archeology, though more new world--Mayan, Incan, and Aztec, primarily. I don't have the patience nor the mental mindset to be a good archaeologist, though--my sense of spatial relations isn't strong enough--and the questions I was most interested in were better studied by anthropology where we can study actual interactions and talk to living people.
I got to see the King Tut exhibit in Chicago, and it was incredible.
I love your new masks.
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Lovely, utterly lovely, the rich golds and lapis and carnelian shades are just utterly perfect, and I'd love to see one with an earring or two. I'm just a fiend for Egyptian art so those really make me smile.
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Once my crazy-busy summer season ends (and the long cold winter begins) remind me & maybe we can work out another barter. :-)
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As for Kumo...hee! My shoes are wisely put away (after being chewed by doggies and horked in by kitties, I learned that the closet was the best place for them!), but Kiri just looooooves these cheap little toy mice that I had bought for Jack. One of them is somewhere in the kitty ether, but the other two have been *scalped*! She managed to pry the fur covering off of the little plastic noisemaking bit beneath...so now I have little mice pelts decorating my living room! XDDD
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Or a unicorn...hmmm! A venetian unicorn. THAT would look pretty darn neat, I think.
lol! Aww, the baby kitty is SKINNING HER PREY! *somewhat horrified & charmed at the same time* That's a cute trick, as long as the mice are fake! It's actually an instinctive holdover from the wild...I wonder if she came from strong hunting barncat stock?
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I had pretty much the same reaction! It's cute and a weeeee bit disturbing. Since she vastly prefers the more lifelike mice (as opposed to the fabric ones), yeah, she's probably got a fair amount of mouser in her. I'm going to be taking her over to my mom's to get her used to the place (Mom is taking care of her while I'm off in CA in a few weeks), and since she's got plenty of mice in her house (though, not so much at this time of year), maybe Kiri will get to do some hunting!
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Cottage cheese kitties
(Note to self: show these masks to