10 Ideas To Celebrate Cuddle Day

10.Make a 'Cuddle Collage' - a big picture consisting of images printed from the internet or from magazines of people and cartoon characters cuddling.

9.Cuddle your pets - for me, I'd like to cuddle a Mylo!

8.Think of cute couples or best friends from my stories, such as Furaha & Orko, '80s Orko & Cheese or Spike the dragon and Pandy Paws - and draw fanart of them cuddling. If you can't draw fanart, now's the best chance to learn how to draw them!

7.Watch a cuddly family film - The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh and films involving the Care Bears are the options I'd pick.

6.I'm introducing girlfriends into Me, You, And...In Upendi! Think of one couple from the story, such as Furaha & Circuit, Orko & Dree-Elle, Optimus Prime & Ariel, Timon & Shanti (the meerkat, not the girl from The Jungle Book 2) or Pumbaa and Brights Brightly, and draw fanart of them not just cuddling, but doing fun things together.

5.Have a cuddly morning in your softest pyjamas, napping in bed with your favourite stuffed animal beside you.

4.Call someone up and go over to their house to have a cuddle and a smooch with them.

3.Wear your cuddliest clothes all day.

2.Read some storybooks starring cuddly, cute characters.

1.Have a one on one quiet cuddle session with your partner (if you have a partner, that is).

10 Ideas To Celebrate Whipped Cream Day

10.Have whipped cream on your breakfast, lunch and dinner.

9.Try a whipped cream recipe.

8.Take out a paper plate and spray some whipped cream to make your own creamy, foamy work of art.

7.Have a whipped cream bath - spray whipped cream all over yourself!

6.Draw Pinkie Pie from MLP: FiM making a chocolate cake with whipped cream.

5.Mix whipped cream with other ingredients such as chocolate icing, strawberry jam, etc.. and see what concoction you've made.

4.Take a store bought cake from the fridge or cupboard and add whipped cream to it.

3.Watch 'Epic Pie Time' on Youtube. We cream on this pony!

2.Go wild and spray some whipped cream on the walls.

1.Give yourself a whipped cream suntan.

A Cuddly Little Sleepyhead

Orko pulled away the pillows and saw his baby sister hiding underneath. She giggled seeing her big brother looking down at her. Orko giggled too, and picked her up to cuddle her softly.

“You silly little cub,” laughed Orko, “You’re the warmest, softest baby I ever held. I hadn't held a baby in years, only in Trolla, but now I’m on Earth, holding you is an act of protection to me.”

The Flying Rattle

From his sleeve Orko produced a shiny blue and yellow rattle with a pink bow wrapped around the round thing on the top. “Look!” he smiled underneath his shadowed face, “An elegant little rattle, especially for you.”

Furaha shook the rattle. It made a funny ringy-tingy noise. Furaha shook it like a maniac!

10 Ideas To Celebrate Trivia Day

10.Read the Scream Street Terrifying Trivia book.

9.Play along with quiz shows on TV.

8.Play some board games which require questions with someone you love.

7.Take an online quiz on any subject that interests you.

6.Ask yourself big questions you've always wanted to ask, and try to answer them yourself.

5.Enter a phone in quiz on your favourite radio station.

4.Try to find the answers to your everyday questions (for example, how can I stop Teen Titans Go from airing all the time on Cartoon Network?)

3.Play a DVD game based on your favourite quiz show.

2.Fill in a quiz book.

1.Take a magazine quiz in your favourite celebrity mag.

10 Ideas To Celebrate Festival Of Sleep Day

10.Take a nap.

9.Study why we need more sleep.

8.Indulge in a little me time - grab some popcorn and a drink and settle down to watch your favourite movie or TV show.

7.Do some deep breathing exercises to get you to sleep.

6.Had a rough time sleeping? No problem! Take a nap before 12PM each morning to relax and recharge.

5.Make a collage of people or cartoon characters sleeping.

4.Draw a bed for your favourite cartoon character to sleep on.

3.If you have a headache or a cold, time in bed is the best option.

2.Spend time surrounded by pillows and cushions.

1.Take a nap when you feel like it.

Bearnard Writes A Book - A Review

Bearnard Writes A Book is a delightful, cream-coloured educational story about writing a story, according to a big story-loving bear and his blue neckerchief-wearing goose friend Gertie. Pleased by Bearnard's debut story, Gertie asks for one of his own, so Bearnard tries, but cannot think up a story. Cue the most amazing adventure ever as Bearnard and Gertie travel through different worlds, encountering characters, problems and lots of other quirky things along the way. Eventually, Bearnard goes for a thinking walk and quickly gets inspiration for a new story starring Gertie, who reveals her grandgoose used to write poems.

