Notso Kitty

A week ago was the 10th anniversary of CatCon— 9 in-person and 2 virtual events have happened since the event’s debut in 2015, and I am proud that Notso Kitty participated in all of them 🎉🎉😻😻 Though I hope continues for many years, this was probably my last time flying across the country for any pop-up events with the Notso Kitty brand bc of personal reasons (mainly : busyness of , fear of planes, and increasing hatred of lugging s**t through airports). My CatCon era has been a crazy adventure and I’m so happy to have been a part of it all 😻😻🎉🎉 It seems unlikely that a girl that has called herself an unfluencer would make it this far at a huge convention— 10 years has been a surprisingly great run 🎉🎉😻😻 Cheers to the next round of unfluencers to try it 🥂✨
📸 1-5: booth & friends
📸 6: at
📸 7-8:
📸 9-11:
📸 12: Con damage = 23 bruises 🤪
📸 13: Back to museum life 😻

How could the 10th anniversary edition of be next weekend when it feels like just yesterday I received the 2014 Etsy message that would launch my professional kitty career? I remember receiving Susan’s note while having a particular tedious day in my previous engineering job. Up until that point I had been posting wacky hats that few cats would actually wear on Etsy as a form of rebellion from corporate life — I dreamed of the day I would no longer have to listen to the prattling on of men (all my bosses were male 🤮) who quite frankly should speak less (iykyk) 🤫 I had already been saying “I’m going to quit and make cat accessories” every day for 2 years, a serendipitous invitation was just the prompt I needed 😻😻😻 Thank you CatCon for being there from the very beginning of my officially professional cat life! I’m so happy to be attending the 10th anniversary event next weekend in Pasadena 🎉😻 See mew there? 😻🎉
Photos: Notso Kitty CatCon moments from 2015-2024 — including pics of my first event ever 🎉😻

Back in 2011, when Notso Kitty was more of an idea lab than an actual business I was contacted by people who desperately needed Elton John-inspired glasses for their cat’s Oscar’s Party look. I mean, who doesn’t need such things? In the moment I realized I was lucky to have the inspiration of the LGBTQIA+ community— the community that not only created the look I was cattifying— but was also most likely to support such creations 😻🎉🌈 Since then I have had many opportunities to be both further inspired by and supported by this community — and that’s why I’ve chosen to give back to this area of society in particular. This Caturday will be my 5th time vending at and my third year giving half the profits to 🎉🌈 I don’t get to do pop-ups much these days with running Salem Cat Museum, but this one is an important one. Hope to see you there 🎉🌈 Happy purride ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤍🤎🖤
📸1: The great Notso Fluffy as Elton John
📸2: Recent selfie at “Power full because we’re different” by at