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Bernadette E. Kazmarski

@bernadettek.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, cat rescuer, and a lot of other things. Linktree: linktr.ee/bernadetteekazmarski

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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Read more on The Creative Cat: bit.ly/CustomMemorialGiftSpecial #customgifts #animallovergifts #petlovergifts #petloss #petmemorial #custompetmemorialvotive #custompetmemorialsuncatcher #custompetmemorialgardenflag #handmadecustomgift
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Marketplace: Custom Pet Memorial Gift Special Discount through May - The Creative Cat
If you enjoy my rescue stories and my artwork, you can have, or give as a gift, a year's worth of my portraits and rescue stories in Great Rescues Day Book.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Memorial Day is seen as a universal day of remembrance while Mothers or Fathers days are celebrations of a mother or father or the person who filled those roles for you, or for a friend or family member who considers themselves a pet parent.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Custom pet memorial gifts are not only loving remembrances to have or give as a gift, they may also be a lovely gift with a favorite photo of a beloved animal companion while they're still around to enjoy.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I make each custom votive, suncatcher or garden flag for yourself or others celebrate or remember a beloved animal companion with images that you provide. And a 25% discount from now until the end of May.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Custom Pet Memorial Gifts for Mothers Day, Fathers Day and Memorial Day (I rarely advertise on here but wanted to share these handmade custom gifts and this offer.)
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
6. 2026: Working on another idea right now. You'll see that soon. thecreativecat.net/featured-dai... #catartwork #illustration #handmadegifts
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Featured Daily Sketch: Kitty in Pink, 2013 - The Creative Cat
I know, I just ran this at Easter, but this is the actual anniversary of the day I posted it,
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
5. 2019: Refrigerator magnets! I used a lightweight piece of aluminum sheet and made a cookie cutter and cut them out of polymer clay, then painted them.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
4. 2018: Signs of the Cat--he's the potato chip cat. Upcycled wood from my neighbor's stockade fence, hand-cut stencils and acrylic paint. I still make these!
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
3. 2013: My first run of garden flags, there he is! A printer I worked with got some non-woven "paper" like nylon and printed these first flags for me. I worked out making my own in 2019.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
2. Ideas about his silhouette, filled with black, then for another idea, no eyes for screen printing and stenciling.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Here's the evolution of how I worked that out. 1. Original sketch. I loved the outline, that's Mr. Sunshine, but I was also experimenting with color fill a la Warhol.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
...I'm also trying to determine all the places I'd like to use Mr. Sunshine's sketch too—tote bags? garden flags? He's too colorful to let him pass unnoticed! From 2026: In the following years I did determine several ways to use his likeness, and I'm just about to start a new one!
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I was photographing crabapple blossoms this morning. Surely all that pale and bright pink left an impression for the day. From 2013: I have no sketch today, and my hands are tired, I am going to give them a soak in a pile of warm purring kitties....
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Kitty in Pink, 4" x 7", marker, 2012 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski From 2012: Don't know how Mr. Sunshine ended up with pink all over him today, but he was the model for this! A little spring fun with the brush markers and his curvy silhouette, but I had to capture his exotic slanted eyes.
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Featured Daily Sketch: Kitty in Pink, 2013 - The Creative Cat
I know, I just ran this at Easter, but this is the actual anniversary of the day I posted it,
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There was never a better setup for Mimi with those yellow blossoms as a backdrop as if I'd planned it and Mimi knew it. I must have been totally distracted to have never shared this photo before! I remember when I took it how excited I was. And Mimi was probably like, yeah, I planned it all myself.
