fun with thrift store scores: kids tee edition :)

hee hee...finest quality....superior workmanship...

...there are letters...f-e-e-d-m-e.    ...interesting....

 

not for someone else. 

this dud is for me!!

yippee!  thank u, mom :) :)

 

 

if cuteness were a thing u could eat :)

hee hee, yeah i know, duk duk.  they turned out so cute, even i would eat them.

i mean, just look at them.  the colors remind me of the delicious macarons madwilly made when she visited us. or, jelly beans! u know, not the big yucky spice ones, but the tiny jelly bird eggs - like the ones we helped dad eat up, like, weeks ago.... hee hee, yeah i do not know what mom was thinking buying them so early.   dad found the bag and poof! well, yeah, i mean we helped too, obviously... 

what's that? well, i guess we could tell her cuz she is never going to find something that is not there anymore. but i am kind of enjoying just waiting and looking at books before they are adopted, arentchoo, duk duk? besides, once mom comes back empty handed, well, lets just say i hope she asks dad about it so he is the first to crack. if they have 2 be replaced, dad's allowance is like, way bigger than ours. 

 
oooo,  okay, i know these are really awesome tiny handmade books perfect for secrets or things u want to really remember forever, but, they also kind of remind me of the petit fours we did not make in home ec. remember? cuz teacher took off points because she said poopie snake is not recognized petit four shape.  and then she took off more points because we iced all ours brown and dark yellow and not a single one of them had a girly flower on them.  hee hee, they were still delicious though, just like these i bet would be if cuteness were a thing u could eat.

hee hee hee, they are so tiny and small! i mean, they would make super little tiny presents for easter and are perfect for, well u know, drawing tiny pictures or keeping secrets or writing big tiny memories in them, dontchoo think, duk duk? 

 

hee hee, yeppies, i guess u r right.  we should really get on with our work if we are going to get them listed by this thursday 4/6 at 8:00PM EST.  but first thing's first, it's time for a snackie, dontchoo think?:)

flower power

hee hee hee, they do fit me really well, don't they? i am so lucky great auntie L found them for me and sent them.

i mean, looks, the dark lenses will definitely reduce the strain on my eyes on sunny afternoons when i am pedaling back from school, dontchoo think, duk duk?

and with just two flips of the flower flaps...

i could even fall asleep during class and teacher would never even know. :)

pooptrichor

Needless to say the weather has been a bit of a roller coaster lately, but even when there is a chill in the air, it won't stop two little friends from making do with a cracked open window and enjoying the delightful smells of spring. :)

hee hee, o yes, i do smell that, duk duk. with maybe just a hint of cheese and .. (sniff sniff) .. (sniff sniff sniff) ...... (sniff)... pork chop. definitely pork chop. boy, i wonder if the stinky bassets' mom n dad even know they snitched one.

oo yes - the wind is changing! (sniff sniff sniff) grassy...earthy...ez-pz that's bunny! i wanna say maybe 7:30 ish. probably behind the poopie snake museum annex over by the walrus reflecting pool. but not so close that it commingles with the special warning turds we left for kitty under the viburnums. (sniff..sniff) eeeeeew. yeah that stinks...

yep i agree, duk duk. spring would definitely be nicer without all the flowers stinking up the air. :)

thanks mister jim :)

hee hee hee. omg, duk duk, can u believe how wonderful our friends are? i mean, how lucky are we that mister jim would send this to us before we even knew we it was something we would want? which trust me, if i knew u knew i knew we knew we wanted it, santa would have totally heard about it by now. but mister jim is even better than santa because it's like, he pretty much knows what we would enjoy without our having to be good all year or write a letter or anything like that. and we do not even have 2 wait til christmas. yessiree, that's what real friends are all about.


it's too bad today's monday and we have to go to school because i can just smell all the fun we would have today - what's that, duk duk?

hmmm, o yes, i see the truth of it. i mean, it's the least we can do, right? it's practically our civic duty. let me ask her...

mom, (cough cough) me and duk duk both seem to be coming down with something and rather than infecting everyone at school, do u think we could stay home today?? :)

wednesday's doot is full of woot :)

hee hee, yeppies i am happy how our swirly glitter weenies all came out too, duk duk.  

what a stroke of luck that chocobot and his unicorn friends decided to have their pre-easter eatsterparty at our heat cave the other week.  i mean, we both know that chocobot can really make a massive pile but who knew that a group of unicorns can make like, literally an olympus-sized mountain glittery poop. and in all sorts of colors too. yeppies, even our museum was not going to be able to hold that much. we were really lucky they used their magic to help us bottle some for our swirly weenies, weren't we? 

