The Sartorial Sparrow

 Its crazy to think I had her for 12 years and some of my friends never officially met her because she well, hid, all the time. She was essentially me in grey tabby cat form with an overabundance of personality and a LOT of opinions but damn she was a great cat. Mark who was allergic to cats fell in love with her and became quite the cat lady afterwards. he even wrote one of the saddest most heartbreaking songs after she passed away that I still refuse to listen to.

 As I was sorting through my photos for the blog I also discovered that I still have some great pictures of my friends and I over the years and wanted to share some of my favorites. These are all from Salt Lake Dark Arts over the years and I know I have more on my actual computer so I am sure I will post a couple of more in the future. I miss my SLC crew.  UNCLE SHITTY Coby was always one of my favorite people to hang out with. One of the biggest personalities and hearts I've known. Hope he is doing well  Rieder the club manager at the time. I always had fun hanging out with him during setup and sound check and just shooting the breeze. Rob of the Magic Queso. Absolute teddy bear of a man who could cook like no one's business. The after parties at his and his wife's house were always one of the highlights of the trip for sure.  Cinnamon and her wife Megan. Cinnamon was actually the real person that the drawings of Death from Sandman were based off of and if you were ...

 I always love it when I find something I really like at the thrift store and can actually get information about it. In this case I found this super cute cat print/drawing and had to have it.  Thankfully it  had the artist information on the back so after a quick Google search I was able to find out that this is titled 'P.C. IV' (Seated Cat) and was originally done somewhere around 1989. I doubt this is an original and I am definitely not going to open up the frame to find out.  The artist, Pat Schaverien was British and her works are held in the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Ben Uri Collection.  Which by the way, the Ben Uri Collection is a digital research center and museum in London who specializes in researching and recording Jewish, refugee and immigrant contributions to British visual arts and they have apparently been around since 1900 which is super awesome. I included the link below in case you want to check it out too.  https://benuri.org/ ...

 Here are a couple of my favorite looks over the years including some of those makeup challenges I did during COVID to try and keep me engaged and actually take care of myself while isolated at home. I realized I still had eyebrows in some of these pictures. Man i miss those guys.