Trixie's Caturday Art and Sunday Selfie for Shavuot

Greetings, Effurrybody!

What an exhausticating week it has been! So much celebrating! I am absolutely zonked out by all that hard work and partying.

And We are not finished yet! Oh, no, by no means! This Furriday, We have the Mewish festival of Shavuot, which celebrates the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
And if We J-Cats have a festival to celebrate, you know what that means, don't you?
That's right! Another pawty! A luncheon buffet, up in the Enchanted Forest overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem (where else?), to which you are all invited. 1 pm Israel Time, this Furriday. As usual, the coordinates have been sent directly to your teleportation devices. If you are new and have never been to one of Our Pawties before, let Us know so We can explain how to reach the Enchanted Forest.

Mummy has been reminding Us of a tradition regarding Shavuot. As you may (or may not) know, all Mewish holidays begin the evening before because the day, according to the Hebrew calendar, starts at sunset ("and there was evening and there was morning...") but on Shavuot, there is an Extra Special Something between the evening and the morning. According to the Legend, at midnight, the sky splits wide open for an infinitesimal second, and if you are Furry Lucky, and happen to be looking in the right direction, you can see The Great Cat in the Sky and all the Angel Kitties. At that Precious Meowment, you can wish for whatever your heart desires and your wish will be granted.

Mummy has been trying all her Life, but She has neffur been so blessed. Perhaps YOU might.

Now, it is time to join the weekend 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 Our Dear Furriends, those Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

Here are their badges:

                          

We took My Selfie over to LunaPic and created FOUR different artifications. Tell Us in the comments below, which one you like best.

Furrst of all,  Here I am in Landscape mode, at 95%:

Next, We have Mushroom at 60%:

Our third Expurriment used Picasso at 73%:

It might be Our Imagination, but We think this is rather too similar to the furrst artification, with Landscape. What do you think?

Finally, We decided to give full rein to My Wild and Fierce Nature. I am a Panfur, after all (mol). So here I am, in 100% Jungle mode:

Do you have an artsy-fartsy Favourite?

That's all for now. As usual, Mummy has to rest before her Caterwauling Club rehearsal. They have furry long rehearsals - three hours of Caterwauling. Imagine that!  You would think that after all that purractice, they would be Purrfect by now, wouldn't you?

We look forward to seeing you on Furriday. 

Chag Sameach!

And, as always - Be Well. Be safe. We love you all.

Shimshi Has The Power Of A Unicorn: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo there, Effurrybuddies!

Yes! It is I, the Mighty Shimshon (Shimshi for short) aka The Little Purrince, Furrst of My Name, the Baby Mancat, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs and Captain of the Guard.

What a lot We have to celebrate this week - despite the bad Humans in Gaza shooting rockets at Us all last week. On Furriday, they even fired a few boomies in the direction of Jerusalem, where We live - which they don't usually do. But don't worry about Us, We are all right. The rockets only reached the outer suburbs of southern Jerusalem. Nobody was hurt - at least, not in Jerusalem, although, sadly, an 80-year-old woman was killed by a rocket that hit her apawtment building in Rehovot.

Now for the Good Things! As We mentioned before, Pawty Season is well and truly underway. Tomorrow is My Gotcha Day Anni-fursary, marking the day nine years ago when Step-Grandma (who is also My Godmother) brought Me, a tiny 1-month-old kitten whose Kitty Mamma had rejected him, to live with My Mummy. That was the Best Day of My Life. Since then, I have lacked for nothing. I have plenty of food (too much, Mummy says, but She hasn't the Willpower to keep Me on a diet - MOL), plenty of warm, cosy places to curl up and nap, a brofur and sisfur to play with, and a Mummy who loves Me unconditionally! I am the luckiest kitty in the world!

Speaking of Step-Grandma, who rescued Me - on Wednesday, it is her 75th birthday. She was born just two days after the State of Israel. Many Happy Returns, Grandma!

