Peace & Kindness Begins With You

She's finally all done and looking pretty if I may say so...

"Peace & Kindness"

Prints will be in a limited edition.

I'll let you know when they've hit the shop.

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Everyone I Want You To Meet Another Some-bunny Special

Radio silence, again, I am sorry but it's for a very good reason...

one of the best reasons ever...

I've been settling in another rescue baby...yep, that's right, a week after Higgins came home,

we went back to the shelter to adopt this lovely lady...

Everyone I want you meet our newest rescue the beautiful

Betty-Loo White

Things are not easy lately...

we aren't complaining at all, we knew most of what we were getting into.

But I take my job of settling in shelter rescues seriously, we both do and Higgins

& Betty-Loo come to us both as special needs adoptions, so that usually means more work

and with Betty-Loo there's been some unexpected trouble so we're concentrating on her 200%.

I'll blog more about both new babies soon, just bear with me as we all settle into a new routine etc

but can I just say before I leave...how beautiful is this girl and those eyes....I am swooning!

Changes & Colouring

I am sooooo loving this newest picture I am working on.

I think this is my favorite new rabbit ever

and with him comes new plans for my art & business...

It's feeling like time to switch things up, so some things are brewing over here behind the scenes.

I do move very slowly because of my head-pain & busy life with the buns,

so you won't notice right away

But I can't wait to see what this single little green rabbit has instigated come to life.

I've made some changes on my social media as well as you may have noticed...

Firstly, the name of my blog has changed...

Bijou's Whimsy was my old business identity, that I've been moving away from for awhile now.

So everything is now under my name, Mandy Saile, clean, simple & concise & that's feeling good.
(don't forget to update your blog links)

I've changed my Instagram streams too, boy oh boy it was a big decision but I am loving it now.

I'am now making @Mandy_Saile strictly for studio life & artwork.

I started a new personal stream @WhirlinCircles for life out of the studios

& I've teamed with my hon to create a beautiful new bunnies only stream @LeporidaeLovely.

(plus you can find my guys personal stream @DeyfennSlayd too if your interested)

I hope you'll join me in all these places & thanks so kindly for your interest, time & support if you do.

Happy Valentines Day

From me & mine, those preciously present & those who've soared to the stars...

May your Valentines day be full of warmth, love, comfort & pure blissful happiness XO

Meet Higgins

Everyone we want you to meet somebun very special
our brand new shelter baby

Higgins

(known at the Toronto Humane Society as Buttons)

He was this very troubled little city bun in desperate need of a home

(surrendered as a stray, which might have been a cover story based on his nasty pointy teeth!)

The shelter knew he was very troubled...

he was biting & peeing on all of the volunteers & caregivers

(the poor little guy was put on bite quarantine with the city officials FIVE times!)

He was at the shelter for many many long months & his stay was looking endless

because he wasn't going to be released to just any home, let alone one with kids,

he needed a super experienced family loaded with skills, steely nerves & thick skin, ha ha!

He needed behavioral issue/special need adopters &

unfortunately none of the shelters usual group were able to take him on...

so when the shelter reached out for help far & wide on his behalf we were contacted,

we said no at first...

but a week later we were still thinking about him, so we asked more questions & for pictures...

than we talked about it in depth & the more we talked the more it felt right.

My honey reminded me that one way to fight evil in this world is to hold our heads up high

and to keep doing good ourselves, to keep helping animals whenever we can...

Sure it's nerve-racking & there are many parts of behavioral issue/special need adoption animals

that are not fun and are for sure exhausting BUT we somehow are the island of misfit buns

and here was a little guy who wasn't fitting in anywhere else....

So we made the decision, got super excited, prepped a whole big area for him to Misa's dismay

and than we made the 9+ hour drive to our favorite shelter and scooped him up...

He's 3 year old, a dutch mix dwarf with a tiny piece of his poor little nubbin nose missing.

He needs some serious trust work done & potty habits instilled & Miss Misa is not too happy

at all to have him in part of her rooms even though he seems quite interested in her.

We are taking turns sleeping with him & Misa, refereeing at the moment more than sleeping!

(we admit we are pooped and some monster migraines sure are not making this bit easier!)

He's going to be a handful, but everything always settles beautifully over time...he'll be just fine.

he's a handful but now he's our handful and we love the wee blue-eyed soul already.

(follow Higgins on our new Instagram bunny stream @LeporidaeLovely)

Crumpled & Crushed

(A hugely sensitive heart enters here!)

I am sorry for suddenly disappearing on you all there for a short bit...

Something horrible and horrifying happened to a group of poor house rabbits

in our little city and they were found at a place that is beloved to me

and the whole gruesome murder of them & news story just completely killed my heart &

I just felt completely deflated, totally crushed and I kinda crumpled into a ball there for a spell

not wanting to even leave the house for a while, I was just too shocked at the evilness of people.

On top of that a friend & I came to realize a horrible bunny hoarding situation in a disgusting local house with a very well known & very unstable man, so we involved the SPCA and I went and

met with people at the local humane society, wrote letters to the mayors office etc but all to no avail.

Standards for keeping animals outside or at all in Ontario are sickeningly low so apparently these poor defenseless buns out in this horrible pen/cage, in the freezing fucken cold are considered 'fine'

The world has just been feeling more awful & torturous than normal lately.

I haven't been sleeping very well from nightmares &

I am trying to get certain images out of my head but I can't.

Ugh.

I just wish I could grow huge earth sized wings...

I would fly around the world & scoop up all neglected & hurt animals.

We just aren't doing good enough...we aren't getting better & some days, I just want to scream.

Bear with me, as I un-crumple myself over here...I slowly am because something good

and beautiful is afoot and I'll share that with you hopefully tommorow, if my head behaves.

Victory

Hey guys guess what, we rabbit and animals lovers have had a VICTORY....

Remember that petition I begged you all to sign some time back
(set up by the awesome Rabbit Rescue Inc.)

where rabbit fur coats were being sold on the TSC?

Well I just found out that that on December 6th 2017 the

Today's Shopping Choice has agreed to NEVER sell rabbit fur coats again.

In addition,

all Adrienne Landau rabbit fur products will be removed from the TSC website.

See signing petitions and voicing our opinions and

banding together for the voiceless can make change.

(visit Change.org to sign more petitions for animal rights)

Whoot Whoot...let's tink a virtual glass of bubbly together, this should be celebrated.