Melvyn's Drama Llama Selfie on The Sunday Selfies & Caturday Art Blog Hops & The Winners of the Birthday Give-Away

Fabulous greetings pawesome pals

Welcome to another selfie selection and today our theme is:

Melvyn's Drama Llama Selfie

He loves wearing a bandana and gets so excited as he's all dressed up and wants to go outside to show the Mewton-Clawson residents how handsome he is! MOL

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 - Cartoonizer DLX + colour changes to hue and saturation. Melvyn's bandana now reminds us of a Hermes scarf, furry nice too we might add.

We also turned this fab arty-farty picture into a puzzle, so do stop by the puzzle page and see if mew can beat our time of 7 mins 26 secs. Much quicker than last weeks! MOL

The Winners of the Birthday Give-Away

After putting the names into a hat, the furst two out were:

MeowMeowMans

and 

Edie

Congratulations guys!!! WOOOO HOOOO!!!!

If you could email us your snail-mail address, that would be epic and we'll get your goodies shipped!

And don't worry if mew missed out this time, it's Parsley's birthday on the 31st of August so mew'll have another chance then.

Anyhoo it's time for us to go on kitty patrol around the garden as it's quite a nice day and we're snoopervising the P.A. as she sowing wildflowers around my final resting place this afturnoon, as she thought I'd like a little flower meadow with some catnip too, this was a job she'd planned for last year though her accident ruined all her plans, but as she says; better late than neffur!

Wishing mew lots of snoozy snuggles

Bestest 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 MotleyCrew 

Fast, Furry and Dangerous

The Clockwurk Labyrinth 

We've got some new BrainTraining 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.

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Fashion With Felines - Sharing The World of Kitty Couture and Apparel ~ Today's Special GUEST STAR is **ERIC'S EMPAWRIUM** & We Have A Little Give-Away Too!

Hello fabulous kitties and hoomans

Mancat Monday was previously scheduled with Humphrey, but I Pandora Von Der Plume Feline Fashionista Extraordinaire hijacked the blog instead as today I am back with my Fashion with Feline series sharing all the latest news, gossip and trends from the world of Kitty Couture and Apparel.

This is your go-to place for all emerging fashion trends for 2020, and I'll be interviewing exclusive brands and exceptional kitties who share a love of fashion, design and dressing up too.

This week I have the utmost purrleasure introducing Eric from Eric's Empawrium which is actually only a few miles away, and even in the same county as us; Robin Hood country aka Nottingham U.K., OMC can mew believe it!  And he's a kitty with a furry generous heart as mew'll see in his exclusive intermew.

Eric is also a very talented and handsome tuxedo kitty who designs the cutest bandana's mew've ever seen, plus he model's all his own designs too, how epic is Eric?  EPICALLY EPIC! 

Image Copyright Eric's Empawrium

Plus Eric has an Etsy store, so if mew're in the market for a fab new bandana, he's the go-to guy to get yours. Click the link below to check out the latest creations:

Eric's Empawrium 

Exclusive Intermew with The Designer

Eric dahling, do tell us about how mew came up with the idea for your exclusive Empawrium?

We wanted to make a little store for cats and help causes along the way by having fun. Each year we chose cat charities to share their work and donate a percentage and encourage donation drives. I love my Bandanas so I wanted to share in this by making them for others.

How long has your shop been open? 

We are VERY new and just this Christmas we opened.

Where do mew get your inspiration from?

Mum has a creative brain and will very often be inspired by colours and themes which could pop up anywhere... movies, adverts and so much more. 

How many designs do mew sell?

We sell over 25 designs at present but I'm working my paws on another 20 for this year.

Do mew have a favourite design or fabric?

My favourite is 'meowgical' mum says it brings out my sparkly purrsonality!

Do mew ship wurldwide?

We sure do! We are expanding each day with countries so most will be available mid-year so we can keep our shipping costs compawtetive!

How easy is it for mew to source fabrics?

Very easy, mum goes to events and has a couple of lovely suppliers. We are even designing our very own this year to print! Designed by mum herself.

Image Copyright Eric's Empawrium

Is there anything else mew'd like to share with our readers?

We are a little business with a great big heart! We love the pawsome cat community and hope we can help many unfortunate paws this year!

Thank mew very much for intermewing me

Eric xx

Just before we pop off, we have one of Eric's beautiful charity bandana's to give away to one lucky reader; we purrchased two a few weeks ago to support the Koala Rescue**.  Just leave a comment below to be in with a chance to win one of these beauties - FYI Eric and Melvyn are not part of the prize! MOL

**Help our Furiends' bandana for cats with 100% profit to Koala Rescue Queensland Inc

Image Copyright Eric's Empawrium

Here's Melvyn wearing his.

The give-way is open wurldwide** as usual, and all mew have to do is leave a comment below.  We'll do the draw for the winner on Monday 10th Feb at 5pm, so mew have until then to enter and we'll post the winner*** on The Pet Parade on the 12th of Feb.

GOOD LUCK!!!

[**Unless mew're in one of those countries that aren't allowed to join in. Mew know who mew are!] 

[***Prize is as stated, and no substitutes or cash prizes will be given.  It is up the winner to send us their snail mail address after we announce the result here on the blog after the winner is drawn.  Failure to respond in good time will result in a delay in the prize being sent, or failure to respond at all will result in no prize being shipped. The rules are simple and straightforward, so purrlease abide by them.]

If mew're on Instagram follow Eric here to see all the latest designs as they literally fly off the sewing machine.

And don't furget to swing by his amazing Empawrium to see the latest range of pawesome bandana's available for mew to get your mittens on!

Very many thanks for joining Eric and me today, he's been the purrfect guest in the BBHQ Fashion Studio and an absolute delight!

If mew're a fashion-conscious kitty or have a kitty shop, do contact me for a future fashion-feature and I'll be back with another special guest star before mew know it.  The B Team will be back on Wednesday, which I've just remembered is the P.A.'s birthday, so do join us then!

This is your feline fashionista

Pandora Von Der Plume signing out until next time

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