Well, those two events are reason enough for celebration, but there's more to come!
On Friday, Yom Yerushalayim marks the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967, after it had been illegally occupied by Jordan for 19 years.

So, since none of Us (including Mummy) have the strength to organise three pawties in one week, We are going to celebrate all these Happy Events in one HUGE picnic pawty and barbecue up in the Enchanted Forest this coming Friday at 2 pm Israel Time. There will be loads and loads of all Our/Your Favourite Noms, including (but not limited to) oodles of mice cream, salmon mousse, tuna cake, barbecued trout, chicken pie, caviar - as well as a well-stocked bar (We have laid in extra supplies of catmint juleps, and plenty of the fruit of the silvervine).  All We need now, to make it purrfect, is for as many of you to be there as pawssible.

It is a Happy Coincidence that it also happens to be My Turn to lead My Fellow 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 Our Dear Furriends, the Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

You can see My Selfie at the top of this week's post. For once, I am not snoozing but am wide awake and alert.

The artification is in honour of Israel's Eurovision Song Contest entry which took third place in last night's competition - Unicorn, sung by Noa Kirel. As We so often do, We used LunaPic to add the unicorn horn, and then added the Starry2 art effect at 70%. On top of that, we placed an overlay of Rave at 30% and finished off the whole with a custom frame.

And here are the blog hop badges:

        

Now, it is time for Us to sign off so as to give Mummy time to have a rest before Caterwauling Practice. 
We hope to see you at My Gotcha Day Pawty  (yes, I know it's a Multi-Purrpose Pawty, but obviously My Gotcha Day Anni-fursary is the Most Impawtant component)!!!

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Caspurr's Coronation: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo there, Effurryone!

It's celebration after celebration lately, isn't it? Hard on the heels of Independence Day the week before last, yesterday, We watched the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the Mewnited Kingdom, where Mummy was born. As a Tigger-Tabby King myself (Furrst of My Name), I greatly enjoyed all the Pomp and Pageantry. That is the way to do things propurrly, I thought to Myself.

Then I remembered that I had neffur had a propurr Coronation Ceremony myself!
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, had neffur been propurrly crowned!
Well, that wouldn't do at all, would it?

So, without further ado, We decided, Mummy and I and My Fursibs, that it was high time We corrected that situation. Since tomorrow evening We shall be celebrating anyway with a Lag Ba'Omer bonfire up in the Enchanted Forest, We shall take the Oppurtunity to have Me crowned King Caspurr I - and you are all invited. 6pm Israel Time. Tiaras optional.

Meanwhile, I have already had My Official Coronation Pawtrait painted - although the top of My Crown seems to be missing. Should I have the artist beheaded as punishment, do you think?

As is usual, new coins have been minted in My Honour:

And two new stamps have been issued - the Threepenny Purple and the Threepenny Blue:

Fortuitously, it is also My Turn to lead My Fellow 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 Our Dear Furriends, the Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

And here are the blog hop badges:

        

Whew! I am exhausticated after meowdelling for all those pictures and prepurring all the artifications. What's more, the weather has turned a bit chilly for May. Time for a nap in one of My Favourite spots - inside the duvet cover, under the duvet.

This will make for an excellent Sunday Snoozie (mol)!

That's all for now, Dear Furriends. Hoping to see you at My Coronation tomorrow.

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Chilling Out With Trixie: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo there, Faithful Furriends, Loyal Followers and Admirers!

Here I am again, Queen Trixie, Furrst of My Name etc. etc. etc. It has once more fallen to My Lot to lead My Fellow J-Cats on this weekend's blog hops - namely, 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 the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

I have three selfies for you to choose from this week - each of them artified with different filters from LunaPic. Mummy and I found it really, really hard to choose a favourite, either from the Originals or from the artsy-fartsy version. You simply must tell Us which one You like best, and Why!

Here goes:

The artification here was Nouveau (one of Our Purrennial Favourites) at 77%:

And now for Selfie no.#2:

For this one, We used Jungle, with an overlay of Shattered at 55%. We think the green emphasises my jewel-like eyes purrticularly well, don't you agree?

