Looking Back and Looking Forward: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Greetings, Effurrybuddies!

December 23rd marks the Bridge Day of precious Princess Pixie PixieCato, one of the co-founders of this blog, who received her Angel Wings thirteen years ago tomorrow, on what was a Friday afternoon, shortly before the lighting of the fourth Hanukkah candle.

Hanukkah is later this year and doesn't start till the evening of December 25th, just as Chrissymouse ends -  but We are going to commemorate Pixie today with the help of PhotoFunia and LunaPic. She was such a beautiful, gentle little kitty girl and she grew into a lovely Ladycat, as you can see in this picture from June 10th, 2010, when she was almost fifteen years old.

Mummy used this picture in a previous commemoration of Pixie some time ago - artifying it with LunaPic's Dreaming effect at 60%. Now, since We are in the depths of winter, She framed that picture with some of PhotoFunia's images of December, the month in which Pixie left this earth.

Pixie loved Hanukkah - as do Trixie, Caspurr and Shimshi, the present generation of J-Cats. And they also enjoy seeing how kitties from all over the world celebrate their own festivals. So, in honour of Hanukkah and Chrissymouse, We are bringing you a combined Hanukkah and Chrissymouse card, in which all three of the current J-Cats are sharing their Selfies and enjoying a snowy Seasonal landscape (it isn't snowing here in Jerusalem, in case you were wondering - but it might, who knows?).

And as if that wasn't arty enough, Mummy went back to LunaPic and prepared three more versions of the card! 

This furrst one uses the Quirky filter, at 63%:

Next, We tried Storytime, at 82%:

And finally, We used the bright and cheerful colours of Candy at 40%:

This last one is closest to the Original, don't you agree?

Which one do you like best?

At all events, since We aren't sending out individual cards, please see this as a purrsonal greeting and feel free to download whichever one you prefurr - or all of them!

Now, it is time to join 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 are the blog hop badges:

        

We will leave you now with Best Wishes for whichever Holiday you celebrate (some of you celebrate both Hanukkah and Chrissymouse, We know). We will, of course, visit as many of Our Furriends as pawssible over this Joyous Season - and We will be back again next week, same Cat Time, same Cat Channel.

Till then - Meowy Chrissymouse and Happy Hanukkah.

Be well. Be safe. We LOVE you all!