Caturday Art: In Memory of Minxie

Hallo again, Effurrybody!

Today, We are celebrating the memory of Mummy's furry furrst Furbaby, the beautiful Minxie, Queen of Cats.

Minxie was born on June 15th, 1980, so Today would have been her Birthday. Mummy had neffur had a Furbaby before and Minxie filled her life with Joy and Wonder.

Mummy has told Us all about Minxie, because We believe that it is furry impawtant to learn about the Kitties who came before Us. This is part of Our Heritage - and it is pawticularly impawtant, because Minxie went to the Bridge long before Mummy started blogging, and if We don't write about her, no-one but Us will know about her and how beautiful and loving she was, and how Mummy's heart was broken. Minxie was an amazing kitty, who used to run to the window when Mummy came home from Work and called to her from the carpark down below. She would meow hallo to Mummy and then, she would run to the door to greet Her.

When Mummy would lie on the sofa, watching TeeVee, Minxie liked to lie on Mummy's chest, watching Mummy. Sometimes, she would go to sleep there - and then Mummy just had to stay put until Minxie woke up!
And, unlike Us (so Mummy claims), she neffur used to eat the houseplants (mol).

Unfortunately, when Minxie was just 14 years old, she got a horrible, nasty, Evil Cancer. The v-e-t opurrated on her and tried to remove it, but it was too far advanced and Minxie didn't recover, but grew weaker and weaker. It wasn't long before Mummy discovered another lump in Minxie's tummy and realised it would be cruel to put her through any further opurrations and that the time had come to help her Beloved Baby go home to the Great Cat in the Sky.
That happened on June 12th, 1995 - just three days before what would have been Minxie's 15th birthday.

Minxie lived her whole life before The Digital Age, so the only pictures of her that Mummy has, were taken with one of those Old-Fashioned Cameras, where you had to take the film into a photography shop to be developed. She has scanned some of the pictures into her computer and she has chosen one of them - with Our Help - to take part in the Caturday Art Blog Hop hosted by the furry Wise Kitty Athena and her Human, Marie.

Here is the original picture, of Minxie sitting in one of her Favourite Places - the Bathtub:

If there was a towel draped over the side of the bathtub, Minxie would drag it down into the tub, and sit on it! Well, wouldn't you? It's much more comfortable to sit on a towel than on the (possibly damp) floor of the bath-tub!

Mummy used LunaPic to artify the picture. Since Minxie liked sitting in the bathtub, Mummy added the Water Filter and then the Splash Effect at 50%. And she made a kind of oval frame, which makes it seem as if Minxie is sitting in a jacuzzi (mol). At least, that what Mummy thinks. We think it looks as if Minxie is swimming!
What do you think?

Finally, Mummy found this Brussels Museum effect at PhotoFunia, so that Minxie's extraordinary Beauty could be displayed to the world in a suitable setting:

Now, before We join the Blog Hop, as usual, We want to wish you all Shavua Tov - a Good Week.

And off We go:

Furrst, here is The Badge:  
                                  
                                     

And let's go!