Guest Cat Artists - Winners of Thanksgiving Cat Contest

 We have a special TREAT for you today, cooked up by our. human Mom Carol.  We know ou must get tired of looking at US from time to time, so we are going to share with you some very special artists who won our "THANKSGIVING CAT CONTEST" this week on our art gallery site,Fine Art America 

Here are the three winners and there are three honorable mention talented recipients as well!

WINNERS - 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!

Our first place winner is GAYLE DEEL, and her soulful "Thankful Kitty!"  Gayle lives in the Roanoke Virginia area and she's a musician as well!

Our second place winner, with his unique art image, "Three Cats Celebrating Thanksgiving" is ANDY GAMBINO, from London, who specializes in mixed media and is in in the arts for over 30 years. Andy won a previous contest we gave!

Leslie Reagan and her  "Cozy Cat Autumn" is our talented third place winner, an artist and photographer she was born in and lives in California.

HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS

Ekta Gupta, Shoal Hollingworth and Bunny Clark were our honorable mention runners up.

Here's Ekta's unique picture in adorable stained glass style. She hails from Issaquah, Washignton.

Shoal Hollingworth specializes in photography & has an awesome animal collection!  Cats, Wild Animals and more!

Bunny Clarke is a versatile artist (also from California) and a frequent talented contributor to Cats Creative Corner, the site I curate on Fine Art America.

Mom put links to these artists' work in their names just in case you want to see more.  (Who wouldn't!)''. We hope you enjoyed seeing these lovely cat creations!

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Now we didn't want to say anything but we HOPE you will compliment us on Giving Up the Cat-Ur-Day spotlight today.  It wasn't easy. Mom Carol had to twists our arms (er, paws) to get us to agree!

We're joining Athena & Marie's creative Caturday on Caturday and The Cat on MY Head's hop on Sunday! Hope everyone had a sweet Thanksgiving weekend.

Cat's Black Fur-day, er, Friday

We have always said that cats are the BEST sleuthing ex-puurrrrts at "sniffing" out a DEAL!  

You will see below how "Greedy Peaches"  overloaded a shopping cart. I confess I pushed the cart as we both tried to  SNEAK out of the store without remitting human currency.  

We maintain our mere presence should be payment enough! 

Respectfully yours,

Peaches & Paprika

 

Happy Thanksgiving to our Furrriends!

 Sending you heart-felt wishes that. you spend a wonderful holiday with those you love - furry or human!

Love, Peaches & Paprika

PS Complaint!  Mom Carol gave me a hard time this morning because of my ungraceful posture.  She accused me of trying to imitate a TURKEY.  "That was the IDEA..." I told her. 

Signed, Peaches the Cat

Another plan for today:  Paprika talked me into a little adventure so we could share the fun.  I'm a little nervous about it.  What do YOU think?  Can we get away with it?

Love, Peaches the Cat. (Happy T-Day, we'll let you know if it worked!)

On the Night before Thanksgiving

 Peaches here!   On the night before Thanksgiving suddenly a warm object appeared in the Kitchen....we knew instinctively was for US!

Usually we like SMALL birds...but we COULD make an exception...

Paprika and I had a quiet but earnest conversation...it was determined we should proceed....

  

Turkey Tueday (pre-empted...by a Turkey!)

Wait!  is it Tummy Tuesday or TURKEY TUESDAY?  We tried to make an appearance but our human INSISTED on this Turkey replacing us today...Ok, so he does have a nice Tummy but....Ok we give up...see you another time! 

Love, Peaches and Paprika

Our We Thanskgiving portraits over the years!

Our human decided to show   a few of our favorite THANKSGIVING PORTRAITS OVER THE YEARS.  Of course I think MINE were the best, but my sis-fur Paprika is a close contender!  Wishing all our friends a happy thanksgiving week with friends, family fur-babies or all three! 

and my sis-fur Paprika insisting on horning in!

ON Second thought, I should let her into the picture! One year, we were forced to cook our own pie!  Naturaly we put the "purr-fect" ingredient in it!

Wishing all a WONDERFUL weekend, week and holiday! (this is our favorite portrait of all!)

We are joining our Friend The Cat on My Head's Blog hop today!

Happy National Button Day!

 

HAPPY NATIONAL BUTTON DAY to all our friends!  Did you know that this is a National Holiday? National Button Day is celebrated annually on November 16th to honor buttons and the hobby of collecting them. The holiday was founded by the National Button Society in 1938 to recognize button collecting as an organized hobby. You can find out more about Button Day Here!  As for us, we believe in celebrating ALL fun holidays as long as we can strut our stuff, look cute & don't have to wear "real" costumes!

We're joining  the Cat on My Head's Sunday Hop today!

A Cat Holiday Mug in My Likeness - By Peaches the Cat

Hola...my human decided to make CAT MUGS for others in her Etsy shop, so guess who was her First Model...ME!

At first I thought it was all about "ME" and that this was a present.  Turns out, I was a "guinea pig" ("cat?") for mugs she intended to make for others!   I DID think such an effort was definitely worth my explorations...

So I took a good long look at the "device. After all such items MUST pass my "INspection."  I checked every detail, if she was going to "sell" these things to. "others."

It then occurred to me, there might be a wonderful treat inside.  Well, you never know...Much to my human's disapproval, I poked my nose right into the mug to "cat-vestigate..."


Well, much to my disappointment, I found nothing inside of culinary value!  Nevertheless, I put my "seal of approval" on the item...after all, it WAS a flattering likeness...

My human insisted I show you mugs of "other cats" she's making...now THIS I do not approve of.     

Myself and Paprika should be her only cats of interest don't. you agree?

We are joining The Cat On My Head's Sunday Hop today!













 

Autumn Bliss Caturday

 We absolutely LOVE the crisp season of fall.  Why?  We love to look out the window and watch those colorful LEAVES floating around in crazy patterns.  At first we thought they were birds.  But with the advent of years we realize they are now just beautiful little things to watch and enjoy...we can't EAT them!

 Orange, Yellow, Red, Brown....Do YOU like watching the leaves drift by? 

Love, Peaches and Paprika

Today we're joining Athena and Marie's artsy Caturday Hop!

Happy Autumn Tummy Tuesday from Paprika

 

My human convinced me I should show off and strut my stuff today.  Hope no one minds seeing alittle autumn tummy action.  The leaves cover me nicely I am told...hope you are enjoying your beautiful autumn season! -- Paprika the Cat