For the record....Squiggee..aka..the Squig, Squiggee-Buns..or any other combo...is a dog.....and Also the CEO of my Needlepoint line of very quirky canvases....my name is not Squiggee...and my husband ,that some affectionately call Mr. Squiggee..is Ken..although he gets great pleasure out of being referred as Mr. Squiggee( men can be strange at times)....it is a running joke that we all work for the Dog!....although if she could talk , I am sure we would....
She is a registered Boston Terrier , and her official name is
Miss Squiggee-Buns Hendrix....she is short for a Boston, the runt of a litter , and not show worthy according to her specs..too short and not the right amount of white markings...she is a little brindle(flecked with brown in her fur in a certain light...very desirable in Boston circles)...she is a wonderful dog...smart and stubborn, and a joy to have in the studio..all our dogs are raised in the painting studio, because that is where I am for the most part in the daytime...they have destroyed paint tubes ,brushes, and canvas as puppies...Squiggee even managed to eat a scotch tape dispenser..a small one , but it created great anxiety at the time...
Squiggee came from a breeder in West Virginia...way down in the country, you could almost hear the banjos in the trees playing...her parents were two huge Bostons, both show dogs..her father was a brindle and her mother was called Bittzy.....they were truly beautiful in that way Bostons are..not the conventional pretty ..in fact Squiggee was such an ugly pup..we had to rethink her name...driving back with this puppy , she made us think of a character on the old show called Lavern & Shirley...the Squiggee character had big bulging eyes and black slick backed hair and he was short!!!...we added the BUNS...so she would seem more girlie...as Squiggee matured and she grew into her head size and her ears uncurled she became better looking...the more you love them, the better looking they get.....we have always had mixed breeds before and cute comes to mind , our first being a double for Benji....so Squiggee was a shock at first sight...neither my husband or myself had ever seen a Boston or pup in person before we met Squiggee for the first time...just pictures in our dog books...it is an uncommon breed out here in Rural PA...everything here is a mixed breed or Shepard and something..lol..
...when I joined eBay..my user name was squiggee*buns....
so it only stands to reason...that when I started the Squiggee line on Ebay...the name was already in place...at the time I thought it was such a crazy name that no one would have it on a line of canvases and that once you hear it and get the strange spelling right you will never forget it....besides...one cannot say it without smiling..it is a happy name and the line of canvases was created to be small designs and happy like the Squig!
Now really...who would name a child Squiggee...my name is Gail Hendrix....but I am actually the artist that creates Squiggee canvases so in reality I am Squiggee...so my husband is Mr. Squiggee...
and if anyone reading this cannot tell which one in the picture is the real Squiggee...then truly it doesn't matter...lol...
here in Squiggeeland...we are all Squiggers and I do Squiggify the designs or put the Squiggee on it..see it is a fun name...our names are dull in comparison....
and it is not every Boston that has her own company...lol
all you have to do is to get the spelling right...lol
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