The Cats Will Play is a jazzy assemblage featuring three colorful anthropomorphic wooden Mexican cats (or arguably a fox, bull, and panther) playing musical instruments in a jazz club made from the outside frame of an antique wooden clock. Inside the club you'll find a silver-toned belt buckle star on a wall of decoupaged fish collage and sheet music shards. Foxy, the lead, stands at the front of the stage on a Mexican Talavera tile (which itself represents an animal that looks like a fox) shored up by the ends of some 1970s footstool legs. Above his head are decorative balls--a few dangling metallic fillagree balls flanked by neon balls of yarn, as you'd imagine these cats to like. I've added fairy lights that are mostly invisible during the day but kick the ambiance up to where it needs to be for night time when, you know, the Cats will Play.

Acknowledgements: figurines and belt buckle from a flea market, images on the back wall from a thrift store, clock box from my metalworking friend Ian who has no use for wooden junk, jewelry beads from my stash and yarn balls made from embroidery floss handed down to me by Nona Pebworth.