**THE BBHQ CATMAS EVE NEWS ROUND-UP** A Scuffle In The Santa Paw's Sleigh, Who's Having Catmas Pudding? The B Team's Catmas Tree, Smooch Keeping The Catmas Tree Skirt Warm, and Melvyn's Modelling This Weeks Top Pick Bandana

Epically Festive Catmas Eve Greetings Epic Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

How's your week going? Not too frantic we hope, just a nice chilled vibe to start the festive season.

Well, last week we showed mew a Catmas Tree from way way back in 2016, as we ran out of time, but better late than never, here are this year's BBHQ Catmas Tree's in all their festive glory! MOL

This one is in the sitting room.

And this one is in the Catservatory, and if mew zoom in, it's covered in supurr cute mice! MOL

Well, we've got to have a fun factor, and before mew start jumping to conclusions, NO, they are not the library mice, who are on a nice little vacation on Level Eight of the Bunker with Horice and Furiends in the Biosphere, where it's a rather heady 25 degrees celsius.

In fact, we are planning on joining them soon, as there's a BBQ happening, plus a bit of a pre-pre-Catmas-Eve-Pawty. I use the terminology - a bit of - when really that means there's a full blown Catmas Rave happening right now! MOL

So let's look at this week's news, as I can hear my name being called, and there's a rather festive niptini waiting for me, complete with an umbrella.

First up in the news 

A Scuffle In The Santa Paw's Sleigh

The P.A. brought in the Santa Paws Sled, and within two minutes, a scuffle had broken out! 

Next up in the news

 Who's Having Catmas Pudding?

Next, the P.A. brought in the Catmas Pudding, and Amber got first dibbs, leaving poor Pandora puddingless! MOL

In other news...

 The B Team's Catmas Tree

Then the P.A. brought in the famous BBHQ Kitty Catmas Tree, and there was a queue forming to assault said tree. Stop by our social media pages over Catmas to see all the fun! MOL

In further news...

Smooch Keeping The Catmas Treet Skirt Warm

Smooch, furry wisely distanced himself from all the festive outbreaks and took up residence in one of the new Catmas Tree skirts, keeping it warm while the P.A. fetched in all the decorations!

And finally, this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

Last week mew voted for The Catmas Mice bandana, and here's Melvyn doing his thing, most festively! MOL 

He did get distracted this week by a whole load of Kitty Kryptonite, but luckily a smidge of a promise for more Kitty Kryptonite, and he got on his merry way.

Oh, and the invisible monster behind the sofa has moved, and Melvyn has NAMED him; it's all in the video! MOL

Check out his videos on your preferred social media platform:

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

Which one should he model next?

Here's the bandana collection for December. 

Mew have six choices for the month, as Melvyn wanted to remodel some of his Catmas favourites!

The December Collection

Top row from left to right.

1. Catmas Cats

2. Jingle All the Way

3. Candy Canes

Bottom row from left to right

4. Festive Fun

5. Catmas Presents

6. Catmas Mice

Tell us your top pick for next week in the comments, and also, we'll be sharing the brand-new collection for January 2025!!!

That's us done for today, as the pawty beckons. We'll be back tomorrow and again on Boxing Day.

If mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

The Mewton-Clawson Cat Carol Ambush Squad Selfie

Crafting with Cats ~ The Epic Catmas Tree

Crafting with Cats ~ The Catmas Pudding

Crafting with Cats  ~ Easy Peasy Catmas Stocking

Crafting with Cats ~ Burlap Cat Bahumbug Tree Ornament

Amber's Catmas Book Review

Check out the latest episodes of The Purrminator, and we'll be back with Chapter Eight in Melvyn's epically epic origin story on January 2nd 2025:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Wishing mew an Epically Epic Catmas, and remember to always...

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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**CATMAS SPECIAL** CRAFTING WITH CATS RERUN ~ HOW WE MADE A Bahumbug Burlap Cat Tree Decoration ~ Level Easy Peasy

Supurr Festive Greetings Pawesome Pals

Welcome to the fifth of our Crafting with Cats Catmas Specials.  

