Evelyn (and Molly) has MORE ideas!

More from Evelyn and her friend, Molly…

Dear Monkey Doodle Dandy,

I made more drawings of the Squaredy Cats! Me and my friend drew them. I think they are super cute! We would like you to make these kinds of cats! Pretty please?! sic]

Dear Evelyn,

We love all the Squaredy Cats you and Molly drew! Keep up the good work. We've made some drawings like this ourselves, and hope that we can make each and every one of them into plush. Thanks for loving Squaredy Cats! And thank you for showing us your artwork!

Evelyn has some ideas!

We got a really cool set of drawings in the mail from Evelyn in North Carolina. Thanks, Evelyn!

"Dear Monkey Doodle Dandy, I love the Squaredy Cats and if you are still thinking of some ideas I have some. I would like to know if you could make Squaredy Cats out of my ideas. I am in 4th grade and I have Scarlett! If you are not doing the Squaredy Cat business anymore that's okay, but if you like them tell me. I'd love to hear what you have to say!
Sincerely,
Evelyn"

Dear Evelyn,
First, we should say, YES! Of course we are still doing Squaredy Cats! Monkey Doodle Dandy is tiny, but extremely busy with fun stuff. We get busy sometimes with other work, and can't keep up with the Facebook page and the blog (not to mention our Twitter and our Tumblr), but we are ALWAYS thinking of new ideas. Sometimes it's an idea for a new plush (they take a long time to get made), and sometimes it's other ideas.
It's nice to hear you have Scarlett. She means a lot to us. She was named after a very special niece to the creators of Squaredy Cats.
We love your ideas too. Some of them are similar to cats we've already made, and others are outrageous  and fun. And we LOVE the names you came up with. Soooo cute!
Thanks for loving Squaredy Cats!

PS Below your artwork we posted a pic we did for North Carolina :)

We love monkeys!

Wow, are we embarrassed! We get so much email and so many messages we sometimes miss a few. We got this great art of a Monkey Squaredy Cat that fan, Lindsay sent to us last year, but we forgot to post it! While going through our piles of email we luckily found it.

Thank you for your excellent work, Lindsay :)


Her mom, Rachel said "Here's her drawing of a Squaredy Cat Monkey who is either "not squared
to swing around" or "not squared to stand out"." Since we took so long to say thank Lindsay we decided to make the other one—"not squared to swing around." It just seemed right. After all, the people who designed Squaredy Cats' company name is Monkey Doodle Dandy! We love monkeys as much as we love square cats :)

Peanut butter jelly time!

We got this fan mail art from a fan named Megan, and it made us hungry! We had to have PB&J after seeing this. Thank you, Megan! We love your peanut butter and jelly Squaredy Cat :)

We did a jelly cat back in 2009! What do you think?

...And they told two friends...and so on...

We absolutely LOVE getting fanmail to our snail mail address (find it here), but it's even cooler when fans of Squaredy Cats draw pictures for us! We're artists, and we think everyone else is an artist too! Drawing is so expressive, so when someone takes the time to make a drawing for us we really appreciate it.

So, it turns out we got a letter and drawing from someone whose friend likes Squaredy Cats. Sam's friend Madison drew us a picture, and we returned the favor by sending her a picture we did. So, now we're doing the same for Sam. Sam had a hopping idea to do a bunny Squaredy Cat, so we showed Sam our own Squaredy Cat dressed as a bunny. We're sending you some stickers to say thanks too!

Thanks, Sam!
We're not squared to LOVE 2b a bunny!

English to Spanish challenge

Help us out, and help Ornella from Argentina!

We got an interesting email from a Squaredy Cats fan from Argentina, and it inspires us to put the challenge out there. We could use your help!

When we first conceived of Squaredy Cats and the phrase "not squared to..." we did initially think it might be a problem translating, but we had no idea that there would be so many languages and fans around the world that this would really be an immediate problem for us.

The problem is that "squared," though an English word, does not translate well into other languages for the meaning we intended since we're using it as a pun for "scared." But since the cats are square (really cubes), well, you know the rest…

Ornella, our fan from Argentina has posed this question to us: How does Squaredy translate to Spanish. The short answer: We don't know! Somebody help so we can answer her.

Pasted below is her email in its entirety. She also posted a pic of one of the Squaredy Cats that she likes. Please excuse the translation to English:

Hello!

My name is Ornella, I´m from Argentina! Im a big fan of the squaredy Cats! My mom bought they in internet. (I´m not sure if that was very well saying)

I have a challenge for YOU:

You have to translate "Squaredy Cats" to Spanish.

You will say: ¡But that is easy! Try. It. It´s very Hard.

I speak Spanish and I can´t do it.

It´s going to be fun!!

Thank you

Ornella

Thanks, Ornella! We hope to find an answer soon :)

Holiday surprise

We're going to give away three Squaredy Cats, and here's how we're going to do it:

We have a mailing list, and we're going to pick up to 100 names of that list, and mail a Squaredy Cats Christmas card to all those fans. We'll randomly place inside three of those cards a "Golden Ticket" to mail back to us for a FREE Squaredy Cat!

There's still time to get on our mailing list before we mail the cards with the randomly placed tickets. You can message us on our Facebook page (please message—don't post your address directly to our wall or everyone will see it), or you can email us at 12345webmonster@1234monkeydoodledandy.com (remove all numbers from address).

Please provide a full address including zip code and name.

USA and Canada residents only. We'd love to be able to do more, but we're not allowed yet.

Deadline for this contest is December 10, 2012.

Special custom Squaredy

We don't say enough how much we appreciate getting actual fan mail. We get letters and pictures pretty often, and we try to acknowledge everyone with free stickers, but sometimes, here at Squaredy Cats Headquarters, we get so busy we forget to say thank you. We're going to try to post some of these pictures so you can see what makes us smile.

We got this letter and artwork from Madison of Florida a few weeks ago, and decided to take her up on her request to draw her idea. We only made a few tweaks to keep within our own guidelines of how we draw our Squaredy Cats. Below you'll find her letter and our version to Madison.

Thanks, Madison!

PS We decided that we'll tag the first name on fan art posts so you can easily find yours!