A pet sitting service and more....
Pet Owner/Artist:
Alice Forbes Ferrick-Maurer
Hm. 512-858-5330
Cell. 512-809-8500
Have pets? Have exotics? Have donkeys, horses,etc...?
Need plants watered, lights turned on and off, newspapers and mail
picked up?
Let us take care of all of the above.
$25.00 per visit or call for a quote.
Local area only in Dripping Springs, Texas
chicken, emu
and ceramic
ostrich eggs
$25-120.00
Lavender color short sleeved woman sizes only.
$15.00
Teal color short sleeved men sizes only.
$15.00
It's all downhill from here.
Grey color long sleeved T.shirt
with "Life is Ruff!" Logo on sleeve.
Men sizes only.
$20.00
Lifeisruff.com
Lacie) we own 5 dogs (Lucky, Spice, Moon, Bo Bo, Polar) + Sugar, the neighbors dog who hangs out at our
house, 2 ferrets (Kebler and Bandit), 9 cats (Cleo, Patch, (Scruffy, Stubby, Toes, Boo and Cry Baby, these
cats are polly dactyl meaning big feet, 6 or more toes on each foot), Cali and Snickers), 3 Exotics (Cooter,
Tana and Ben) and 2 aquariums. I spend at least an hour or more a day feeding and taking care of the four
legged members of our family, so I thought why not start pet sitting and get paid for it. Hence, "Life is Ruff! /
Life is Tuff!", a pet sitting service.
In May of 2002, I was living temporarily in Gunnison, Colorado. One morning I was sitting outside watching my
yellow lab Polar attempting to escape from the fenced in yard. He was wiggling his way under the chain linked
fence. I told my two girls that "Life is so ruff for Polar". That was when I started doing drawings of Polar doing
his typical antics of mischief making and at that point we came up with the saying, "Life Is Ruff!" And we
printed up the three t.shirts.
In addition to loving animals, I have a deep religious faith in God and Jesus Christ. Because of my faith I have
begun to paint and build items that are either animal related or faith related. I am painting ceramic ostrich
eggs, real emu and chicken eggs and designing and building wooden garden wall hangings and planter boxes.
These are all my "God inspired" things. Any animal item I sell, I will give 10% of the money to Paws a local
adoption center for stray animals. Any faith based item I sell, I will give 10% to my local church.
I will do commissioned work as well. I currently have a client who has champion miniature Cross Back Donkeys.
As a thank you gift I painted her a blown out chicken egg and painted a donkey on it. She thought it so unique
that I am painting two eggs for her, one will be a miniature Doberman pincher and the other will be an African
Grey Parrot. I charge $25.00 for chicken eggs.
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All real eggs are empty. Each egg varys in price according to how much work and time that is involved.
Stands included with egg.
$120.00
This limited edition ceramic ostrich egg is hand painted in a primitive folk art style with vibrant colors. Due to the nature of it being
an original work of art, each will be slightly different. I have chosen the egg as a representation of new life. It is a natural
compliment in that one must be born again to experience the “New Life” that one takes walking with Christ.
The egg depicts four scenes from the life of Jesus. The first is the manger scene with the star above the manger with the baby
Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the animals. The second is Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist with the dove (symbol for the Holy
Spirit) ascending above. The third is of the crucifixion with Jesus on the center cross. The inscription above Jesus is Latin “INRI”.
This represents I for Iesus or Jesus, N for Nazarenus or Nazerene, R for Rex or King and I for Iudeorum or Jews. A loose
translation is “Jesus Nazarene, King of the Jews”. And last, the fourth scene depicts the resurrection with the angel telling Mary
Magdalene that Jesus’ body is not there.
To know that this egg is an original egg by A.Forbes, I have inserted a tiny fish with a cross for the eye. The fish is a historic symbol
used by early Christians, as is the cross. Somewhere on my pieces I will include this symbol to attest that it is an original A.Forbes.
Ceramic ostrich egg.
$50.00
ceramic ostrich
egg. $50.00
ostrich egg. I can
personalize this
egg. $100.00
Wedding
ceramic ostrich
egg. I can
personalize this
egg. $75.00
ceramic ostrich
egg. 3 scenes
$40.00
Christmas scene. $75.00
ceramic ostrich
egg. $30.00
ceramic ostrich
egg. $30.00
Real Chicken
Hedgehog
Christmas
Ornament Egg
$25.00
Real Chicken
China Cat
$25.00
Drawings
plaques are $15.00. Except for my Mission Statements, planter is $25.00 and the wall plaque is $20.00.
Statement
Planter box
Rooster wall
plaque
$25.00
cross with star.
Wall plaque.
Specify colors.
wall plaque.
rooster/white
hen wall plaque
Statement Wall
Plaque
hearts. Wall
plaque.
Specify colors.
Planter box.