My favourite part about reading the story is that there is a lot to spot on each page, particularly the character page, when Bearnard and Gertie are attempting to choose their character for their story. There's people of different races included in the mix too, such as a Japanese man, a Chinese woman and a black mermaid character sitting next to a humanoid fish on top of a purple dragon. It also applies to the writer's room, where we see various pages for stories, a tea and coffee area for those who want a recharge and tables for people to write at. If only we had one in real life! And while Bearnard is finally writing a story after his thinking walk, we see flowers growing around him, symbolising his story becoming better and better. And while Bearnard is writing his story during his first attempt on the third page, Gertie is juggling scraps of paper. Cute!

I would definitely recommend this book to people who want to write a story just like Bearnard.

Pretend Play Idea: Perfume Parlour

Get your customers all spritzed up and free from their troubles with my new play idea - the Perfume Parlour! I already invited friends like Little Miss Splendid and Amy and Lulu to my parlour, now YOU can set up a fancy parlour to spritz up your guests with magic perfume!

All you need is:

• A bottle of your own perfume

1. Announce that your perfume parlour is open for business, and ask which customer is first.
2. With each customer that comes to you, ask each one what the problem is.
3. Spritz them with the magic perfume - there. All better.
4. Continue doing so with more customers until they are all spritzed up and better.

Pretend Play Idea: Spa Day

Time to relax with my new pretend play idea - a spa day! My spa contains a haircut section, a massage table and a bath with lots of bubbles and a bowl of cucumbers for your eyes. I used Vince from Rex The Runt to be my customer, and maybe with your own cartoon friends, YOU can set up a spa like mine, too!

1. Invite your customer into your spa and show them around.
2. First, lead him to the haircut section for a shampoo, conditioner and trim, while telling him about all you've been up to (my hair appointments, anyone?) - juicy gossip, for that matter. Invite your guest to read celebrity magazines - or children's books if they're not into sour gossip.
3. Dry their hair.
4. Lead your guest to the massage table. Name each part of the body you're massaging as you do. If you're making Vince your customer, you might get clay dog skin all over you!
5. Put your guest/customer into the bath near the massage table, turn on the bubbles and put cucumbers over his eyes. Engage in a part-time convo about how lucky it is to have a warm bath - add strawberries and chocolate if you want, but watch out for any furry employees!
6. Heat up the bath by putting the heater on.
7. Reassure and comfort your guest some more before lifting him out and getting him dry. Watch out for any plasticine if your guest happens to be a claymation character, on your towel of course!
8. Award your guest with a bouquet of flowers and a heart shaped box of chocolates for a delightful experience at your spa before sending him off.
9. Ain't that relaxing?

Chip N Dale: Lion O's Biography (A Comic Strip Transcript)

Panel 1:

[Lion O is sitting at a table in the library, with stacks and stacks of his biography, ‘Hail To The Prince’ near him. He is signing copies of the book and giving it to other humans and toons who are lining up and waiting their turn.)

Panel 2:

(Suddenly, a boisterous humanoid puma fangirl who looks like a teenage Pumyra, but with makeup, golden earrings and a blue vest with pink trousers dashes up to him. WHOOSH!]

FANGIRL: OMG, are you Lion O? I am so looking forward to buying your book, oh, haven’t I mentioned that I am your biggest fan? Yes, I am, but to be truthful I have lots of questions to tell you about your show, is it true that your brother Tygra is really in love with Cheetara or-

PANEL 3:

LION-O: (smugly) Tygra is already married to Cheetara in real life.

FANGIRL: Oh.

A Lullaby For Orko

Orko & The Comfy Chair

It was a lovely, lazy day and Orko was prepared to sit back in his comfy red chair with some tasty snacks and drinks, and watch his favourite nature programme on TV. “Aaaaahhhh…after a long day of doing chores, it’s good to kick back,” he said to himself, pouring popcorn into a pink plastic bowl.

He set up the sofa with some popcorn, cookies and crisps, poured some coke into a blue plastic mug and sat back in the red chair. It was all soft and comfy - just how he liked it. Then he turned on the TV. Just in time - Nature’s Wonders was on. “Time for a snack,” Orko smiled to himself under his shadowed face as he tucked into some popcorn.

