Bella Gorgeous

Bella Gorgeous
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

Always a true master at stiking a gorgeous pose. She lives up to her name.

OOna reto blueeyes

OOna reto blueeyes
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

This is a picture of the little evil mastermind the first week we right after we found her. You can see how much lighter her sweet face was then, but those eyes are just as blue.
Even as the super tiny thing she was, she would still stare you down...it's the baby OOna Mindmelt.

You can see the wheels turning already working on her plan for world domination.

Obey...ooohhhhh...Obey the OOna Kitty.

Babbette portrait

Babbette portrait
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

Gwen's portrait of Babbette.
Her loving people lost her a couple of years ago, but just had to have a protrait done to always have her beautiful spirit around.

8" x 8", oil on canvas

Hermie portrait

Hermie portrait
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

Gwen's portrait of Hermie.
He is a young, fun loving Rottweiler who loves to steal things and be snuggled.

16" x 20", oil on canvas

Bella The Perfect Nose

Bella The Perfect Nose
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

She really does have the perfect nose (or at least she does to me), i just don't know where all her gray came from. It's like one day i looked up and there it was. Gray. Just Sucks. My girl shouldn't have gray, you really only see it when you look closely and she still acts like a puppy even at almost 13. If i could give her some of my years to take away the gray, i would in a heart beat. I love my little girl and gray or no gray, she is still perfect and the most beautiful creature in the world.

OOna & Her Lovebucket

OOna & Her Lovebucket
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

The OOna kitty decided she wanted to do a sexy lounge photo in her new Lovebucket.

It's very soft and cozy - the OOna kitty is very pleased!

Bella On the road again

Bella On the road again
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

On the road again, Bella just can't wait to get on the road again (you add the music here).

You can see who is the most important member of the family. We get just two seats and somebody else (we won't say who) gets the WHOLE FREAKING BACK OF THE FORESTER.
Noooooo, Bella isn't a princess at all. We even had to buy one of those Yakima Cargo Baskets to carry everything else so little miss princess could be comfy and cozy.

And who's not rotten (i know, we wouldn't have it any other way, but that's beside the point). ;)

International Cat of Mystery2

International Cat of Mystery2
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

AwwHa! Caught with night vision making her plans to take over.

Yeah, that's right, she may want you to think she looks sleepy, but she's up to something. Heard rustling paper right before we took this photo, she's hiding her plans, yeah that's it, they were here just a second ago. I bet she's sitting on them or she ate them or something, yeah that's it, she ate her plans to take over so we couldn't prove anything. hmmmmmmmm.....very cunning.

Drat, OOna kitty, International Cat of Mystery wins again...for now

Bella Tentgirl2

Bella Tentgirl2
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

Once on the raod to the OBX it took us about 14 hours of straight driving to get to the camp site. Now as you can imagine, it was night again and if you've never been to camp on OBX, well, let's just say it's darker than charcoal at night. Now being two intelligent (but crazy) humans it never accured to us that we should have maybe taken the tent out of the bag much less try to figure out how to put it up before getting to the camp site. I guess we figured surely one simple tent can't be THAT hard to put together (of course we never thought we would be doing it in the freaky blackest of all nights!)
Anyway, we get there, we're completely exhaustive, we have all these cuts (found when we had to spray ourselves with Off because of the million & one mosquitos) and bruises from the packing of the house, and Bella is wired and barking at everything she hears (and in the dead of night, that little girl's deep voice can wake a sleeping moose). Now, i know what you are thinking, "This sounds like fun", but hey it gets even better. As we are 'lovingly' fussing at each other while trying to figure that freaking mind-blowing complex as hell, piece-of-crap tent, Bella is jumping around and barking at the top of her lungs waking up every other camper and possible ax murderer within an 5 mile distance. Then it so wonderfully starts to rain and I'm talking a gentle calming rain, no it's the coming down in sheets kind of rain. Well, inbetween bailing out the water from inside the tent, trying to keep the puppy from jumping into every mudpuddle she sees and inflating the air mattress, we finally get everyone into the wet, hot and soggy tent. Peace at last you say, well...not quite, not when little princess misses her AC and start panting causeing the air mattress to rock with each pant, which in turns cause the whole tent to rock with each pant. I'm sure if you could have seen the tent through the rain you would have thought other thighs were a going on.
Suffice to say, after no sleep (again), hot, wet (it was still raining the next day) and cranky, we pack everything up and rent the nearest cabin we could find.

Campers we are not. It's a wonder we ever tried it again, but as you can tell we did though that is a whole other crazy story.

Bella Tentgirl1

Bella Tentgirl1
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

Ok, so being city people, we're not the biggest on the whole camping thing but we figured 'what the hey' we'll give it a try.

If you look closely, you can tell that living without AC and being one with the great hot outdoors and bugs isn't exactly the little princess' idea of fun.

Though this was not our first time camping (ok, so it's the second but who's counting), and we're definitely not pros (try more like freaking fish out of water), here we were thinking we were doing pretty good(that's the silly humans thinking not the intelligent weime. again see picture).

The first time we decided to try and do the camp thing was a little ways back when we had to have our hardwoods refinished. Figuring since we had to be out of the house for two complete days (including everything we owned as well) and not wanting to just stay in a hotel we decided to go camping at the Outer Banks, NC. So we bought a tent, doggie camp bed, air mattress, camp gear and every other thing two silly 'how no freaking clue' humans think they may need to go camping. Now before we left for our wonderous camping adventure we had to pack everything we owned in our house into the kitchen (there are no hardwoods in there). Now this may sound nuts (and yes we are), but what don't realize is that Scott (being the strange creature he is) can figure out puzzles with a simple glance and figuring out how to fit everything we own into one room wasn't that hard. And believe me when we were done it looked like a crazy oversize puzzle (everything fit just right). Well, it took us all night to do this and we left that next morning at around 8am (and yes no sleep)....continue next image....

OOna colors

OOna colors
Originally uploaded by studio583art.

When you are an international cat of mystery sometimes you have to do the 'aren't i cute - glam shot' so that the silly humans do not realize your plans to take over.
You see, everyone thinks that looking this cute is easy, but nooooo it takes lots of hard work and practise. You have to spend many long hours in the mirror, getting your eyes just big enough, just precious enough that the silly humans don't realize that you are MELTING THEIR BRAINS WITH THE OONA MINDMELT!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

And here you thought i was just a cute little innocent thing....silly human. heehee