Vintage Wooden egg cups! :)

I spotted these while having a rummage at an antiques shop. I zoned in on their little painted faces, and they were only 50p each, a bargain in my eye, especially as they are hand-painted. They are egg cups, but I think they are too pretty to be kept in a cupboard so I am using them to put my rings and necklaces in at night.

New toys :)

Toki Doki Unicorn

Android 

Lunartik in a Cup of Tea (mini series)

New goodies that me and Joe bought the other day from 'Nostalgia and Comics' In Birmingham. I can never get over how excited I get over these colourful, little pieces of vinyl!  

Christmas and New Year Catch up!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! Here's to 2010, despite the freezing start! Although it is nice to see some proper snow, but sure after a few more days i'll have had my fill of it!

I have thought about making some new year resolutions, though haven't quite gotten round to putting them on paper! How abouts I think of a few now?
1) pass my driving test
2) learn atleast one new skill
3) create more artwork and research more artwork
4) Draw more
5) waste less time on networking sites

Hopefully I'll be able to keep all of them, not sure I'll quite manage 5 though!

 I thought I would post up some pics of some of the christmas goodies me and my husband got, I had fun taking photos of them on Christmas morning!

some cool sweeties! I haven't had the heart to eat the lolly pops yet! They are just too cute!

got my hands on this limited edition blink 182 bunny off amazon, as a pressie for my hubby! He looks quite the ticket, heading our motley crew of designer vinyl art toys, hopefully this year we'll actually get to see them tour!

 This is a fantastic, felt doorstop, that is a replica of our own 1969 bay VW. My wonderful sister in law Lydia made it for me. Isn't it brilliant!?

Here is another great star wars mighty mugg for our collection. The fantastic ewok 'wicket' (I have on occasion been compared to one of these fellas!) We really want yoda and princess Leia, but they are so difficult to get hold of!

Just thought I'd show you our wonderful tree topper that we had for this christmas! Meet King Ken. We did want a nice simple star, but couldn't find one. I think this fella did a better job in the end tho!


Also, at new year we used a chinese paper lantern. I'd recommend these to anyone wanting a peaceful and graceful alternative to fire works. We first saw them being used when we went on holiday to woolacombe, north devon, last year. They really looked fantastic against the sea back-drop as the sun set, so my husband bought me a couple for Christmas.

Goodies!

Me and my husband went to Manchester yesterday to catch up with 2 good friends. We had a great time, high lights of the day (apart from of course seeing our friends) was visiting afflecks palace, where we decided to adopt this little creature. We named him Stuart, as my husband believed he shared a canny resemblance to one of the friends we were with, strangely enough called Stuart! He's ace, and was made by Sausage dog who has an etsy site www.sausagedog.etsy.com.




We also happened upon the Richard Goodall Gallery in the Northern Quarter. It was awesome, and there was an exhibition of custom designed Lurnartik tea cup vinyl toys. Wish we had had time to peruse it in more detail http://www.richardgoodallgallery.com/rggstore/lunartik-tea-cup-vinyl-signing-dec-12-n-62.html   http://www.lunartik.com/  . However, we did purchase a festive (albeit slightly disturbing) festive dunny and the cutest dunny I've ever seen, both designed by chuckboy. Although slightly miffed, as the lion one did come with a piece of meat as an accessory, but we lost it some where on the way back from Manchester :( poor hungry lion!

These delightful fellows have been added to our modest, but growing collection of collectable art vinyl toys: