River and Stevie

OK, Rob said no pics tonight. He said they are not quite ready for their public release yet, I guess River still needs a mouth or something and neither one has their butt tag, whatever that means.  Don't tell Rob, but I snuck my phone in and snapped a couple quick ones to show you.... pardon the quality.  I'm sure Rob will do better when they have butt tags.... what a silly thing.

<----  So this is Stevie he keeps gloating about being steam punk.  I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

<----- This is River the Zombie Hippy.    I have not had the heart to tell River that the '60s called and wants their pants back.

                               

New DDZs!

So Tic's spot in not even cold... well ok maybe it is 'cause zombies don't produce body heat.  He is only just on his way and two more zombies meander in!  Stevie and River.   Stevie, from what I am hearing, used to be a computer nerd.  He says the last thing he remembers from his non-undead days was trying to over clock his new CPU by 3000 %.  I have no idea what that means, but  apparently it  exploded and he is now covered in computer bits.  He seems nice tho, just a bit of a nerd.  River is an old hippy who is all about green this and save the earth that... I bet I will still get trounced at cards.  Oh well.  I'll try to goad Rob into getting some pictures tonight, if he does I'll post em!

Tic finds a home

Now I won't do this for every one of the DDZs cause, well some of them, I am pretty sure, cheat at cards.  Tic, however was not one of them.  He is a great little guy and I am delighted to say he has found a home!  congratulations to you Tic, you were almost every bodies favorite.  To bad you came from a small remnant of cloth, there will be no other Tic.  Live well, .... well... not exactly live... ok .. be happy Tic we will miss you!

Q

New DDZ

WOO HOO! Halloween Elvis is not only here he has ushered in a DDZ sale!  In order to make sure they have a home by halloween StudioCalvin has dropped the price to $25 on all DDZs too sweet!

Come see the DDZ collection while they last!  Q

There Rob that should fulfill my contractual obligations :P

AHHH!! This is where I left my blog!

I wondered where I left it.  It has been a while so I thought I would fill you all in on my latest activity!

I have to tell you all what happened last night.

  We were all out for a walk after dark and we are walking down a street that is divided with trees shrubs and a winding path down the middle.  We are all talking and joking around when I hear Rob say, oh hello kitty... and Teeny Screams THAT IS NOT A CAT!!! She then hides behind Rob.  Well Amanda and I had been talking and looking the other way so I just froze... My years of experience as a Textile Display Specialist probably saved my life here.... Amanda says: "What is not a cat?"

Well I look over to see this black blurr running towards us!! It was HUGE!  My first thought was... what the heck is a bear doing in town... then all I could think was oh no... you are supposed to play dead for a bear and I was too scared to move.. I just stood there! No doubt looking like a giant bear treat.  I knew I was done for.  My life literally flashed before my eyes... that was a short flash and one for later discussion... but it happened none the less....

Then as the great beast closed the distance close enough to strike I closed my eyes and tried to find a happy place...

That is when I hear Teen say... Oh it's a puppy!!  I thought she had gone mad with fear and was also looking for her happy place... I kept my eyes shut and prepared to feel the hot breath of the massive bear...

The next thing I hear is giggling and laughing... how sad I thought. If only I were brave enough to laugh in the face of a bear.  I opened one eye and saw Amanda Teen and Rob bent down and petting a small dog.  I can only guess that it had charged in at the last moment and scared the bear away!  Brave little animal. I am going to give it a treat the next time I see it for saving us from the bear.

OK, that is it for now I am off to see Edgar, the agricultural vermin deterant engineer.  He has some consoling to do. ;)

Later!  Q

It is Monday!

Well, what started out as a great weekend only got better!  The Armalite pitch went swimmingly (sorry Rob.)  The ripped pool cover is on order and the cameras will be replaced soon.  Rob seems to have come out of his funk a little, and I started talking to a great new guy working in the Agricultural Vermin Deterrent field.

His name is Edgar.  He looks pretty rough when he first gets off work, but when he changes out of his bib-overalls and tucks in his straw (be nice)  he looks pretty darn good!  He knows all the corn jokes... I had no idea there were that many.  He also knows the call and look of every bird in the area.  I could listen to him talk for hours!

