Skeezix's Scratching Post: September 2010

Item Added to Raffle - by PAWpular demand!!!!

Yep, the Food Lady has donated a special pair of pink and black retro Vintage Cat Eye Glasses Pink/Clear 50's or 60's to the raffle. Just $5 a chance!

Click here to go to raffle post!

Items Added to Raffle

I've added a kyoot cat pin and two more Laurel Burch handbags to my raffle:

Click here to go to the raffle post and find out how you can win one of these grate prizes!

Labels: laurel burch, susan g komen

Me and the FL - interviewed by Iams

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Labels: blogpaws, cheysuli, corey, Flat Skeezix, iams and eukanuba rock

Raffle to Help the FL meet her Gole: FINAL PUSH!!!!

I'm hosting a big blow-out raffle to help the Food Lady meet her fun-razing gole for her brest canser walk. She is waaaaaay behind and needs to meet her gole beefore the walk starts on Oktober 1st.

Heer's how it werks. For each $5 yoo donate, you'll git one raffle tikket. When the raffle closes, we'll pik five entries at randum. The ferst name drawn gits first pik of the prizes, the second one gits second pik, etc. If you donate $50, you'll get double the number of raffle tickets, for a total of 20 chances. There is no limit to the number of prizes an individual can win.

To donate, CLICK HEER.

ENTRY DEDLINE: SEP 30 at 11:59 pm

Heer are the items we're raffling off:

1) TAKEN -- Konica Minolta A-200 Camera

2) TAKEN: A byootiful jewelry set frum the fameuss artist Susan Faye

TAKEN: 3) Fleecy Cat Blankie #1, donated by Trish and her Mom. Reversible.

4) TAKEN: Fleecy Cat Blankie #2, donated by Trish and her Mom. Reversible.

5) TAKEN: Laurel Burch handbag (brand spankin' new)

6) TAKEN: Wooden multi-color cat pin:

This multicolored cat pin is made of wood and features a safety clasp. This jewelry piece shines with a highly polished finish

7) Indigo Cats Laurel Burch Handbag

Carry your arts and crafts in this Laurel Burch travel bag
Indigo Cats bag embellishments feature hand-painted cats and butterflies
Artful tote offers both style and functionality
Large enough to be an overnight bag
Reinforced flat bottom
Sturdy zipper
Fabric handles
Water-resistant
Plastic feet on bottom of bag for extra protection
Perfect for the beach
Dimensions: 21 in. x 9 in. x 14 in.

Retail Value: $32

8) Black/Multi Cat Laurel Burch Handbag

Carry your arts and crafts in this Laurel Burch travel bag
Feline Family Portrait tote embellishments feature hand-painted cats
Artful tote offers both style and functionality
Bright vivid colors define the signature artwork of artist Laurel Burch
Carry it to the store or take your craft project on a journey
Tote features a zipper top
Dimensions:15 in. x 5 in. x 10 in.

Retail Value: $22

9) Pink and black retro Cat Eye Glasses Pink/Clear 50's or 60's. As seen here.

TAKEN 10) Custom pet portrait by The Food Lady:

A 6" X 6" mixed media portrait of the pet of yer choice.

By the way, thank yoo to evryone who has donated so far!!!!

Goodbye Sweet Sniffie

Labels: Sniffie, sniffie and the florida furkids

The Morning After....

Well, it was a reely grate berthday pawty yesterday. Thanks to everycat hoo made it memorabul. It was SUCH a good pawty that Flat Skeezix got a monster attak of the sqwerts. Forchewnitly, cuz he's viziting Chey, Chey's woman knew how to fix him: accupunkcher!

Heer's Flat Skeezix with a sqwillion needles stuk in him. He sed it just tingled a littul bit, it didn't hert at all. And yoo know whut? The accupunkcher werked better than a cork up his Spot 13 to stop da sqwerts! Thanks, Chey's woman!

Labels: chey, the sqwerts

Happy Berthday ... to ME!!!!

Yes, today is my berthday. I am 6 yeers old. I think that makes me a vary matchur mancat, but my big bruther Mao sez I have to be at LEEST 13 yeers old to be a matchur mancat. I don't think I can wate that long!

To selebrate my berthday, me and my big bruther Mao and the Food Lady had a slumber pawty last nite. The FL came to sleep in the cat bedroom insted of sleepin with Mr Tasty Face. Mr Tasty Face did not attend the slumber pawty cuz he's not a slumber pawty kind of guy.

So me and my big bruther Mao got to sleep on the FL. And then this morning, I got to open my prezints!

As yoo may or mayn't know, last yeer, my BFFs Shabby, Kalin and Katie Tulip had the grate and fameuss artist Susan Faye paint a pikcher of me and the Food Lady. That's the pikcher yoo see above.

And then, this yeer, they had her paint a pikcher of my hole famly!!!!

And even tho that was an unbeeleevably pawsome gift, I got even MORE STUFF frum my speshul frend, Daisy!

At ferst, I thot it was a cozmetiks bag fur win I do all my traveling cuz I have bin jetsetting a lot lately. The bag was vary kyoot, with hot pink pawprints on the outside and fo patin lether. I cood see pink lepperd print thru the window. I was intreeged! It came frum "That Cat Originals" wich I am pritty shur is an exkloosive fashun salon in Perris or Milawn.