If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, stop by the Crafting with Cats Page and see all our previous projects, and mew don't have to be an expert in anything to make any of them.  Plus we offer workarounds and no-sew projects for those who don't like to sew.

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**A quick note before we begin**

All Crafting with Cats ideas and creations are of our own design and we share them for purrsonal/home use only.

  So purrlease do not copy for commercial/resale purrposes.

Copyright ©BionicBasil®

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This time, we're making 

What Mew Will Need:

Burlap/Hessian or a fabric of your choice

stuffing/wadding

wool or embroidery thread

mini pom poms

black felt

large needle or darning needle

Let's Get Started!

1.  We love burlap! MOL

2.  Fold A4 paper in half and draw your template ours is approx 3.5" wide x 2.5" high or 9 cm x 6 cm

(if mew have a tub of Whisker cat treats - mew could use the lid as your template - we'll be making some really fun things with those in an upcoming Craft Post).

3. & 4.  Cut out and place on fabric.

5. & 6.  Pin to the fabric while mew cut; as tailor's chalk doesn't show up very well, it's easier to pin the template and cut around it.  Cut 2 pieces.

7.   Place both pieces together, take your wool and large needle.  Sew around the edges in a stitch of your choosing.

8.  Leave a gap and stuff to your desired level with wadding.

9.  Finish sewing and leave a loop of wool to hang your Burlap Cat.

10.  Glue on a pom for the nose and stitch whiskers in place.

11. Cut out small triangles of black felt for the pupils and glue them to the white pom poms.  Glue eyes onto cat, and mew should now have something that looks like this; a really cute but rather grumpy little face looking back at mew! MOL

Here's ours in the tree at BBHQ, and we've affectionately called it Amber! MOL MOL MOL

A very Bahumbug Catmas indeed! 

And that furiends furry sadly brings us to the last of our Catmas Crafting with Cats posts, we do hope mew liked them, and if mew decide to make your furry own Catmas Bahumbug Burlap Tree Decoration, we'd love to see, so feel free to tag us on social media @BionicBasil - Instagram & Twitter or @BionicBasilCats on TikTok.

So we'll sign off on this bright and breezy Monday and look forward to your company on tomorrow's Midweek News. 

In the meantime

Keep calm and have a niptini, well it is almost Catmas! MOL

Festive purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team

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The Mewton-Clawson Cat Carol Ambush Squad Selfie on The Sunday Selfies and Caturday Art Blog Hops

 

Epic Sunday greetings furbulous furiends

Welcome to another BBHQ selfie selection; this week, as it's the last Sunday before Catmas, we decided to share a supurr fun festive selfie!

The Mewton-Clawson Cat Carol Ambush Squad

Every year, we go around Mewton-Clawson on our Annual Carol Singing gig as part of the: 

Mewton-Clawson Cat Carol Ambush Squad

And during said carolling, we collect money for less fortunate cats. We have found that some residents are erring on the BAHUMBUG vibe this festive season, which we can understand in this current fiscal climate.

However, we are rather resilient in our efforts to fundraise and often ambush residents when they least expect it, and more than likely have not got a pre-planned escape route.

I know, I know, but sometimes despurrate times call for despurrate measures, hence the meautiful Catmas Tree, which also serves as cover while we move around the village in stealth.

So if mew ever see a Catmas Tree mysteriously wandering around near mew, we can confirm it will be another Chapter of The Catmas Carol Ambush Squad, raising funds for good causes.

Oh, and if mew're wondering why Parsley isn't singing, he's just getting ready for his solo.

EPICALLY EPIC!!!! MOL

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

Such a supurr, smashing vintage vibe this week! MOL

The effect was created with Befunky - AI Enhancer + Watercolour 3.

We also turned this fab arty-farty picture into a puzzle, so do stop by the puzzle page and take the Puzzle Challenge, see if mew can beat our time of 7 mins 46 secs. 

Thanks for joining us today; we're off to have lunch. Smooch has been testing out a new cranberry catnip sauce, so we'll let you know how that is and whether or not it should go into production.

So we'll wish mew a supurr pawesome day, and look forward to your company again tomorrow when we're back with another Crafting with Cats Catmas Special.

In the meantime, don't forget to...

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team

Don't forget 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

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