Colouring with Cats #105 ~ Getting Your OM’s on with Mandalas on Mondays ~ Early Morning Purractice with Smooch

Supurr Monday greetings beautiful furiends

 Early Morning Purractice with Smooch

Smooch was up supurr early the other morning and found himself a supurr sunny windowsill to get his zen harmonies happening. Plus a quick bath too! MOL

It was a bit fresh outside as there was a little window condensation, although we've not had any white-out frosts yet, we think those are headed in this week according to the weather peeps.

How's the weather where mew are are? 

Anyhoo, we do hope mew've all have a totally pawesome weekend, and that mew're ready fur the week ahead, so let's jump right in and start as always with our little breathing exercise, which we're sure mew all have down paw by now...  but if mew've furgotten, stop what mew're doing fur a moment and take deep fulfilling breaths; counting to five on the inhale and five on the exhale:

Breathe in

Breathe out

Breathe in

Breathe out

Breathe in

Breathe out

Smooch is here again to offur mew assistance in getting your OM's on and Zen Harmonies happening, so just press play, close your eyes and follow his instructions.



Don't mew feel better already?  I know we do!

All the mandala's featured are created & designed by us, aka The B Team.

Here's this weeks mandala.

Right-click to save and/or print the mandala.

And this is our finished version... we used a darker palette this week, and really like the black, white, grey with the pop of red and blue.

Coloured on the iPad and then transformed in Prisma, this time we chose the effect - Gothic.

Don't furget mew can download** our free Colouring with Cats here:- Books One, Two, Three, and now Four is our latest addition.

Colouring with Cats Book One

Colouring With Cats Book Two ~ Easy Mandala's 

Colouring With Cats Book III

Colouring With Cats Book IV

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So on that note, we'll say bye for now and hope to see mew on Wednesday when we're back with The Pet Parade Blog Hop.

Until then

Keep Calm and Colour OM!

Supurr zen purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team xox

Free Lockdown Activities

And don't furget while we're all on lockdown, we The B Team have got your six and can entertain mew for weeks; there are oodles of colouring pages to download and not furgetting the colouring books too.  There's a page full of crafting projects to keep your mittens making stuff, and if books are your thing, check our Amber's Book Reviews for your next pawesome read! 

There are some epically exciting adventure stories too, so read our thrilling tales episode by epic episode.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Capt'n Basil & His Motley Crew 

Fast, Furry and Dangerous

The Clockwurk Labyrinth 

We've also added some new Brain Training posts, just to keep your little grey cells in tip-top condition. And we’ll be adding extra jigsaw puzzles to the puzzle page.

If mew want to see more of what's been happening at BBHQ, check out our Instagram feed where mew can see our daily diary and exclusive videos that we don't put here on the blog.

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Purrching with Parsley on The Sunday Selfies & Caturday Art Blog Hops

Sunday greetings pawesome pals

Welcome to another selfie selection and today our theme is:

 Purrching with Parsley 

Parsley loves sitting on top of the mill-wheel cake in the garden, he says it makes the best purrch ever!

We're also joining in the lovely Athena's Art Hop so do stop by and show off your pawesome arty-farty skills.

The effect was created with Befunky - Underpainting DLX + colour changes to hue and saturation.

We also turned this fab arty-farty picture into a puzzle, so do stop by the puzzle page and take the Puzzle Challenge, and see if mew can beat our time of 7 mins 34 secs. 

Anyhoo it's time for us to go snoopervise the P.A. in the garden as there are a few jobs to be done; the last of the leaves need collecting, the birds need feeding, plus a few snipping and pruning jobs to be sorted as it's going to get rather cold later and we have an appointment in front of the woodburner.

So we hope mew have a smashing day and see mew on the morrow when we're back with another gorgeous mandala for mew to colour.

