Notso Kitty

Uniquely creative accessories for cats & cat lovers.

12/25/2024

✨✨Meowy Catsmas & Happy Hanukkat to all who celebrate 🎉🎄😻 I’ve been a little worn out lately so no time for new Catsmas portraits, but please enjoy these favorites from Catsmas & Hannukat past 😻😻❤️💚💙✨ 2007-2022 holidays represented here— including some rare photos of dearly departed Fluffy & Notso Fluffy ❤️🎄❤️ Meowy Catsmas to mew! ⛄️🎅✨🎄

12/08/2024

Notso Kitty’s long-anticipated website update is finally LIVE 🎉🎉😻😻😻 Real talk: there’s not much stuff in this update, but it’s all I could scrape together for meow 😅😅 Between CatCon, Witch City Kitty, vending 12 days of October Salem and opening the over the past 4 months I don’t think I’ve ever been so busy— but also I’ve become a jackass when it comes to ignoring things that I really should get to— if you need proof, ask DuoLingo who has helpfully called out my 💩 behavior in their annual review 🤪🤪😹😹😹 Anyway, sorry to keep you waiting. And if you’re disappointed, please join the long list of people (and evidently apps) that would like to file their complaints 🤪 My management, Roxy Hissfit, would like you to know she already has me on a performance improvement plan 🙀🤪 We’ll see how that works out soon 🤪😹 Happy holidays ✨

11/27/2024

Meow! You might not have heard from me in a while if you’re not following the account— I’ve been spending a lot of effort on that project these days, so I haven’t had much time to keep up with posting for Notso Kitty. But worry not— this does not mean I’m abandoning my cat-toy-making business roots. I plan on doing both for as long as that makes sense— and it still makes sense for now to do both 😻😻😻 Though it might “make sense” it hasn’t been easy to keep up with it all these days — hence why Sneakers has lived in a pile of packaging materials (pictured) for the past 3 months 🤪🤪🤪 I’m hopeful the sheer craziness of trying to open another business two weeks after my busy October season (which was 2 weeks after — another thing I planned 🤪) will subside soon and I’ll be better at things like putting stuff in the recycling bin 🤞🏻🤞🏻 I’ve been so grateful that you’ve all stuck with me in the meantime through the chaos 😻😻😻
Notso Kitty will only be attending a few holiday in-person events this year: the holiday fair at Old Town Hall hosted by on 11/30 and the Yule market hosted by .ship.market in Old Town Hall on 12/14. I will try to update my website for holiday by 12/7– I’ll post when I do that too (last pic has a sneak preview of some stuff for that) 😻😻😻 If you’re still reading thanks for that— I’ve often wondered if anybody gets through my long form captions 😹😹 Thankful for you if you just skim & look at the pictures too though 😹😹🙏🏻🙏🏻😻😻

11/15/2024

Pepita has taken a recent liking to destroying Pom poms with her teeth. I hid my stash from her, but every time I turn around she seems to have found a new one to destroy 🙀🙀I think she’s reacting to the lack of attention she’s been getting during the construction of my project— don’t worry Pepita, I’m almost done with the hard parts ahead of the opening this weekend 11/16 🎉😻🎉😻 Hopefully you can go back to leaving the Pom poms at peace again soon 🙏🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

