A Little Something to Make Your Paws Pretty!

You may recall that last year my friend Mackenzie, the creative force behind Pepper Pot Polish and a HUGE lover of all cats, created two custom nail polish colors inspired by our very own Charlene and Wylla.  She donated a portion of her nail polish sales to the fundraiser, and this year she's back and doing the same!

She created a three-color collection for us, a very lovely and muted  "dilute" palette inspired by three of our former foster kittens: Twyla Pickett, Baxter Lamm, and Imogene Bartlett! You can purchase the colors separately or as a set of three.

Through the end of July,  Mackenzie will be donating 15% of Pepper Pot Polish sales to our FUNdraiser!!!   It's a great way to support the cats and kittens  and to treat yourself to a little something at the same time!

You can find all of the fabulous colors in her Etsy shop by clicking HERE:


Mackenzie came by yesterday so we could do a little photo shoot with the polish and kittens. Needless to say, it was an adorable afternoon.  Here are a few of my favorites:

















Thank you so much for your generosity, Mackenzie! We appreciate your support so much! Thank you for creating these lovely polishes for us!


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Ok, more coming your way still!

And don't forget about the awesome match happening today that's going to help fund the buildout of THREE new rooms at the HS!  Details: here!  Donate: here!

Thank you, friends! xoxo

The Most Popular Posts Part TWO!

#40 Give Us a Big High-Five Hubie!

We've had many happy moments during our years of fundraising, but that first time when we hit the big $20 Squillion goal, well, that was pretty awesome.


 

#39  Happy Birthday Butterbean!

Another Butterbean birthday made the list! For her 4th, I put together a little Bean retrospective movie. I haven't watched this in a long time, so for me, it was really sweet to go back and look at these pictures from her first four years. Gosh, I love that girl.


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#38  A Big Batch of Bean and Friends 

More Bean on the list! Here's a collection of some of the sweet moments she's shared with the babies.  The last picture in the post shows Bean with our very first batch of foster kittens. You can see she took to her role as foster mom right away.

This image below just melts me. The kitten in the picture is one of the Mayfields, but I couldn't tell you which one.

  

#37 Wiley Knapp Likes to Leap

I don't think there's ever been a sproing-ier kitten!

 

#36  Bath Time For Wylla 

A very sad and very soggy Wylla Stout! Look at those teeny tiny drumsticks!

 


#35 Hello Little Gray Guy

No surprise the adorable Forrest Petrie made the list.  What a sweet (but a little scared) face!





#34 Out Like a Lamm
Those little Lamms were the cutest little nappers and there were many posts posted on the subject of their sleeping.





#33 Another Orangie
Because who doesn't love a orange kitten, right Rutherford?





#32 There's a Tiny Orange Tiger in the Lamm Family!
Because who doesn't love a orange kitten, right Baxter?



#31 It's Like Herding Cats...LITERALLY! The Anderson-Ericksons Sit Still for Their Family Portrait!

Six kittens sitting still and looking at the camera!




Tune in tomorrow for part three!

Look! It's Baxter Lamm!

Over the past couple of months, I've had the pleasure of paying visits to a few of our IBKC alum, and have been taking their portraits for a section in the book.   It's been fun to see these faces again!

 I can't share them all, but here's a peek at the very handsome  (and very silly) Baxter Lamm!

He's doing great and is a happy, healthy boy. He's super active and loves to play hard.  He's a chunk, but it is ALL muscle.

His sister, Athena, didn't think much of him at first, but Baxter wore her down, and now they're good pals.  According their mom, Jessica, Athena's a much happier cat now that he's in her life.  

Nice work, Baxter!

Kittens for YOUR Christmas Tree!

I've been squeeing with delight over these cuties, and I am SO excited to share them with you today.

Months and months ago, my fabulous illustrator/printmaker friend, Chandler O'Leary, shared the idea of creating limited edition set of IBKC ornaments.  I fell in love with her songbird ornaments last year (please check them out, they're adorable) and the idea of our kitties presented in a similar format, thrilled me to no end.    

As you know, we've had a few kittens in our care over the years, so narrowing it down to just six for this set of ornaments was no easy task.  In the end, we felt a variety of kitten colorings and poses was the route to go. 

In the set, we have a reclining Ms Butterbean in her favorite chair, Pearla Dearborn and her button nose, a prim and proper Victoria Anne McGillicudy,  Baxter Lamm in a ball, dear Clovis Ashby with his little pink tongue  and a modest, wide-eyed Aloysius Petrie.    

Chandler generously calls this a collaboration, but she's the star in this show.  She created the beautiful illustrations based on my photographs, carved the blocks,  printed and hand-painted every single image.  I just did a little cutting and gluing.   

She wrote up a detailed post about the ornaments and every step in the labor-intensive process which you can read all about it HERE on her blog.     

If you would like a litter of limited edition kittens for your tree, or for holiday gift-giving, please visit Chandler's Etsy shop. A portion of the profits will be donated to the Emergency Pet Food Bank at our Humane Society. 

While visiting her shop, please check out her other lovely offerings, like those fabulous songbirds! 

I am so in love with the end results, they truly are gorgeous, and I hope you feel the same.   Each is a work of art, and worth every penny.  I've got my set hanging on the tree, and they look fabulous.   Thank you, Chandler, for sharing your awesome talent with the IBKC.  

PS In unrelated news, I'm going to temporarily turn on "comment moderation".  I've been getting too many spammy comments, which is driving me bonkers, and I need to try to discourage that for a spell.  Once things settle down,  I'll switch it back.  

Extreme Acts of Kitten Cuteness Captured on Video!

OK friends, please grab a seat!  This morning I present to you three minutes of extreme cuteness.  I broke it up into two segments so you can take a break in the middle, regain your composure,  and maybe grab a glass of water.

Here. We. Go.

Yes, I know.  Edison's little paws at the end - that killed me too.    



I'm not sure why, but upside-down kittens are exponentially cuter than right-side up kittens.

He's so dang cute, I hardly even mind that he's scratching my couch.





That's cute.

I'm Sorry Baxter, Are We Keeping You Up?

Orange Man Out

Our little Lamms are getting much, much bigger and their basket is starting to get a wee bit crowded.



They all try to start their nap there, but eventually someone climbs out.  Usually it's Edna or Edison.  They're the wooliest of the bunch, so it starts to get a little too warm for them first.


This time, it was Baxter.
He's the orange man out.

A Baxter in the Sun

Poor Little Baxter

Poor little Baxter. Just sitting there minding his own kitten business.

Not a care in the world.  Not a thought in his head.



When all of a sudden......

There's a Tiny Orange Tiger in The Lamm Family!

I bet you didn't see that coming, did you?

A little orange tiger in this batch of fluffy little Lamms?

 Well, this little guy is Baxter Lamm 









And he doesn't care at all how different he is.  In fact, he embraces it.