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Mimi and Mewsette Monday: Mimi and Forsythia, April 1, 2024 - The Creative Cat
There was never a better setup for Mimi and forsythia to have those yellow blossoms as a backdrop, as if I'd planned it.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
...and Mimi being so small there wasn't often a place with forsythia behind her or anywhere near her. That spring the forsythias put on a big display and I had placed those garden chairs next to the ones blooming on that side of the garden.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I really like the striped pattern in the background that looks like wallpaper but it's actually what my camera picked up from the LED plant lights. It looks like laser beams are pulling my tomatoes upward. #gardening #backyardgarden #growyourownveg
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Draft? No drafts on my tomato seedlings! There may be a draft happening in Pittsburgh next few days but the real news is my enthusiastic tomato seedlings that are going to be lots of tomatoes this coming summer.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day! A little rain first thing followed by sunshine, as if the earth knows we celebrate her today! www.bernadettestoday.com/happy-earth-...
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Friday Four and More: Trying to Fit Five in a Cat Bed, 2013 - The Creative Cat
So clearly this cat bed can only fit two and one half cats.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I was, of course, at my desk trying to get work done, good luck with that. As I edited these photos from 2013 I found the reference photos I'd taken as I created two daily sketches from that week! They never ceased to provide a variety of inspirations for me.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I love the interactions, the body language and silent drama among them as Mr. Sunshine, Giuseppe and Mewsette nap in the basket without concern while Mimi and Jelly Bean circle trying to figure out how to fit themselves in the series of photos in this post.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Friday Four and More: Trying to Fit Five in a Cat Bed, 2013 They look like just a bunch of legs. How would this bed ever fit five? Well these five were going to have their daily cat pile where they all slept in a heap, and that was going to be that.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I framed this sketch in a frame with a pattern similar to the pillow shams. thecreativecat.net/featured-dai... #catart #catartwork
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
...squares arranged in a repeating geometric pattern, as well as the pillow shams with the ruffled eyelet edging. How to render the details in pencil when much depends on color, and how much detail is just enough without drawing every little eyelet opening and every flower and line on each square?
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This was just as much about capturing all three, each of whom moved enough that they needed extra sketching, as it was about the bedding. I enjoyed the challenge of depicting the pattern on the postage-stamp quilt, each little square with its own pattern and color and the...
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Curled on the Bed, pencil, 5 x 8, 2012 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski From 2012: What else to do on a lovely sunny afternoon but curl up in the sun on the bed? Some of us have to work, but kitties need their beauty sleep. They gave me a break from the computer when I decided they’d be today’s subject.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It was so cold overnight that the bird baths froze but suddenly it feels like spring again and the air is warm and breezy and the sun is actually kind of hot. #mariposawhitemittens #siennafostertortie #hamletistobe
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I turn around and see three sweet kitties looking at me... I would say something about constant feline supurrvision by three very intent felines, but I know that I'm not what Mariposa, Sienna and Hamlet are interested in this morning at the basement door.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
But the rest of them, because they grow pretty straight and tall while still about an inch in diameter became pretty good plant stakes. #natureart #artbynature
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
These are butternut shells, also called white walnuts. She's been kind enough to plant a few in my yard which grew into trees, and I've chosen one to keep, thank you squirrely!
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Feeling a little owly? I've been digging up a few of Squirrely's winter treasures as I work in my garden. She tends to bury things and then forget where she put them.
Photo of three half Walnut shells that look like owls.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
So I will be sharing photos of what was blooming in my yard then, same as now, and I'll be sharing some photos of just Mimi as I remember her, that year and all the other springs we spent out there. thecreativecat.net/daily-photo-... #littlemimicat #littleblackcat
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Daily Photo: Mimi in the Light, April 15, 2024 - The Creative Cat
Mimi in the light.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I focused on her, and taking the most beautiful photos of her and everything growing and blooming was a balm to my soul in those months. But I used few of them.
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Daily Photo: Mimi in the Light, April 15, 2024 - The Creative Cat
Mimi in the light.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
In April 2024 Mimi was recovering from losing Mr. Sunshine, and all the others, and was just getting back on her paws. I knew I could lose her, and if I didn't that she was in her last months.
