The Great Doping Scandal: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies with Trixie

Greetings, Effurrybody!


Trixie here - and what more appropriate way to celebrate My Twelfth Birthday, which falls tomorrow, than for Me to repurresent the 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 the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet?

But, before I do that, I simply must give you an update on the Cat-O-Lympics, now in their final day (don't miss the Clawsing Ceremony this evening)!

As you know, all three of Us competed in multiple events. Shimshi told you last week about Our Successes in a couple of them. Now for the rest of the tail Tale!

Both Shimshi and Caspurr took Gold in their respective weight classes in the Wrassling. Meanwhile, I had quite a fight on My Paws with the Counter-to-Cupboard High Jump, but eventually won the Gold by the merest breadth of a Whisker!

The Great Drama came in the Pole-Dancing event. Caspurr and Shimshi won the Pairs Event - and then it was time for the Ladycats' Individual Pole-Dancing Championship. I was greatly disappointed to find Myself only in 2nd place - but then, the Bronze Medallist appealed the results, leading to a general investigation, during which it was discovered that the Gold Medallist was doped up to the eyeballs on valerian. No wonder she was able to roll about and twist herself into such incredible contortions!!! It goes without saying that she was disqualified (and now, pending further investigations, faces a Lifetime Ban). However, the happier result was that I received the Gold Medal (no more than I deserve, even if I do say so Myself), the Bronze Medallist (a most observant and intelligent little tuxie) was "bumped up" to Silver, and the Bronze Medal went to a charming calico kitty who greatly reminded Me of CalliCallou.

So We have a lot to celebrate this week - and We are going to do all of that this coming Saturday, August 17th, which also happens to be Black Cat Appreciation Day!

In honour of the latter, Mummy tried her paw hand at creating some AI-generated art, using CoPilot, which has mysteriously appeared on her computer.

The results are quite amewsing. The app appeared to have a lot of trouble understanding Mummy's instructions, especially as She speaks the King's English like an Englishwoman. She had to fake an American accent to get it to do what She wanted (mol)!

Here are the results:

I don't know about you, but Mummy and I prefurr the artifications We made of My Selfie, using LunaPic. Mummy feels it allows her to be more creative. Judge for yourself.

The first artification uses the Dark effect at 45%:

Next up, We used a combination of Tuscany at 90% and Storytime at 62%:

The Final Version uses Nouveau at 60% with an overlay of Quirky at 30%:

I really like the way I seem to be surrounded by a halo of light in all of these (though I admit I'm no saint - MOL).

We do seem to have an awful lot of Art this week, don't We?

And We're not finished yet - because We still have to show you My Birthday Stamp (courtesy of PhotoFunia):

Last, but not least, here are the blog hop badges:

        

Now, before We start hopping, you will no doubt have guessed that, with so many things to celebrate - Our Cat-O-Lympic successes, My Birthday, and Black Cat Appreciation Day - a Pawty is in order.  And, of course, it's going to be a Big One. Absolutely Huge!

No prizes for guessing where, of course. Where else but in the Enchanted Forest, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem?

When? Saturday August 17th, starting with a BBQ at 2 pm, Israel Time and carrying on all night long. The co-ordinates have, as usual, been sent to your tele-transportation devices. If anyone has not received them, please let Us know.

See you all at the pawty! 

And if you can't make it to the pawty, We'll be back here again for next week's blog hops - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel.

Meanwhile - be well. Be safe. We love you all.