Sunday Selfies and Why We Haven't Been Around Much

Happy Sunday!

Sorry that we haven't been around much this past week and sorry for missing Feline Friday, Friendly Fill-Ins and Pet Photo Fails.

Mum hasn't been feeling well. Truth be told I think she's suffering from Social Media Burnout and I've ordered her to take a rest. What is it with humans and their obsession with staring at screens, especially phone screens?

Surely it's bad for your health, both physically and mentally? Mum goes around squinting her eyes a lot to focus (she needs to get proper glasses) and as for her mental health, well, it's been affecting her really bad. Her anxiety is a lot worse, she is always busy, and then she has no time for me.

So, it's no Facebook (not that she's on that much), no Twitter and only Instagram to keep my fans updated on my life as a cat influencer for the next few days.

I doubt she will stick to that plan, though.

Hopefully, the blogging schedule will get back to normal by the end of next week.

Take care, everyone!

Looking worried about Mum?

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Sunday Selfies & New Business Cards

Happy Sunday!  

We thought we'd show you our new business cards from VistaPrint. Actually, it's one card, double-sided.

Today's Sunday Selfie is one of our Instagram posts from this week.

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In thoughtful pose #cats #thoughtfulthursday #catsoftwitter #catsoftheworld #greeneyes #tabbylove #catblogger #tabbybeauty #meowdel #catphotography #lovemycat #ukcat

A post shared by Athena (@athenawisekitty) on Oct 24, 2019 at 1:11pm PDT

We are joining The Cat on My Head for the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop

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Blogger Probs and Sunday Selfie

If the heatwave isn't enough to make Mum do this - the fact that Blogger and Bloglovin have both been annoying lately has really pissed her off.

First of all, she hasn't been able to link our blog linky to the Caturday Art Blog Hop yesterday (and we're away many of you have had probs too) and for the last few weeks, Bloglovin has been really getting on our nerves.

It keeps showing the images from our blog posts as pixelated. We don't like pixelated images! It looks so amateur and Mum is far from amateur as she's been blogging and taking photos and editing them for years now. Put it this way, we never had these problems before, even from when we first started this blog.

Mum has tried resizing the images and a lot more besides but still the images are horribly pixelated on Bloglovin! As you can imagine,  Mum is totally frustrated now. So much so that she's seriously thinking of deleting our blog from Bloglovin.

It doesn't seem to be happening to other blogs she follows on Bloglovin. Maybe it's our blog theme? We use the Simple theme. Anyone had these problems before?

Mum is thinking of changing our theme but is in no mood for all the hassle that comes with it. Not in this heatwave!

Here is my selfie for today, which looks purrfectly fine on this blog and when Mum edited it. If you follow us on Bloglovin, I bet you will see it as a pixelated mess!

Sunday Selfies Blog Hop

with THE CAT ON MY HEAD

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Witch's Hat 3 Times #CaturdayArt

Happy Caturday!

Mum added the witch hat in PicMonkey and then went over to LunaPic and created these classic horrors for you.

Lunapic Illusion Effect

Lunapic Cartoon Effect

Lunapic Horror Animation

Scary enough for you? 

A few words from Mum as to why we are no longer using inLinkz for our blog hop.

I now have to pay a $2.99 subscription fee per month for using the service and as I'm yet to be earning enough money from blogging I simply can't afford to pay. 

Instead, I am trying Simply Linked. Unfortunately, this means no thumbnail links, but does that really matter? Not everyone adds the widget/code to their blog anyway. I really hope this move doesn't put off all our regular hoppers as we love this hop and getting to see all your amazing work! Plus, you're all dear friends now and we love how each week we get to meet new friends and discover some new amazing blogs to follow along the way.

I've been blogging for many years, beginning with a writing blog in 2005, and I have to say I never felt I really belonged. 

The pet blogging community has been different though. You've all been very welcoming from the start and it's this that's kept this blog going. I was unsure of starting the Caturday Art hop at first. In fact, I'm amazed at how well it's taken off. Yes, it's been quite a small build up. But I can now see how much you all enjoy it and it's wonderful seeing you all being so creative. I look forward to seeing your photos and what you come up with each week. It's such a fun way to interact with you all and I never want this hop to end.

What I will do though is pin your entries to the Caturday Art Pinterest board.

So, I hope you continue to join us each week! 

Purrs xx
Athena and Marie

THIS IS A BLOG HOP!

 (linky will close 17 October at 8am UK time)

Join Caturday Art Blog Hop and Have Fun Creating!

Simply edit photos of your pets or any animal using one of the many free photo editors available online, or any editing program you like. Enjoy creating and sharing arty photos of your pets. Or if you like to draw or paint animal pictures instead you can share these too. 

ALL PETS WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE - NOT JUST CATS! 

Christmas
by Marie Symeou

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