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Daily Photo: Mimi in the Light, April 15, 2024 - The Creative Cat
Mimi in the light.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This year while I'm renewing my garden I'm barely taking time for photos. I saw that my dogwood was blooming and thought I should get my camera, but then I remembered photos I'd taken that month and looked them over.
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Daily Photo: Mimi in the Light, April 15, 2024 - The Creative Cat
Mimi in the light.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Mimi in the light, April 15, 2024. That's her in the light on the fresh green grass. Prescient, perhaps, is she looking into her future? A photo of Mimi captured from April 2024. After a particularly rough winter spring has sprung all at once in my yard.
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Daily Photo: Mimi in the Light, April 15, 2024 - The Creative Cat
Mimi in the light.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Brilliant Suddenly so much color under the brilliant spring sun, even the smallest violet in the grass is joyful. It’s overexposed but I didn’t correct it, I like it that way. www.bernadettestoday.com/brilliant/ #springflowers #photography
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Brilliant - Today
Suddenly so much color under the brilliant spring sun, even the smallest violet in the grass is joyful. It's overexposed but I didn't correct it, I like it that way.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Having a lazy, rainy, surprisingly chilly Sunday morning. I've been immobilized by Bella and Mariposa purrs. I guess they're glad I'm sitting still for the first time in a few days. So am I, and that I got a lot of the gardening done before the rain came last night.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And here we are with a new year of dogwood blossoms, just opened, filled with the sunshine of spring. www.bernadettestoday.com/blossoms-fil...
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Blossoms Filled With Spring - Today
And here we are with a new year of dogwood blossoms, just opened, filled with the sunshine of spring.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Blossoms Filled With Spring My dogwood barely bloomed last spring. I thought I would lose it from drought or a disease but saw no signs of either. The leaves were healthy, no branches were dropping, no signs of damage or change to the bark, so I just waited for this spring.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The area on the other side--ask me about free forsythia bushes!--will be a wildflower border. Can't wait to see it grow. Read more here: thecreativecat.net/mimis-garden... #backyardgarden #backyardgardening #sustainable #organic gardening
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Mimi's Garden 2026 - The Creative Cat
Just some arugula, spinach and kale coming up way at the top so it doesn’t look like a real garden
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I use cardboard boxes to layer under the bricks as a weed barrier. Way down on the right-hand side I have old dresser drawers that I'll fill with soil and compost for my herb garden--the old herb garden got too shaded by a neighbor's tree.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I don't cut anything, I use it as is, that's what determines how big the raised beds are. Wood breaks down and decay over several years (surprisingly long) then I look for some more. The brick paths are all used bricks from neighbors years ago and from free sites on the internet now.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The wood on the sides of the beds is mostly from my neighbor's three-level steps and landings on the back of their house when they made the mistake of putting it out at the curb where I could see it.
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Mimi's Garden 2026 - The Creative Cat
Just some arugula, spinach and kale coming up way at the top so it doesn’t look like a real garden
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It's all built from used, recycled, upcycled stuff. When I had my first garden back in the 80s I realized how much a garden could cost. I love repurposing things anyway, so that's what I've always done.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mimi's Garden 2026 Just some arugula, spinach and kale coming up way at the top so it doesn't look like a real garden quite yet, but it's as close to that as it's been in over a decade. Mimi would be thrilled with all the paths to walk and all the wood to scratch!
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
No kitty is being neglected, but I have been spending a lot of time out there, clearing away overgrowth and building out the larger portion of the garden I haven't used in a few years and I'm really excited! Get ready for garden photos!! Can I have some more exclamation points, please?!!!!!!
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mariposa helps me measure out my garden with her big white mitten holding the end of the tape measure. What would I do without her! I've been spending what all the cats in this house feel is an undue amount of time out in said garden so maybe she just wants to be sure she gets some attention.
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Bernadette E. Kazmarski @bernadettek.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hamlet and Mariposa did not see their shadows and are convinced that spring is here. #hamletistobe #mariposawhitemittens #formerlyferal #catenrichment
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