This is a handmade card I just made to send off to Kathy Davis Studios, a local greeting card design group (and yes, that’s mistletoe headgear he’s wearing). If I wasn’t already taken, I’d totally smooch this little guy under the mistletoe. Speaking of bunnies, our rabbit Willie Nelson is on antibiotics for a foot injury and I have to give him oral meds twice a day. He lucked out with some kind of fruit-flavored medication and gets so excited to be cradled and have medicine time, it’s so redonkulousy cute. Now that I’m married, I think my maternal instincts are supposed to kick in, but I just want to foster bunnies forever and leave the dirty diapered babies for someone else to clean up after hehe. That probably makes me a bad person, but if loving bunnies is bad, I don’t want to be good!
Christmas Time Is Here
I couldn’t resist the Mrs. Claws costume at PetSmart, especially since it was half off.
That is one sassy lady.
Betty White hates having her photo taken, but I do it anyway.
Our Martha Stewart Christmas tree, with all of the wrapped goodies underneath.
I’m so excited for Christmas and eating Holiday Oreos nonstop in front of the fireplace. 11 days left & counting!
6 quirky Shannonisms
function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener(“load”, function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent(‘onload’, function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); }Alrighty, so I’ve been tagged by the lovely Stephanie at This Casita, who I had the pleasure of meeting on Weddingbee.
Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person that tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
Here are my six non-important things/habits/quirks:
1.) When my hubby leaves to go to work in the morning, I still don’t have to wake up for a few hours. Even though he always locks the door when he leaves to go to work, I am insanely obsessive compulsive and insist on staying awake until I hear the door close, so I can scurry up and double check that it’s locked. I have no idea why I’m so paranoid about the door being unlocked because we live in a fairly safe neighborhood, but I can’t fall asleep without knowing for sure that it’s locked.
2.) When I’m depressed I Google photos of baby animals and it always cheers me up. When I’m REALLY depressed, I Google photos of depressed animals to make myself feel less alone. You have no idea how reassuring a depressed polar bear can be after a bad day at work.
3.) If I go more than two days without tweezing my eyebrows, an entire rain forest full of creatures grows on my forehead and before I know it, my eyebrows are no longer a plural part of my face. It’s absolutely exhausting and I’m not even Italian.
4.) I am completely terrified of merging on the highway and will drive hours out of my way on back roads to avoid having to merge. I don’t mind driving on the highway once I’m on it, but having to actually get on scares the bejesus out of me and I am usually sweaty and shaking when I have to do it.
5.) When I start a project or artwork, I will work until I’m going cross-eyed in the wee hours of the morning to try to get it done because if I don’t finish something in one sitting I almost always put it aside and never bother finishing it.
6.) After I watch a terrible movie, I always IMDB it and read the discussion posts to make myself feel better because it means I wasn’t the only lame ass who wasted an hour and a half on it. My most recent awful movie experience was Untraceable. Colin Hanks, I will never forgive you.
I’m going to be a rebel and ignore the rules about tagging fellow bloggers. Let me know if you post this on your own blog though!
Cute critter series thus far…
“Bunnies Can’t Cluck”
“He’s A Rather Squirrely Boy”
“He’s A Rather Squirrely Boy”
“Is That A Hedgehog In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?”
I’ve been working on my critter series for my upcoming solo show at Cafe Estelle in April. I sold the original squirrel piece to Shana of Shanalogic.com, who is a squirrel rescuer and all around super fabulous gal. She was even willing to let me hold onto it until after the show ends. Prints of these pieces are also available in multiple sizes at my Etsy shop. Currently, I’m working on a raspberry-lovin’ raccoon.
If it wasn’t illegal to own a hedgehog in Pennsylvania, I’d totally be all up in that business (although I’m not sure how keen our landlord would be with us having a total of seven pets in our cramped apartment).
Any animal requests out there?
About
Hello.
My name is Shannon Collins (although some of you may know me as “Mrs. Candy Corn” from Weddingbee). I’m a 26-year-old illustrator and Editor-in-Chief from Philadelphia living with a menagerie of pets (a rescued Westiepoo named Betty White, a chinchilla named Maude, a loving lop-earred rabbit named Willie Nelson and a sassy Dutch bunny named Cadbury, along with her feisty horndog of a son, Applesauce).
This blog will explore my ongoing fascinations with fine art, illustration, design, style, photography, pop culture, and a never-ending love for furry critters. Wondering where the heck the name “youwannatalkjive” came from? It’s inspired by one of my favorite lines from The Royal Tenenbaums by Royal himself: “You wanna talk some jive? I’ll talk some jive. I’ll talk some jive like you’ve never heard!” So folks, brace yourself for a blog filled with jive talkin’ like no other. Be sure to visit my cheese-lovin’ alter ego at Fromage Photography!
xoxo,
Shannon
{photo by laura kicey}
