Roll Out Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies with Caspurr

Greetings, Effurryone!

Caspurr the Snuggle-Bug here. You all know My Titles by now, so I won't weary you with the whole list of them (mol).

This week, it is My Turn to lead My Fellow J-Cats on the weekend's blog hops - the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Snoozies Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Delightful and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

As We so often do, We have picked out three of the best of My Recent Selfies and artified them with frames and filters from LunaPics. Here is the furrst. Don't ask Me if I was roaring or yawning. I can't pawssibly remember!

We created a nice, artsy-fartsy version by combining Edtaonisi at 32% with Tattoo, at 28%:

Coming up next, here I am relaxing on the lovely cool floor. Just see how beautifully My Tail curls in the air!

We artified this one with a single filter - Frida, at 54%.

I like the way it makes Me look as if I am basking in a halo of Light, don't you?

Finally, here I am enjoying a Sunpuddle in the Guest Kitty Room. Mummy and I really like the way the velvet cushions, one silver and one gold, show up not only My Furs, but also, the colours of the sofa.

And here it is after We finished artifying it, with Dawn at 46%, and a light overlay of Pen at 10%.

And here are the blog hop badges:

        

In other news, Mummy is fasting today because it is Tisha b'Av - the 9th of Av, when We commemorate the Destruction of both the Furrst and Second Temples and the start of the long Exile of the Mewish People. She hasn't always fasted on Tisha b'Av, but She is doing so now, especially in light of the knowledge that the Israeli hostages in Gaza are being deliberately starved by the Evil Hamas Terrorists, while at the same time, tons of "humanitarian aid" is being delivered there by Israel and other countries, but is being stolen by the Evil Hamas Terrorists, and everyone is telling lies about Israel and claiming that Israel is starving the people of Gaza. Mummy says that is a Blood Libel. You can see the Gazans aren't starving because in the Fake Pictures of supposedly starving children (who turn out to have genetic muscle-wasting diseases), their parents and siblings seem purr-fectly well-fed. No doubt Mummy will write more about this in her own blog in the coming days, with links to the relevant sources and pictures, so you can judge for yourselves.

In case you were wondering - kitties don't have to fast. In fact, We are just about to remind Mummy that it's time for Our Lunch.

And that, Dear Anipals, means it is time for Us to go. We will see you again, COD willing, next week - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel. Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Tropical Heat With Trixie

Greetings, Effurrybody!

Once again, I, Queen Trixie, Furrst of My Name etc. etc., have the honour to repurresent the J-Cats in 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.

I chose two selfies this week, which Mummy then helped Me to frame and artify over at LunaPic. Furrst of all, here you can see Me lying under the coffee table next to what used to be (well, actually, it still is) My Favourite Basket, but which Shimshi re-designed with his sharp little teeth when he was still just a Baby Mancat.

We used a couple of filters which We haven't seen before to make this furry colourful and artsy-fartsy adaptation - Vangogh5 at 80%, followed by Gauguin3 at 35%:

In this second selfie, I am poised in a furry dignified, Sphinx-like position, clearly waiting for something - I know not what:

We artified this one with a combination of Leather, at 72%, and one of My favourites, the Dark filter, at 25%:

But that's not all. Mummy took both artifications over to PhotoFunia, and framed them, in heart-shaped frames, symbolic of how much She and I love each other. Isn't this purrty?

Do let Us know what you think of them, in the Comments section below.

Now, in Other News - it is (still) furry, furry hot. I suppose that isn't really News. Many of you, in North America and in Europe, also seem to be expurriencing Extreme Weather Conditions at the moment. Today, tempurratures are set to peak in Jerusalem at 37 degrees Celsius. In Eilat, it will reach 42 C. Tomorrow the tempurratures are expected to drop effur so slightly, but they will still fall into the category of Extreme Weather Conditions. After that, they will continue to drop bit by bit, till next weekend, when they should be round about 30 C, which is more or less normal for this time of the year. No - no chance of rain. The only storms We are likely to see are Sandstorms!

That reminds Us, We expect you'll want to know about the Boomies Situation. Well, the Evil Humans in Yemen are still shooting ballistic missiles at Us effurry now and again. The last one Mummy remembers was on Friday evening, but it was intercepted high up in the atmosphere before it even reached Israeli airspace and in Jerusalem, at least, the sirens weren't activated. That's what usually happens. In fact, sometimes, when this happens during the night, Mummy sleeps right through it and only finds out about it when She checks the app on her phone the following morning. 

Oh, one more thing! We nearly fur-got to mention that Mummy kept her purromise to post about her Caterwauling Club's last concert of the season. You can find it on her own bloggie.