And now for no.#3:

This one also shows my eyes to Great Advantage, I think - as well as my lovely, floofy tail (which is missing in the furrst picture). We artified it with the Smoke filter at 85%, with an overlay of Dark at 40%:

It gives Me a kind of sultry, smouldering look, doesn't it?

I know I look rather exhausticated in all three of them - but it's no wonder. We ate so much at the Independence Day Barbecue, and partied late into the night, I swear I haven't yet recovered My Equilibrium!
Fortunately, We have a week or so to rest before Lag ba'Omer, which falls next week. We told you, didn't We - Party Season has begun (mol)!

Now, for those of you whose Humans enjoy reading about Mummy's Biblical archaeology field-trips all over the country, We have a Treat. We (and She) know that She has fallen rather behind with her own bloggie, but if you follow this link, you can read about a trip She took just before Pessach (Passover) up north, to the Gilboa region. Of course, She met some cats up there too, when they stopped for lunch - doesn't She always (mol)?

She also has to report that some of her regular Community Cats seem to have disappeared. She hasn't seen Gibori for ages. Melba, too, put in an appearance only once, the other day, after being missing for weeks. On the other hand, there are several new kitties - and CalliCallou still turns up, regular as clockwork, every day (well, several times a day in fact), demanding to be fed. Mummy thinks it's time for another attempt to kitnap bring her indoors.

It's time to put up the Blog Hop Badges:

        

Time to go now. Mummy has several things to do before She can have her pre-Caterwauling Practice nap. 

Till next time then.

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Getting Ready For Independence Day: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies With Shimshi

Hallo again, Effurrybuddies!

It is I, The Mighty Shimshon (Shimshi for short) aka The Little Purrince, Furrst of My Name, the Baby Mancat, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs and Captain of the Guard. It is my turn to lead my fellow 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 the Adorable and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

I am afraid I was caught napping here, before I had time to pose propurrly. Looks like I had been overdoing it a bit with the catnip, doesn't it (mol)?  Still, Mummy likes this one, because it shows up my pink toe-beans and my little pink nose so nicely. 

We had lots of fun with this one, over at LunaPic. Mummy and each of My Fursibs chose a filter, and so did I. See if you can guess who chose which one!

Furrst up, here is Flash Gordon, at 72%:

Next, here is Monster, at 78%:

And now for Chalk at 74%:

This one uses the Daisies filter, at 73%:

And finally, one befitting my nip-befuddled state - Psychedelic (100%, through and through):

Who chose that last one, I wonder ...

All five of these masterpieces will be going on tour and will be coming soon to a Gallery near you.

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

        

Now, last and most definitely not least - this coming Wednesday, April 26th, We shall be celebrating Israel's 75th birthday, with a most gloriously spiffing barbecue up in the Enchanted Forest, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem. We shall be looking forward to seeing you all there, starting at 2pm Israel Time (that's GMT +2 hours) and lasting till nobody can eat, drink or dance anymore. If anyone would like to volunteer to arrive half an hour or so early, to help set up the Bar and Bar-B-Q, they will be most welcome.
The coordinates have already been sent to your transportation devices - and if there's anyone new out there, who has neffur been to one of Our Pawties, please let Us know so We can explain how to navigate.

Happy Independence Day, Effurryone.

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.

A Double Celebration: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo there, Effurryone!

Sir Caspurr here - The Courageous, the Caspicatious, Furrst of My Name, the Snuggle Bug, Commander-in-Chief of the Impurrial Forces, King of the Tigger-Tabbies!

As you have no doubt deduced, it is My Turn to lead 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 adorable, Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

As Trixie mentioned last week, Tuesday was My 10th Gotcha Day Annifurrsary, but because of the bad weather, We postponed the pawty till this week. In fact, We will be holding it tomorrow, which also happens to be Shimshi's 9th birthday. We are expecting tempurratures of about 26 - 27 degrees Celsius - just right for a lovely picnic in the Enchanted Forest overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, to which you are all invited. We shall start at 1pm Israel time, to take advantage of the hottest, sunniest time of day, and also,  so as to be able to enjoy the sunset, but still finish before nightfall, because tomorrow evening sees the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day, when it would be inappropriate to have a pawty.