11/02/2024

Salem ‘24 Meowloween season recap: The Notso Kitty booth survived our 9th season of participating in in Salem 🎉🎃👻 This year I managed to setup 12 different days in Derby Square for a total of 140+ hrs. Several sales records were achieved at including my best sales day ever and best night sales ever (you might think those purple lights look weird, but they evidently work 💜😹). Some other notes:
-Flexibility and my ability to improv were key this year— each day I was faced with either a piece of technology randomly failing (could Square and the cell networks behave? Not this year 🤪) or some nonsense situation caused by people who think they are looney tunes. I’m proud to say I didn’t scream at wild children who almost took my whole table out once (this happened at least daily)— I just practiced my deep breathing and repeated the mantra “I have insurance” whenever s**t got too crazy and that worked this time 🤪😹😹 I did scold kids for littering and obviously stealing magnets though— I try to be zen, but some things I can’t ignore 🤪
-pics include some visitors including purse kitty and one of two snake 🐍 visitors. Note: if you need people to give your booth space in October, have people with snakes show up 😹 I personally love snakes as long as they aren’t trying to bite me, but most people ran away and I found that funny 😹
-Good cop & Bad cop 👮👮 pic is of Sue & Kelly from the — thanks to them for always telling me where to go and watching my booth many times for occasional litter box breaks 😻😻
-I didn’t get a pic, but shoutout to Lucipurr for visiting me nearly everyday! And to (and weird 😹) for helping out Halloween night! And to all the locals and friends (too many to cite) that came by to offer a near-constant stream of support!! You are all why I love Salem even in its most intense season! 🧡🖤🧡🖤👻😻
Last pic is of my Meowloween look at 7am that morning — ready for the day in my new dress and my p**p emoji wand which thankfully I didn’t need to use as a defensive tool during the day 🤪💩🤪 Hope everyone had a great Meowloween! 🎉🎃👻🎉

10/30/2024

I wasn’t going to do a weekend 5 recap post before Halloween because I am running out of time to re-prepare for the Halloween , but I now find myself waiting for the mechanic to check my car battery (which died at the best time- Saturday night load out at 9pm 😭😭😭😭😭) so I’ve found some time to reflect 🤪🤪😹😹😹 Speaking of that car situation it sounds much worse than it was: I was faced with having to wait hours for a jump (the roads were closed 🤪), but fortunately I live within walking distance of Derby Square— so I was able to leave my stuff for the night and deal with it in the morning when everyone was in a better mood. Shoutout to for dealing with that too! 🙏🏻😻 ✨Other vignettes from the week: Hochiss Pochiss is my best selling sticker this season, even if nobody understands the inside Hissfit joke and many pronounce the pun incorrectly 😹😹 I went to the Ropes Mansion for this photo and there was tourist pandemonium in front— in the crowd I saw a person being very polite to everyone else… I gave them a free sticker (not explaining why)✨😻
✨Lots of fun costumed booth visitors this week including as Pete the Cat
✨The picture of my crystal display represents compromises I make: I ran out of itty bitty crystals on Sunday and wanted to make a new display sign Saturday night— but with my car nonsense that didn’t happen so small crystals were labeled itty bitty instead 🤪🤪 The horrors 🙀🙀😹😹 I am a perfectionist inside so it’s hard for me to look at stuff like that, but that display still sold well, so maybe I should just stop with my perfectionist bs 🛑😹😹
✨Hope everyone has a great Meowloween! I’ll be back in Derby Square for ONE MORE DAY! See mew there, Salem!!

10/22/2024

✨🎃Week 4 Haunted Happenings recap: we’re in the thick of it meow kitties! Only one weekend + Halloween left of the this year! Here are some observations from this past week’s Notso Kitty booth experience:
🐈‍⬛✨ Finally got a clear shot of the front of the Notso Kitty booth. Note my booth is still not empty — it almost never is in October 🤪🎃 Thank you for keeping me so busy! It was also great when my new landlord from the stopped by (it was our first in-person meeting 🙀😹) to see me so productively working 😹
🐈‍⬛✨ Notable local favorite Debbie Schneider & her cat Mary dressed up in their Mets gear (before they lost again 😭). Fun fact: when I first met Debbie 9 years ago I assumed she was a tourist bc of her Mets hat and the fact I was meeting her in October— but soon I recognized the person wearing the Mets hat visited my booth a few weeks in a row and I needed to know more 😻😻
🐈‍⬛✨: A picture of my display that would otherwise be unimpressive, but it’s impressive to me bc it was taken Day 2 of Week 4 and I still have bow ties left which has never happened! I’ve gotten much better at inventory management over the years 👍🏻
🐈‍⬛✨: My emergency counter Cheezits have gotten an upgrade to a container 😹 Maybe people like will stop mocking my Cheezit situation now 😹😹
🐈‍⬛✨: Another BTS shot, this one of more of my “important stuff”. This list of stuff has evolved over 9 years and I keep sharing it in hopes others don’t have to learn the hard way to what they might actually need. It’s a lot more than I originally thought 🤪
🐈‍⬛✨Snapped this pic of the last Binx toy I had left by — but then I found one more yesterday 🤪🤪 Just one more left for this weekend! Don’t sleep if you want it 😹
🐈‍⬛✨Could somebody tell me why people have started taking postcards out of my master book after three years of the method working where people would ask me for the postcards from the back of the booth?? I don’t know what happened this year, but this “book” method has stopped working and I’m constantly having to replace the samples in it 🤪😹 Sigh
🐈‍⬛✨ October Pepita 😻😻

