Sunday, December 25, 2022

Santa Shimshi's Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo there, Effurrybuddies!


Once again it is My Turn (ME being The Mighty Shimshon, aka Shimshi, Furrst of My Name, the Little Purrince, the Baby Mancat, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs, and Captain of the Guard) to lead the J-Cats on the weekend 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 Delightful and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.


Here is My Selfie. Mummy and I are both furry pleased with this shot:

























We are sure many, possibly most of you, are busy today, pawsibly prepurring your Chrissymouse dinner, or even sitting down to it already, and won't have much time for blogging or for visiting today, so We shall keep this short.

Here are a couple of artifications We made of my Selfie. The furrst used LunaPic's Surreal Painting effect:



















This next one also used a LunaPic filter - Stained Glass, at 75%:




However, for Our Official Caturday Art entry this week, in defurrence to the fact that today is Chrissymouse Day and also to the fact that tonight, We light the eighth and last Hanukkah candle, We have chosen to give due recognition to BOTH holidays, so I have donned a Santa Claws hat, and am guarding a Menorah. In addition, mindful of the fact that so many of you are enduring really freaky weather conditions, including mountains of snow, gale force winds and Uber Cold, Mummy helped Me to add a snowy border and snowflakes to the picture, which will serve as Our Chrissymouse and Hanukkah card as well:









Now, before We forget, here are the blog hop badges:


        



Take good care of yourselves now - and of your Humans too!
And if you feel like escaping from the cold and the snow and the wind for a couple of hours, do teleport over here (it has been raining but at least the temperature is well above zero) and join Us for tuna latkescatnip punch and other goodies!


Meowy Chrissymouse! Happy Hanukkah!  Warmest Season's Greetings to all Our Anipals, Quadruped and Biped, Furry, Feathered and Scaly too (not sure if We know any Fishies, but anyway...) and to their pawrents.

Be Well. Be safe. We love you all.


20 comments:

Basil and The B Team ~ BionicBasil ® said...

Love the selfie and art Shimshi!

Meowy Catmas fabulous furiends, and we're sending mew oodles of festive cheer for the Pawliday season!

Zoolatry said...

May you and yours share the love and joy of this special season. Rain, cold or snow
cannot change how our hearts feel when we reach out to others. Merry Christmas blessings, Happy Hanukkah sharing. Love from Ann and June

And of course, beautiful art and thank you for your lovely card!

Gidget Blue Sky said...

berry berry nice photo!! mum sez to send sum latkes, da potato kind

Lynn and Precious said...

Dear Shimshi, thank you fur stopping in with a Merry Christmas purr fur me. We are through the worst of the weather, but frozen snow on the ground and no end in sight fur a thaw until maybe Wednesday. We wish you a very lovely 8th day of Hanukkah and good foods. I vote fur the stain glass art, Lynn says it is very "Tiffany", if anyone understands that! Precious

meowmeowmans said...

That is a wonderful selfie, Shimshi! We love it!

We also love your combination Hanukkah and Chrissymouse card. Chag sameach to you and your family! XO

Memories of Eric and Flynn said...

Merry Christmas to all of you! Your selfie and art are lovely.

CCL Wendy said...

You did a great job melding Hanukkah with Christmas. If only the whole world could embrace this spirit. Fantastic selfie, Shimsi and so easily made into works of art for the ages. Love to you all.

BellaDharma an BellaSita Mum said...

Mee-yow Shimshi yore stunnin inn yore Selfie!! You look so reegal...like THE Purrince you are!
An all THE artyficationss are sue-purb Miss Shimona...
Our faverite iss Shimshi inn Catmass hat guardin Menorah!!
Wee have had a 3 day Snow storm...a Weather Bomm it iss called. Wee have 6-7 feet of snow with snowdriftss even higher....wee cannot see out our bedroom windowss.
Our Patio was covered an BellaSita managed to shovel a bit of patio an make a tent for Birdiess fore seedss an peenutss.
Yesterday shee was shovellin thru THE snow an got 3/'ss of path shovelled. Then her kneess gave out an shee was on her Tushie inn 4 feet of snow!!!
There was a Purrymedic man here (fore sumone else) an Offysir Beanss an they helped BellaSita outta THE snow!
Offysir Beanss shovelled rest of path an then reedid it so BellaSita cuud rest.
Shee still shovelled 13 timess Caturday an 12 timess Furiday.
Thanx to Sky Cat an Aunty Mary-Ellen for Lidocaine patchess ;)
May wee tellyport over & cellybrate last nite with all of youss'!
Iss cold an blowy still....
Chag Sameach an <3 LOVE <3 an **purrss** BellaDharma an {{{huggiess}}} BellaSita Mum

Furries said...

Such a lovely photo and greeting card. We hope you are having a wonderful holiday season filled with joy and kindness.

The J-Cats said...

Yes, do come over. As We said, it's raining but not too cold and there are still plenty of foodabulls and catnip punch.

Marvelous Marv said...

Hi Shimshi! This is the bestest time for celebrations! Happy Chrissymouse and Hanukkah!
Purrs Marv

Brian's Home Blog said...

Your selfie is wonderful and your art is totally fabulous!!!

pilch92 said...

Very handsome selfie. Beautiful art. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! XO

Andree said...

That is brilliant! Thank you so much and happy holidays!

Melissa, Mudpie and Angel Truffles (Mochas, Mysteries and Meows) said...

Meowy Christmas from Mudpie & Melissa! Hope you've had a purrfect day...

M Dawson said...

Merry Christmas and I absolutely LOVE your snow portrait!

The Island Cats said...

What a great pic of you, Shimshi! Happy Holidays!

The J-Cats said...

We tried to comment on your lovely aviatrix pawtrait but, as almost always happens, We got a notice saying the site doesn't work! We hope you don't think We are ignoring you, that is simply not the case.

Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq) said...

The stained glass rendition was great! TBT says he has too much stuff he want's ta put on our walls, but he sure would get a real version of US like that put up...

Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty said...

That's lovely art.

We hope you had a nice Christmas xx