Another daring rescue...

After rescuing one Pikachu from sitting, bored and lonely, on a charity shop shelf, I was called into action once again when I saw this guy needing some help as well...

He was sat in our back alley on top of a bin, obviously going to thrown out with the trash :( Under cover of darkness I snuck out, brought him into the safety of our kitchen, and gave him a good check over. After making sure he was nice and clean and OK, he now has a nice bed in our spare room. He sure looks sad that someone was going to throw him away :<

Kawaii giveaway!

My favourite kawaii website, Super Cute Kawaii is having a giveaway! Simply leave a comment on the competition post for a chance to win a lovely bag of cute goodies :)

Link here:

http://www.supercutekawaii.com/2009/06/kawaii-giveaway/#comments

Good luck everyone! ^_^

eBay buys

I decided to put a few old T-shirts on eBay that I never wear anymore, and made a whopping £35, so I decided to treat myself to a few things and went a little kawaii mad. Here's what I got...

This adorable Neko strawberry pencil case. I'm going to use it to keep my makeup in instead of using it as a pencil case, it's the perfect size for taking travelling or when visiting my parents for the weekend.

I've had my eye on these cute little milk coin purses for a long time, I decided to get a set of three, including this fruit one, a chocolatey one and a green one with a little leaf. I probably won't use them to keep coins in, but I couldn't resist them anyway.

Ever since I've been little, seals have been my favourite animal, so when I first saw Mamegoma I naturally loved them! Now I'm finally able to have a little 'bean seal' of my own ^_^ And I don't think they come much cuter than this little pink lady with her cheerful yellow bow.

I can't decide what I'm going to do with this cupcake hook, but I have to wait until we move house in August until I can hang it up so I have plenty of time to decide. Do I use it in the hallway to keep keys on, or hang it in the kitchen for tea towels or oven gloves? I chose the cake in the middle, with the pink frosting and sprinkles. Maybe it would be more suited for the kitchen...



Lastly, I couldn't resist buying this little guy. I'm just a big old softy, and he looks very squishy and loveable. I can't wait for him to get here so I can give him a nice big welcoming hug :)

Lucky me :)

Another Boots freebie from the Christmas offer that I forgot to mention, from the Lucki panda range. Featuring a cute baby blue polka dot pattern, a little panda face zip charm and of course this very cheery looking, starry-eyed panda. A gift off my lovely boyfriend Si :)

Want!

While browsing eBay I found this amazing Pocky bag, but unfortuantely, due to being very low on funds at the moment, £15 seems a bit steep for what is essentially a non-essential item. However, I've come up with the cunning plan to sell some of my old clothes on eBay, and use the potential profit to buy the bag. That way I can have it pretty much guilt free and clear out some junk and free up some space at the same time :) And talking about Pocky, they used to have them in the vending machine at my uni library, but they stopped putting them in. Bring them back please!

Freecycle finds

A lovely lady called Celia answered my Freecycle plea for some crochet and crafting materials by kindly giving me some crochet instruction books and some lovely scraps of fabric. Only a few more days until dissertation hand-in and I'll hopefully be able to start some crafty projects to occupy my time. Now I just have to decide what to do with them, I wish I had my craft box from my parent's house, it's full of random fabrics and ribbons. Until then, I'll leave you with this...

Murray the murloc tadpole! Anyone who plays World of Warcraft will be familiar with the murlocs. I absolutely adore the baby murloc tadpoles, and this amigurumi cutie comes with his own broken I.W.I.N button. He's a geek like me's dream and he comes from lulahoop's Etsy store which can be found here http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7097491 /want

Roy

Imagine how delighted I was the other day when I opened our fridge and found this little guy sitting inside. My friend Becky made him for my flatmate's birthday, and they decided to call him Roy. If he was my cake, I'd feel guilty about eating him :( I love his little googly ladybug eyes!

Amigurumi

Amigurumi is something I've wanted to try for a while. I might see if some nice person on Freecycle has any spare wool and crochet needles for me. Going to have to wait a few weeks to finish all my uni work before I start a new project, but being able to craft my own adorable little squishy pals is something I'd be willing to have a go at :)

Meanwhile, I'll just have to look at other people's efforts...

These happy little pineapples are available to buy, along with other kawaii goodies, from KatUno's blog, at http://katuno.com/blog/ They remind me of holidays, being on a sunny beach with a tropical cocktail....

The second one on my wishlist is this adorable mug of hot chocolate. I love his rosy little cheeks and the way even the marshmallow has a happy face. So cute ^_^ The design is from the book Amigurumi World: Seriously Cute Crochet.

Latest Buy

While I was scouring charity shops for fancy dress accessories, I found this guy perched high upon a shelf, for a bargain price of £2.50. How could I resist? He's wonderfully fat and cuddly, now all I need is to find a place for him to sit :)

My things

While I don't have a lot of kawaii items in my house (yet!) I thought I'd share a few of the ones I do own, what are hopefully the start of a lovely big collection!

I bought this cute owls photo album just before Christmas, from Boots. What's even better about it is that it was in the 'Buy two gifts get one free' offer so I didn't pay a penny for it :)

One of my favourite things is my Hannari tofu mobile phone holder. I bought him off eBay and he comes in a range of colours. He keeps my iPhone all safe and snuggly while I sleep :)

Welcome!

Hi everyone, welcome to my new blog! Not much to report at the moment, am looking to learn crochet so I can start making some adorable amigurumi but I'm pretty hopeless at that kind of thing, will have to ask my nanna for some tips! Will hopefully have new things to add fairly regularly, another thing to work on is improving my computer illitaracy so I'll be able to add lots of pretty pictures and links to my entires.

Looking forward to seeing you soon
Claire ^_^