A fab competition to celebrate!

So what are we celebrating you might ask?

Well, I'm very proud to say that our collars have been featured in this month's edition of Your Cat magazine!

I am an avid reader of the magazine and have been since we got Tabitha nearly 3 years ago now! It's a great read for new cat owners as well as more experienced ones too.

 

3 of our collars have been included in the 'Collars and tags' feature- Tabitha's collar in green, navy blue with white stars and the latest Hello Sailor design in red.

It's super exciting and to celebrate I am launching a brilliant competition with an amazing prize (ooooh!)

For anyone who makes a purchase from my Folksy shop between January 1st 2013 and February 14th 2013 will be entered into a draw to win this gorgeous Moleskine Cat Journal!

It's from their 'Passions' collection and is a brilliant place to track all things related to your furry friend.

It's worth £15.99 and is beautifully made. The little video below gives you some more details about it (it's super cute too!) so take a peek

You can also find out more details on the Moleskine website

So all you need to do is make a purchase from my Folksy shop (it can be any collar, not just the ones featured in the magazine) and you will be automatically entered with a chance to win the Cat Journal (you don't need to contact me separately). Orders must be placed between 01/01/13 and 14/2/13.  The competition closes at midnight on 14/2/13.

A winner will be selected at random after the competition closes. They shall be contacted via Folksy or by the email address used to make the purchase. The winner will also be announced on Facebook and Twitter. The prize will be shipped to the same postal address as that used to make the order. Entries are accepted worldwide.

Please share this with anyone you think would like a chance to win this fab prize!

Good luck!
Jen

Disclaimer - I purchase the prize myself with my hard earned pennies : )

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! >^.^<

Look what I won!

Hi everyone

As much I love running my own competitions, I always enjoy entering someone else's too. Facebook makes this so easy as well - sometimes it is just as easy as clicking 'like'.

This is how I won this fab prize from Your Cat Magazine!

It's a James Wellbeloved Christmas Cat Basket and contains:

James Wellbeloved Turkey & Rice dry cat food 225g

James Wellbeloved Duck & Rice dry cat food 225g

James Wellbeloved complete wet food 85g

1 catnip mouse toy

Can we open it please?

All of this is for me? Wow!

Wow there is so much! Surely this little box can't hold anymore?

As you can see, Tabitha rather enjoyed helping me open it up and I am sure she will like it even more once she can get stuck into the food!

For those of you who might not be familiar with it, Your Cat magazine is actually a really good read. It has lots of interesting stories and handy hints on being a cat owner. You can find it in most large newsagents and supermarkets http://www.yourcat.co.uk/

I would love to hear what kind of competitions you like to enter.

Take care, Jen



Winner of the Snowman Christmas Cat Collar is......

Hi everyone

Thanks so much for all the competition entries across Facebook, Twitter and my Blog.

I am very pleased to announce the randomly selected winner is....

Linda Ferrigan (selected using a random generator tool)

Congratulations to Linda! Please email us your address to jen@tabbycatcollars.co.uk and we will pop the collar in the post to you.

Don't forget if you weren't lucky enough to win this time around, you can still get your hands on a gorgeous handmade collar from our Folksy shop.

Keep you eyes peeled for more giveaways in the New Year!

Take care, Jen x

Giveaway - Christmas Collar

Hi everyone

As hinted about on my Facebook page, I'm going to run a lovely Christmas giveaway!

Fancy having your kitty look super smart this Christmas? You can win one of our lovely Snowmen collars!

You have 3 ways you can enter - either Facebook, Twitter or here on our blog. Whichever one you pick, just make sure you have either 'liked' or followed us and then just leave a comment (the comment/tweet can say whatever you like - something nice though please!).

This competition will run until 8.00pm Friday 16th December. After that time we will be picking a winner at random. The winner will then be announced and contacted to get your address.

Good luck!

Jen x

What to buy your kitty for Christmas

Hi everyone

Hope you are all having a great weekend and maybe starting to think about Christmas. The tree is bought but it's currently outside in a bucket of water having a good drink before it comes in to be decorated.  I have done quite a bit of my shopping now, but definitely some presents still to go.

One person (or should I say cat) I have sorted is Tabitha and I thought it might be fun to do a 'What to buy your kitty for Christmas' blog post.

Here are some of my favourite ideas! I have done it for every budget so I hope there is something suitable for everyone's purse or pocket!

A new scratching post

This is what we have bought Tabitha this year. It's a super tall one (I read in Your Cat magazine recently that the post needs to be as long as your cat can stretch to and this is the longest one I have ever seen). It cost £20 from Pets at Home (although it's not shown on their website)

Some tasty treats!

Tabitha goes nuts over something called 'cat sticks'. You can get these from lots of different places but her favourites seems to be good old Tesco's option! Tesco 10 Cat Sticks Treats Chicken And Liver 50G cost just £1.09 (price drop recently) and the other flavours are Salmon & Trout or Turkey & Lamb (£1.19 for those). You get 10 per pack and them come in a strip - a bit like cat Peperamai! We break little bits off at a time to feed to her (otherwise she would swallow them whole!)

A pretty bowl

For some time now I have been toying up with the idea of getting Tabitha either of these bowls.

The first one is from Emma Bridgewater and is personalised to your cat! How cool is that? They can do different colour options (pink hearts, blue stars and now red stars too). You can have your cat's name added too which is the bit that really appeals to me! Prices start at £20 for a small bowl, plus £1 per letter for a name to be added.

The next is from Alessi - Tigrito is the name of the design. It comes in 4 different colours - black, grey, yellow and blue. It's a pretty hefty £42 which is what has put me off buying one up until now. It is gorgeous though so maybe one day I will be persuaded!

A warm bed

For a really cost effective gift for your cat, why not make something yourself? I made Tabitha a new bed a few months back out of an old (but perfectly good) fleece blanket from Primark I had in the airing cupboard. Why not read more about how I did it here?

A special Christmas collar!

Ah come on, you didn't think I could go a whole blog post without mentioning the collars did you? ; ) Lovely Christmas designs available in my Folksy shop - £6 each plus P&P. Each one is individually handmade with a safety buckle which snaps open should your cat get in a sticky spot! Any if you fancy making it every more special, why not add a bauble with a tiny mouse - all ready to hang on your Christmas tree!

I would love to hear what you have or are planning to get your cat for Christmas!

Take care, Jen x

Christmas Collars and Baubles!

Hi everyone

It's been a while since I blogged, partly because I have been working on our Christmas collars and baubles!

I'm pretty damn excited about the baubles - they aren't something I have ever seen done before so I hope you like the idea and finished results as much as I do!

You can purchase a collar individually for the normal price of £6 + P&P from my Folksy shop.

There are 3 designs - red and white snowflake, snowman or Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.

The baubles are priced at £10 + P&P but for this you get something really special. Each bauble contains not only a Christmas collar, but also a tiny mouse for your kitty! The baubles hang from your tree with their red and white gingham bows and also have a hand embossed Tabby Cat Collars label for you to write a message on. These are also available to purchase from my Folksy shop.

Maybe you know someone who is a cat lover but are never too sure what to buy them for Christmas? Hopefully one of our collars or baubles will fit the bill!

Or why not treat your own kitty - the baubles make fab decorations and will look gorgeous on your tree.

I know it's not even November yet but I just couldn't wait any longer to share these with you!

Jen >^.^<