baxter & duk duk's special friday matinee feature: weenie reindeer games :)

dear diary,
next week is thanksgiving week and as might imagine we will be very busy being thankful and eating and entertaining family and stuff so please do not worry if we are not posting regularly or responding very quickly. also, i am stilll washing cooties off myself from cassie's relatively brief but incredibly stinky visit, so there is that. but anyhow, even though we might still be posting a little next week, me and duk duk thought it might be nice to leave u with an officially awesome video we just made which we are sure u will want to watch with the sound on over and over again during next week's comedy drought. plus it has a very special announcement at the end. 

oh and if u were wondering, we hope to have a few goodies for cyber brown wednesday but we may not have a lot of time to preannounce what it will be so stay tuned because there will probably be ninjadoots! okay, me and duk duk need to pick up lil pink puppy and lulu the tiger from chukky poops so i will write u later and i hope u have a very good weekend. :)

toodleydoo!
b.

little couch potatoes

dear diary,
school will be starting again in only five days and all me and duk duk can say is, sheesh! how time flies.  and since we never got started on our summer adventure, we decided to do the next best thing -  break the world record for most consecutive time spent on the sofa!  well, okay,  break the world record for most consecutive time spent on the sofa within the five day time period before school starts. well, for a dog and duk.  not including poopie or pee breaks, or meal times or snackies.  or any time we need to break for when the little misses come over to show us a toad or play with us. or if, u know, something else better comes along and well, u know, we need to break for that too. u know, like if mom wants to take us to the candy store or if chocobot and lil pink puppy and lulu the tiger come home from princess camp early, or if a meteor lands from the sky or, if a herd of elephants just happen to run thru our yard.  u know, something.  so, mostly, i guess me and duk duk are going to try and break the world record for most consecutive time spent on the sofa, as performed by a dog and duk,  minus breaks and other things.

wish us luck!

toodley-doo!
b. :)

dapper doxie duds: pretty in pink and orange

hee hee okay, lulu the tiger,  go tell mom i am going take the curlers out of my hair now and then we can start taking pictures of gingi's dud, okay?

and remember, if u see duk duk and he asks u where i am, tell him i am still at pupscouts and will meet him by the creek at eleventy oh five sixxy seven eight past twelven. 

what?? u know, when the big hand is on the three and the little hand is on the ten.

no, it does not matter where the skinny long hand is. that one just keeps going for some reason and never stops. unless u have to change the batteries.  hey, can u just get mom already? pretty ain't gonna last all day here.

hee hee, poor gunther.  i bet his sister gingi stinks like all girls do.  and by stink i mean the kind that makes u want them to stand over there. like, yucky purple flower stink, not super awesome poopie stink.  only, i guess gunther's lucky at least that gingi is his sister, otherwise goodness knows how cootied up he would get. i mean, it's not like he could get her to stand over there for say a family portrait or something.  i mean, she is family n all. and families should stick together, cooties and stink n all, especially when they are wearing such wonderful duds as....oh, hello mom, i was just thinking to myself what a wonderful dud u made for gingi!  well, shall we begin? this should be pretty quick - i think i have my poses all worked out!

 just give me one second to think of what i am going to say...

okey dokey let's go!

Why hello my friends, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter, reporting to you today on the super pretty dud my mom just finished for my friend and Gunther's sister, Gingi!  Gingi wanted something pink and orange and super pretty with a removable skirt and everything, so I thought I would take you through some of the pretty detail work on this dud, because, well the pretty pink and orange damask fabric you can already see, right?
















 Here on my back u will see a lovely peter pan collar, slimming seam lines, and just a hint of orange picot edged ribbon peeking out from the pretty pink button detailed spine for texture and richness.

 

And moving on to the right side of my back, here is a pretty flower my mom made from hand dyed silk satin, freshwater pearls, and iridescent glass seed beads.  Can you guess the secret that this flower is hiding?

Well my friends, if you guessed that the flower is removable, then you guessed right! I saw mom do a lot of hand stitching to make sure everything still conformed the way it should and I think it turned out nicely, dontchoo?

And here are the many layers of swishy pink and orange tulle underneath Gingi's removable skirt.  I like the way it peeks out and says, "Hey, I'm tulle and I'm pink and orange and I'm here to make things poufy!".  I also think that tulle being kind of netty n all, that it might help contain any cooties Gingi might have. Oh, sorry mom, I mean, sorry Gingi.  If u stink I am sure it is not all that bad and if you have cooties I am sure u cannot help it on account of being a girl and all.  And no matter what I know you will still look pretty in this dress because looky....

even I look good in it and I'm a stinky boy!

(Hee hee, don't worry Gingi, I will de-boy stink it for you before my mom sends it off).  Well okey dokey that is my report for today and I hope you enjoyed it very much. And I hope Gingi really really likes her happy new dud!! This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you the super duper Sunday!! :)

glitterati

but mom, we cannot share any pictures because me and duk duk and chocobot and lulu the tiger and lil pink puppy agreed that this year, what happens on unicorn appreciation day, u know, stays on unicorn appreciation day. especially because of all the uknowwhatting with uknowwho at the uknowwhere. but if u would like us 2 post pictures of our sparkly poopie snakes, well, we have like eleventy zillion of those. do u want me to get my iphoney so we can start uploading?

today i am 14 :)

dear diary,

today i am fourteen years old, and i must tell u, i have never felt or looked as rawwier as i do now. my only hope is that later today at my birthday party, i get tons of presents and a delicious meat cake to match my ferociousness. anyhoo, what with today being my special day, mom said me and duk duk and chocobot and lulu the tiger and lil pink puppy can do whatever we want and we chose to play guess whose foofie all day long. so i really must go because my bowels about to explode. in a good, i have been preparing or this all week long sort of way.  

tooldley-doo!

b. 

happy stinko de mayo :)

okay, mom, all our chores are finished and duk duk and lulu the tiger and lil pink puppy are alldrying off from their baths as we speak. and chocobot even pooped in the backyard so there is no glitter to clean off the sofa or in the bed. now may we please start preparing for our tgidisco stinko de mayo party? :) :)

happy eatsgiving :)

..and i am grateful for duk duk, chocobot, lulu the tiger, lil pink puppy... and all my friends in cyber world... and..the little misses..gummy worms...and...blah blah blah blah blah...peace on earth...u know, all that junk and stuff. 

okay, now may i please have some turkey before duk duk comes back from his swimmy swim? 

etsy fresh: happy hound party & pirate hats

Yippee! A few weeks ago while browsing on Etsy, I realized there was a big little something missing from the crafty world.  Happy little hats, made especially to fit a variety of sizes of our stubby legged sausage dog friends, even wiggly ones like Baxter's little friend Lulu.

And so, after a few weeks of toiling away behind the scenes developing and making making making,  happy little handmade hats are finally starting to find their way the etsy shop.  The kind of happy little hats that every waggy tailed dachshund needs to blow out the candles on their very own birthday cake, party with their toyfriends, and sail away on special happy go lucky summer adventures.










The little kielbasa and I will be taking a break from blogging this weekend so we can finish our etsy work, but we'll be back on Tuesday with more happy go lucky adventures. 

Have a wonderful weekend, friends! :)

curiouser and curiouser (part 2): he knows

"he's making a list, and checking it twice! gonna find out who's naughty or nice, santa claus is - " okay great job stamping it lulu the tiger,  now lemme sign it.. your friend, Baxter.  " - coming, 2 town!" okay that's another card finished. next!! oh wait, u are right we need to put a stamp on it. lil pink puppy, it's your turn. hee hee, boy i thought mom making us do our own christmas cards this year would really stink but actually with us splitting up the work, it's been really fun, hasn't it?  

now where was i in our song? o i know.."he knows when you've been pooping, he knows when you're a- "

hee hee, oo very nice postage stamp placement, lil pink puppy. keep this up and soon u can help me and duk duk help mom with packing etsy orders. okay,  let's start a new postcard.  duk duk, batter up...

"he knows when you've been pooping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good..." wait, that can't be right? 

 "he knows when you've been pooping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good..."
 
 sheesh, duk duk, santa sure seems 2 really know a lot about what we are doing whether we want him 2 or not.  i wonder how he knows and if he has ever been charged with invasion of privacy...

dapper doxie duds: much ado about something

but,  mom, if i wear nikki's new dud on my head like this i cannot wear this pretty flower crown i found in our play closet from when me n lulu were doing our pirate skit and i think it would go very well with nikki's new dud, dontchoo think?  and  i think i can fit it if i hwuuup hard enough,  and once i am dressed as  purple princess queen of the forest, i can recite the speech i wrote, u know, so it will be an interactive modelling session.  please? it will be so fun...oh yippee! okay will be right back!


(HWUUUUUUP! o thank u duk duk for helping my get my crown on...okay places everybuddy...)

"O friends and loyal subjects of the purple forest, we cometh here today to celebrate a new dud for my friend Nikki, who merrily is fond of climbing rocks and roaming the mountains of her native wilderness with her fair sister Lucy, and thus she did require a simple dud that was outdoorsy girly but not too frou frou - " (vroom, skreeeeee!)

hey wait, was that??? do u hear what I hear??  













 

(bark bark brik brak bark bow wow wowbark bark brik brak ribba ribba bow wow) hey, up here, man in brown! yeah  u know i'm barkin atchoo! (brik brik woof woof ribba ribba) i'm ruff and i'm tuff even in purple flowers and yeah just leave that package and run off now cuz i'm that scary.  (rowr rowr arf woof arf) yeah dat's what i'm talkin bout.  barkatchoo next time too, scaredy pants! (bwoof)

oh i am sorry mom, u were saying sumptin?  maybe...or um, yeah.  can we maybe,  start this modelling session over? maybe, after i go downstairs and see what the man in brown left me? cuz well, u know, it might take a while for me to get back into character n all. :)

(hee hee, I hope u love your new dud Nikki!! :) )

happy unicorn appreciation day

okay everybuddy, on the count of three open your eyes!

one...

two...

three! 

yippeeee! look what we gotchoo, chocobot - a whole jar of glitter!

