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Caturday Art

Can you believe it's already time for Caturday Art again? We have been having so much fun doing art for Athena's Caturday Art blog hop, and here is our entry for this week:




This image of Real Cat Paisley was created through the magic of LunaPic, using the Dreaming filter (I think. Someone whose name is mentioned in the next sentence did not take notes and...well, let's just say her memory

Happy Thanksgiving!

From Miss C, the Real Cats, and of course old SoLT, we wish you all a happy and peaceful Thanksgiving. May your belly be full, your heart be light, and your tail (if you have one) be swishy!

Cats of the Week: Giselle in Washington, DC

Each week in this space, we feature a senior cat in need of
adoption or sponsorship. Please remember all the older cats in shelters. They
make great companions, and unlike kittens, they (probably) won’t climb the
curtains! Adopt a senior cat, and help him or her enjoy the best years of their
life.






Today
we introduce you to the lovely Giselle, who we’re sure would be so thankful for
a

Book Review: Cat Got Your Diamonds

Today on Mysterious Monday, we are pleased to bring you Cat Got Your Diamonds, the first book in
Julie Chase’s Kitty Couture mystery series. This is a fun read and a promising
start to the series, which is set in New Orleans.



Jewelry heists, murder…and leg warmers for llamas



We have never been to New Orleans, but we imagine it to be
the sort of place where a pet couture shop would not be

Caturday Art: Mosaic Paisley

Welcome to our entry into Athena's Caturday Art blog hop. This week, old SoLT used a photo of Real Cat Paisley. She used Photoshop to do some adjustments to the exposure and contrast, and then she applied a mosaic filter and played around with the cell size to get an effect she liked. Next, she went to Selective Color and adjusted the sliders to make the candle (not a real candle, by the way

Words with Webster and Friendly Fill-Ins for November 18

Words with Webster



Hi, all! It’s Webster, here to welcome you to this edition of
Words with Webster. Today I’d like to thank our friend Suz for sharing a link
with us that helped us find a whole bunch of cat words—in Irish. I’ll share
just a few of them here, but you can check them all out at the Irish Language Blog. The pronunciation is…tricky, but the words look really neat.



First, and I

The Turkish Van: An Ancient and Storied Cat Breed

A Turkish Van. They are strong, active cats with a distinctivecolor pattern, and they like to swim.Photo: Zara-arush at Armenian Wikipedia (Transferred fromhy.wikipedia to Commons.) [GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons. 


 Some breeds of cats have been around longer than others, and
the breed commonly known as the Turkish Van is one of the world’s oldest. The
Turkish Van is, according to the Cat

Cat of the Week: Patchwork in Baltimore

Each week in this space, we feature a senior cat in need of
adoption or sponsorship. Please remember all the older cats in shelters. They
make great companions, and unlike kittens, they (probably) won’t climb the
curtains! Adopt a senior cat, and help him or her enjoy the best years of their
life.




Meet Patchwork! Yes, she's got a pretty face, but she's got a lotmore going for her. Check her

Cat Classics on Film: Cat People (1942)

This post contains spoilers!



For today’s Cat Classics on Film, we are pleased to bring
you the 1942 film Cat People,
produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This is basically the
story of a tortured woman and the man who is unfortunate enough to fall in love
with her. We think it’s pretty terrific.



A woman with a strange, evil past



We first meet Irena Dubrovna (Simone

Caturday Art: Tie-Dye Webster

Welcome to our entry into Athena's Caturday Art blog hop. Old SoLT has been having enormous fun with this picture of Real Cat Webster. This week, she tried out Luna Pic, adding a colorful tie dye effect and a blurred edge.






Here's the original photo:



If it looks familiar to you... first, thank you for paying attention, and second, that's because old SoLT as used it before, here and here.