the whimsy turtle

👒  Happy National Hat Day!  🎩

Presenting . . . a special new hat Mom folded just for me that is so light I didn't even notice I was wearing it! 😎🐢

All dressed up and ready for the ball drop tonight! 🕰⏳🎩🐢✨

Can you believe I used to be so tiny I wore this teeny tiny hat on my head?! 👀🐢😲

Happy Lunar New Year, friends! 🎇 Today starts the Year of the Dragon, the most auspicious of the zodiac animals. ✨🐲 Wishing you all an abundance of happiness and the yummiest of noms all year long! 🎉🧧🐉🏮🎊

Closing out the Year of the Rabbit with bunny baby booties we made for baby Felicity to match her zodiac animal!

🧶 Crafty details over on our Wordpress!

Friend Rae sent us a turtle-y amazing Christmas package! This year, Rae handmade her own beautiful holiday cards that are so incredible Mom and I both were mesmerized by all the tiny details! ✨🎄💌🖌😲

Friend Rae also sent us shell-tastic stickers from her travels this year and a brilliant beaded new friend I totally did not CHOMP as soon as Mom put her camera down! 🌊🦜🐢👀🤨

Not shown: Friend Rae also continued last year's mushroom theme with a gorgeous mushroom tote bag that Mom loves so much she's already using it! 🎁🍄😍

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads!  Today we celebrate dads for all they do every day!  🥳💙

Granddad's ties are too big for my neck, so Mom made me my very own origami tie.  Wearing a tie is hard!  👔🐢🤔

How do I check my tie for noms when it is under my chin?!

Don’t I look turtle-y tie-riffic?

Time to put on my dapper best to ring in the new year tonight!  🕰⏳🎩🐢✨

We saved the best for last:  Friends Tito, Nico, Joa, and their humom @anne-fine​ made a mini me in a spiffy top hat for my box of presents!  There are even beautiful, delicate succulents covering mini me’s shell!  ✨🎩🪴😲  Mini me is surrounded by real dandelions and tiny flowers that look so good I kept trying to CHOMP them through the glass!  🌸🎩🐢🌼😋👀🐢

Thank you so much to our friends for such an adorable and beautifully made present!!  Mom put mini me right on her desk where she can marvel over mini me every day!  ✨🥰🎩🐢🌟❤️

Now if only I could figure out how to get to those yummy flowers inside . . . .  🤔😅

Thank you again to Tito, Nico, Joa, and @anne-fine​ for sending me the most amazing box of presents to shellebrate my birthday!  We are so lucky to be your friends!  💝🐢🐢🐢🦜🥰❤️

Friends Tito, Nico, Joa, and their humom @anne-fine sent me a fantastic birthday box covered with a rainbow of handmade flowers and filled to the brim with the most beautifully wrapped presents to shellebrate my 9th birthday!  It’s a present filled with even more presents, with the cutest turtle and bird birthday card on top!  📬🌈🎁💝🐢🦜😍

Dusting off my top hat to ring in the new year tonight!  🕰⏳🎩🐢😋

Almost time to say goodbye to 2020!  🕰⏳😤🎩🐢

🍂  Happy October!  🎃  Everyone hail to the pumpkin song:  Halloween is coming!  👻🦇

🎶 THIS IS TORT-O-WEEN, THIS IS TORT-O-WEEN Kirby GRUMPs in the dead of night!

This is Tort-o-ween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of cute It’s our town, everybody GRUMP In this town of Tort-o-ween

THIS IS TORT-O-WEEN, THIS IS TORT-O-WEEN

TORT-O-WEEN!  TORT-O-WEEN!  TORT-O-WEEN! In this town we call home Everyone GRUMP to the tortoise song!  🎶

💀🎃🐢👻🦕 #JackShellington

Happy Leap Day!

Once every four years is a long time to wait.  This is only my second leap day ever!  To shellebrate, Mom made four colorful leaping friends just for me!  And of course, like any good shellebration, there were noms aplenty...

Origami designs: 💚  Paper Jumping Frog, by PPO 💖  Origami Frog (Traditional Model), by Jo Nakashima 💛  Pre-Columbian Style Origami Frog, by Leyla Torres 💙  Daily Origami: 092 - Frog, by happypuppytruffles

🎉🎩🐢  Happy New Year and New Decade, Tumblr!  🦕✨🎊

Brunhilda and I thew a great big sparkly party to ring in the brand new ‘20s, complete with party horns and lots of spiffy hats!  🥳

We wish you all the most deliciously fabulous decade yet!  🥂😋💖🐢

Time to say goodbye to PAC-TORT...for now...