Okay, dear Furriends. It's time to put up the blog hop badges. Here they are:

        

That's all for now. See you again next week, COD willing - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel ;-)

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

Caturday Art and Guest Selfies with Callicallou and Melba

Greetings, Effurrybody!

This week, We J-Cats are taking some time off and instead, We are going to let Our Outside Cousins, Callicallou and Melba, whom We are sure you all remember furry well, star in 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.

 

They have both made themselves completely at home on Mummy's entrance porch, and have even requisitioned some of the empty flowerpots to use as beds - as you can see from this beautiful selfie of Callicallou:

It came out slightly blurry, but Mummy thought that wouldn't matter so much once She artified it, which She did with BeFunky's Graphic Novel GFX filter:

Then it was Melba's turn:

Melba is little camera-shy, actually. Anyway, this one was artified with another BeFunky filter - Mosaic2:

The frames, as always, were created by Mummy using LunaPic.

And now for a Two-fur! What do you think? Is Callicallou hiding from Melba, or is Melba hiding from Callicallou?

For this, Mummy returned to LunaPic and used their Adventure effect (which She doesn't think She has used before) at 43%:

As for Us, We are looking forward to a lot more snuggle time with Mummy over the next few weeks, as her Caterwauling Club is now in recess till September. Last week, they had a very successful end to the 2024/25 season, with a concert of Meowpolitan Mewsic. Mummy will probably write about that and other Mewsical Matters in her own bloggie later this week, and might even have some short video-clips from the concert to share with you.

Now, here are the blog hop badges:

        

Well, that seems to be it for now. We will be back again next week, COD willing - same Cat Time, same Cat channel.  Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies with Shimshi

Greetings, Effurrybuddies!

Yes, it's Me again - The Mighty Shimshon (Shimshi for short), Furrst of My Name, The Little Purrince, aka The Baby Mancat, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs and Captain of the Guard.  It is once again My Turn 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 those Delightfully and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

We have chosen no less than THREE pawtraits of Me this week, all of which have been artified using BeFunky, and framed by LunaPic.

Here is the furrst one, where I am draped artistically over two chairs, with a single dangly paw in front, and my Tail just visible behind one of the chairs:

The artification here was created with the Vector Pop GFX filter:

Mummy and I like this one, because it emphasises My Eyes (and Ears too, come to think of it)!

In this next picture, I am awaiting an impawtant telephone call from - ah, well, that would be telling, wouldn't it?  You are welcome to try and guess though!

Mummy and I are furry pleased indeed with the artified version, which uses the Impressionist GFX filter:

Finally, here I am stretched out on the stone floor tiles of the corridor, trying to keep cool, but almost climbing the walls it was so hot!

We made an exquisitely artsy-fartsy version of this, using the Pointillism1 filter, set to about 55%. It kind of reminds Us of LunaPic's Delaunay filter, don't you think?

Next, here are the blog hop badges:

        

We are quite late with Our Post today, because Mummy was out all meowning at the General Rehearsal for her Caterwauling Club's concert tomorrow, with the soloists and orchestra. On the plus side, that means She gets to stay home this evening with Us. Howeffur, She is furry tired, so She still needs to have her Afternoon Nap Siesta. That being the case, We will sign off now but not before reminding you that We will be back next Sunday, COD willing. Till then - be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Curled Up with Caspurr: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Greetings, Effurryone!

Today, I, Sir Caspurr the Courageous, the Caspicatious, Furrst of My Name, the Snuggle-Bug, Commander-in-Chief of the Impurrial Forces, and King of the Tigger-Tabbies, am leading 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 (who is today celebrating her birthday! Happy Birthday, Marie!) and the Sunday Snoozies Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Delightful and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

So, here is My Selfie:

The heat was making Me furry sleepy, but I consented to open My Eyes long enough to take My Selfie. Noblesse oblige, after all (mol).

We made three furry different artifications of this picture. Furrst of all, We used BeFunky's Vector Painting effect with a frame from LunaPic:

Next, still with LunaPic, We tried the Delaunay filter at 80%:

Finally, We used one of PhotoFunia's Classic Frames and turned the photo into a painting on canvas:

And here are the blog hop badges:

        

We don't, in any case have a great deal to report this week, except to say that SuperPharm did not replace the damaged goods (see last week's post) but merely credited Mummy with their cost and offered her a 25 NIS voucher as "compensation" (assuming Mummy wants to use their stupid website again!) -  but since Mummy has a Caterwauling Purractice this evening and is appearing in a concert tomorrow, We shall cut this short now, so as to have more time for hopping over to visit Our Furriends, before Mummy has to take a Siesta (that's just a fancy word for a Nap - mol).

See you next week, COD willing - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel.

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

Trixie Has a Tail to Tell

Greetings, Effurrybody!