10/15/2024

✨Salem Haunted Happenings 2024 Week 3 is complete! I’m over the half-way-done point with Notso Kitty’s committed dates 🎉🎉 The second half is always the hard part though and I’m already exhausted…. So hopefully I make it 🤞🏻🤞🏻Please pray for me kitties 🙏🏻😺🙏🏻 Here’s some highlights from week 3 accompanied by a bitchy public appeal to improve current aesthetics around Salem 🤪😹 Enjoy!
🐈‍⬛🎃- This kitten visited me Caturday— learning to be a socialized adventure cat in the most social environment 😻
🐈‍⬛🎃- I’m not a big dog fan, but a teacup Pomeranian is basically a cat so I of course I said it was fine to try on cat hats. They purchased the witch hat because how could they not after seeing it on this wonderful cat/dog 😻😹
🐈‍⬛🎃- I’m extremely proud of this picked over kitty crystal display because it was taken Day 3 of the long weekend and it actually still looks okay —- you know you’re getting better at when you sell out of everything important but can still make your booth look acceptable
🐈‍⬛🎃- 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱 all I ever see 😹😹😹
🐈‍⬛🎃- From the kitty booth views are always entertaining in October 🌙💀
🐈‍⬛🎃- Current Salem sentiments accurately captured by
🐈‍⬛🎃- My neighbor’s subtle decor 🐔💀 I’ll post more about that later 😺
🐈‍⬛🎃- Me being my bitchy self and asking the public to stop wearing aesthetically displeasing witch hats. Bring back the tiny witch hats over this monstrosity I say. Thank you for coming to my TED talk 🤪😹
🐈‍⬛🎃- oh and there were northern lights over Salem again this week ✨✨🩷🩷💚💚✨✨ so I’ll end this post on that high note — a palette cleanser after making you look at a picture of that witch hat 😹✨

10/08/2024

🎃🐈‍⬛✨Haunted Happenings 2024, Weekend 2 highlights:
🐈‍⬛: The sell out cycle has commenced 🙀🙀
🐈‍⬛: BTS— the back of my booth always looks chaotic, but I know where most important things are at all times 🤪😹
🐈‍⬛: A Cry Innocent actor entertains the crowd in front of the kitty booth outside Old Town Hall
🐈‍⬛: I went to the parade wearing my glasses and a cat hoodie and several people I knew walked by me without recognizing me and now I think this is my version of Clark Kent attire 😹😹😹
🐈‍⬛: I didn’t stay for the whole parade, but did manage to spot in the crowd 😻
🐈‍⬛: Roxy Hissfit remains unimpressed 🙄
🐈‍⬛: Black cat crystal layout 🖤✨ I meant to post this last week to give those online a chance to claim dibs, but I didn’t do that and most of these sold out now, sorry 🙃
🐈‍⬛: Michael being Michael with 😶

