Favorites Chosen by My Mom & Me — Last Chance! Sale Ends Friday

November 28, 2025 K C

Dear Moon Muser,

As this will be my last blog post about my LuLu in Laguna 70% Off sale of silk and watercolor pieces I thought it appropriate to share my own favorites and those of my mom, Vera who just so happens to be my biggest fan and to whom I dedicated this series when it first began in 1993.

Sparkly Blessings & Luv!
Kathy Crabbe

Luv u LuLu ~ Click for Sale

Use this code for 70% Off when checking out: LULU
*With each purchase you choose a free print — a thank you for 30 years of support.*

Sale ends Friday, Nov. 28, midnight PT

Mom & I at the Sawdust Art Festival during a class on silk painting I taught

“A note to let you know how very much I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy your Lulu pictures in my home. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all the pictures I have of your cats. I’m very lucky to have several cat pictures.

I have Valerian - which is my absolute favourite, followed closely by Cat Wink and Happy Garden Cat. These pictures give me and have given me lots of pleasure. Plus I like the feeling they give to the room(s).

Also a very special and important comment for me ——- They remind me of you and bring you into the room(s). I like that alot.”

— Vera Crabbe

My Mom’s Favorites

Happy Garden Cat
Prints in 3 sizes available: Take 70% off $25 (4 left), $30 (1 left) & $40 (4 left).
11 x 14 Matted Original still available. Take 70% off $385

Cat Wink
Prints in 3 sizes available: Take 70% off $25 (4 left), $30 (1 left) & $40 (5 left).

Valerian
Print available in 1 size: Take 70% off $25 (1 left).

My Favorites

The Chase

She is my second favorite mermaid but turned out she was the most popular with my customers! I love her because I am she - a red headed mermaid! She also reminds me of my best friend at the time, Tangerine, a lovely red head who was also a favorite model for the artists in Laguna Beach. Plus, I have a thing for redheads! My best friend growing up is a redhead and so is my husband!

Print in 2 sizes available: Take 70% off $25 (7 left), $40 (1 left).
8 x 10 Matted Original still available. Take 70% off $250

Sea Priestess

I have the original watercolor painting hanging in my bathroom. She reminds me of a beloved mermaid from fairytale books and I just love her sweet energy and that her trusty mer-cat is by her side, such a delight - especially her eyes - twinkly!

Print in 2 sizes available: Take 70% off $25 (5 left), $40 (1 left).

Plantain & Delilah

I love this fairy and her fey friend - i love the colors, the beauty of plantain and the subtlety of their connection.

Print in 3 sizes available: Take 70% off $25 (3 left), $30 (2 left), $40 (3 left).
11 x 14 Matted Original still available. Take 70% off $300

Beebalm

This kitty reminds me of my adorable and feisty cat, Spartacus. He was a wanderer and adventurer and best friends with my big dog, Abby. They loved to box each other!

Print available: Take 70% off $25 (1 left).

March Cat

This kitty is my 'Pin' aka Luis - the Sawdust Art Festival feral kitty that I adopted one night at the Sawdust - she was a one-person kitty and that person was me - I was so lucky.

Print in 3 sizes available: Take 70% off $25 (3 left), $30 (4 left), $40 (3 left).

Lazy Day

This reminds me of my dog Guinness who was a lovely mix of Golden Retriever and Australian Shepherd. He is no longer with us and neither is Abby, our female mix of the same kind - what loving, smart friends they were.

Prints in 3 sizes available: Take 70% off $25 (5 left), $30 (2 left) & $40 (1 left).
8 x 10 Matted Original still available. Take 70% off $300

Kathy Crabbe painting on silk, Laguna Beach

*Me & Mom - Sawdust Art Festival - Silk painting class I taught.*

Sawdust Art Festival booth by Kathy Crabbe

About Kathy Crabbe

I channel healing magick through my work as an artist, soul reader and creator of six divination decks. Dividing my time between California and Canada, I travel by caravan to mer-faerie cottages lovingly hand built by my beloved Mark and myself

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Who IS LuLu?

November 23, 2025 K C

Who is LuLu?

Lulu was created when I was in graphic design school in the early 90's. My best friend Jamie and I created alter egos and mine was called LuLu. I also really needed a friend during crazy alone times to keep me company so I drew LuLu as a cartoon with friends: Zippy and Hermès (the cat). She became my inner child.

Within one week of graduating from design school I had moved to Montréal, got engaged and moved to Corona del Mar, California!

I was lucky enough to devote myself full time to my inner child; LuLu. She is my child. I never gave birth to a human child and knew I never would. I knew that my creations, my art and my pets would be my children.

