Trying to Create Christmas in July...

 WARNING! Long blog! Lots of news!              

 As a lot of you know, I was rescued from a dire situation. I was very, very close to being put to sleep in a homemade gas chamber along with 76 other bunnies. Simply because the breeder who owned us couldn't afford to feed us anymore. (We all know how hungry us bunnies can be!) Lucky for me, Gainesville Rabbit rescue in Florida (Where we were at.) stepped in and helped to raise money to pay the breeder and get us all out of there. Once that happened, it was BUNTASTIC news! We weren't going to be put to sleep after all, we had a second chance! But then there was another bump in the road, where in the world were all 76 of us going to go? 

 That's where Magic Happens Rescue, and several other bunny rescues stepped in. Thanks to all of their wonderful volunteers, we were transported, by car, to rescues throughout the South. 

 Lucky for me, I ended up in Louisiana! That's where the Slave saw me for the first time:





   Well the rest is history! After I was spayed I came home with the Slave and I've been here ever since!

  Why am I posting all of this (again)? 

 Because my Slave has been working on another "Bags for Bunnies" project for my pawesome rescue again! 

 This time we are doing "Christmas in July", and this will be the ONLY time we are doing it this year! If it weren't for Magic Happens Rescue, my Slave wouldn't have found me, and if my Slave hadn't found me, then I wouldn't have met all of you wonderful people and bunnies on Facebook, Bunspace, and here on my Blog! And then I wouldn't be here to make all of you wonderful people smile/laugh when I actually post funny/cute pictures!I don't know about you, but the Slave couldn't imagine life without my gorgeous chocolate face around! 
   
  The Slave loves putting together the bags for the adoptables, as they are all there waiting for their forever homes, and the bags help make the wait that much more enjoyable!  (We all know how us bunnies like our goodies!)

 As we all know, not all bunnies are lucky, like me, and are adopted quickly. Some bunnies wait for months, even years before finding their forever homes! Magic Happens lets all bunnies stay there, no "expiration date". 

 I've learned that people are always very giving around Christmas time...but not always throughout the year. Shelter bunnies usually get goodies around Christmas that will last them to January or sometimes even February! But they rarely get extra goodies any other time of the year, which is a shame.

  So, despite lack of donations, we have been VERY determined to make "Christmas in July" possible for the adoptables at Magic Happens Rescue!
  

     Me making sure that all 50 bags are lined up in proper order. 

(And I know what you're wondering...Did I jump into the middle of the stack of bags? Well the answer is YES!! It was really fun!)

 Doing a..um..Quality test of the goodies (Honey Suckle vine wreaths and assorted dried herbs. All homegrown!)

Testing one of the 80 something toilet paper tubes that will be made into 80 toys for the adoptables! 

Here's me fussing at the Slave for not ordering ME a box of goodies! (Also for leaving all this delicious smelling stuff in MY ROOM! (So what if it's her's too?))

And THEN the Slave found a unfinished bag of MY Bunspace store apple twigs!!! Cha-CHING!

Well that's what I've been up to. I've been trying to taste test the box of goodies that the Slave was able to order for the adoptables...But she told me "NO!" 

 I REALLY think I need to taste test these!

 The Slave started putting together baggies today, and the results are: The Birch twigs she ordered made it into all the bags (Yay!), she needs MORE bunny bites for the toys, and she needs to continue to pick the blackberry bushes, honey suckle plants, and all the herbs CLEAN the rest of the month! Heehee 

 If anybun would like to donate towards creating a "Christmas in July" for the Magic Happens Adoptables, just hop by the Slave's clay bunnies website and purchase a "Treat Certificate". Just remember, you don't have to give a lot to make more than a few bunnies happy! Here's the link.

 If you'd like to see pictures from when we brought the adoptables goody bags this past December, you can actually view most of them here on my blog!   

 

  Well that's the update for now! Will be sure to keep everyone updated on the "Christmas in July" project and on what I've been doing!

          Your Favorite Chocolate Bunny,

                Duchess LaChocolatebunny

  

  

  

Who's been gone?

                           Not me! 


   Ok, maybe I haven't posted in a few days...(You call 18 a few??)
  
 But that's only because SO MANY interesting things have been happening we haven't had a chance to post! Although I suppose it's more like the Slave has just been busy, the nerve!  


   I've been doing great! I even made a new friend:

 Mom's been calling him Mr. Hopsalot or Cutesy...What I want to know is why he gets to be called "Cutesy" while I'm stuck with "Nutsy"! 


 I mean just look how crazy he looks in this picture!

 

   So what if there are pictures of me basically doing a handstand, what's crazy about a handstand?

I mean, he's all horizontal and his feet look HUGE, 

and I mean just look at how crazy he loo...

I give up. I guess I have earned the nickname "Nutsy"!




  While I have been my normal nutsy self, Mom doesn't have any new pictures to prove it (For once!) so I'll post some nice, pretty pictures of me for a change!

   And of course me givin' the camera some good ol' fashion buni-tude:

                     


 
   Your Favorite Chocolate Bunny,


                                  
                ~Duchess 
         

Team Work Makes Dream Work!

              Yeah, I'm Gorgeous


  I have to say, the Slave's pretty Ok with that new camera. In just a few short day's, she's made me look pretty good:

               Super-Bunny!

The Slave still doesn't understand how I bend my ears like that.

 Did someone say "Stop"?

                                        BAM! That just happened!