It is I, 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! I am here once again, to lead My Fellow J-Cats on the 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 Delightful and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

This is going to be quite a short post, because it's furry, furry hot today (above average for this time of year - and that's saying something!) and it's making all of Us (including Mummy) terribly sleepy!

So without further ado, here is My Selfie, which came out quite well because I had a white background. But the Best Thing about it is you can (just about) see My Beautiful Tail:

With the help of LunaPic, we made three lovely artsy-fartsy versions of My Pawtrait. You simply must let Us know which one you like best!

Furrst of all, a Dark Fantasy - well, sort of. We used the Dark filter at 30%, followed by the Fantasy effect at 25% (mol):

Next, We tried a combination of Landscape at 50% and Tuscany at 25%:

Our final artification uses Mosaic at 28%, overlaid with Flame at 24%.

Mummy chose Flame because She was in a flaming fury over the fact that her order from SuperPharm, which was supposed to be delivered last Thursday, was not delivered until today and even that, only after She  contacted Customer Service (which She couldn't do last week when the delivery failed to materialise, because they only have Customer Service between  09:00 - 15:00 on Sundays to Thursdays!)
And when it did arrive, the box was torn and some of the contents were damaged!!!
They have promised to replace what was damaged. We'll see how that turns out!

Now, here are the blog hop badges:

        

Before We go, since We are usually only here on Sundays, We would like to wish Our many Furriends in the United States, who will be celebrating the 4th of July this coming Furriday, a furry Happy Independence Day!

See you all next week, COD willing - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel. Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Sleepless Nights Lead to Snoozy Sundays - with Shimshi

Well, here We go again, Effurrybuddies!

After several sleepless nights, We got through last night without any boomies, except that Mummy woke up anyway at about 4 am, because She needed to go to the bathroom. Of course She took her phone with her, and started scrolling down to check the news reports and so She found out that USAF bombers had finally joined in the attacks on Iran. So then, naturally, She turned on the TV and didn't get back to bed for at least another hour, wondering how much sleep She would get before the boomies started again.

Not much! At 7:30 am, She got the early-warning alert, leapt out of bed (She has been sleeping in her clothes these past few days!), grabbed her Go-Bag and headed down to the shelter. The sirens started 12 minutes later, and after a slightly longer than usual stay in the shelter, she got back upstairs to Us at about 8:15 am. She fed Us and then had some of that brown drink She calls "My Precious" and had a furry quick shower (in case the boomies started again) and got on with the things She usually does on Sundays.

We would like to say, We are furry thankful the American Purrsident decided to join in and help Us. We are, of course, truly sorry if any innocent Purrsian kitties have been hurt. As We have often stated, We like and admire Purrsian kitties! But they don't seem to have much control over their Humans, do they?

We don't want to write more about pawliticks just now, but sometimes, it's just unavoidable. In any case, Mummy will purrobably write more about that on her own bloggie later in the week. We just wanted to let Our Furriends know We are all right for now, and to take part in the 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.

We chose two pictures of My Handsome Self, and made two artifications of each, one with LunaPic and one with BeFunky. 

Here is the furrst:

Here is the LunaPic artification, for which She used the Dark effect at 47%, overlaid with Illusion at 24%:

And here is the BeFunky version, using Cartoonizer GFX:

In this next picture, I am having a little snooze. Well, who can blame me? These days, I have to catch a bit of Shut-Eye wheneffur and whereffur I can, as do We all:

Here is the LunaPic artification, using a combination of Leather and Beauty, at 32% and 17% respectively:

And here is the BeFunky version, using the Impressionist filter. Mummy did the Befunky versions on her meowbile phone and She must have been half asleep herself, as She managed to chop off part of My Head!!! 

If She weren't so tired from all the sleepless nights, as well as being rather lightheaded from flu, I would have made her re-do it, but I could see what a state She was in and, as her purrymedic, I have to take care of her.

Here now here are the blog hop badges:

        

There is one other thing Mummy should have mentioned last week, only it was driven right out of her head by all the craziness that is going on and, especially, by the fact that there was a Missile Alert even as She was writing the blog. June 12th was the 30th anniversary of the departure of Minxie, Mummy's furrst kitty, for the Rainbow Bridge, three days before what would have been her 15th birthday. We know She had a wonderful Birthday Pawty at the Bridge with the other "Befores", Pixie and Possum. Mummy still misses all three of them furry much - and We too, although We neffur knew them, will always be grateful to them and especially to Minxie, because it is thanks to her that Mummy is now a Cat Purrson.


Now it is time to sign off and see how many of Our Furriends We can visit before Exhaustion catches up with Mummy and She falls asleep on her Feets. See you next week, COD willing - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel. Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.