Remembering Grandpaw: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Greetings, Effurrybody!

This week it falls to Me, Queen Trixie, Furrst of My Name, Empurress of Jerusalem, Israel and the Entire Middle East, Queen of Hearts, the Panfur Princess, Guardian of the Boudoir, Alpha Kitty Extraordinaire, 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 the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

Before We do that, however, I want to remind effurryone that tomorrow, according to the Mewish Calendar, it will be the Second Anniversary of Grandpaw's departure for his Rainbow Bridge. We are all furry sad. We still miss him so furry much - and especially Our Woofie Uncle, Messi, who loved his Daddy furry much, as you surely remember.

Mummy will be lighting a candle for him this evening and reading Psalms in his Memory.

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Now, as for Our Own News - Shimshi told you last week about My Traumatic Expurrience, when Mummy kitnapped Me, and carried Me off to the Stabby Place, where they stole My Bloods and poked and prodded Me and told Mummy My Toofies were in bad condition. But at least My Kidneys are FINE.  Howeffur, Mummy continued being Mean to Us and left Us alone for HOURS on end, to go to her Caterwauling rehearsals. And on Saturday night, when She doesn't usually go out at all, She was out all evening appearing in a Concert. She will write about that in her Own Bloggie some time later this week or, more likely, next week. She has a lot to write about as November is the month when most of her "Activities" get started again after the Summer Break - the new Opurra season, and her archaeological field trips and her Art Appurreciation course.

Speaking of Art - here are My Selfie and its Artifications, for which, as usual, We used LunaPic's beautiful filters.

The furrst artification is composed of the Sketch2 filter at 28%, overlaid with the merest hint of Garden at 17%, to bring out the colour of My Eyes:

Next, We tried the Floating effect at 75%, lightly washed over with Smoke at 25%:

Finally, We went for Fantasy at 73%, followed by Landscape at 47%:

Tell Us in the comments section below which one you like best.

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Mummy says to tell you all that She did not desert Us entirely all week and that, on the contrary, She started reading to Us the lovely book We won on ERin the Cat's giveaway earlier in the autumn. It's called Chumley and Hudson Investigate: The King Herod's Affair and it's all about a beautiful and aristocratic kitty called Erin and her housekeeper and Companion, Mrs Hudson, who are private detectives and who are called in to investigate the disappearance of three kittens from London's famous (and expensive) King Herod's Department store. Of course, what starts out as a routine investigation turns out to be something much, much more sinister. We will bring you a full review once We finish the book (which would happen a lot sooner if Mummy didn't keep disappearing herself so often to go to her Caterwauling Club!!! Hint, hint, hint, Mummy!) but on the basis of what We have read so far, We think you should definitely tell your pawrents to go and buy the book themselves. 

Now, since Mummy has to go again to Caterwauling purractice this evening, because there is yet another concert next month, and She needs to rest furrst, We had better get on with the blog hop. Here are the blog hop badges, before We fur-get:

        

We will try to visit as many of you as We can before Mummy turns off the Computer machine and goes for her Afternoon Nap (I declare, She naps almost as much as a kitty. She must have Feline DNA somewhere in her Family Tree - MOL).

See you next week, then - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel.

Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.