In the beginning there was…

So, how did the spooky silli­ness that is CatBats get started?

My illness can really fluc­tu­ate. Admittedly, mostly in a down­wards direc­tion — but occa­sion­ally there’s just enough oomph the oppos­ite way to make me believe I can be creat­ive for a hot minute.

I’d figured out some­thing health-related in October, and by December some­thing in my brain just kinda caught up with itself and I was itch­ing to do some­thing with the small amount of extra brain-power I was exper­i­en­cing. Still had to keep it very simple, though, because there’s no telling when that brain-power will decide to go on holi­day and take the creativ­ity with it.

Chatting on WhatsApp with some friends, I decided to meld a previ­ous project of mine — a glit­tery bat sticker for another friend’s mobil­ity scooter — with at first, just one cat — Miss Sól here. It was simple, but it turned out so cute that I had to do the other two as well and complete the set.

At the time I had no thoughts of turn­ing it into anything else, that just sort of evolved later — and I was using an old template.

To make it into a new and entirely original thing, I had to redo the silhou­ette from the start, and port my three original designs into the new form. Et voíla — here they are.