Beakstick Ducky from Victoria

Name: Beakstick Ducky
Interests: Testing make up. Modelling and doing yoga.
Where to Find: Zydeco Gifts in Victoria, BC
Brand: Rinovelty, Cumberland, Shanghai, China
Price: $1.98 Cdn

Colour changing beakstick.

Beaktick Ducky works for Avon and is a beak and wing model. She usually models jewelry and makeup but she has also modelled a few clothes too. She is wearing black mascara and is holding a tube of red beakstick but it goes on purple. It also changes colour like a mood ring and changes according to the temperature of her lips. Her sleek black hair nicely frames her face and she is wearing a red dress with a pearl necklace.

My daughter and I ran (I pushed her in the stroller) in the run for the cure today with some friends.

Dentist Duckies from Victoria

Name: Dentist Duckies
Interests: Eating healthy food for our teeth and never eating candy. We give out dental floss for Halloween.
Where to Find: Zydeco Gifts in Victoria, BC
Brand: Oriental Trading Company
Price: $1.98 Cdn each so almost $4.00 for the set

  

Floss, then brush and rinse with mouthwash.

Dentist Ducky is holding the mirror and has the mask over his mouth. He is currently filling a cavity and then he has to perform a root canal. Dental Hygienist Ducky has a smiling tooth on her jacket. She cleans people's teeth. She has removed over a ton of plaque from her patients’ mouths. She also removes coffee and tea stains.

My dental office lets you pick a pack of gum and a mini chapstick and there is also a treasure chest of prizes for kids to pick from too.

Magic Trick Bunny Ducky from Victoria

Name: Magic Trick Bunny Ducky
Interests: Entertaining kids at birthday parties. I have also performed in Vegas too.
Where to Find: Zydeco Gifts in Victoria, BC
Brand: Oriental Trading Company
Price: $1.98 Cdn

Popping out of hats for 20 years.

Magic Trick Bunny Ducky would have been a really cool ducky if he was designed so that you could squish him into the black top hat and he could pop back out. He has pink bunny ears and there is a red stripe on his hat. He is part of a set but the other magic trick duckies weren't too exciting. There was at least 50 ducks at Zydeco Gifts that I didn't have, so I had to be selective.

Waitress Lass Ducky from Victoria

Name: Waitress Lass Ducky
Interests: Floating in the ocean and participating in triathlons. She also runs marathons and kayaks on the weekends.
Where to Find: Zydeco Gifts in Victoria, BC
Brand: Oriental Trading Company
Price: $1.98 Cdn 

Serving beers to bards.

Waitress Lass Ducky doesn't enjoy wearing her low cut work uniform because she is flat chested and her dress accentuates this. However, she has a six pack from training for her triathlons. She is holding two frothy beers and has blond pigtails and bangs. I used to wear my hair in pigtails when I was a kid and in one huge ponytail on the side of my head too. Oh those were the days.

Viking Ducky from Victoria

Name: Viking Ducky
Interests: Battling for land and sailing. He loves enjoying Sunday pig roasts with his wife, son and daughter. He loves mountains and the sea.
Where to Find: Zydeco Gifts in Victoria, BC
Brand: Oriental Trading Company
Price: $1.98 Cdn each

V is for Victory across the ocean. 

Viking Ducky sneaks ashore from his grand ship the "Maiden Mist." He sniffs the salty air, twirls his orange braid and then slits his enemies' throats with his sword. Next, he stands on a barnacle ridden rock and delivers an inspirational speech to his crew.

Viking Ducky is wearing a metal suit of armour complete with a hat with animal horns. He has a long beard and lost his right eye during the only battle he has ever lost. Thankfully all he lost was his eye.

Back to School Trio of Duckies

Name: Back to School Duckies
Interests: Achieving straight As. Anything less than an A equals failure. Eating the succulent meat from conch shells.
Where to Find: Zydeco Gifts in Victoria, BC
Brand: Rinovelty, Cumberland, Shanghai, China
Price: $1.98 Cdn each so almost $6.00 for the set. 

Teacher's pet. 

The Studious Student in the grey dress shirt wants to be a doctor when he grows up. He is wearing glasses to make him look smarter but he has 20/20 vision. He is holding a chalk board with his report card which says A+ of course. In college, my husband and I both wrote an essay for the same English teacher on Pride and Prejudice and we were being competitive in it and both received an A+. We should go back and read our essays again; it would be fun. I remember our teacher was telling us about the romance in the book and he was pretending not to be romantic so he said " I don't really know. My wife just tells me this stuff."

The ducky with the brown hair in the bun is a teacher and she works part-time in the library. She stereotypically meets the look of a sexy librarian with her glasses and her hair up in a bun. She is wearing a pink button down white collared blouse with a denim mini skirt. These ducks are similar to the Oriental Trading company brand of duckies but what makes them refreshingly different is that their eyes have pupils and the white part. The girls have eyelashes but the guys do not. They also have open beaks with their tongue showing and the Oriental Trading Company ducks have closed beaks with no tongue showing.

The Teacher's pet has brown hair and alert eyes that are ready to absorb as much information as possible and then some. She is wearing a purple shirt and a black skirt and is holding an apple for the teacher too.

Rainbow Unicorn Ducky from Victoria

Name: Rainbow Unicorn Ducky
Interests: Running through waterfalls and meeting new people in the rainforest.
Where to Find: Zydeco Gifts in Victoria, BC
Brand: Oriental Trading Company
Price: $1.98 Cdn

Being a mystical creature is a huge responsibility. 

After two glorious weeks of vacation in BC (without a cloud in the sky), I am back at work and back in Edmonton. We are eventually going to live in BC near the ocean. On our last day of vacation, my mother-in-law's beach had the calmest and clearest water we have ever seen. I went kayaking 3 times including for a sunset sail with the sea lions.

While we were on vacation, we spent two days in Victoria. Of course I visited my favourite rubber ducky store-Zydeco gifts. They had just received a new shipment of duckies, so for the next two weeks you can view the latest additions to my collection. These ducks bring my count to 672. You'll have to wait until Halloween and Christmas to see a few of the seasonal ducks that I bought.

Rainbow Unicorn Ducky is all white with pink perky ears and a pink beak. Her horn is white and sticks out off the top of her forehead. Her mane has six colours in it-pale pink, grassy green, opus orange, yeasty yellow, baby blue and misty mauve. Her tail has the same colours except it is missing mauve.