This treasury includes colors and themes from the September trends report put out by Etsy. Of course I had to lead it off with a bunny rabbit for International Rabbit Day which falls on September 24th. September is also National Honey month and trending colors are orchid and phlox purple.
Enjoy!
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Evil pollens are in the air! Little Shadow and I are beginning to feel the effects of fall allergies. He was sneezing on and off all day today. I am having trouble sleeping and then my daytime energy level really suffers. We switched out the filter on the air conditioning system today and hopefully that will help out a lot.
After Shadow had a really bad time in the spring allergy season, we consulted with the vet. We now have the an allergy med dosage to try for him and will work to see if there is a level that will help him out without making him too sleepy. I intend to take some allergy meds myself tonight with the hope they will make me sleepy.
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I created this treasury a few days ago dedicated to an Etsy Rabbit’s team member in honor of a bunny she lost way too soon. The combination of the lovely soft blues, the florals and the sweet bunny feel is proving to be well liked. So I wanted to share it here too for others to enjoy.
Our sassy garden rabbit supervisor is still minding the plants needing to be potted. I can just imagine what she is thinking: ” I’ve been minding these plants for 24 hours now. You wanted the Purslane to show blooms, now you got blooms! Get these poor plants into the pot. Its hot out here and they need to get a good drink and get some rest.”
Our concrete cottontail will just have to wait a bit longer. Only the black thumb is home right now*. The green thumb is off at his day job.
* It is sad but true that Blaine took immediate custody of all my house plants when we got engaged, to save their lives. I’m good with rabbits, awful with plants.
Everything is a bit hot dry and parched here in Georgia right now. So we hit some garden centers this weekend and picked up some succulent style flowering plants. They hold more water in their leaves to survive and thrive in low rain conditions.
These will make a pretty planter for our back patio. Our sassy concrete cottontail supervisor was on hand to check all the supplies out as they arrived. Unfortunately for the picture, the coral Purslane’s proved bashful and closed their beautiful blooms before I could snap a group shot.
I was so proud of myself this week. I finally got all my supplies properly organized into containers and used a label maker to put nice clear permanent (I thought) adhesive labels on the containers.
Then Shadow decided to show me a completely new rabbit trick yesterday evening. He hopped up to one of the plastic containers, grabbed the adhesive label somehow with his teeth and ripped it off. I had to grab him and wrestle the label away from him immediately so that I wouldn’t have to find out how bad an adhesive label might mess up a rabbit’s digestive system.
What on earth was he thinking and why would he go after those labels? Shoot, now what am I going to do? If I take all the labels off, I am back to not knowing what is in the containers. If I leave them on, Shadow now knows he has something new to mess with.
Arghhh! Clearly as long as the he is still breathing, Shadow will continue to find new ways and means of getting into things I would never have dreamed of! The labels weren’t even on a week. Does he notice new things or what?
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Okay, so if you are familiar with rabbits at all, you know those cute little faces wear a perpetual frown. The blog, Disapproving Rabbits has capitalized on that characteristic in a really cute and very funny way.
On the current home page, I particularly like Chubby, Miss Willis, Logan and Tokki. Going back a page to older posts, Toby, CC and Diesel have me chuckling, but Buddy and Charlotte really tickled my funny bone.
Now, if I don’t get back to the kitchen and feed my two again, there just may be a couple more disapproving rabbit faces and stories to tell.
So how did we come to have a carrot colored rug in our dining room? When we first bought our home, the previous owners left behind their room sized rug. It was solid black with a border in black and cream.
We had two problems with that rug. The first became obvious the night I walked into the dining room when the dimmer switch for the light was set on low. Part of the rug ahead of me moved, freaking me out. Black rabbit + black rug = bad idea. Shadow was going to get stepped on if we didn’t do something. The second problem was that the bunnies liked it way too much and carpet isn’t good for rabbit digestive systems.
When we were investigating a replacement, our vet suggested getting a jute rug. She said that the natural fiber would be better for rabbit systems if they decided they just had to have some. So I hit the internet looking for room sized and reasonable. I wanted to find a jute rug that was reversible, meaning no latex backing. We didn’t need to worry about the rug slipping, since there would be an oak dining room table and six chairs keeping it where it belonged. We wanted to be sure it was jute through and through so that it could be flipped for double the wear.
I found an online store that had the rugs for a reasonable price, but the colors were mostly icky muddy, unappealing shades and one bright color, carrot orange. I think the catalog actually called it burnt orange, but then a catalog called our office paint color desert sunset. That really is pumpkin and we need to repaint sometime. Paint doesn’t always darken as it dries.
So what else would I buy for a rabbit friendly rug? Of course it had to be the carrot orange. This is actually the second carrot orange jute rug to fill the dining room space. Our dearly departed Portia bunny chewed huge holes in the first one while she occupied the first floor all by herself.
Tigger and Shadow are enjoying hanging out on their carrot patch. They love the sunshine that floods in the bay window during the afternoons.
