Happy Halloween!

It's that time of year when all sorts of spooky things start to happen..... odd noises, a scary face in the window.......... boo! Did I scare you? : )

It must be nearly Halloween!

Do you like this picture of Tabitha? (For those who don't know, she is my 2 year old tabby cat and the inspiration behind Tabby Cat Collars!) This gorgeous picture was created by my sister Carol. She is a really talented illustrator and I just love how this has turned out. You can check our her blog Carol Draws for more cute pictures!

You might have noticed Tabitha has some new collars in the picture.

I love Halloween as it's such a great excuse for me to design something special for your kitty.

This year I have 2 designs for you:

Lime green spiderweb / cobweb - don't worry, no spiders included

Spooky skeleton - The neck bone's connected to the shoulder bone, the shoulder bone's connected to the..... you get the idea ; )

 

Both are available in my Folksy shop. Make your kitty look super spooky!

 

I'd love to know what you are up to for Halloween!

 

Hope you have a great October!

Take care, Jen

 

PS Here's a scary picture of the real Tabitha for you! She is actually yawning but I think she looks damn frightening!

 

 

 

We heart Disney

Don't you just love Disney?

We were lucky enough to spend a few days at Disneyland Paris and had a fab time!

As you can see the sun was shining!

It's always a little bit sad when we are away from home because I really miss Tabitha cat.

When we were searching the gift shops (of which there are loads!) we found these really cute cat bowls which we had to get Tabitha. They feature all the cats of the Disney films - how cool is that?!

Do you know all the character's names?

We got two bowls for her - one for food and the other for water.

Inspired by my trip to Disney, I have created a gorgeous lemon yellow glitter collar!

Can you guess which character made me think of this gorgeous yellow colour? Yep, that's right! Belle from Beauty and the Beast

 

Image copyright Disney

You can get your hands on this gorgeous collar for your own kitty from our Folksy shop. It's a snip at just £6! It's also good to mention that the glitter doesn't rub off - phew - you don't want a sparkly kitty!

Please note - this is not an official Disney product (i'm just inspired by this beautiful Disney princess!)

Take care
Jen x

A very special collar

Hello! Massive apologies - it's been many months since I have written a blog post. However, this one is pretty special so I hope you will like it.

Let's set the scene...... Me and Mr TCC have been invited to a wedding. My good friend James and his lovely lady Jennie are getting hitched on 25th August (which just so happens to be my Mum's birthday too). We received a pretty handmade wedding invitation which had a gorgeous piece of purple ribbon wrapped around it.

James and Jennie have a fantastic cat called Cosmo.

Purple ribbon + Cosmo = ideas light bulb pinged up over my head!

So I decided to take the ribbon from the invitation and make it into a special collar for Cosmo, so he could be part of the wedding.

I'm pretty chuffed with the result. I don't normally work with satin ribbon so was a bit worried when my sewing machine decided to malfunction, but we got there in the end!

Cosmo the Pagecat looking very dapper in his new collar

The beautiful handmade invite

Opened up - ribbon ready to be carefully cut away

Ta-dah! The finished collar : )

I was so happy that James, Jennie and Cosmo were pleased with the collar. I am very excited about the wedding and looking forward to getting dressed up, having a dance plus some wedding cake (gotta love the cake!)

If you have some ribbon you would like to be made into a special collar, why not get in touch? jen@tabbycatcollars.co.uk

Take care

Jen

PS Whilst we are on the topic of weddings, why not check out this blog? Henry & Flora produce unique wedding stationery. Check out this post for how to make cute handmade bridesmaid thank you gifts



And the winner is....

Hi everyone

Happy Sunday! Very please to announce the randomly selected winner of our latest competition to win not one, but two handmade collars. Drum roll please....

Congratulations Kate Smith! Please send us an email with your address details jen@tabbycatcollars.co.uk

Thanks to everyone who took the time to enter! : )
Jen

A competition to celebrate two special birthdays

Hi everyone

Has been a little while since I ran a competition and what better reason that a couple of special birthdays.