As I said, tomorrow is Shimshi's 9th birthday, so here is a twofur of Us together, sharing a sunpuddle.

We have left the planning of the pawty to Trixie, because lady-cats are so much better at that sort of thing than man-cats.

(He means man-cats are too lazy to get the job done propurrly. But neffur fear - With ME in charge, it will all be planned down to the Last Detail and beautifully organized. Trixie )

And here is an Ussie - all three of Us together, having a confurrence about the pawty.

We artified all four of these pictures, using LunaPic filters. My Own Sunday Selfie, with My Pawselain Dolly-Sister, Miss Dorothea,  has the Dreaming Effect at 50%, with an overlay of Quirky at 30%.

For My Twofur with Shimshi, We used Candy at 45% overlaid with Ceremony at 30%.

Trixie's picture, where She shows off her Extremely Flexible Tongue, is so beautiful that She hardly needs artification, but She requested Beauty at 75%:

Finally, for the Ussie, We allowed Mummy to choose a filter. We don't know what to make of Her Choice - Monster at 55%. Is She trying to tell Us something (mol)? She can't mean - No! It must be a hint that it's going to be a Costume Pawty!

Do you have a favourite among these pictures?

Now, it is time to put up the blog hop badges:

        

Looking forward to seeing you at the Picnic Pawty tomorrow. The usual coordinates. Anyone who hasn't been to a pawty in the Enchanted Forest before, just let Us know and We will send the coordinates directly to your Transportation Device.

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.

Trixie's Easter Bonnet: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo there, Effurrybody!

Queen Trixie here, Furrst of My Name, Empurress of Jerusalem, Israel and the Entire Middle East, Queen of Hearts, Guardian of the Boudoir, Alpha Kitty Extraordinaire, repurresenting 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, Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

We are posting a bit late today, because Mummy only got back just over an hour ago from Tel Aviv, where She spent the day at the beach with Uncle D. and Auntie N. Since Mummy returned from Tel Aviv with a splitting headache, We will postpone most of Our Visiting till tomorrow. 

Furrst of all, here is My Selfie.

You are purrobably thinking I look a little grumpy in this picture - and you would be right! I had good reason to be grumpy!
Mummy stuck this - Creation - on my head and told me I would be the Star of the Easter Parade, whatever that might be! I did my furry best to shake it off, but She managed to get quite a few shots of Me, before I succeeded!

After waltzing around for a while singing about how She would write a sonnet about my Easter Bonnet (from which, thankfully, I dissuaded her!), she decided to artify the photo with a couple of filters from LunaPic. Furrst of all, in honour of Spring, Flowers at 55%:

I don't know - for some reason, I think it makes Me look more like a woofie than a kitty!

So then We tried Beauty, at 60%:

Finally, We moved over to PhotoFunia, and used the original, unembellished Me in their Spring Memories frame, with daffodils:

I'm  not really satisfied with any of the pictures this week. But what do you think? Let Us know in the comments below.

In other news - Uncle D. is now staying with Us, so We are, once again, banned from the Kitty Guest Room. And as if that wasn't bad enough, Mummy FORGOT to bring home a kitty bag from the Seder night meal!

On Tuesday, We will celebrate Caspurr's Gotcha Day. We would have liked to do so with a picnic in the Enchanted Forest, but Tuesday is expected to be furry rainy, pawsibly even stormy, so We will postpone that and combine the celebration with Shimshi's 9th Birthday pawty next week. Meanwhile, today We "enjoyed" a sharav and tempurratures of 32 degrees Celsius. At any rate, We still haven't recovered from the Exhaustion of having to snoopervise Mummy's Pessach cleaning last week!

Now, here are the blog hop badges:

        

That's all for now. See you again next week. 

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.