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Tonight we are on alert for the possibility of a dust bunny uprising. I cleared out the master bedroom today in a delayed spring cleaning. Shhh, there are now less dust bunnies here …
I am hoping that the dust bunny colonies in other parts of the house did not get wind of the activity. It is always amazing how quickly the dust bunnies grow and multiply when there are real rabbits in the house. When I start to clean hard floors, you can see the dust bunnies scurrying away across the smooth open stretches trying to make it into the corners to hide.
Hopefully I won’t be attacked in my sleep and will be back to blog again tomorrow.
All items in this treasury have been created by members of the Etsy Rabbits team. Visiting the shops of team members, you will often find lots of bunny rabbit themed items. However, there is also a great deal of diversity too, something for everyone. The thing that unites members in joining the team is a love of bunny rabbits. Many but not all team members have house rabbits. There are currently 126 members on the team, both buying and selling Etsy members. Go bunnies!
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| Everyone knows that it is hard to get good pictures of kids and pets because they just won’t sit still.So you would think product photography of little bunny rabbit items would be a snap. Well they don’t sit so still either.
I was trying yesterday and today to retake the photos for one item and get images taken of a new item.Both items are cell phone / zipper pull / key chain charms, so they are designed to hang. Getting a sitting portrait of an item that isn’t meant to sit can be a challenge. Finally after lots of coaxing with them, success! I just love these little Asian porcelain rabbit beads, the one looks so shy and bashful and the other looks like a rabbit that is taking charge and hopping away leash and all! The glass bellflower beads were so lovely, I bought a variety of colors to work with on projects. I love the garden feel they give to these lanyards. The lanyards are nylon cord with iridescent threads woven throughout, so there is also a soft sparkle with these. Making these was a joy. All the elements have beautiful colors and textures. I love the bunny rabbit in the garden feel of them and the feminine look. I had a friend stop over after I made the first one with the reds and corals. She bought one right away. So that was a nice compliment for me that the lanyard charm had the “charm” I wanted. |
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Having read through BunnyHugga’s guides on How to Train Humans, I swear that our Miss Tigger was the ghost writer for the one on Vet Visits. One of the first suggestions, one rabbit to another, is to make as much mess as possible. This had been Tigger’s hugely successful MO.
In the carrier on the way to the vet, she lets loose with absolutely everything she’s got. We always arrive at the vet with the wettest, stinkiest, messiest rabbit you could possibly imagine. If they didn’t know us well, they would think we weren’t keeping her clean at all. We have started to travel with the carrier bottom filled with litter, multiple towels and at least part of a roll of paper towels. We know once we get to the vet, there is going to be a huge clean up needed to make Tigger even remotely touchable. I would like to say that I am able to accomplish this clean up without any transfer of substances or smell. However, Tigger makes sure that I get a good sample of everything. Its guaranteed that by the time we reach home between my clothing and the bunny towels I take, there is going to be a washer load needing to be done.
The second thing suggested for rabbits is to let loose on fur, so much so that everyone thinks an Angora rabbit is in the room. We have never been able to figure out how Tigger manages to open up all her fur follicles, but she does. There will be fluffy floating clouds of fur in the room by the end of any vet visit and everyone is has a runny nose and is coughing and sneezing whether they have allergies or not.
Then there’s the aftermath, where the rabbit must observe a grievance period against humans. Tigger always comes out of her carrier and thumps, does that little head toss with the look and then turns around and does the flicky feet thing as she hops off with that aggrieved hare air. It takes awhile before she forgives us and we are allowed to approach HRH Tigger again.
There are a couple of things unique to Tigger’s vet visits that weren’t in the article. So if she ghost wrote it, she held a few things back for her use only. On one visit while we were waiting, after I cleaned her up, I gave her the cardboard roll from the now used abused and discarded paper towels. I thought she would play with it or chew it and keep herself occupied. She definitely kept herself busy. She retreated to the back corner of her carrier and used the towel roll like a baseball bat to blast the sides of the carrier. Thwack, thwack, thwack was repeated on and off the whole time we were waiting. We were in an exam room at the end of a hall with the door closed, but she was making so much noise, the vet techs kept coming in every five minutes or so to check that we were okay. Yeah, no problem, just a Tigger tantrum going on. Thank goodness she isn’t a biter!
The other thing Tigger does is a huge guilt trip before we even get home. Tigger hates to be picked up and held. So at the vet, I would always get her out of the carrier, put her on the scale for the techs to weigh her and then try to put her back in the carrier until the vet would come in. Tigger fastens herself to my shirt and makes it quite clear that I am not to put her down. One time, I didn’t pick her back up fast enough and she leapt up into my arms. Now I don’t flatter myself on this, she has clearly decided that I am the lesser of two evils. However, it is a huge guilt trip having those big brown eyes looking at me as paws and claws cling. Putting her down for the vet makes me feel like a hard-hearted beast of a human.
Good luck fellow humans. House rabbits think it’s a bunny world, and we just live in it!