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Part of maintaining a successful modeling career is something called a “portfolio.” There are a variety of advantages to creating a portfolio. One, you have an ongoing visual record of how cute and pretty you are. Two, you can share it with fans so they won’t pester you all the time for photo ops. Three,ContinueContinue reading “Day 315: Beautiful Bird Portfolio”

Different cultures have many different traditions for “clearing the palate” between courses. Some enjoy sipping water and then spitting it back out (in a word: yuck). Others like to ingest and chew a small stick of something, after which they often spontaneously emit flimsy round structures from their mouths. Still others gravitate towards the chewingContinueContinue reading “Day 314: The Big Leaf”

Sometimes when you accept an offer of leadership from one group of small crunchy beings, other similar groups then come out of the, well, cardboard to ask you. But you can’t accept every invitation you get. It is up to each group of beings to convince you to say “yes.” Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author: PearlContinueContinue reading “Day 313: Cornflake Convention”

When you are very cute and feathery, everyone wants to be around you. This also makes you an extremely desirable leadership choice for groups of beings who need lots of, well, leadership. Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author: Pearl Cutts   p.s. Pearl is very excited about his new online SHOP!  He invites all of his VIP fans (yes, that means YOU)ContinueContinue reading “Day 312: The Crunchy Contest”

When you are the Head of Security for your casa, sometimes you get presented with a particularly complex security issue. For example, let’s say a band of seeds has decided to stow away inside a hunk of delicious fresh-baked bread. Like a particularly crunchy Trojan Horse, they figured they’d be able to sneak into theContinueContinue reading “Day 311: De-Seeding”

Sometimes even after intensive A-game training, you may determine your props are simply too (er) green to make the cut. When this occurs, you have two options. Option 1 – continue the training, hoping for a miraculous turnaround. Option 2 – improvise with what you’ve got. Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author: Pearl Cutts   p.s. Pearl is veryContinueContinue reading “Day 310: A-Game Training, Part 2”

As a high (um) flying super(bird)model, your fans expect you to bring your A-game to every photo shoot. This is no problem if it is a “solo” shoot, of course. But sometimes you are scheduled to work with props. So you also have to arrive at every shoot prepared to do some emergency “A-game training”….just inContinueContinue reading “Day 309: A-Game Training, Part 1”

In featherless culture, it is common to explain away a less-polished appearance by saying you are having a “bad hair day.” The moment you say this, everyone shakes their head in sympathy – no explanation needed. What is lesser known is that this works just as well when you have feathers. Let’s say, for example, you areContinueContinue reading “Day 308: Bad Feather Day”

On certain rare occasions, a dignitary so important, so well-known, so beloved, comes into town that even local famous residents come calling. Some might even be asked to serve as an “honorary guard” for the visiting dignitary. This, of course, is a singular honor few beings ever receive. Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author: Pearl Cutts  ContinueContinue reading “Day 307: VIP Guard Duty”

When you have feathers and have lived long enough among the large featherless beings, you will inevitably learn a “face plant” is something most of them try to avoid. But this (like so many other aspects of featherless culture) is just because they don’t know how to do it right. Luckily, you are on hand to offer gentle guidance whereContinueContinue reading “Day 306: Face Plant”