Happy New Year 2010

I love Rupert's country house. It's in a little town in the Berkshires with a general store where everybody knows us, and a library that has my book -- autographed, of course. We caught lots of mice, which Mrs G said she appreciated, but Mabel was less than thrilled when we brought one to her.

For New Year's Eve, Mrs G made a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings for the humans and chicken liver mouse with bacon chips for Rupert and moi. Everybody finally went to sleep, so Rupert and I curled up on a pouf in front of the fireplace in the library -- the one with pictures of Mr and Mrs G on the mantel.

Packing For The Country

Christmas was more fabulous than even I could have imagined. We wrapped presents for all of my friends, and they gave presents to me. It was so exciting to open everything and I got to play with all of the beautiful ribbons and wrapping papers.

Actually, the whole thing was quite exhausting, so I'm glad we were invited to spend New Years in the country with Mrs G and Rupert. Mabel packs as if she's going away for a month instead of a week, but all I need is my little brown leather suitcase with my initial on the front. I packed a party dress for New Year's Eve and lots of scarves and mittens because there's snow all over.

We're leaving early in the morning, so I think I'll go to sleep now...and dream of mice!

Hanging the Christmas Wreath

Mabel and I went to the Greenmarket so we could Christmas-ize the apartment. First we bought a huge wreath that had red balls and holly berries to put on the front door of 5A. Then we got yards and yards of pine boughs and pine cones and holly sprigs to decorate the mantels and the window sills. We also got lots of poinsettias -- some in red and some in white because Mabel likes to put them all over the house.

My favorite flowers are the amaryllis bulbs. Mabel kept picking up the red ones, but I meowed and meowed and pulled on her coat sleeve until she finally realized that the best ones had red and white striped flowers -- much more festive as far as I was concerned. I don't know what she would do without me!

When we finished decorating, Mabel invited my friends for Christmas cookies and fish tea. They all admired the wreath and they got to take home their very own little catnip plants in tiny green pots tied with a red ribbon.

Don't you just love Christmas!

Tallulah & Friends in The Christmas Mirror

Alice and Rupert and Monty came to my Tallulah The Cat Store today to buy Christmas clothes. We all dressed up and Mabel took pictures to put on the bulletin board in the store, and then she gave some to each of my friends.

We looked so fabulous that almost everyone in the store bought Christmas clothes for their cats, too. There are going to be a lot of very happy, very well dressed cats this season.

I am so proud.

Christmas Cat Clothes at The Tallulah the Cat Store

I got a big surprise this morning. Diana came to the store from Pets! Pets! Pets! loaded down with boxes. They were all tied up because Diana knows how much I love to pull at the ribbons and paper.

Inside the boxes were Christmas clothes for my Tallulah The Cat Dolls, which are a big hit in my store. The everyday outfit is a red and green striped cape with a red and green plaid bow. It's very nice, but kind of ordinary. The really special one is the Sugarplum Fairy outfit. There's a long red velvet cape with rhinestone stars all over it and white fur trim. And then, there's a tiara with red and green twinkles.

And the biggest surprise was in the last box -- both outfits made especially for moi! Now I can dress my Tallulah doll and myself like twins.

Decorating the Tallulah the Cat Store

We've been so busy decorating the store that I haven't had a minute to write the blog. There are ribbons and bows and tinsel around the windows and walls, and a Christmas tree decorated with cat toys.

Mabel thought we should pre-wrap a lot of things to make it easy for people in a hurry. We wrapped lots and lots of cat toys and Tallulah's Treats and my Tallulah the Cat doll. We also made boxes of the Mabel's Table Gourmet Food in two different sizes: Gourmet Week and Gourmet Weekend.

The part of the store that cats like best is the mirror they look in when they're trying on cat clothes. It looks very Christmassy with tinsel and red and green balls.

Cat Store Bulletin Board

Tallulah The Cat Store is is so much fun. I love to drop in and watch people buy Tallulah stuff. I especially like it when people bring in their cats and their cats' pictures. It's so cute to watch the little cat faces when they see their little cat faces on the bulletin board.

Nigel had a great idea. Monday is kind of slow at the store, so he brought his camera and took pictures of the cats who came in, and we put them up right away. Everybody loved it. Now Nigel is coming in every Monday to take cat pictures. We may need to get another bulletin board.

Tallulah the Cat Has a Facebook Page

I'm making so many new friends, I decided I should have a special Facebook Page, so last night when Mabel was on Facebook I meowed my little head off. She looked at me, and finally the light bulb went on. I love Mabel, but she's not very good at the computer thing so she called Nigel and made him come right over to Facebook me! I want to have a million, zillion friends...and they'll all buy stuff from my Tallulah The Cat Store. KA-CHING!

The Cats Are Friends Again

I heard Mabel and Mrs. G talking about how my friends are avoiding me. Mrs. G had invited us all to her Penthouse again to play on the terrace and she noticed that Rupert and Alice and Monty kept running away from me. Jenny has been working on a new recipe for catmint tea and Mabel suggested she make up new bowls for the cats and give a tea party.

This afternoon my friends came over and I was a nervous wreck. What if they ran away from me in my own apartment? But Jenny laid out a beautiful table cloth and poured her new tea into the new bowls. Everyone loved their bowls and slurped up the tea.

After the tea, Mabel gave a special gift to everyone but me -- which I thought was totally brilliant. Rupert and Alice and Monty tore off the wrapping paper and inside were balls with bells inside. They started to play with them while I watched. After awhile Alice rolled her ball to me and I rolled it back. Then Rupert rolled his ball to me...and finally, Monty rolled his ball to me, too. And we were all friends again.

Tallulah the Cat Book Signing

I just got back from my first book signing at Tallulah the Cat Store and my paw is three times it's normal size from signing all of those books.

Pets! Pets! Pets! put ads in the newspapers and on web sites and Mabel and I got there early to get the signing table set up. Mabel was so worried that nobody would come, she kept pacing around the store and talking to herself and calling her friends on her cell phone. Then she looked out the window and almost had a heart attack. Cats and people were lined up around the block waiting for the store to open.

I talked to the cats and Mabel talked to the people. They were from New York City and New Jersey and Long Island and Connecticut and PARIS and LONDON and even TOKYO!!! It's really lucky that cats have two languages : cat, and people -- from wherever they live.

I think Pets! Pets! Pets! should send me on a round-the-world book tour.