Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies With the Empurress Trixie

Greetings, Effurrybody!

Once again, it falls to Me, Queen Trixie, Furrst of My Name, Empurress of Jerusalem, Israel and the Entire Middle East, Queen of Hearts, Guardian of the Boudoir and Alpha Kitty Extraordinaire, to lead the J-Cats on this weekend's blog hops - the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Divinely Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by those Adorable and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

There was no shortage of pawssible selfies this weekend, so without further ado, here is the one I have chosen:

With the assistance of LunaPic, Mummy and I chose no fewer than FIVE different artifications of my pawtrait.

Here they are, in no pawticular order.

The furrst one uses the Emboss filter:

Next, We tried the Fantasy art effect, at 50%.

Our third version uses one of Mummy's favourites, the Frida art effect:

This next variation uses another one of Mummy's favourites, the Surreal Painting:

And finally, a furry dramatic version, using the Smoke art effect, at 65%:

We aren't going to tell you which is Our Favourite, but you are welcome to try and guess (mol)! And tell Us which one YOU like best, too. But if you find it too difficult to choose, don't worry. The curators at the PhotoFunia art gallery were also unable to make up their minds, so they decided to exhibit all five artifications simultaneously:

And you might even prefurr the Original!

Now here are the blog hop badges:

     

Next, We have an update on the Outside Kitties.

On Furriday, Mummy went down to take out the trash and on the way back, can you guess what - or rather, who - She saw?

Yes, you're right! She saw three little kittens frolicking in the shrubbery two doors along. Two of them were peach and white and one was sort of ginger. Of course, Mummy knew right away these must be Melba's kittens, exactly where the neighbour had told Mummy they were. Since She had only gone down to take out the trash, Mummy didn't have her smartphone with her (not so smart of you, Mummy!) so she hurried back home to fetch it. But by the time She got back, of course, the little kittens were gone, so there are no photos of them. Still, at least now We know that there are kittens - and We are relieved that Melba is doing her best to keep them out of sight, because that shrubbery is far too near the road for comfort.

One last piece of News for now. Mummy went on a day trip on Wednesday, to the Jordan Valley, leaving Us in the care of Uncle D. and We are pleased to say that We have got him sufficiently well-trained that he remembered to feed Us at lunchtime without any prompting at all from Mummy (mol). Mummy will no doubt be writing about her outing in Her Own Blog, later this week - so keep your eyes peeled.

And now, all that is left is for Us to wish you all a furry enjoyable week.

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.