10/01/2024

✨✨Happy October! ✨✨🎉🎉👻👻 Here’s some vignettes from Notso Kitty’s first weekend of the to get you into the Fall holiday spirit:
📸 1: Smiling booth girl photo by , one of the women I’ve been lucky to meet through the recently 😻😻
📸 2: So many people… saying so many weird things. My favorite was the random customer that suggested that I should be giving my $ to “this Salem Cat Museum thing” without knowing that I am 100% funding that project 😹😹😹😹 sigh… I will never tire of random people telling me what to do with my $ — it’s always highly amusing s**t 😹😹
📸 3: My night booth looks more appropriate for Tokyo than Salem—- just how I like it 😹😹🩷💜
📸 4: I couldn’t figure out why people kept singing Hot to go! by by the crystal display…. Until I looked behind me (📸 5) 😹😹😹
📸 6: Adorable gift from for offering use of my Salem driveway 🙏🏻🙏🏻😻😻 We also received nice bonus gifts from and our pals Lucipurr & Landon 🖤🖤🖤 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Reminders that the creative community is the best! note: if you’re an artist and need parking around the common in October, reach out to me and if my driveway is unoccupied it’s yours for free— no strings attached. It can fit two cars comfortably (3 or 4 uncomfortably) just FYI
📸 7: Garbanzo 🧡 visit 😻😻

09/19/2024

Some random scenes of proof of life for this feed 😹😹😹 No pics from here- there’s enough of those elsewhere 🤪😹 This is the other stuff I’ve been “busy” with. The last pic was taken at the last month’s which I will be at again this month on Caturday. Can’t wait!

📸 1: the usual suspects 😼😼😼
📸 2: cocktails are the best ❤️
📸 3: .art.museum Casa de Abuela visit 😻
📸 4: what happens when I attend an influencer event 😹
📸 5 & 7: stuff
📸 6: Onigiri 🍙 kitty (I sell these now)
📸 8: Helping the .w.hobbs.inc team at the town ice cream event 🍦 (photo from ) 😻
📸 9: Cat life meets dog life at 😻

09/09/2024

Well hello there 👋🏻😺 I’ve been trying to update my website for the past two months but failing to put aside the time to make that happen, but today I finally did it 🎉🎉😻😻 So now you should see some things on the site other than “sold out” labels 🎉🎉😻😻 I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to maintain Notsokitty.com into October— at a certain point I usually have to list everything as sold out simply because it is selling too fast in-person in Salem—- but the website is stocked right now, so this is your chance 😸 I also listed a few new goodies like some new Hissfit stickers nobody asked for, some Decole Concombre cats from Japan that I’ve become obsessed with, and some Frankenstein-esque Serpentine crystal cats 💚💚 Also in this post: a look at the Notso Kitty event schedule for September/October which kicks off with this weekend in Salem! 🐈‍⬛✨🐈‍⬛✨ See mew around kitties!

08/16/2024

Hissfit’s face when I told her Halloween would soon be here says all you need to know 🤨🤪😹 Is it possible this Halloween is so near again when we’re still recovering from LAST Halloween?!?! 🎃👻🎃👻 We’ll have a little preview of some of our spooky Notso Kitty booth items at this month’s on 8/17 — if you’re a local and want to avoid some crowds when cat accessory shopping, this might be one of your last chances before things get crazy(er) - ‘Tis the season 🙀🙀🎃🎃👻👻
Notsokitty.com is currently not October-ready, but I’m hoping to do that in next few weeks if you’d prefer to shop online 🖤🧡✨

08/07/2024

CatCon Day 2 recap: never ceases to overwhelm in the best ways 😻😻 I never have time to visit with everyone and everything I want to during CatCon weekends, but I always have the best time attempting to try 😻😻😹😹 This year was a great year! Shoutout also to my fantastic booth neighbors on both sides & — it’s always easier to do these crazy events when you’re surrounded by the nicest people 🙏🏻🙏🏻😻😻 Also shoutout to for providing over 50% of my weekend outfit choices 😻💕
Day 2 pic captions:
📸 1: myself & pro-wrestler kitty fan 😻😻
📸2: spotted working it 🧡
📸 3: new pal Lois having the time of her life 😻
📸 4: our pal whose booth was conveniently near ours 😻
📸 5: the adorable cat pancake pin by - I am lucky to have one of the first Nicole made that she will soon be releasing 🙏🏻😻🥞😻

