Caspurr Being Cute: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo again, Effurryone!

Yes! I'm back again - the Courageous Sir Caspurr the Caspicatious, Furrst of My Name, the Snuggle Bug, Commander-in-Chief of the Impurrial Forces, King of the Tigger-Tabbies!

And once again, it is both My Purr-ivilege and My Pleasure to lead My Fellow J-Cats on this weekend's blog hops - the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by those oh-so-Delightful and  Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

Here are the blog hop badges, before I fur-get:

        

And here are the artsy-fartsy versions of My Selfie:

For this fursst one, all We did was use LunaPic's Borders setting to turn the Original Photo into a vignette.

For the second artification, We filtered the photo with Nouveau at 47% and then added a blurred border:

Do you have a favourite?

Kitties, We were furry remiss last week in failing to point out that Friday the 14th of July would have been Angel Pixie's birthday. 

Now, as you may recall, although Pixie was a Stay-At-Home kitty, She always loved to hear about faraway, exotic places, so she would have loved Our Oneg Shabbat on Friday evening.  It was both fun and educational.  Of course, We dedicated it to Angel Pixie. And also to Angel Grandpaw, who would have been 96 years old the day before, July 13th. Do you think they celebrate birthdays at the Rainbow Bridge? If they do, We are sure Grandpaw was celebrating with a great, big, cinnamon cake made by his own Mummy. It was his favourite cake when he was a little boy, only none of Us knew exactly how to make it.

Anyway, to get back to the Oneg Shabbat. We had an Azerbaijani evening. We started off with a lecture and slide show all about Azerbaijani culture and history. Then We had an Azerbaijani-themed supper, followed by Azeri songs and dances purr-formed by two more of Mummy's Collection - Lala and Ismail:

Mummy brought Lala and Ismail back with her when She visited Azerbaijan five years ago. They were a pair of star-crossed lovers, you see. They were in love but their families wanted them to marry other people. Mummy has a soft spot for star-crossed lovers so She asked them if they would like to come with her to Israel, where they could be together, and of course, they said "Yes!".

If you would like to read more about Azerbaijan and Mummy's visit there, you can do so here.  

And now it is time to sign off so that I can get back to my favourite activity - Napping (mol). Indeed, at 37 degrees Celsius, and with no sign of a drop in tempurratures in the next ten days, what else is a kitty to do?!

See you again next week then.

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.