I can’t wait to
show you all my latest drawing!!!
But if I’m going
to show you that, I have to tell you the history of TobyMeow. And if I’m going
to tell you the history of TobyMeow, I have to start with Sunshine. If it
hadn’t been for that Lowes commercial and K-LOVE, this whole thing wouldn’t
have even happened.
So, back in spring
sometime, this Lowes commercial came on TV, and the song really stood out to
me. So I looked it up. The song was “I Make My Own Sunshine” by Alyssa
Bonagura. I decided to get it on iTunes. Then, I thought, to make it even more
fun, I would pick out a couple plush animals who could sing it. I picked out
Zahra the Lil’ Kinz leopard and Sunshine the yellow bunny (Sunshine isn’t a Webkinz
but Zahra is).
Since then, Zahra
and Sunshine have named their band “Sunshine” and gotten 5 more songs to do.
Their drummer is April, my Webkinz rabbit, and their DJ and background vocalist
is Sneaker, my Webkinz tiger, who is Zahra’s husband.
One of the other
songs they picked out was Jamie Grace’s hit song “Hold Me” (which I wouldn’t
have discovered without K-LOVE). Sneaker, of course, did TobyMac’s background
vocals for Hold Me, and that’s how he discovered his talent for TobyMac songs.
Then I started hearing song after song by TobyMac and I soon decided he was my
favorite singer. I figured we had to have a Webkinz version, and right away I
knew it had to be Sneaker. Here’s a picture of Sneaker:
I still don’t
remember how I came up with “TobyMeow”. I never remember such things.
So, after I picked
out Sneaker (Zahra was SO excited), we proceeded to pick out everybody else.
From left to
right:
Sophia the Persian
cat – Piano
Buddy the Border
collie – DJ
Zany the Black
Panther – Background vocals
Sneaker the tiger,
aka TobyMeow – Lead singer
Sunflower the
yellow bunny (not a Webkinz) – Guitar
Midnight the black
cat – Guitar & Background vocals
April the rabbit –
Drums (April is also the drummer for Sunshine)
Most of these pets
weren’t involved in any music stuff before this, even though they have great talents,
so they’re really excited!
And after a little
while of getting more “serious” pictures, everybody wanted to do silly ones,
and I had no choice but to give in to their desperate pleads. LOL
…and ever since
then, Sunflower (the yellow bunny) has gotten all his pictures done standing on
his head, unless it really inconveniences me.
TobyMeow is still
fairly new, so they’re still figuring out all of the TobyMac songs they are
going to do covers for and getting those separated into albums. But they’ve
already done their first music video, City on Our Knees! (I wish I could post
it on here but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.) We timed the video
just right with the sunset and it sure turned out better than we thought,
considering that my iPad was running out of battery and I had to recharge it a
bit every 5-10 minutes! Here’s what it looked like at the end:
So, now that I’ve
told you about TobyMeow and Sunshine, here’s the drawing!!!
Yes, I did draw
that.
You can’t see all
the shading since I just scanned it in, but anyway…
Sophia and
Sunflower are not in the drawing, Sophia because Sardina is playing the piano
instead, and Sunflower because…well…I forgot. J
Here’s TobyMeow
with it:
Zahra really
REALLY REALLY wanted to be in the picture, so we put her in,
too. Juliet and Sardina are also in the picture since they are featured in the
song they are performing in the drawing.
Oh, by the way,
here’s that song! It’s “Unstoppable” by TobyMac (featuring Blanca from Group 1
Crew), from Toby’s latest album Eye On It.
This will be our
song of the week.
I hope you all
enjoyed this nice long post! I’m going to post more about Sneaker later today so
hang around…