hee hee, what's that lulu the tiger?  oh yeah,  we do this every year.  it's tradition!!

now, let's pull out the table, roll up the rug, and pour some glitter so we can get this party started!! 

hee hee, happy unicorn appreciation day, my friend :) :)

today i am seventeen

hee hee ooooOOOOooooOooo! hey hey, mom, hurry up and put it down here where a wolf can see already!

oooo, made with teeny weenies and thrifted vintagey goodness.

finest quality, superior workmanship…

truly pooptacular! and it is just how a ferocious wolf envisioned it!

um, so i know duk duk and chocobot and lulu the tiger and lil pink puppy are not back yet from princess prettypink’s holiday partyrama but u think maybe i can try my birthday crown now? uknow, just 2 make sure it is ferocious enough? 

hee hee, wait’ll everyone gets a load of me!

  

hee hee, ooo, i thought a wolf was feeling  ferocious before, but this birthday crown is 

totally taking it to the next level! i cannot wait til duk duk gets - 

 

uh oh, a wolf is feeling tingly tangly woofy - 

RRRRRRRAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRRR! 

um, mom, can u maybe make my crown maybe seventeen percent less ferocious? just enough so a wolf can still enjoy his meat cake 
without, u know, eating his toyfriends. :)

operation sick day

hee hee yeah I think it will work, too, duk duk. thanks for taking a hit for the team. we are going 2 have so much fun today.  oo, wait, I think I hear her coming! go tell everybuddy operation sick day has commenced! 

um, hi mom. I do not feel very good today. my throat is all scratchy and my mouth feels all foamy, and, well, for all I know I could have rabies or something and I certainly would not want 2 infect anybuddy else at school. so I guess this means me, and duk duk and chocobot and lulu the tiger and lil pink puppy should all stay home, dontchoo think?....(blink blink)....

did I forget to mention how foamy my mouth feels? :) 

tiny baby buggy bumpers

well mom, are you sure she really needs it? 

i mean, i know it little miss julia is very attached to her tiny baby, Tiny Baby, and we know first hand that when it gets lost, nobuddy is happy. but who said she has to bring Tiny Baby with her everywhere anyways? It's not like Tiny Baby is real, like, you know, duk duk or chocobot or lulu the tiger or lil pink puppy.

and besides, me and duk duk already think that with a few tailoring tweaks, this super cool Tiny Baby convertible backpack/crossbody purse thatchoo made for little miss julia's birthday would be great for our summer pupscout trip to camp poopsalot.  cuz as you might imagine, we will be needing plenty of luggage to bring back our souvenirs if u know what i mean.  and some of what we will be making - er, finding - could be high up in the mountains and we will need to keep our hands free to protect ourselves from the hungry bears as we carry our precious finds back to base camp.  you understand, right? and with the colors being so bright if we get lost if our gps doesn't -  wait, what's that? oh..make us another one? okay well sure, yippee i guess that will work! so long as you promise to make it in time for our trip because you know that is happening in just a few weeks, right?

now please do not mind me.  i will just sit here by the window and wait for the little miss julia and Tiny Baby because i am sure they will be coming over any second now and when they do, maybe we put  some snackies and Tiny Baby inside and we can all go for a walkie to the playground!! :)

The Tiny Baby Quilted Convertible Backpack and Crossbody Purse prototype, for tiny babies, and not-so-tiny dachshund adventurers. :)

just another makey Monday :)

hee hee okay mom u can take pictures but keep them fuzzy because our Halloween costumes are top secret and even though this is just a fit model based on the pattern u drew up from scratch, u just never know who might put 2 and 2 together and that would b a total disaster. and 2 answer your question, I agree it is a little bunchy and baggy back there even 4 me. I cannot imagine what it would feel like now if zorro never visited me when I was a puppy and he never took away my u know whats. I do not even like it when I poop a Loki.

oh yes, totally take it in. that feels much better. what's that? o, well , u know how when u accidentally eat a toyfriend thread, and u do not know u ate a toyfriend thread til, u know, it comes out, but it always comes out last and it keeps all the u know what that came out first just hanging around? and no matter how hard u try to get rid of the u know what that's hanging from your butt it just keeps hanging around? well a pooping a Loki is that. because no matter how hard u try to get rid of the real Loki , he just keeps hanging around. it happened in Thor one and it happened in Thor two and it even happened in avengers 1, remember?

and pretty much the only person who can really get rid of Loki is Thor, which is why sometimes from the backyard when dad takes me out for u know what, u might hear me asking dad to Thor me, which now u know would be for obvious reasons. 

yep, I'm pretty happy with the range of motion and the leg length is pretty good too. but I feel like the tail hole should be moved up and if we are going to do that then maybe we can also make the legscye a little bigger just to, u know, optimize things?  if u draw it with a sharpie I can tell u if it is right or not.

yeppies like that. oh snap it is almost time for me and duk duk and chocobot and lulu the tiger and lil pink puppy to pedal to school! I sure hope duk duk remembered to pack the trebuchet today. lemme get off the table and round everybuddy up..

o and mom, do not forget to take the fuzzy filter off the iPhoney and text me during study hall if u have any measurement questions :)