       *Makes plane noises with mouth*

  
  So between me, the Slave, and that new camera, I think we make a pretty good team! 

   


                                       
                                              Your Favorite Chocolate Bunny,

                         Duchess

So Much to Catch Up On Without Boring Everyone

     Wohoo! Look at me! 

 Ok, yes, I can think of SEVERAL other binky pictures of me that are MUCH more impressive. Like...

  But just look at the quality in the first picture! So much crisper, brighter...Even GREENER! But it still isn't good enough to start a blog off with, so how's about this one? :

  Ok, fine. It's still not as good as the other one, but moving on...

   I've been doing GREAT! Binkying (obviously), eating (not so obvious) and celebrating. "What am I celebrating?" One might ask, well I can answer that with one, very short, video:

 

   Yep! My Birthday! (So what if it was, uh, 6 days ago!) I'm celebrating by eating some of my birthday spoils as slowly as possible.  Although technically it was my Gotcha Day, it might as well be my birthday since we never got to find out when it was. I tried telling the Slave to celebrate my Birthday every day, (Since it could very well be my birthday today!) but she told me that May the 14 is my day to celebrate. Then again August 17 to celebrate my adoption date! 

   Regarding other events, I'm very happy to see that I have 5 followers! Wohoo! I have 5 people following me around! ;) 

  Also the Slave has come up with a plan for my own web-series, so we'll see how that turns out. We're going to start "rolling" with that fairly soon since...
  
  In bad news, the slave has a new camera. New camera + picture taking crazy slave= No peace. So I've been having (almost) my every move photographed. Unlucky for me, it doesn't have a cord to chew on to break it. You see, the careless Slave left her other camera's battery charging cable behind the couch where I found it and dragged it underneath the couch and proceeded to destroy it. (While I didn't "destroy" it, I just think it sounds better. Besides, it has prevented her taking pictures of me for the past few days.)
   
 So with that news, I present to you even MORE pictures of that gorgeous chocolate bunny everybun loves, surrounded by Nature (If you don't count the fence and anything else that might be lying/hanging around.):

  

 I would add more, but I don't want to overdo the chocolately goodness in this one blog. Since with my Slave around, there are SURE to be more blogs with even MORE pictures! 

   That's all for now!

                  Duchess LaChocolateBunny

 P.S. Here's my Birthday card! (My Favorite by far!)

 

 

You want me to do WHAT?

 

You want me to do what?

    Look cute and adorable??? 

 Are you kidding me? I AM cute and adorable!

 Some Slaves. It always gets me when they say "Now look cute!" or ""Give me your cute face!" it's pretty rare when my Slave says it...But just the fact that she told ME-the very essence of cuteness- to "Look adorable!" ...It is simply too much. 

 All I know is that my 1st Birthday* is in exactly 10 days, and I just KNOW she is going to have me do a photoshoot, and I better not hear the words "Look" "Give" "Stop" or "No" on my special day. Unless of course it is used in a good way. 

     

      Your Favorite Chocolate Bunny,

                 ~Duchess 

*Actually my "Gotcha" day and I'm really probably turning 2 or 3...But that's beside the point.

                                                                                 

I'm on a blog and I'm singing! I'm on a blog and I'm Sing-ing!

   *In Opera Voice* La! 

*Holds high note before coughing and proceeding to post blog*

 It has been too long since I've updated this blog...Or maybe it hasn't really been all that long, but it feels like ages since I've posted on here!


 I guess it has mostly been because I've been behaving myself for the most part...Well, if you don't count the partially chewed laptop cord,the fact that I dug into the herbs Mom was drying for the adoptables, and I might've enlarged the whole on the blanket on the couch-But this all could've been that,er, other bunny. Because you know that I'm way too good to have done all of that stuff.


-Slave- What other bunny?


 You know, that other bunny, the one you never see?


-Slave-Uh huh...


 Anyway. I have been a perfect angel of a bunny. Posing pretty for photo shoots, pooping all over the floor...


-Slave-I said you were a good girl for pooping HEALTHY poops...Not the fact that you were pooping all over the floor. 


  *Duchess dismisses Slave's remark*


 Eating all my greens, eating my hay...Oh, and I've gotten worse as far as being cuddled goes!


-Slave shakes head-

 So everything has been fine and dandy over here, just that the Slave has gotten even lazy-er about posting on my blogs. She claims that she's gotten busier, but I call it Laziness. 

  At least she was able to order me some Hay Bunny Paper while she has been supposedly "busy":

  It is absolutely delicious!!

Here's their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hay-Bunny-Paper/301812526512895
  

 They are an awesome bunny business...I think they deserve WAY more than 15 Likes! ;)


 Now, regarding my new coat. As you can sort of see from the picture above, my new coat has almost grow in...On top. I'm still lacking the same color on my 'bottom half' so I still have a funky stripe look. I'm glad to report that I should be losing that funky stripe...Eventually. 


         
       Your Favorite Chocolate Bunny,


             ~Duchess LaChocolatebunny 
                 (Find me on Facebook!)
 

Here comes Duchess Chocolate-tail, hoppin' down the bunny trail..

 

 Ok, so maybe I'm not hippity hoppityin', but Easter is stll on its way!

   I plan on having a wonderful Easter full of treats, homegrown greens, and more treats. I've been doing great, besides have to be brushed and/or plucked occasionally since I'm still shedding. I just have to keep telling myself that it could be worse... *Sigh*

  

    Hope that everyone has a great Easter!

                       
                         ~Duchess