{"id":2569,"date":"2012-07-14T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2012-07-14T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:16:16","slug":"happy-bastille-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/07\/14\/happy-bastille-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bastille Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just a quick post today to wish our beloved Giselle, Charlotte\u2019s French maid\u2014and all of you\u2014a festive Bastille Day. I was up late working last night, and nearly forgot all about the occasion, but fortunately the mice were on the case, and delivered a lovely sparkler-lit croissant to Mademoiselle early this morning, along with all our best wishes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/happy_bastille_day1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2583\" title=\"Happy Bastille Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/happy_bastille_day1.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Bastille Day\" width=\"640\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/happy_bastille_day1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/happy_bastille_day1-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also wanted to say \u201cMerci!\u201d to <a title=\"The Graphics Fairy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Graphics Fairy<\/a>, an angel company that provides artists and crafters with unique vintage clip art\u2014both for the French flag postcard and the forget-me-nots that I\u2019ve used to frame today\u2019s doodle, but also, belatedly, for the American Flag Lady (below right) that I used for Charlotte\u2019s costume in my recent\u00a0<a title=\"Happy Fourth of July!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/07\/04\/happy-fourth-of-july\/\">Fourth of July post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2577\" title=\"Images from Graphics Fairy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/merci_graphicsfairy1.jpg\" alt=\"Images from Graphics Fairy\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/merci_graphicsfairy1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/merci_graphicsfairy1-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you like beautiful old-timey images like this, do visit Karen\u2019s site, where you can excavate additional treasures from her large archive via a keyword search\u2014all scanned from her collection of ephemera and antique books, and available as a free high-resolution download. (Read more about her <a title=\"The Graphics Fairy Terms\" href=\"http:\/\/graphicsfairyterms.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/my-terms.html\" target=\"_blank\">terms<\/a> and copyright on her site.) I signed up for email notifications recently, and it\u2019s been a great way to get a little extra daily inspiration, as Karen usually posts one or two new \u201ctreats\u201d every day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope everyone is having a wonderful Saturday, and is finding something to celebrate today, whether it\u2019s Bastille Day, the weekend, or just the fact that Friday the 13th is safely behind us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Au revoir until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post today to wish our beloved Giselle, Charlotte\u2019s French maid\u2014and all of you\u2014a festive Bastille Day. 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