Yesterday, Chandler’s kids and her nephews and neice came trooping over for the day. That’s 9 kids in total. I don’t know if you are ever likewise innundated, but having all that youthful energy around really pumps me up too. I morph into a frolicsome nut-job as evidenced by the spontaneous video blog we made.
Here is our gripping Doozycards.com documentary blog on the care and feeding of an erstwhile ecard maker. The subject of our documentary is myself, Bennett, the Director of Operations, and voice of our Gecko character as I navigate the thrilling excersize of obtaining pizza from the Dominos (TM) website (did you know you can order pizza from a website now?)
Filming the blog is Chandler Chandler, President of Doozycards.com, proving that no task is too large for an active President. We didn’t even use government bailout money to fund the docublog!!
My brother always insists pets hate clothes. That’s until I made a little red cowboy hat for their lizard, Mr. Bigglesworth. I swear it gave him a sense of pride. His eyes narrowed and he held his chin up high. He could have been assuming a strike pose now that I think of it. Unfortunately, Mr. Bigglesworth did not survive the cat . I offered to make him a burial outfit; but the kids insisted he be burried in his birthday suit in a shoebox. Pets have endured my outfits and been saved by them( that’s another blog post). However, I’m lucky I can fuel this passion of accessorizing animals into my work here at Doozycards. My latest favorite is our new 3D Elvis Beagle who is wearing a wondeful gold jumpsuit. Here’s a sneak peak:
Our friend Peter who writes music for Elmo has composed the song for this birthday eCard. It’s AMAZING. We hope to post it in the next couple of weeks. We have several new birthday e-cards in produciton so stay tuned.
Thanks for choosing Doozycards and we are open to making any e-cards you want us to or to animal accessory ideas! Just send me an email @: chandler@doozycards.com.
When a friend is sick, you should be able to rent a mom to wait on him or her and make them chicken soup. With this entire blossoming world of social marketing to connect you to everyone, where are the real people to stand next to you or your friend with a cold drink and a new box of kleenex? When one person “goes down” in our house, the entire house goes down. Fortunately I have outside friends who send me love and leave me funny messages. When someone you know is sick, or anyone you care about for that matter, pamper them with our new Get Well ecard.
My life span faces several challenges. I love potato chips and I have a special place in my heart for Krispy Kreme Caramel Kreme Crunch Doughnuts (OMG!). So I need any life extenders I can find. Now there is great hope for me and all other other lovers of evil foods. According to studies, keeping in touch with friends does increase your life span. An Australian research study pointed out that the benefits of having friends does affect the health and emotional well being of people so much so that life expectancy can be significantly increased.
The Greeting Card Association, says life is too short to wait for someone else to reach out to you. They say sending a “thinking of you” or a “just because ” card can change someone’s day for the better. I agree. I agree. I feel loved when I receive ecards.
I like to personalize what the talking flower says in Talking Sunny Day e card and send it to my eleven year old. I make the flower say “pick up your filthy socks, you little monster!” Send your friend our Dairy Farm Birthday ecard on their birthday and give them an extra decade. I hope we can all extend our lifespan with Ecards. My question is, how many ecards does it take to cancel out the saturated fats?
I have enjoyed turning my husband white with shock using several April Fools Pranks: “I’m Pregnant” (my favorite), ”There’s a plane in the front yard!”(deliver the stuttering & red faced), or “there’s a rattle snake in the bathtub!” (deliver red faced while screaming and jumping frantically ). Good times. Seldom can I remember having this much fun. I don’t forget the kids either. These are my favorites: open their drawer for their morning clothes and scream “RATS!” and run away; or run inside the house in total wide-eyed shock yelling “Oh my God (beat) there’s a giant UFO outside, pack your bags (run off to open drawers throwing everything in a bag); or my all time favorite, “kids we are moving to Syberia(beat, muster tear) it’s only temporary…I hope” (break down sobbing).
Looking around for this year’s inspiration I found a fun site of top 100 hoaxes: Museum of Hoaxes.
Since life is short, we must create giggles and laughs for those we cherish. Otherwise life would be dull. For this purpose we made Cupcake Surprise, which is turning out to be a customer favorite. It still makes Bennett and I laugh when we watch it. We also made the Government Bailout Game. It’s addicting and just as difficult in cyber space as it is in reality. We are thinking of you all here at Doozycards and we wish you a very happy and fulfilling April Fools Day!
I told Bennett we have to update the blog today or we’ll end up as road kill on the information highway. However, he can’t stop dancing to “You Spin Me Right Round” by Dead or Alive. At least he’s happy. This country has seen tough times and sharing a laugh with a friend seems to be so much more profound and pleasurable than it was a year ago. It’s true we dance a lot to eighties videos in our sunporch-turned-office. I find it’s cheaper and more enjoyable than marital therapy. We realize connecting with loved ones and friends in a heartfelt way is one of life’s largest pleasures and should be on the top of everyone’s to do list.
To help you all accomplish this, our production schedule is full, full, full for Spring. Mukti, our photo card genius who spent many years at the ashram featured in “Eat Pray Love”, is currently working on a sympathy ecard and a new Get Well ecard. Bennett and I are working on new serious toned friendship birthday e cards. We are adding “Across the Miles” themed cards to all of our major holidays with Easter coming up next.
We love that you are supporting and sending blessings and good wishes to so many of your friends with our cards. You inspire us to be more supportive of those we love. My four year old sent me his first Doozycard and I was touched. It was President Obama saying “Cooper (his three year old brother) is poo poo poo”. After watching me open it, he collapsed on the floor, a pile of hysterical laughter. We were connecting.
