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Rosie isn’t the fashion mogul Tabs was, but she does have style, and she’s really been feeling herself lately.
Tabs had more of an appetite for haute cature than Rosie does, and he changed style almost daily. He would go from wearing a bright ’80s off-the-shoulder tee with ripped jeans to posing in the nude wearing nothing but jewelry. He was fearless with fashion, but that was his thing, whereas Rosie’s true passion is science.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Fashion journalist André Leon Talley once called Tabs “the daring darling zenith of feline fashion,” and without question, Tabs made his mark in high fashion because of his penchant for elaborate haute couture and his over-the-top sense of style.
Side note/fun fact: he once dressed up as a different Victoria’s Secret angel every day for an entire month. THERE WERE A LOT OF SEQUINS. And in case you were wondering, yes, the feathers on the wings turned out to be somewhat problematic because he couldn’t help but swat at them (he was a birder, after all!). Needless to say, my glue gun saw a lot of action that month.
What was I saying…? Oh, yeah, even though Tabs was known in fashion circles for opulent extravagance, I loved it when he dressed down, which for him usually meant a simple but elegant bow tie or a bejeweled crown.
Seeing him relatively unadorned reminded me of a simpler time in our lives, before the fame and fortune, back when he was just a sweet and scrappy ally cat who followed me around my apartment complex. ?
Doesn’t he look particularly dapper in these pics? Gosh, I miss that mug!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Happy Memorial Day weekend from Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC! Our new CFO (Chief Feline Officer), Pretty Girl Rosie, has continued the company tradition of holding the big Summer Kickoff Employee Picnic and Barbecue.
This year, we’re doing it over Zoom, but I know it’ll still be fun.
Tabs was a great role model, especially when it came to cutting loose and having fun. Work hard, play hard — that was his motto.
And, as soon as it’s safe to, the whole company will head up to Camp Catnip to catch up and recharge our socializing batteries with a week of team building, fishing, fun, camp cooking and potato sack races.
Tabs started Camp Catnip about 10 years ago, and it’s grown into North America’s premier kitty modeling camp for cats and cat-loving people.
I haven’t been up there since he passed away, but I can’t wait to go back because Tabs really loved it.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Tabs was a lover.
He loved many things, including gravy, fame, fashion, fabulous fur and fantastic bargains. He was a die-hard budget beauty fan. Of course, he also loved the finer things in life, including Chanel and Dior, but he never turned his nose up at a good deal. After all, he came from meager beginnings as a stray cat on the mean streets of Mill Valley.
Even when it came to kitty modeling, he would take any job if it was for a product he believed in, regardless of the price point. And he had a blast doing it. Some of his favorite kitty modeling jobs were for drugstore beauty products.
Milani, Maybelline, L’Oreal, Revlon, NYX, e.l.f. and more. A good product is a good product. Every cat knows that.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there — the moms to human children, the cat moms and dog moms and rabbit moms and moms to all the fur kids. And we all know that our kids can be biological and non-biological. Sometimes, our kids choose us, and I was lucky enough that Tabs chose me. He will always be my oldest boy.
It’s funny, but even though I was technically his lackey/assistant/underling, I still felt like he was my 20-pound furry baby.
May Day (May 1st) is also known as Lei Day in Hawaii, and it’s a statewide celebration of the aloha spirit and the giving of the flower lei. No matter which day of the week May 1st falls on, the Lei Day Celebration takes place at Queen Kapiolani Park in Waikiki. The annual event features live music, a stunning lei contest exhibit, hula performances, demonstrations, craft and food vendors, and so much more!
Tabs LOVED Lei Day (obvs), and he was a huge horticulturalist. Straight up, he was a fiend for flowers, especially of the edible variety.
No matter what he was doing or where he was, Tabs wore a lei every May 1st. He loved holidays that allowed him to flex his creative muscles.
What a totally unreal time. Tiger King, gravy shortages, long lines at Petco. Tabs would have been going out of his mind!
I do feel like he would have found constructive ways to channel all that rage…
Like when he started a catnip delivery service during the last recession.
And of course he would have continued modeling…
Knowing him, he would have used the quarantine to perfect his skills and reenter the workforce as an even bigger kitty mogul.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
It’s planting time this year! We didn’t really feel like growing a garden last year, because planting season was around the time Tabs passed, but we’ve always enjoyed building our little deck gardens, and Tabs did too. He had quite a green thumb.
He just loved hanging out around the garden and the world of plants we built every year on the deck. It’s a small area back there, but we’ve managed to do a lot with it.
There was catnip galore, peppers, a cat grass nibbling and napping area, a zinnia snack bar, a parsley appetizer area, and a gerbera daisy all-you-can-eat buffet.