It is Monday you know what that means!  YUP! the TDS Tidbit!
so here it is.... this time in poem form

He who stands too near the pool
risks sopping clothes and loss of tool
and falling can scare the boss
she could not care less of your tool loss

but through it all keep your chin high
for it's only things that you can buy
a broken thing you can replace...
but if you get hurt she'll smack your face.

OK actually she got scared and cried... but i couldn't get that to rhyme :)
Ta for now! Q

There is another batch of Zombies that just moved in, but I don't think they will be staying long.  Rob took their pictures today to help find them a new home.  It was pretty sad watching him try to pose them and act all professional using a little tiny baby point and shoot.  Hee Hee.

Any way here they are, I call them (from left to right) Larry, Blue Girl (BG), Tic, and Flame, but you can call them anything you want. :)

More later!
Q

Hey Everybody!

I know I know, I've been gone a while.  Sorry some times I just get so caught up in life that I forget to make time for the things I enjoy.  

Looks like there won't be any new pictures for a while.  Rob tried to do some underwater photography and killed his cameras.  Well he wasn't really trying underwater shots... but he did find out that the pool cover is secretly a Nikon fan.  

So we went to Armalite in Geneseo yesterday.  Looks like they are going to advertise our slings on their web pages, and take pictures of the sling on their custom rifles.   Looks like Rob is gonna be a knot tying dude.  Sweet.  Rob schmoozed hard but was unable to get them to give him a sample rifle.  I am pretty sure they saw the picture of me with the rifle slung, (Rob taught me that term) and that is what sold them.

They asked for a few simple modifications, so I got to spend the day surfing the web trying to find a supplier for the parts to make the production model sling.  I found them though,  so by this time next week, there will be a knot tying flurry.  Maybe I will even get into the groove and do some slinging!

I know you are all dying to know what is going on with Dominick.   Long story short... NOTHING!  I have sworn off that dummy (that means two things) and I have moved on.    I currently have my eye on a guy working as an agricultural vermin deterrent.  We will have to take it slowly though.  He is more of an outdoorsy type who likes to hang around in fields, but he has the most amazing stories about avian infestations.  I have no idea what that is, but he makes it sound awesome!!

Ta for now!  Q

Today I met a peanut!

Ohhhh Snap Dominick! You are so lucky he is married, or I would not even be talking to you right now.  I  got to meet Charles Tillman today.  What a dream.  I guess he is some kind of football player for Chicago.  I am not much of  sports fan, but he stood around and chatted with us for quite a while.  He even wound up wearing a StudioCalvin Bracelet.  How cool is that?  I never realized players spend a great deal of time thinking about what they will do in the event they score a touchdown.  Kinda fun getting an insight not many others get.

I must admit I felt kinda foolish, once I found out he was a celebrity I froze.  I seriously could not move. I don't even think I said a word I just stood there with a stupid grin on my face.  This was so much better than a water cooler.  

We added collars and wallets to our catalog to day on ETSY, come see!!
new wallet
new large breed collar  Don't worry sheena, that one is still yours. :)
medium breed collar
Other wallet
Kitty collar

OK time for me to rest! see ya soon!!

Q

Saturday on the town.

Hey everybody.  I got a rare treat tonight.  The boss let me go with them to see a movie in 3-D.  I of course  made the glasses look AWESOME!

The movie was called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II.  I was not sure I was going to like it, because I had not seen part one, and come to find out there were six other parts before that. That is a lot of parts.   I know,  I know, before you say a word everybody here already asked me how it was possible that I had not heard of these movies before.   Let me just say where I come from there are even fewer movie theaters than there are pools ok?

Anyway the movie was really good.  I won't give you any details cause I don't want to spoil it, suffice it to say I was riveted,  completely unable to move through the entire movie.    There was stuff blowing up and there was  this one ugly guy with slits for a nose.  Come to think of it he reminded me of Dominick.   They are both butt heads.    A lot of stuff happens and then the lights came on and we left. (hows that for not giving anything away)

  On the way out we had to give the glasses back so I can't show you a picture of how well I made them look, but trust me I did.

Thanks boss for getting me out of the house.  I had a great time.   Oh I almost forgot we went in Rob's car and I got to stand out of the sun roof the whole way.  That was fun too.   People were waiving and pointing.  I really am becoming quite the celebrity.  The only part that was not fun was when I got to taste a June bug at 40 miles and hour... plech!

OK that is it for now.  Goodnight all, thanks for stopping in.  Q