I got a fun holiday surprise from Joan recently: a package of goodies with her AnthroPoMorphCo characters on them, including these cute “holly jollies” stitch markers!
I’ve been using them nonstop since I got them. Joan also sent stationery, buttons, and more, all adorned with her own clever character designs. I’m so impressed by her ingenuity!
Check out her Etsy shop to get some of your own anthropomorphic vegetables, drink condiments, and more.
I saw this squirrel munching away on an apple core in a parking lot last week.
He looks pretty happy.
My local post office is getting into the feel of fall with a festive display of mailing labels!
It makes me just a little bit sad to think about how someone took the time to arrange this nicely.
We all know that Tubby can’t resist giving everything in sight a bath.The prizes that PrettyCranium won last month for her photo of Tubby are no exception!
Looks like everyone’s having a good time.
PrettyCranium says that when they aren’t getting scrubbed, the toys are keeping her company at her office at work. Great!
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!
Droplets by JamFactory, which debuted earlier this year, are a great example of a reversible toy.
Right side up, they’re happy little guys (well, all but one of them are)…
…and upside down, they’re vury vury sad.
Either way, cute! You can get them as blind boxes at Crazy Label or at your local vinyl toy store.
I haven’t been a huge collector of the plastic Japanese miniatures that seem to only be gaining in popularity—most often food, furniture, and the like— but my ever-savvy mother-in-law Bonney introduced me over the weekend to her new collection of “Story of the Sweet Animals” miniature animal scenes that she got from this website. They’re amazing! Each blind box contains at least two adorable plastic animals, some darling plastic props (water, mushrooms, tree), and a little card backdrop scene.
Apparently you can connect the cards together to make a complete story.
Bonney bought a box of 10, so we spent a while ripping them open like it was a Japanese miniature version of Christmas. Unfortunately for me, there were no duplicates for me to take home, so I may have to buy some for myself. After all, according to the website, “Not only are the fun toys, but they are perfect as home décor.”
Of course! These would go perfectly with that new couch we just got.
Just returned from a lovely 4th of July visit with relatives in Maine. (It was cold enough at night to wear fleece to see the fireworks show!) My aunt and uncle there have the most beautiful old house, which they’ve decorated with carefully chosen antiques.
These little animals on a mantle particularly caught my eye during this visit. They are part of an antique Noah’s Ark set made in Germany. (The wooden ark was just outside the frame of my photo.)
If I had a fireplace and mantle of my own, I would want tiny wooden animals on it too.