08/04/2024

Day 1 Recap: not much time for photos because I was thankfully too busy, but I did sneak in a few— including one of my old pal Brooke that I hadn’t seen physically since high school 🙀🙀 I won’t tell you how long ago that was — I don’t need you doing age math on me, thank you very much 😹😹 But it was at least long enough that I also got to meet Brooke’s daughter Molly too 🎉😻 Also delightful: the observed cosplay! I saw a 2-person cat tree, an amazing homemade Cat Woman (if you know who they are, please tag bc I missed those) and the spinner hat contraption on 😻😻 Ready for Day 2 starting meow 🎉🎉 See mew there!
📸 1 credit: Molly 😻

08/03/2024

‘Twas the night before CatCon… 😻🎉
See all you cats this weekend in the Pasadena Convention Center for Notso Kitty’s 8th in-person appearance 😻 Here’s a little booth preview— can’t wait! 😻

07/29/2024

Sneakers: “I can has brat cat?” 💚💚💚💚 The first time I tried selling acid green bow ties was 2019– this photo was taken then. At the time I thought the color complimented cats’ eyes well— surely people would buy it 🤔😼 I made a few of them back then, but they were by far the worst-selling bow tie I had ever made. I would sell through piles of hundreds of bow ties only to be left with the offensive green ones EVERY TIME 🙀🙀 I still liked the color enough that I didn’t understand its unpopularity though. I asked a trusted vendor friend what she thought of it back then and she said “it’s a lot, but I don’t hate it”: which is polite vendor-speak for “good luck selling that s**t” 😹😹 Anyway, since it’s now the brat color of the moment, I’m bringing a few offensive green bow ties back from the dead since I still had some of the fabric in the bottom of the bin…. And it still does compliment cats’ eyes so nicely 💚💚💚💚 Maybe you’ll buy one this time — or maybe I already know which bow ties will be last to sell 😹😹

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Two years ago I happened to mention to my CatCon vendor neighbor/friend @dorklandia that I wanted to go to Japan someday… She responded by telling me she had been a few times and was planning a milestone birthday there within a few years 🎉🎉😻😻 At the moment I might’ve sounded like I was kidding when I insisted on inviting myself to her birthday, but Kayte humored me well enough that I knew maybe there was a chance it would happen 😹 Well, two years later I made my way to Tokyo to take part in the funnest 50th birthday party I’ve ever attended! I didn’t go for the whole month like Kayte and her husband Adam, but I did overlap with them and some of their crew (12 others were coming and going too) for a few special days 🎉🎉😻😻 I might never have had the confidence to go to Japan by myself otherwise— it was also amazing to be there with these particular friends because of their language knowledge and our common kitty interests 😻😻😻 Even though I was the novice, I actually felt I pulled my weight by finding a few destinations that appealed to the group they didn’t know about— trust me to always find the cats everywhere I go 😹😹😻😻 Anyway, if you want me to come to your Tokyo birthday, give me 2 years notice and I’ll be there 🤪🤪😹😹 This was too much fun and I want to go back!! 😻😻😻 Thank you Kayte for inviting me after I invited myself 😹😹😻😻😻Happiest birthday to you!!🎉🎉🎉😻😻😻🎂🎂🎂List of a few favorite places pictured:🐱 @teamlab_borderless 🐱 Gotokuji temple 🐱 Cat train from Setagaya🐱 “Big Cat Bang” by @kenji_yanobe at Ginza 6🐱 Yayoi Kusama museum🐱 Cat town (Yanaka) in Tokyo🐱 The Necomachi Gallery with art by @wajinmori 🐱 The Soseki museum and cafe🐱 Nyankodo cat bookstore in Anegawa🐱 cat billboard in Shinjuku .#tokyo #cattourism #japancats #bestbirthdayparty