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Happy World Turtle Day! 🥳🐢
This year’s annual tortle tower is an extra special one: Remember when Mom went to Canada back in February and met Waffles and Mango @wafflesworld’s humom (and left me at home)? ✈️🇨🇦 Mom came back with a beautiful new friend crocheted by Alicia herself: Astro the tortoise!* I bonded with Astro instantly! 🐢😍🐢
* Crochet pattern for Astro by the amazing Projectarian! 🧶
Happy World Turtle Day! 🥳🐢
This year’s annual tortle tower is a high-rising one! 🍞🐢🐢 Back during the Great Pandemic Baking Craze of 2020, Mom made a braided turtle bun bigger than me, plus a tiny baby turtle bun with the leftover dough! 🥖😋 But rye wouldn’t Mom let me get within CHOMPing distance of either?! 😫🐢
Happy World Turtle Day! 🥳🐢 You know what that means: Time for our annual tortle tower! 🐢🐢🐢
🌟 This year’s tortle tower is special. You may remember these two shell friends from International Turtle and Tortoise Week last month, but we go back much longer than that: These two were part of my very first World Turtle Day shellebration, all the way back in 2014! 🔙 Back then, I was so tiny that I was the one on the top of the tortle tower! Eight (!) years later, I am the one carrying my shell friends on my back! 💗
Happy World Turtle Day! 🥳🐢 This year’s annual tortle tower is a rainbow flashback all the way to 2015! Mom crocheted seven little yarn turtles as presents, and of course, baby me made sure to inspect each and every one!
Are we done with photos yet, new friends?
My new friends shall protect me from all who dare to steal my noms!
Listen up, new friends, here’s the plan for the Turtpocalypse…
🧶 Crafty details over on our Wordpress!
The captions are gold. So cute. Couldn’t stop giggling. ❤️
Baha we are late at seeing this, but thank you! We have lots of fun with our silly captions, glad to hear you like them, too! 😊😜
(Captions on individuals photos unfortunately don’t seem to show up in the Tumblr app, but they do show up for us in browsers!)
Happy World Turtle Day! 🥳🐢 This year’s annual tortle tower is a rainbow flashback all the way to 2015! Mom crocheted seven little yarn turtles as presents, and of course, baby me made sure to inspect each and every one!
Are we done with photos yet, new friends?
My new friends shall protect me from all who dare to steal my noms!
Listen up, new friends, here’s the plan for the Turtpocalypse...
🧶 Crafty details over on our Wordpress!
The striped topper for our annual World Turtle Day tower yesterday is the fifth tiny striped turtle Mom has made . . . and my favorite by far! 😋🐢
🧶 Crafty details over on our Wordpress!
World Turtle Day bonus: We joined lots of our shell friends on Instagram (including @wafflesworld and @tort-time!) for a shell-tastic spin on the TikTok #PassTheBrushChallenge . . . our very own #PassTheTurtleChallenge! 🐢💁♀️🐢
👏 A big thank you to @the_spongy_tortoise for organizing and combining everyone’s videos!
Happy World Turtle Day with our annual tortle tower, this year all in green! 🎉🐢🐢🐢🎊
Happy World Turtle Day!
Time for our annual shellebratory tradition: A tortle tower of awesomeness! This year’s tower is extra shiny and comes with secret space for nom storage!
Still no noms in front of me, Mom!
I have a double chin? Clearly I don’t get enough noms---a proper tortie should have at least three chins! Obviously!
Happy World Turtle Day!
Who remembers the purple and pink striped turtles we made for a friend’s small children a few years ago? Shortly thereafter, our friend welcomed a new baby, so of course we made a new striped turtle for the newest member of his wonderful family! Except this time, I am so big that I’m the one anchoring our annual tortle tower!
➰ As always, crafty details and more photos over at our Wordpress.
Today is a very special Tall Tuesday: It’s World Turtle Day!
As is now tradition, we shell-ebrate the amazingness of turtles and tortoises on this special day with a tortle tower! This year’s tower includes all kinds of tortles: On land and in the sea, turtles and tortoises need our help to survive, and we need them all for a healthy planet!
Fun fact: The light green turtle was made by Mom!
Happy World Turtle Day!
This year’s annual tortle tower is a bit of a flashback: We made these purple and pink striped turtles for a friend’s small children back in December, but haven’t had time to share these photos until now!
Happy World Turtle Day!, Part 2 (Part 1 here)
Is this order in the tortle tower less precarious than the first one? And does this mean phone charm turtle likes me better now?
Happy World Turtle Day!, Part 1 (Part 2 here)
Continuing the tradition of a tortle tower for the most important holiday of the year! Except this year, I am at the bottom of the tortle tower, instead of on top!
Happy World Turtle Day!
Last year, Lunchbox was the first king of the tortle tower. One of the only times he was ever okay with heights!
Lunchbox's reign was the inspiration for Kirby's tortle tower this year.
Happy World Turtle Day!
Tortle tower, yo!
Inspired by Lunchbox's tortle tower for World Turtle Day last year. Lots more photos of Kirby's tortle tower over here.
