Marisa Girardi Presents

What has Tilly De Touid Snifferton Couchie been dreaming about? You’ll have to ask her new home-provider, Heather Moore of Skinny La Minx, who has successfully integrated Tilly into the family through use of dream therapy. Have a look on Skinny La Minx now.

In other Couchie news, 2 newcomers have arrived in the shop today. Please welcome Jubilee Tangleton Couchie and Zoda Viola Snifferton Couchie.

Jubilee is 20 times faster than anyone she knows. Sometimes she is so fast that it may seem as though she is not moving at all. She has been known to use her ability for good (catching coffee mugs, cupcakes and slices of toast as they fall) and bad (having way more than her quota of chips, popcorn and strawberries). She is very food-orientated.

Zoda Viola is preoccupied with insects. She finds them to be the most fascinating form of life. Especially ants and termites, whom she can gaze at for hours, wondering at their determined business. She has drawn up blueprints for a Couchie colony based on a termite mound design and is currently looking for a suitable building contractor.

For as long as I have been making Couchies, I have been meaning to feature them in a cartoon style story of their own. But this past week my 12 year old niece beat me to it when she and my sister stayed with us. Here is her terribly cute and lovely Couchie Party.

Brother and sister since they were born, these two Fooniks have appeared all over the universal globe. Not each of them can remember the performance of their first acrobatic stunt, but it is true that they have never looked back, performing with one circus troupe and then another. They are currently with the Amazing Takayama Circus and are enjoying the benefits of fame and glory in Japan and other remarkable Asian countries. Their most famous act is the High Trapeze Falling Ball which features much incredibleness and danger.

Rixi is the young Foonik, always eating lollipops.

Comma has the daring of a tiger, but is sometimes too brave, resulting in hilarious outcomes.

Please enjoy the variety of pose.

Rixi and Comma are now in the shop, along with other new additions Orion Snootpik and Linus Le Touid Mulderberry.

They are related to the Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti and Wookie families and their lineage is virtually prehistoric. They like trees and mountains - a lot.

Very few Hairrison Couchies have ever been seen, although it’s not for lack of trying. Though they are by nature reclusive, they can’t resist a photo opportunity and will strike an outlandish pose whenever a camera is pointing in their direction. They are thought to excrete a unique vapour (some would call it a stink) that spreads at remarkable speeds and has a corrosive effect on metal and plastic, which could account for the lack of photographic documentation.

We managed to get these photos of Argewabli the hairiest Hairrison Couchie with a camera made of wood. He won this year’s hotly contested “Who’s the Hairiest” competition.

Argewabli is a young Hairrison who still finds it very amusing to hide around corners and shout “Haaar!” when someone approaches all unsuspecting. But don’t be fooled - he is a very sensitive creature who cries easily. And he isn’t really squint - he just does it for effect.

It is only because of their amazing ability to blend in with whatever company they may be in that Snootpiks have gone unnoticed for so long. One Snootpik has agreed to let us photograph him and we will be sure to keep you informed whenever another Snootpik sighting is reported.

Atari is the first of his kind to visit earth. Though he found it quite fascinating all those light years ago, these days he only holidays here occasionally.

He is fluent in every language known to man, but seldom speaks. He prefers to play quietly with his subatomic particles. His favourite galaxy is Andromeda.

Fernando and Orlando - brothers in socks.

One of the bonuses of living in an old house, pre-electric heaters, is that they are often festooned with fireplaces. Our block of flats was built before electric wiring in homes became common, but although we have a kitchen cupboard where the cooking fireplace was, strangely we can find no evidence of any others. I think that the block may have been one big house before and perhaps there are / were more located elsewhere.

A friend who lives in Observatory - where big old houses with wooden floors and high ceilings are the rule - has three, (yes three!) of the beauteous features and I say “not fair!” However, I forgive him, as one of the mantelpieces is currently the residence of a Tangleton Couchie custom made for his girlfriend, and I think it is a spiffing spot for her to pose and  primp (the Couchie, not his girlfriend).

New in town - Lolli Tangleton Couchie. Though she comes across as naive and squeaky clean, she has seen her fair share of hard times and once lived on the street. But through it all she has kept a positive outlook - in fact, she doesn’t know how to do otherwise.

She loves company, but can do perfectly well on her own too, thank you very much.

(and no, she is not one for laughing out loud, but she has a soft giggle that is infectious)

As I have confessed before, I’m still new to blogging and sharing and having a presence on the web so it is very exciting for me when I am featured in someone’s Etsy treasury or their blog and I can’t very well keep it to myself, so I will be sure to be using my blog as a boasting platform, if you don’t mind. Hey, you have to take your fame where you can get it!

So here are the 2 most recent:

On Little Pink Pebble’s Etsy Finds

Littlepinkpebble is an illustrator and I just love this painting from her Etsy shop:

I’m sure I must’ve had this dream / fantasy. It reminds me of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I just couldn’t wait for them to find that library. Imagine what’s in those books… ancient stories, accounts of faeries, lists of names, amazing inventions, secret societies… I feel kindof funny looking at this painting and thinking about it.

And then my heart brooches were featured on Wren’s blog too - hooray!