January brings the ample holiday tourism from hotter, colder and less happier climates as visitors purrtake of our purrpetual bikini weather’s high tempurrature in the low 70’s, under the lush arbors and the puffy Cumulo-Neko clouds in the Blue sky over our NC OBX island and the surrounding waters of Mew Hanover County, nyan!

If you purrfur the much hotter tempurratures, we recommend the soothing soak in our hot spurrings, which have the purrticularly rejuvenative purropurrties, nyan! Fortunately we are blessed with the benevolent magick in the air, land and water that aids in the purropurrgation of the endangered species, whilst warding away the storms, pathogens, pollutions, bigotries, and invasive organisms, nyan!

The local fishing forecast purrdicts the bumpurr crop of the delicious, mewtritious Snappurrs, Groupurrs, Speckled Trout, Sea Bass, Blue Fish, and Bluefin Tuna, nya! In addition to angling, to catabolize the calories we purrfur to balance the numcious foods and the purrolonged catnaps with athletic purrsuits, nyan.

Such fun and healthy activities include surfing, swimming, sailing, diving, golf, tennis, bad meownton, softball, soccer, field hockey, cycling, skating, hiking, hula, belly dance, hot salsa dance, yoga, kite flying, jujutsu, kyudo, spurrlunking, yarnball lacrosse,beach volleyball, and purrkour (the local feline style of free running, spurringing and climbing), nyan!

It will be the Year of the Horse; this month's zodiac signs are Capurricorn (December 22 - January 19) and Aquarius; (January 20 - February 18th); he birthstone is garnet; and the month’s birth flowers the carnation and the snowdrop, nyan!

The gardens here are also abloom with the chrysanthemeowms, gingers, heliconias, anthuriums, hydrangeas, hibiscus, appurricots, azaleas, roses, bromeliads, morning glories, irises, lotuses, foxgloves, snapdragons, pansies, yellow bells and bird of purradise, plus the succulent scuppurrnongs of the vineyards and the local organic fresh purroduce at the Farmeows Meowrket, nyan!

The local boutiques have the purretty fashions of the bikinis, maillots, purreos, sarongs, hijabs, sarees, ao dais, sun dresses, kimonos, yukatas, gi, fundoshi, hakama, happi, shorts, tee shirts, halter tops, lingerie, robes, kilts, purreos, athletic bras, sandals, flip flops, towels, wet suits and leis, nyan!

The backless and halter - neck styles are recommended for the winged folks, and be sure to specify if you purrfur the attire to have the custom tail-ored opening(s), so that it does not ride up on one’s tail, tentacles, wings or fins, nya! If you are visiting from another country, the bra and other garments will be in USA sizes, nyan.

They also have the translucent bikini tops which are sustain-ably mer-made from the bells of naturally-deceased, locally-caught jellyfish in the numerous iridescent colors and cup sizes, mew la la, nyan! After the shopping, dining, catnaps, festivities, sight seeing and playtime, purrhaps y’all might like to see-

the latest additions to Catgirl Island’s Mewseum of Art, nyan!

Arigato, nyan! For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan! There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, nyan!

However, on Catgirl Island’s Official Web Site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, nyan! Some of the images in our mewseum are sexy, and some of them might tastefully depict the artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn! Furthermore, we should meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted to be used for any A.I. purrposes, nyan!

This month, into Guest Gallery Five, we have added illustrations by Toivo Rovainen, Jane Parker, Meesha DJWalker, TonomuraBix, Rvkh Brogden, Matt McAndrews, Jeffrey H. Wood, whilst into [Mike Moon] Gallery Five we have new works by Mike, nyan!

Firstly we are purroud to purrsent Meesha’s sexy fan art of lovely Japanese demon drummer, model & vStreamer Vixwytch, nyan! After that, we are honored to unveil Jeffrey’s chatGPT concept of his usagimimi characters SnowBuni & HoniBuni helping Santa, nyan!Nextly we are delighted to display Jane’s delightful fan art of Peanuts’ Woodstock and The Amazing Digital Circus’ Jax, nyan!

Then we are elated to exhibit two images of Bix’s cute widdle chibi happy holidays fairy which was originally drawn in 2006, and revised in 2025. Kawaii, nyan! Then we have Matt’s wonderful Goblin Air Force collage, his Operation Mistel aircraft fan art, and the new pic of his lovely original Modem Problems web comic character Clone 14, nyan!

Rvkh used Procreate with the Apple Pencil upon her iPad to supurrbly illustrate her original "Christmas Night" scene and (recently re-colored) "Forest Maiden", and the purrfect fanart of Mike’s elven RPG NPC Takia, nyan! Lastly but not leastly are Mike’s fan art of Detective Conan, Rvkh’s ESO Argonian character “Lost My Skin”, and Sharon William’s OC Akamai, nyan!

By the way, Mike, Jeffrey and Matt are meowmbers of the Rowrbrazzle A.P.A., whilst Mike, Rvkh and our web meowster Jamie are meowmbers of the Starry Eyed Artists Collective, nyan! It is also time for--

the January 2026 edition of The Mew, nyan!

The Mew is short for The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, our local monthly talk show-esque blog in which The Ladies of the Mew and Mike discuss fun stuff and occasionally intermew the special guests, nyan! Please note that The Mew’s purresent home is at http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com, but Mewsings purrior to May 2021 are still archived at the old location http://www.mewsings.wordpress.com, nyan!

This months TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings include the list of our favorite films of 2006 and reviews of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Wake Up Dead man, Zootopia 2, and Avtar: Fire and Ash; and the Catgirl and Kemonomimi Spotlight: shines upon more nekomimi & kitsune, nyan!

Purrint-Media Mewsings includes the reviews of Monster Musume manga volumes. 20, Monster Cats manga volumes. 1, The 2025 Efl Tale, The 2026 Oh No Not Another cat Calendar, amnd Mother Goosed Collected Vol. 1; whilst the Collectibles & Toy Talk reviews Taito’s Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Alya Desktop Cat Ear Roomwear Version PVC Figure, nyan!