So, when LuLu was 'born' in design school I was also, in a way, following in the footsteps of my paternal birth grandfather whom I had not yet met. His name is James Simpkins and according to Seth the cartoonist he was the creator of the most well known and beloved Canadian cartoon character of the twentieth century in Canada; Jasper the Bear. I had known my grandfather's work since childhood as one of his illustrations was on the back of a beloved children's book I owned.

I met Jim, my grandfather several times before he died. I found my entire birth family when I was 27. James was still drawing in the senior residence when I met him for the last time. He had a wall devoted to cartoons and I was on there with my art! His room was filled with Jasper memorabilia; statues, books, videos, etc and a drafting table where he worked, just like mine. He proudly showed me my photo and work on his cartoon wall. He was still cartooning; putting up nasty funny cartoons around the residence to try to get folks to stop smoking.

LuLu was my nod to him—from one cartoonist to another—although I never considered myself a cartoonist. I didn’t work with narrative or storytelling… or did I? I told this to my dear friend recently, and he told me to look up the lyrics to the Waterboys song “Trumpets” (whom I just saw in L.A.—woot!) and then try to tell him I didn’t do narrative!

Kathy Crabbe at St. Lawrence College, Canada

I have been telling stories—creating narrative—my whole life, and LuLu is the story of my inner child growing up. And now she is leaving home. How can I ever let her go? But it is time. It is past time.

"And to be with you
Is to find myself in the best of dreams
Your love feels like trumpets."

~ The Waterboys, "Trumpets"

Blessed Be,
Kathy Crabbe

70% Off LuLu Art

Only 4 days left to gather any LuLu treasures that speak to your heart.

End of an Era Sale
70% Off with code: LULU
Sale ends Nov. 28, midnight, pacific time

*With each purchase you choose a free print — a thank you for 30 years of support.*

About Kathy Crabbe
I channel healing magick through my work as an artist, soul reader and creator of six divination decks. Dividing my time between California and Canada, I travel by caravan to mer-faerie cottages lovingly hand built by my beloved Mark and myself.

✨ End of an Era Sale — 70% Off LuLu in Laguna Silk Art ✨ Saying Goodbye with Grace & the Beauty of Letting Go

November 22, 2025 K C

It’s the end of an era as I prepare to release all my LuLu in Laguna silk art originals and prints.

What is the beauty of letting go? Feeling light.

"These paintings activate my inner child, the colors bring such a peaceful, happy feeling to me that I literally feel good just looking at the artwork...there's just something really special and soothing that makes me want to touch these. They bring me such joy!" ~ Nina Riel

LuLu Sale 70% Off

Use this code for 70% Off when checking out: LULU
*With each purchase you will also receive a free print*
Sale ends Nov. 28 at midnite, Pacific Time

LuLu Art by Kathy Crabbe — LuLu in Laguna Art by Kathy Crabbe

I became an artist after moving to California at age 25, after meeting my husband-to-be in Kingston, Canada. He was sailing in the Olympic Trials (CORK), and I just knew I was going to meet him that night! He was the one who convinced me I could actually be an artist and make a living at it—and so I did. It turned out that Laguna Beach was the perfect place to be!

Mark and Me, Newport Beach — Mark and Me

I had a huge breakthrough during my first Saturn Return, around age 30, when we all experience that major, life-changing astrological transit. I experienced a rebirthing session, and my entire business plan for LuLu Design came to me. I began silk painting because I absolutely fell in LOVE with the colors and the intensity of the dyes on silk. I started selling my work at art and craft fairs, then to galleries and shops. That’s when my LuLu in Laguna series was born, along with my years of participation in the two-month-long Sawdust Art Festival in Laguna Beach.

Kathy Crabbe, Sawdust Festival, Laguna Beach

I began silk painting because I absolutely fell in LOVE with the colors and the intensity of the dyes on silk. I started selling my work at art and craft fairs, then to galleries and shops. That's when my LuLu in Laguna series was born, along with 7 years of participation in the two-month-long Sawdust Art Festival in Laguna Beach.

Silk Painting Class by Kathy Crabbe (Sawdust Art Festival)

Well, now it’s 30 years later, and I’m 60, moving through my second Saturn Return. It’s time to lighten the load as I prepare for the last third of my life. I need to let go, and I need to say goodbye to LuLu as I make room for new creations and adventures—time to move on and move forward. I have lived and loved as a full-time artist my entire working career, and I thank you all for supporting this journey. I could not have done it without you.

Sawdust Art Festival, Kathy Crabbe's art fair booth

Above is my first Sawdust Festival art booth in 1993. The booth had to be built up to fire code - it's a serious business! I had a hand laid antique brick floor, antique beams and refurbished windows, so cute!Later on my booths would all have second stories so I could climb up, take a nap and store stuff - handy 'cause this show ran 10am -10pm every day for 2 months long.