But wait a minute - it’s Furaha! She’s got her favourite picture book, Dylan The Dinosaur, in her paws. She wants Orko to read her a story! “Orko!” she called. “I see you’re all relaxed. Can you read me a story?” But Orko is into his programme and his snacks, so Furaha storms away.

Orko stops for a moment and looks around. “I’m sure I heard someone calling me to read her a story,” he said to himself, and he went back to his snacks and programme. However, unbeknownst to him, Furaha was using her sharp claws to climb up the back of the chair. She sat on the top of the chair and dangled her tail in front of Orko’s shadowed face. However, instead of noticing her, Orko sneezes from the effect of the tail near his shadowed nose, causing popcorn and crisp crumbs to spatter everywhere.

The third time Furaha tries, she stomps around Orko dressed as a dinosaur. “GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! Read me a story about Dylan The Dinosaur, for I am his teacher at school!” she roars, “If you don’t, then I shall gobble you in pot roast stew!”

The fourth time Furaha tries, she dangles from a rope down from the ceiling and tries to hug him. She swings, and swings, and swings, but suddenly…WHOOSH! Furaha leaps off her rope and lands on the sofa, into a heap of pillows. Luckily, no one was hurt.

During her fifth time, she had run out of ideas and was sitting on the sofa watching pandas eat bamboo leaves on the TV. “Why can’t Orko read me a story?” she sighed, “All he’s into is his nature programme. For goodness sake, why can’t we always have what we want?” Furaha hid her face in her paws and sobbed. It was like Orko didn’t love her anymore. Luckily, Kiburi and Ua, her parents, heard her sobs and went to comfort her. “What’s the matter?” asked Kiburi. “Orko won’t read me a story,” explained Furaha, “He’s too interested in being a couch wizard.” “That’s because he needs time to himself. We’ll just leave him to have his time, and we’ll read you your story.”

So Kiburi and Ua read Dylan The Dinosaur to Furaha, while Orko enjoyed the last few minutes of his programme. But suddenly, something hairy with four legs appeared on the screen. It was a tarantula!

YUCK!

Orko spat out his food and turned off the TV. “NO! I am not watching that. Spiders scare me!” he said. His rest was over. As soon as he went over to Furaha, the young cub was delighted and gave him the softest, warmest cuddle ever given. “Would you like to settle down and listen to the story?” “Yes, I would love to listen to a story. After all, stories are better than big scary spiders anyway.”

So Orko settled down and listened to the rest of the story, happy that Furaha and her parents are by his side, safe near his little sister.

THE END.

Walking On Ice

Let's face it: when you want to lose weight, going a long way to get to a waterfall doesn't require running at lightning speed. Which is why I made it all the way to Rogie Falls in less than 3 hours.

As my support worker and I drove all the way to the falls, we saw a sheep with a bleeding red bottom, a tall tower and a wooden village shop, plus two huskies. As we got out and walked to the falls, my support worker told me about the fairies and goblins that live in the forest, and the rock trolls that guard the falls. I also added Seal Shamans into the stories, who migrated from Miami in the USA and are worshipped by the Salmon People, who succumb to their spells and become food for them.

The highlight of the walk was crossing an icy path to get to the falls: I was walking on the ice when all of a sudden, I slipped and - PARP! I landed on my bottom. I burst into a crying fit. My support worker reassured me, one man tried to help, but I got up and walked on the grass. Then we had our picnic. There was a little girl carrying a Squishmallow, but I stayed calm even when my support worker brushed me off and I dropped my phone in the dirt. I took a lot of pictures, and when we were walking back, I crossed the grass yet again to get away from the ice.

I was starting to run out of breath, and my support worker was having trouble breathing, so we sat down for a rest and pretended to be dragons breathing the air in and out. I was huffing and puffing all the way to the car park, my heart was beating as fast as a speedy race car and my legs hurt like crazy! Luckily, we made it, and now I feel safe in the car, with a new idea: The Fairies Of Rogie Falls.

The story is about three cat-like fairies who bring Spring, Summer and Autumn to their area with the help of their Rock Troll and Seal Shaman friends. They set out on a quest to find their Winter sister, who lives in the mountains with her polar bear friends, so the circle of seasons would be complete.

Sounds sweet, doesn't it? And now I'm here, writing this blog. Make sure the fairies heal you after you've slipped on the ice!