Tongue, Tummy and Tail - Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies with Shimshi

Greetings, Effurrybuddies!

Today, I, the Mighty Shimshon (Shimshi for short), a.k.a. the Little Purrince, Furrst of My Name, a.k.a. the Baby Mancat, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs, and Captain of the Guard, am honoured to lead 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.

All three selfies have been framed with the Israel flag and with a yellow inner frame - in Solidarity with the three Israeli hostages who were freed yesterday, in a dreadful, emaciated condition, having been tortured, deliberately starved and kept in tiny cages by the Evil Hamas Monsters (unlike the convicted terrorist Murderers whom Israel released in exchange, who were well-fed and slept in beds, in cells which conformed to the standards accepted in civilised western countries and who were regularly visited by their families and by the Red Cross). And in solidarity with the hostages still in captivity...

In this furrst picture, I am admiring myself in the mirror of Mummy's wall-to-wall closet - and I think We can all agree that there is a great deal to admire (although Mummy says I have lost some weight and can now be described as rotund rather than fat).

All the pictures were artified with Filters from LunaPic. For this one, We used Storytime at 68%, with a light overlay of Scribble at 28%:

For this next pawtrait, I actually posed for the camera:

The artsy-fartsy effect here was achieved using Daisies at 91%, followed by a considerable dose of Sadness at 45% (completely justified in view of what was done to the Israeli hostages and their families - some of whom were murdered, and the returning hostages are only now learning of their fate).

In this final shot, Mummy caught Me while I was making my Meowning Toilette. It came out a bit blurred but since you can see my raspy little Pink Tongue, as well as My Tummy and Tail, She decided to keep it and share it with you.

In the artified version, which uses the Dark effect at 58% with a Surreal overlay at 38%, the blurring is less obvious:

And here are the blog hop badges:

        

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In other news, Mummy finally got round to updating her own blog, so if you want to read about and see videoclips from her Caterwauling Club's last two concerts, as well as pictures from her last field-trip, that is the place to go. The field-trip which She was to take part in tomorrow, to which She alludes in that post, has been postponed till next week, because of the rainy, stormy weather expected this week. 

Well, that just about rounds things up for today. Mummy has to eat and shower and rest before this evening's Caterwauling Rehearsal, in which She and her fellow Caterwaulers will be receiving new material for their next concert, so We shall probably do most of our blog-hopping tomorrow (since Mummy won't, after all, be going out for the Day).

We'll be back next week then - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel. 

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