my favorite combination? well, i surprise myself by saying this, but i am not sure i have just one.  i mean, on the one paw or wing, u have the chocolatey poopie brown series, and they are all actually very pretty - not just the poopie gold and browns glitter mix which everybuddy pretty much knows i would like, but the other ones too - falcony greens and blues, and even cootieful pinks and reds. those combinations we made all go nicely with the brown they way grass and tomatoes do when show up on the back end if u know what i mean.

and,  on the other paw - no wing - we have the princessy purple series, with your choice of unicorn purples and holographic glitter, falcony greens and blues, and of course cootieful pinks and reds.  i just want to swirl them all and stare at them forever, dontchoo, duk duk?  what's that, oh right.  sorry mom 2 keep u waiting. let me go ahead and finish getting ready so we can get this photo party started and get everything ready to post for this Wednesday. it'll only take me a minute, mom.... (shuffle , shuffle)...okay that's on nice n snug.

now one last thing. i think i have my lines pretty much memorized, but, duk duk, if u would just hand me my script, we can tape them to the back here where i can see them if i need a remin-


 





-der. wait, what??? mom, we can't lose the mask.  u said this time me and duk duk had full creative authority on this project and what with spring and easter coming up,  i mean seriously, what better time for a ferocious bunny to be selling these sparkly incredibly awesome -

...okay FINE, he says with frost visibly dripping from his words if that were only a thing in real life.  but, a) the change notice is going 2 cost u 5 extra gummy worms for each of us  b) we are going to need an extra 20 minutes to prepare and c) can u please go downstairs and get my purple plaid top hat while me and duk duk write and rehearse our new script? 

okay, c u in a few. 









hee hee hee, that went even better than i expected.  and, thanks to the fact that we totally already wrote our plan b script ahead of time,  now we have a whole 20 minutes to goof off. :)

(hee hee, don't miss tomorrow's doot for our super special sparkly swirly glitter weenies, let's say around 11:00AM EST. and please remember, as these goodies are partly made from glass and contain small parts, we like to think of these as goodies for grown ups.  please enjoy responsbily. :) )

https://www.etsy.com/shop/kalyxcraftopia

nyah nyah nyahnah poo poo

hee hee, hey, duk duk, guess who gets to go for a ridey to the park because he finished his homework already!

nyah nyah nyahnah poo poo!

wait, mom, what do u mean cassie is coming with us????

poopso facto

no u move it. u r the one that cut that big uknowwhat that made her leave in a hurry and if she never had to leave so fast she would not have left us in this predicament we are in. poopso facto, u touch it and u move it.

well, fine. if u are not gonna touch it, and i am not going to touch it, i guess that is it. i guess we are stuck here all day til mom comes home.

i sure hope tomorrow's as nice as it seems like it is outside today, dontchoo, duk duk?

halo :)

I love filters and photo editing software as much as tiny chumley loves chunky chicken water, but it's especially gratifying when a picture turns out all on its own, with happy rays of sunlight and a glorious halo highlighting what it seems we all could use a little more of nowadays - a calming peace, a comforting warmth, and of course, a generous dollop of cuteness.

Speaking of cuteness, here in behind the scenes world, tiny chumley and I have been furiously hand finishing what feels like a million tiny pieces of top secret coolness this week and the good news is that the hardest part is probably over. I say probably because as with all our fanciful little weenie makeys there are always aspects of haven't done it before so who knows how long it will take, but, with any luck, we will finish up and announce a doot date soon so stay tuned! And be on the lookout for some very special new cards, some of which were very obviously designed by a certain little mischievous wolf and his best falcon friend. So much fun, so little time! Have a super weekend, friends! :)

my smelly valentine :)

boy, duk duk, i sure am glad we looked thru the bag of valentine candies mom got us to pass out at school tomorrow.

i mean, there were only like..three, four, five - six. six acceptable messages in the entire bag! can u imagine the mess we would have gotten ourselves into? not to mention all the cooties we might have been exposed to.

hee hee, well, i guess u know what they say...

a wolf and falcon's work is never done :)

minimum cage

...poopabunga, THAT'S what cottonmouth is supposed to look like?? i mean, on tv i thought his nickname compared with his appearance was a already little preposterous and here, well here he just looks like he ate a bunch of cottton candy in a hurry and forgot to wipe his mouth. he doesn't have ferocious real fangs or a slithery body or really anything that merits the impressive name of our third most favorite snake in the world.... yeah duk duk, if this does not get better by the next page then we really need to..

hold the poop...what's this? "famous name prizes or cash the easy way. attention junior entrepreneurs of america. earn famous name prizes or cash simply by selling olympic brand greeting cards. fill out the slip, enclose two dollars and blah blah blah blah." omg, duk duk, look at all this stuff. i spy a tent, a dune buggy, scuba flippers, why there is even a race track set! look at all those awesome and supercool famous name prizes..just for selling greeting cards...just like..u and me..do. heeeeyyyyy...

