Marketplace: Celebrate Mewsette, and Save on a Dozen Cards

Bernadette October 20, 2023October 20, 2023 1 Comment cat art, cat artwork, cat christmas cards, cat holiday cards, cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cat sketches, cat-themed cards, cats, christmas cards

Christmas card with black cat — Waiting on Christmas Night holiday card

Two years ago I had no idea losing Mewsette was anywhere near in our futures. Now I’m so glad I took the time in November 2021 to create “Waiting on Christmas Night,” planned for over a decade (read more below). I still feel Mewsette in the painting—the round green eyes, the slight head tilt, the big soft kitty. She really did wait in the window for me to come home, and I really took the photos of her in the window by the candle on Christmas night that I used for this painting. A good friend purchased the original painting that Christmas for her granddaughter who is interested and skilled in art and has a (mostly) black kitty. I would just love to think that more of the world can get to know Mewsette, and that’s one of the reasons I love to do my artwork.

I was so pleased when this painting won a Certificate of Excellence in the Cat Writers’ Association 2021 Communications Contest. I’m still pleased because I know Mewsette was and is always a winner. The next year, in October 2022, I took these cards to the American Association of Feline Practitioners conference in Pittsburgh and sold out of what I’d had printed for the holiday season—I couldn’t keep them on the table.

So wouldn’t you like to share holiday joy with a housepanther? Especially a nice kitty like Mewsette who waits for you in the window!

A special deal on a dozen “Waiting on Christmas Night” holiday cards

I’d like to start off the holiday season early for those of you who send greeting cards in the mail or give them with gifts—50% off a boxed dozen through the end of October. Normally $20.00 per boxed dozen plus $5.00 for shipping and handling, that means the cards themselves are 50% off. Later in the season I’ll have them at 25% off.

It’s never too early to get your holiday cards!

The cards are 5″ x 7″, printed on 12 pt. satin-finish card stock, packed in a clear-top white cardboard greeting card box. Cards are blank inside with opaque white envelopes—and I’ll likely surprise you with a few alternate envelope colors you can choose from, at least red and gold luster. You can order below.

Waiting on Christmas Night

Mewsette always sat in the window and waited for me in those days, holidays or not. I took a bunch of photos of her at the window when I had my holiday decorations up over several years from 2009 to 2013, and shared them on my website, The Creative Cat. After that year I quit with the candles because my fosters and my cats had too much fun, all I did was put them back in place, even though I had them taped to the windowsill.

Purchase a Dozen (or more) “Waiting on Christmas Night” holiday cards

You can only take advantage of this discount using the shopping cart below.

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black cat at window with candolier — Mewsette is happy inside.

One of the photos I used to create the painting.

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All images and text used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission, although links to your site are more than welcome and are shared. Please ask if you are interested in using and image or story in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of an image or a product including it, check my animal and nature website Portraits of Animals to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit Ordering Custom Artwork for more information on a custom greeting card, print or other item.