The First Ever Catberry Tails Annual Retreat

The Chairman's letterhead complete with his photo and pawprint.

All the whimsical cat dolls are gathered for an official portrait in front of a giant hand painted mural.

We are heading into an important weekend! The entire gang has gathered for 5 days of meetings, classes, meals and work! But first we met for our official portrait.

Look at this background the Kreatrix painted for a show in New York City.

Colorful, huge hand painted canvas of whimsical houses surrounded by trees and grass and birdhouses.

This canvas mural is about 10 feet by 12 feet. HUGE!

Wally, Melvin and Rudy helped run the tech end of our photo shoot. Wally was the director of the shoot and constantly glared at Rudy and Melvin because they kept arguing.

Wally, a real life cat, lays on the canvas near the cat dolls.

Rudy and Melvin, real life cats, give each other the stink eye.

In the above photo you can see some of the tensions flaring with our tech crew.

Melvin, a real life cat, raises up on his hind legs to inspect one of the lights mounted for the photo shoot.

Melvin and Rudy did a great job hanging the lights.

Rudy inspects another light.

Meet our newest member! A brand new MAGNIFICAT!

A new Magnificat doll is introduced. It is gray and has an embroidered flower around its neck.

 

Our hand painted fabric rocks!

Closeup of a tweed heart patch on the chest of the Opie Doll Magnificat.

The heart patch on Opie the Magnificat's chest is made from a man's old suit. It had moth holes in it but the Kreatrix cut it apart and is making stuff with it!

Wally, the real life cat, inspects the dolls as they pose for their group photo.

As much as I get irritated with Wally. Kreatrix is making me tell the truth here. So let me rephrase that first sentence:  As much as I am jealous of the attention Wally gets from her and I shouldn't be because she loves us all...whatever. He did a good job directing our photo shoot.

Wish us luck! We get to take a workshop this weekend from the CEO on using something called Bondo. I signed up for the class hoping I'd learn how to be like James Bond. Ginger said Bondo is something that will help repair the World Dominationmobile. Either way, I win!

The CEO cat doll made from a mans suit coat.

And yes, Dude has a "thing" for the denim beauty sitting next to him. So far she's playing coy. Stay tuned.

5 thoughts on “The First Ever Catberry Tails Annual Retreat

  1. Candie

    Well, Chairman, your community is really coming together. The RLC's did a great job at catching everyones "good side" for the photo shoot. So glad Dude has a girl, I was beginning to feel a little sorry for him being the third wheel and all. Kreatrix, great job on the back drop for the photo shoot.
    Oh, one other thing, Chairman, with that bird fluff all over you, you looked more like Santa Paws to me.
    Have a productive meeting.

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    1. The Kreatrix

      Hi Candie! Chairman here. We're on lunch break from our back to back meetings. Thought I'd contact you. Santa Paws? That would be like the dude who brings all the gifts when that weird tree goes up in the house? AWESOME. He's pretty powerful and seems to have that whole World Domination thing going for him. Maybe I should wear a beard. Hmmmm....

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  2. BJ

    So much creative talent to behold in just one post!! The mural canvas background is gorgeous!! As for the newest members of the gang-just too darn cute! I especially love Opie's female buddy with the beautiful green eyes!! Can't wait to see what happens during the upcoming 5 day meeting!!

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    1. The Kreatrix

      Why thank you! I won't go into the details of the canvas background other than while I was painting it, it was spread across a giant driveway in the middle of North Hollywood, California whilst I prepared for a trade show I was attending in New York City. A most interesting time of my life!!

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