The first was our very own tabby cat, Tabitha. She turned two at the start of the week. She may well be two but in her head she is still a tiny kitten who gets up to all sorts of mischief.

The second is Tabby Cat Collars itself. We have been up and running for a a year now! Wow - the time has gone so quickly.

So to celebrate both these important markers, we are giving away not one but two collars!

They are two of our latest designs - sugar pink hearts and navy and white stars. The selected winner will receive both collars.

To be in with a chance of winning both of these collars, all you need to do is leave a comment on either our blog, Facebook or Twitter pages (making sure you follow or like at the same time please). The winner will be selected at random. Competition closes at 12.00pm (midday) on Sunday 4th March and the winner will be announced shortly after. UK entries only please.

Good luck!

A tasty prize from Petz Kitchen

Hi everyone

I have been meaning to post this for some time! A couple of weeks ago Tabitha won a prize courtesy of the lovely Rachel & Sarah of Petz Kitchen.

They bake lovely biscuits for both cats and dogs and are based in Kent (which is also where I live).

I first heard about them when I had a stall at Christmas Fair at school nearby. They had a stall there too and although I didn't get a chance to speak to them, I remembered their business name and looked them up when I got home.

They run a competition every week for the chance to win a pack of their pet biscuits. All you have to do is send them an email with a photo of your cat (or dog) and they enter it into the draw. Tabitha was lucky enough to win with this photo.

When the biscuits arrived they were packaged really well in a strong cardboard box so there was no chance of them getting crushed.

The cat biscuits come in 4 flavours - chicken, salmon, sardine and tuna at a price of £2.95 for 175g (plus P&P).

Tabitha got to try out the salmon flavour which she enjoyed. The biscuits are much larger than the Science Plan ones she is used to so they took her a few attempts to work out how to eat them. She soon go the hang of it though and happily munched away. Just to confirm - the biscuits are designed to be treats and not replace your cat's normal diet!

I had read on the website that human grade ingridents are used so yep, you can guess what's coming next, I thought I would have a little taste as well! No photos of me trying them out i'm afraid but I have to say they were actually quite nice! Not that I will make a habit of eating them you understand.

Why not pop over to their website to take a look? The biscuit and competition details can be found on there. They are also in Twitter @petzkitchen Always nice to support a local business who make handmade items (much like myself!)

Take care
Jen x

All you need is love

Hello again!

I thought I would do a little feature on all the Valentine's related collars I have listed in my shop - some new designs and some you might have seen before.

This is one of the new designs - sugar almond pink background with a white heart pattern. Soooo cute!

I love the scribble heart pattern on this collar - like someone has been doodling with red felt tip pen

This one is just a tiny bit punky - bright pink with black hearts

An old favourite design

And the last one -a gorgeous red with tiny white hearts (this was actually the first design I ever made!)

Every collar is available now in my Folksy shop (unless someone beats you to it!)

Maybe buy it for the one you love if they have a furry friend or just show you love for your own kitty! I'm trying to decide still what design Tabitha will be wearing....

Take care, Jen x

Do you remember......?

You might remember back in July/August we ran a competition to have a new collar design named after your cat.

A kitty called Mikita won the prize and although the collar was released and named after her, no one came forward to claim the prize.

Fast forward to 2nd January 2012 when I was surprised and thrilled to receive an email via Folksy from Mikta's owner, Sue!

She had experienced PC and email problems which meant she had no idea that Mikita had won the competition!

I was so pleased that I could finally share the prize and here is Mikita looking gorgeous in her new collar, named after her!

Even though the collar is named after Mikita, it doesn't mean that other kitty cats can't enjoy wearing it too! Why not take a peek at our Folksy shop for this and lots of other collars.

We have some new styles coming soon as well as new competitions on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Happy New Year! >^.^<