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Contest: Caplin Day 2013

 

Melly with Caplin Rous dressed as a horse

Caplin Rous’  birthday is coming up on July 10th. He would have been six this year. Melly still misses him every single day and I still struggle to live up to his legacy. One of the things Caplin was great at that I am not so good at was wearing costumes. See that photo above? Melly made him up as a horse for the PetCo Halloween costume contest in 2008. He made a pretty cute horse.

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Name That Piig!

 

Piig really needs a name

The new piig is having a real identity crisis! I have put all the name suggestions–and there are a lot of them!–in a poll on the right side bar. Continue reading “Name That Piig!” »

Guinea Who?

Who are you?

This little guy came to live at our house on Monday. He doesn’t have a name yet. Melly’s been calling him Piig, but I don’t think that is a good name. So we’re going to have a contest with prizes and everything to name my little co-pet. In case you don’t know what he is, he is a guinea pig, a close relative of capybaras.

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Contest: How to Draw a Capybara

How to draw a capybara

I saw a similar tutorial for drawing a cat on Facebook and decided to make one on how to draw a capybara. Of course, I’m not a very good artist so this is not such a great tutorial but I suppose it is better than nothing.

So here’s my new contest!

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Inner Capybara Contest Winners

 

Fizz has captured his true inner capybara!

Thanks to everyone for all the great entries in my contest! So many of you really seem to have an inner capybara.

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