um, mother, i think it is time we had a talk.... :)

hurry hurry hidey hidey :)

hee hee hee, okay, duk duk, now u draw the stink li- oh no, she's coming! hurry hurry hidey hidey!

sorry, mom, no peeking at the artwork until our masterpiece is complete :)

little contractors

see mom? even with all of us inside we still totally have room for the mini fridge and the tv nobuddy uses in the guest bedrooom. and, if u approve our west wing addition plans, we can start work today to have a separate power line installed because i am pretty sure the stadium lighting will really stress the capacity of the circuit we currently share with george and your iron  :)

goodbye 2016

mom, do u ever feel like u sort should have a lot to say but then u realize it will only bum u out so all u can really say is...
goodbye 2016. u were really weird.

twas the day before christmas :)

whoa, chocobot, i think u r right. no wonder all the little puppies were so pokey.  i'd go slow too cuz i mean really, u know what they say. smelly is as smelly does. and puppies - no offense lil pink puppy - but at that age, puppies really do not know their snakeys from their swirlies..
























and look at that ferocious crow, he's all like, "haw haw, what a bunch of maroons. now u have nothing to put on your stoop!"..wait, what's that, lulu the tiger?  yeah i smell it, too.  let me ask her.

mom, how much longer do we have to read quietly and when it is finished cooling, may we each please have a slice of buttered cherry almond angel bread? :)

 

today i am ten :)

 Every day is a birthday as far as tiny chumley is concerned, but somedays are definitely more birthday than others :)
 
"ooooOOOOOooOOooOOOOoOOoooo!" the little wolf  squeed when his mother finally brought out his birthday meat cake,  his nose having told his tummy ages ago that something special was most definitely in his future.  "one..two..eleventy..ten.  i count ten carrot candles! and u know what that means everybuddy - today, i am ten!"

final draft review

 ...hee hee, well of course nobuddy really likes him, duk duk. but he's the guy with all the presents so what can u do, really?

 yeah, i am glad that mom does not make us go see him in person either. my friend hankie says with every passing year he gets scarier and scarier,  and if hankie thinks he is scary, u know what i would think. and i am pretty sure santa would not take very kindly to an impromptu meeting with agent brown, if u know what i mean. 

yeah, it is so much better just to write him a letter, even if we do have to write it all by hand still. 

 









































oh yes, where were we?  oh yes, final draft review. let's go back to the first page.. "dear santa....howya doin...technically good all year...blah blah blah...duk duk's fault...my fault..."  turning to next page...

















 





"...mutually resolved to each party's satisfaction...laser guided mega monster trebuchet...block of cheese...robot walrus submarine...cannot take delivery until the 3rd for obvious reasons ....regards to the missus...enjoy the carrots and cookies..hope u did not step on the u know what by the stoop.  yours truly, baxter & duk duk".

well, i think that's pretty good, dontchoo duk duk? i mean, concise and to the point with just enough pleasant chit chat to hopefully smooth over some of our more notable infractions this year. which we clearly did not hide or cover up and in fact i think we explained ourselves pretty well. but, i guess don draper is right about changing the conversation.  i mean like, we never ask for cheese and santa i am sure will be like, cheese? what's a wolf and falcon going to do with cheese? i guess i will just have to find out! and then he will give us everything on our list because our list is so short, like seriously, he should be embarrassed to give us anything less than all of it really. then come christmas morning, bwoop! megamonstertrebuchet-robotwalrussubmarine!
  

 

hee hee hee, i love christmas so much, dontchoo duk duk? :)

 

words with friends :)

hee hee oh yeah duk duk, that makes three jillion eleventy threeve for the both of us! okay, fork over another p and two o's..or maybe a p and an e. orrrr maybe a..oh i see it, an s and an a and a k and an e. or two f's and an o and and i and an e.  but really let's go with the p and the two o's for the win.

wait, what? nothing? u have got 2 be kidding me. how are we supposed to spell anything??

mooom, i hope u saved the receipt because think this new game u gave us is totally defective. :) 

 

happy thanksgiving 2 u :)

um, mom, are we finished taking pictures yet because because we have been waiting like all month for this :) #thankfulforthanksgiving

the shipping spot

hee hee, i still love our stamp even after all these years. i could stamp all day, cantchoo, duk duk?

o wait i think i hear mom calling us. yes, mother?

um, well we are almost ready to start packing orders but while u r asking, me and duk duk are pretty sure we need another eleventy hundred boxes to stamp :)