Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Collectibles and Cute Stuff

So Japan is crazy about collectibles. Every place we visit has a kewpie doll dressed up as the local baseball team, with the local icon or even dressed as the local delicacy or delicious sweet. I bought a couple of Kewpie dolls at an awesome shop called Tokyu Hands. They come in sealed packages so you don't know what you are getting. I chose the animal series (series 1.5 that is!) and got one Leopard and one Rabbit. There was also a vegetable series and and a fruit series too. Cute!
We also saw models of designer chairs in the same collectible area (maybe your kinda thing Sarah!). Needless to say there were heaps of other options too.

They also seem to love owls as there are hundreds of the things in all shapes and sizes. Apparently they are lucky, not to mention pretty cute. So here's the owl that we bought. His name is Mr Owl and you might see him popping up in photos from time to time. He's a very adventurous owl:)

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