Win I opened up the bag, I saw the most byootifullest onsombul EVER!!! It was a pink lepperd print berray and an ermin stole.... so I can dress JUST LIKE A QWEEN!!!!!

Not only that, but the ermin stole reverses to a lepperd print so it's like yoo git TWO KYOOT OWTFITS insted of just one!!!!

Win I put it on, I deesided to ware the berray at a jawnty angle. That meens yoo ware it krooked, but on purpose, not just becuz yoo've had too much Mother's Milk.

I can't git over how KLASSY I look!!!! I look just like my idols Awdrey Hepbern and Grace Kelly. Or maybe Libberachey!

All I needed were sum kyoot glasses to compleet the look!

Yep, I am one lucky mancat to have a speshul frend like Daisy hoo has such refined taste in fashun!!! Thank yoo Daisy!!!!

So, as yoo can see, I am having a reely grate berthday. Now grab yerself a nipitini or Mother's Milk, and have sum fun!!!! Once my big bruther Mao takes a nap, we can play "Pin the Tale on the Maobutt!"

Labels: berthday party, berthdays, pin the tale on the maobutt

Da Glammeruss Grrls of BlogPaws

I found this pikcher on the FL's other camra. It's me and the FL with Flat Chey and her mom, and Cory and her mom.

Labels: blogpaws

A day in the life of me an the Flats

Me an the FL are in Denver this week at Blogpawz West. It is a lot of fun. Espeshully cuz I got to hang out with my old flat frend Tyler, and my new flat frends, Chey and Cory. Mao duzn't beleeve it, but Chey izn't neerly the porker that Mao makes her out to be. This is Corey, Tyler, Chey and Me on the podium speekin to the lunch crowd. I kept saying, "Hey, ware's the Fansy Feest!" and Tyler's mom wood shake her hed and go, "Oh, Skeezix!" becuz she runs Yookanooba. That krakt me and Tyler up. Tyler is a dawg, so he duzn't eet Fansy Feest.

Heer I am gittin snift by a dawg. It wuz a littul hyoomiliatin. See that "All Access Pawsport"??? It's imprinted with my name: FLAT SKEEZIX.

PetFinder was thare with sum baybee kittins hoo need homes. I hope they don't end up going to the sausage factory cuz I reely liked them. And they were smart... fur kittins. I told 'em all abowt how they needed to make shur that win then got to thare furever homes that they git peepul hoo will let them blog. I can't imajin life without bloggin. That's how I met my speshul frend Daisy! I askt the FL if we cood sneek one of the kittins home in the luggidge, and she sed, "Skeezy, we've got too swag to kram into my luggidge, and besides, Mr TF is NOT A CAT PERSON and Mao wood hate a new kittin more than Chey hates her wite rat.

I made a pillow mowntin in my room and got hi!

Heer I am keeping up with my blogging frum the airport.

Heer's me and Chey at dinner. It wuz a wite tablecloth place.

Labels: blogpaws, Flat Skeezix, iams and eukanuba rock, rode trip

Going to BlogPaws? Bring your Flat Cat!

Me an the Food Lady are going to BlogPaws in Denver this week (Update on the FL: she's feelin' grate!) and I wood reely like it if thare were sum flat cats and dawgs that I could hang with wile I'm thare. If yer going, heer's how to make a Flat Cat/Dawg (the FL rote theeze instrukshuns, so pardun her sucky spellin'.)

How to make a Flat Cat:

If you're familiar with the concept of "Flat Stanley," you know what I'm talking about. A Flat-Cat is a feline Flat Stanley, a stand-up version of your cat that you can take on vacation with you and pose for vacation photos.

I have several versions of "Flat Skeezix" that travel with me
anytime Skeezix can't. Flat Skeezix has logged about 25,000 travel miles and has
even kissed the Blarney Stone. He's posed for photos with Bruce Jenner, Animal Planet's Andrea Arden, Marmaduke and the Pillsbury Doughboy. Your flat-cat will definitely make your set of vacation photos more interesting.

Making a Flat-Cat is easy:

Take a photo of your cat. It's best if she's sitting up, directly facing the camera.

Make a print of the photo, as close to life size as possible, usually 11"X14". If she's about 12 inches tall standing up, her image
should occupy about 12" of the vertical space on the photo, with about 2" left
over (see example, right). A matte finish is better than glossy.

Adhere the print to a piece of foam core board (fig 1 below). You can get foam core with an adhesive back at any office supply store. Or, use spray adhesive or a glue stick.

Weight it down overnight.

Using an Exacto knife, cut out around the cat image (fig 2 below). Put a self-healing mat or several layers of cardboard beneath the foam core so that you don't score your dining room table.

Cut a strip of foam core about 1-1/2" wide and not quite as tall as your cat. This will prop your cat up as you pose her.

Affix it to the back of your foam core cat with packing tape or duct tape (depicted in green in the figure), about 2/3 of the way up (fig 3 below).

Try it out, trimming the length of the support as necessary. The flat cat should tilt backward slightly for stability. Once you have the angle correct, put a second length of tape about halfway down the support that connects the support to the flat cat about an inch or two away. I take 2 lengths of tape and stick them sticky-sides-together in the middle, with the last inch on each end used to affix it to the support and the flat cat.

Keep in mind, when you photograph your flat cat when using a flash, you'll get a flash reflection if you shoot head-on. Move slightly to the side and you should be okay.