the winter olympics of cuteness
Feb. 16th, 2006 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxYeah, so, I've been meaning to do a public post about figure skating, which is definitely NOT the Winter Olympics of Cute. But who can concentrate on that when there are these adorable things floating around on the internet, looking for homes?
Deer Figurine Wall Art - OK, you shouldn't buy things from Urban Outfitters unless the owner's support of Rick Santorum (potentially the weirdest right-wing politician going) doesn't bother you. It does bother me and I try not to shop there. That said, this is darling and I really want one. (Not as much as I've been wanting a Nara PupCup for like 18 months now, but enough.)
Happy Dolls - there's a whole website attached to this page, but this is the shop page with a good selection of stuff. You can buy tiny felt hand puppets and "pocket bunnies" and shoulder bags for Blythe and Pullip dolls, as well as puppies, comically "injured kitties" (they're wearing bandages but don't really look too perturbed by it), and other small animals made of felt. I want at least one of everything on this page! :D
Nintendogs Capsule Toys - tiny mascots of various characters from the Nintendogs game series; these will clip onto a cellphone or whatever else you choose. I am mostly entranced by the fact that they actually have the Sheltie - it's rare to find a Sheltie in stuff like this, because they aren't one of the most popular breeds. Though they seem reasonably popular in Japan: this year's Eukanuba Tournament of Champions Sheltie was actually a Japanese dog. (As I was saying to Nathalie a bit ago, I can't actually own Nintendogs because I'm pretty sure that I would ignore my actual live Sheltie to play with my Nintendog Sheltie, which only interested me to begin with because I also have a real one. Vicious circle!)
Robo-Gloomy! - I didn't like Gloomy Bears when they first came out - not the ones with the claws and the blood, anyway. Some of the models that I've seen since then are really cute, this one among them. See more at KidRobot. (See the cuteness that is the Babyhood bear?)
(I've linked a few things from Unica Home, and I'd also like to point out that they have Yoshitomo Nara's illustrated edition of Banana Yoshimoto's Argentine Hag, something which has been otherwise-difficult to get in the US for the last few years - this is the only work of Yoshimoto's that's been published in English that I haven't read yet, but I'm skeptical about it being worth $50. I saw it last at the old Wexner Center annex gift shop, but that place has closed down - maybe the actual Wexner Center gift shop still has it, I dunno. I think they sell Pup Cup as well.*)
* One of the topics of much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Columbus area is how the Wexner Center had to be renovated when it had only been around since 1989, and the renovation took several years. IIRC this was because the construction was lousy the first time around: the official reason for the renovation was "structural improvements", but to my knowledge that had a lot to do with leaks, ventilation, blah blah blah.
Deer Figurine Wall Art - OK, you shouldn't buy things from Urban Outfitters unless the owner's support of Rick Santorum (potentially the weirdest right-wing politician going) doesn't bother you. It does bother me and I try not to shop there. That said, this is darling and I really want one. (Not as much as I've been wanting a Nara PupCup for like 18 months now, but enough.)
Happy Dolls - there's a whole website attached to this page, but this is the shop page with a good selection of stuff. You can buy tiny felt hand puppets and "pocket bunnies" and shoulder bags for Blythe and Pullip dolls, as well as puppies, comically "injured kitties" (they're wearing bandages but don't really look too perturbed by it), and other small animals made of felt. I want at least one of everything on this page! :D
Nintendogs Capsule Toys - tiny mascots of various characters from the Nintendogs game series; these will clip onto a cellphone or whatever else you choose. I am mostly entranced by the fact that they actually have the Sheltie - it's rare to find a Sheltie in stuff like this, because they aren't one of the most popular breeds. Though they seem reasonably popular in Japan: this year's Eukanuba Tournament of Champions Sheltie was actually a Japanese dog. (As I was saying to Nathalie a bit ago, I can't actually own Nintendogs because I'm pretty sure that I would ignore my actual live Sheltie to play with my Nintendog Sheltie, which only interested me to begin with because I also have a real one. Vicious circle!)
Robo-Gloomy! - I didn't like Gloomy Bears when they first came out - not the ones with the claws and the blood, anyway. Some of the models that I've seen since then are really cute, this one among them. See more at KidRobot. (See the cuteness that is the Babyhood bear?)
(I've linked a few things from Unica Home, and I'd also like to point out that they have Yoshitomo Nara's illustrated edition of Banana Yoshimoto's Argentine Hag, something which has been otherwise-difficult to get in the US for the last few years - this is the only work of Yoshimoto's that's been published in English that I haven't read yet, but I'm skeptical about it being worth $50. I saw it last at the old Wexner Center annex gift shop, but that place has closed down - maybe the actual Wexner Center gift shop still has it, I dunno. I think they sell Pup Cup as well.*)
* One of the topics of much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Columbus area is how the Wexner Center had to be renovated when it had only been around since 1989, and the renovation took several years. IIRC this was because the construction was lousy the first time around: the official reason for the renovation was "structural improvements", but to my knowledge that had a lot to do with leaks, ventilation, blah blah blah.