In the works we have more “racy” birthday cards and a new 3D musical birthday ecard along the lines of our very popular singing Elvis chicken. My creative friend from high school, Mike, is animating this ecard. Mike and I went to Culver Military Academy in Indiana (that’s a whole other blog!). He does a lot of film animation for big films such as “I am Legend” and “Die Hard”. Go Mike!
Also in production: Games, April Fools prank ecards and a basket full of funny and serious Easter cards.
We thank you all for your loving and supportive emails. We actually do consider every single card request. Let us know your favorite cards and what you like to send. In the meantime, we hope you find your favorite old music videos on You Tube and Dance Dance Dance the Night Away.a>
Hi, this is Bennett again, Doozy’s organizational poobah and the voice of several critters of the ecards.
How was your Valentine’s Day? Mine was a washout, romantically speaking. I ought to have spent the day in a spa under the hands of a master masseur. I ought to have booked a flight to Cancun. I ought to have bought myself chocolate (is that the hedonist’s version of “I coulda had a V-8?”).
HOWEVER, President’s Day rocked! Romance came knocking with a sheepish look on it’s face and apologizing for taking a later train. Maybe my karma is the reverse of normal expectations? Friday the 13th turned out lucky too (knocking furiously on wood now).
Speaking of luck, our next holiday up is St. Patrick’s Day. Chandler and the production team are already cooking some fun-in-green for the occasion so prep your ecard mailing lists!
Are you in love? I’m not. Again. Well, not with a human being… I am completely in love with chocolate (dark, with almonds!). and if you are reading this and thinking of favoring me by sending me some, please know I prefer the expensive kind (sorry about that). So, being a bachelor on yet another Valentine’s Day I celebrate the day in two ways.
First, it’s a day to celebrate all the people I love and admire. I really do believe in love itself, in the most universal, profound sense. I believe that the value of being sweet to people and the value of beauty is that it evokes the experience of love inside the heart and mind. This is a kind of spiritual uplift when you offer it to someone. It creates the experience of love in your own heart at the same time. I truly believe in practicing that daily. So on Valentine’s Day I speak more sweetly, tellmore people they inspire me, and try to behave kindly and graciously because I think it makes for more love in the world all around.
Then there’s chocolate. Let me just say, Chandler is really good about giving chocolate, especially on Valentine’s Day. Everyone at Doozy gets some. And it’s the good stuff too! This reminds me; my new favorite ecard is the one we made this week; Fairy Choclate Valentine. Caroline animated it and she has this very rich sense of color. I think it’s sumptuous; see for yourself: http://www.doozycards.com/ecards/valentines-day/popular/fairy-chocolate-valentine . And then… and then.. just because we are Doozycards, we couldn’t make a lovely ecard and leave it alone. Oh no, we of course had have some fun with it. Here’s the “comic” version: http://www.doozycards.com/ecards/valentines-day/anti/perils-of-chocolate .
I hope you get lots of your favorite chocolate on Valentine’s Day. Please send lots of Doozy Valentines Day ecards; it will allow me to buy myself some truly decadent chocolates for myself and my friends. I hope love stays with you all year round.
Let singing sock hop kittens and soda jerk retrievers celebrate your recepient’s birthday in the fun fifties stylized Soda Shop Birthday. Caroline, one of our animators, designed these characters and adorable outfits. Our animator Josh, who makes many of our ecards, did all the flash animation. Josh was so kind to work late last night to finish it, since he was leaving for a vacation to Georgia this morning. We are going to make some changes but we wanted to put it up so everybody could enjoy it right away. We have become known for making animated musical ecards, but we are also working hard to include variety in our ecard inventory. We are currently making more sentimental e cards and heartfelt greeting cards. If you are looking for a more serious, inspirational birthday card, our Love and Blessings Birthday e card is popular. If you want to send some heartfelt birthday blessings for a year of peace and happiness , Garden Full of Blessings birthday ecard is a good choice. As always, we love to hear your feedback and comments on the blog, the site and do let us know about ecards you want us to make. We consider every single suggestion and we thank you for choosing Doozycards.
One of our most popular talking ecards is our Talkling Pug in Paris ecard. I am always begging Bennett (our top writer, web site designer, voice over artist, office manager, customer support manager, SFX manger and child tickler), can we please heavily accessorize all the animals. The cuteness just kills me, life is too short, dogs were meant to wear berets and on and on I go. Bennett, who is an hysterical entertainer and just starred in his very own one man show at Disney Hall titled, The Composer is Dead, is still from the very conservative state of Maine and feels animals should be clothed within reason. Then, we had an office trip to see Sex in the City. Well, after soaking up all of costume desinger Patricia Field’s amazing outfits and accessories, is Bennett more flexible? Yes! So we are proud to present your favorite collection of talking ecard characters, clothed and unclothed. Talking Lady Spaniel in Paris ecard is a fashion tribute to the late fifties and early sixties. Talking Love Weiner Ecard is appropriately dressed in just his buns and condiments. And my favorite, since he does look like the perfect tourist, is our Talking bear Ecard. Our Talking Sex and the Kitty ecard is also popular. We have over 75 talking e cards on our site and we are always making more. They are perfect for delivering a personalized message in a funny way. Let us know your favorite talking e card and why in our comments section below. We love your feedback and we’ll consider any ideas our customers have. We take talking animals ecards and talking food ecards very seriously because life is short. Send talking ecards today!
