Happy (Early) Gotcha Day to Shimshi: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo there, Effurrybuddies!

I, the Mighty Shimshon (Shimshi for short) am back again - the Little Purrince (aka The Baby Mancat), Furrst of My Name, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs and Captain of the Guard -  to lead My Fellow J-Cats on this weekend's blog hops: the Caturday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Snoozies Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Delightfully and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

It's My Turn because - well, it's My Turn this week, since Caspurr led Us on last week's blog hops and Trixie, the week before. But it works out furry nicely, because this coming Thursday is My Gotcha Day, May 15th, so I can take the op-purr-tunity to invite you all to My Pawty up in the Enchanted Forest at 4pm, Israel Summer Time. You know the drill by now, right? Coordinates will be sent to your transportation devices later in the week.

Thursday evening is also Lag Ba'Omer, so We can celebrate that too.

And now for the bloggie hops. 

We have chosen three mewtiful pawtraits of Me, all of which have been artified with LunaPic's lovely filters.

Furrst up, here I am relaxing on the sofa next to Mummy, trying to get her to look at ME, rather than at whatever stupid programme She was watching on TeeVee - and obviously succeeding, by dint of being impawssibly cute (mol):

Since I was so impurressed by Trixie's Negative selfie a few weeks ago, I asked Mummy if We might achieve something similar for Myself. This is the result, using the Negative filter at full strength, followed by an overlay of Night at 23%:

Next, here I am all wide-eyed on the bed, with such a purrty coverlet to enhance the artiness even of the Original picture:

For this one, We chose a truly artsy-fartsy blend of Smoke at 70% followed by Beauty at 51%:

For My third selfie, We chose this stately pawtrait of Myself enjoying a Sun-Puddle on the sofa, It would have been a much bigger Sun-Puddle, only Mummy pulled down the shutters so She could see the TeeVee better:

It was only Right and Natural that this last one be artified with the Sunshine filter at 64%, with an overlay of Dark at 32%:

But We're not quite finished yet. In honour of My Gotcha Day on Thursday, We dropped in on PhotoFunia to create a Gold Commemorative Coin:

So, dear Furriends - which do you like best?

Now, here are the blog hop badges:

        

Before We go, since today is Mother's Day in the USA, where many of you live, We wish you and your HuMoms a Happy Mother's Day.

Don't forget to join Us on Thursday up in the Enchanted Forest. Since the Summer seems to be upon Us (it's 31 degrees C here!), it's going to be a Picnic and Barbecue. Anyone willing to come a bit early and help set up the Bar will be welcomed with open paws (but don't feel obligated, come when you can).

That's it for now. See you all next week, same Cat Time, same Cat Channel.

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