Wishing mew lots of snoozy snuggles

Supurr Sunday Purrs

Basil & The B Team

Don't furget to join in the pawesome Sunday Selfies Blog Hop with

 Angel Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy and Sawyer ~ visit them at their pawesome blog:

www.thecatonmyhead.com

Free Lockdown Activities

And don't furget while we're all on lockdown, we The B Team have got your six and can entertain mew fur weeks; there are oodles of colouring pages to download and not furgetting the colouring books too.  There's a page full of crafting projects to keep your mittens making stuff, and if books are your thing, check our Amber's Book Reviews fur your next pawesome read! 

There are some epically exciting adventure stories too, so read our thrilling tales episode by epic episode.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Capt'n Basil & His Motley Crew 

Fast, Furry and Dangerous

The Clockwurk Labyrinth 

We've got some new Brain Training posts, just to keep your little grey cells in tip-top condition. And we’ll be adding extra jigsaw puzzles to the puzzle page.

If mew want to see more of what's been happening at BBHQ since the lockdown began, check out our Instagram feed where mew can see our daily diary and exclusive videos that we don't put here on the blog.

Don't furget to subscribe to our blog and never miss another post. 

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Book Reviews with Amber at The Mewton-Clawson Library #146 featuring **The Ten Lives of Hector, The Cat!** by Jane L King PLUS Friendly Fill-Ins & Foto Fails Blog Hops

Hello gorgeous library guests 

and 

Welcome to the Mewton-Clawson Library at BBHQ 

Thank mew for joining me in the stacks today and today, as it's the last Friday of the month I'm joining the Pet Photo Fails Blog Hop with Mudpie from the pawesome blog:  www.mochasmysteriesmeows.com

And this is my photo, I was purchasing some books at the time and was told I couldn't have any more!

What Do Mew Mean I've Reached My Credit Limit?

OH DEAR! MOL

Today the P.A. is also joining in Friday Fill-ins Blog Hop with the ameowzing 15 & Meowing and Four-Legged Furballs.

1. Why is _________________ so expensive?

2. On holidays, I always have a second serving of __________________________.

3. I’m eternally grateful for _________.

4. ‘Tis the season for _________.

The P.A.'s answers are...

1. Why is everything so expensive? And have you noticed how small everything is compared with years ago?  I bought a box of After Eight Mints the other day and they're not much bigger than a postage stamp now.

2. On holidays, I always have a second serving of vodka, and maybe a third if it's flavoured vodka! 

3. I’m eternally grateful for my hubby, cats and all the wonderful friends in the cat blogosphere.

4. ‘Tis the season for good things to happen, so here's wishing everyone good things.

Let's see what I've got to show mew this time!

This week's top book pick is...

Mewton-Clawson Library Copy

The Ten Lives of Hector, The Cat!

by

Jane L King

       Here's a little snippet of the book blurb:      

What you may not know is that cats have a special sense that allows them to travel through space and human time, and they can travel completely unseen! With the help of a large dictionary, a little bit of sunshine, and a whole lot of sleeping, Hector is taken to many wonderful places.

This is purrobably one of the shortest reviews I've ever done, but then the book is not very long, it's more of a novella in my humble opinion. 

Anyhoo it's great; a really fun, little story with some absolutely gorgeous full-colour illustrations throughout.

Hector goes on quite the adventure to ancient Egypt (one of my favourite places ever) and is, in fact, a time-travelling cat, I'm surprised we've not bumped into him on one of our missions! MOL

So all I can say is, if mew love cats, adventure, ancient Egypt, time travel and a bit of history this is so a book for mew!

I hope there are more in the series as I'm keen to see where Hector goes next.

• Paperback: 54 pages    Publisher: Independently published

My Ratings Scale

Ratings of:

The Ten Lives of Hector, The Cat!

Overall Enjoyment

I really hope mew enjoy the book as much as I did if mew decide to read it.

It's time fur me to say BFN or bye-fur-now as mew know the drill, so many books, so little time and I'll be back next week with another specially paw-picked book just for mew, and don't furget that all my previous reviews can be found on my Book Review page.

We did have a sponsored post planned for tomorrow but the P.A. had one too many appointments this week stealing her time so that post will now be on Tuesday instead, and we'll be back on Sunday with our usual selfies post.

Until next time...

Keep calm and read more books

Amber 

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