“Everything is just beautiful...And the colors are yummy! Yummy!”

— Francesca De Grandis, Shamanic Mentor

Kathy Crabbe's Sawdust Art Festival Booth

“I felt them in my heart, playful and light. They open you up; like letting a crack of light in.”

— Cheryl, RN, Canmore

Kathy Crabbe wearing one of her hand painted silk kimonos (Sawdust Art Festival)

This was my vision of life in my 30s: Laguna Beach, painting silk, playing with mermaids in the sea, surrounded by pet loves and my lover, living in paradise, making art and making a living from it—what a blessing! And now it's time to let that go. I feel lighter already.

Kathy Crabbe painting silks on her balcony in Laguna Beach

“You are such an inspiration. I love your smile, your creativity, and how you have kept your inner children alive and flourishing! I found my chalks last night. I found my big sketch pad that I haven’t touched in decades. I do not know what will come out but I am letting the colors flow.”

— Ronni Eloff

My sweetie, Mark and his dad, Ed - my favorite booth builders!

Opening Night, Sawdust Art Festival, Laguna Beach canyon, huge line up, as always. This art fair has been going strong since the 1960's.

Booth building with my sweetie, Mark, Laguna Beach, Sawdust Art Festival

Sunset for 2 by Kathy Crabbe — **Sunset for 2**

Sunset for 2 - prints available here

The Mermaid's Angel, prints available in several sizes.
Original still available.

My Sawdust stray, Luis aka 'Pin' with some hand painted silk ties.

So, I'm having a 70% Off Sale on all my silk art paintings and prints created during my Laguna Beach years from 1992–2000. You will also receive a free print with every purchase. Whatever is left after this sale will be offered to the shops that sell my work (and yes, they will still carry my LuLu greeting cards—those are staying!). Anything left after that will be donated to an ocean rescue foundation, FAB (Frontenac Arch Biosphere Organization), and pet rescue foundations.

LuLu Sale 70% Off

Use this code for 70% Off when checking out: LULU
*With each purchase you will also receive a free print*

Sale ends Nov. 28 at midnite, Pacific Time

Valentine's Cats & Dogs

January 19, 2016 Kathy Crabbe

I'm having a big sale in my Etsy Shop for Valentine's Day - there is now FREE SHIPPING until Feb. 14 for all cards/prints/originals. Just enter the coupon code: FREELUV when checking out! All the paintings below were created on silk using silk dyes and gutta resist. They were inspired by 8 years of living in lovely Laguna Beach, California where I spent time frolicking with my 4 legged friends and the occasional mermaid.

"Amazingggg. Kathy is such a dear sweet person. I will definitely buy again from her!! The artwork was sooo beautiful and beyond my expectations. I am so happy I bought this for my friend. Even the envelope had art on it. Very happyyyyy!! :)" ~ Etsy Review
"Juicy Alive! Your cards make me feel like I'm not alone. They restore something in me and make me feel sane again." ~ Tangerine Bolen, 2013
"Just wonderful...looks better than the website image...has already received a number of positive comments when I displayed it in my office." ~ Etsy Review

Kathy Crabbe, Astrologer, Temecula Wine Country, California — Kathy Crabbe Creative Soul Guide in Temecula Wine Country, California

About Kathy

Kathy Crabbe inspires soul-seekers to discover their innate gifts and talents through intuitive, creative expression in safe, relaxed and playful environments. She has been an artist forever and a Creative Soul Guide since awakening her own intuitive gifts at age forty.

Kathy lives in sunny SoCal with her architect husband and pet muses, Abby the shaggy black dog and Djinn Djinn, the small scruffy one in an adobe home they built themselves. Kathy is posting one new piece of art a day for 365 days on Instagram at http://instagram.com/kathycrabbeart

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My LuLu in Laguna paintings are at Mystic Arts in Laguna Beach

August 12, 2014 Kathy Crabbe

Here's a small sample of original silk paintings from my LuLu in Laguna Collection that are on exhibit at Mystic Arts Gallery in Laguna Beach thru August, 2014 so come on down and support the arts! Prints can also be purchased in my Etsy shop. Mystic Arts Gallery features art by Kathy Crabbe

ABOUT KATHY CRABBE

I am a Canadian born self taught intuitive artist and soul reader currently living and working in the desert valley of Southern California surrounded by ancient oaks and an elfin forest. I live in a home created by my husband that we share with our cat and dog, Abby and Spartacus. Gnomes, aliens and fairies have also been spotted here. I’ve been drawing since age two and giving intuitive soul readings since 2008.

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