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Archive for September, 2008
Free Pattern: Resisty the Resistor
Sep 19th
This is a free and easy pattern for everyone to enjoy. Please check out the Mochimochi Shop for more patterns that you’ll love!
Hey geek knitters! Give your Captain Capacitor a sidekick with Resisty the Resistor! He may be a resistor, but he likes to think of himself as irresistible.
Toys Meet Prizes
Sep 18th
Not one, but TWO of the winners in the 2008 Mochimochi Photo Contest recently shared photos of the toys in their winning photos meeting the prizes they won!
kayk’s Bobs halted their dance party to inspect an unusually small capybara…
And then they took their new plastic tofu blocks for a ride!
And denise.y.cheung’s Stackable Cats and Slugs ditched their game of checkers to check out their big box o’ goodies from Japan!
(I especially love the cat and slugs reading the little note I included in the package.)
I’m happy to see that someone’s having fun with the prizes!
Pretty Odd
Sep 17th
I was summoned for jury duty recently (it involved waiting for a few hours and not getting my name called), so I had occasion to walk around the vicinity of New York’s City Hall. There are a surprising number of odd lots stores in the area. Why, I don’t know, but I stepped into one out of curiosity.
(I apologize for the bad photo quality; my camera phone was scratched a while back when it fell out of my purse during an airline check-in and skidded across the floor.)
This particular store had a generous supply of the usual: candles, small gadgets, Panasonic batteries, and a random assortment of packaged foods.
I thought these Spider Man piggy banks were interesting. Or rather, the sheer number of them was interesting. Are there that many people in this world who desire a Spider Man piggy bank?
Then, toward the back of this brightly-lit store was a section of… Adult DVD Movies?
I partly convinced myself that the “Adult” in “Adult DVD Movies” means “not G or PG-rated DVD movies,” but I still wasn’t going to get close enough to the giant pile to read the titles.
Couches
Sep 15th
Remember how I was making a couch? I made two!
Of course, I couldn’t resist giving them a few dust bunnies…
It was fun using a color pattern for these. Trying to think of other toys to do that with.
These one-of-a-kind couches will be in the “Plush You” show at Double Punch in San Francisco in November. Show info to come later!
Update: Thank you to Kristen for posting on the Plush You blog!
New Mochimochi Logo
Sep 12th
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a shiny new logo at the top of the blog!
What you see is about the extent of my abilities using Adobe Illustrator, but I’m pretty happy with it. (Is it obvious that the Os are Uh-Ohs?)
Update: Oops I forgot to mention that using the Uh-Ohs in the logo was all John’s idea. Thank you John!
