Showing posts with label TOYS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TOYS. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Finds from Out Of The Past Vo.I

There is a local store here in Austin that is called OUT OF THE PAST. It's an awesome store if you have time on your hands and patience to dig through her mountain of stuff!!

To give you an idea of what her store looks like:

The owner is an awesome lady by the name of Linda! She can come off as "rude" or "not nice" when you first meet her, but she's a sweet heart once you get a chance to get to know her! My husband and I ADORE HER!

It always seems like what she has in her store is ENDLESS! In most cases it is because once she sells something she fills in whatever space she's emptied, so every time I go there, I ALWAYS see something new!

ANYWAY! I want to start reporting on things I find that, in my opinion, are really neat!
Today's Item is:

I've always found this to be super cute!
It looks like it's a little Dutch boy and girl. They are a bit faded but what do you expect for in a vintage shop? She keeps moving them throughout the store, so I always have a fear of her selling them. I would like to get them but I don't know what I would do with them!

Her toy selection is awesome! We've found so many cool toys, even some that I remember from my childhood! But I'll show off more next time!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Around my house~ #2

I have posted before things that were around my house because I had no other interesting pictures to show you!
but now I have decided to continue it, but this time I'll have a theme!
Today's theme will be: SAILOR MOON!!


These are magnets on my fridge, I bought them when I was in high school. I had never taken them out of the plastic wrapping they were in, until (4years later) my ex roommate had his sister and her husband with two little girls over, one of them was about 8 and the other one was like 3. Anyway the point is that while I was at work I came back and my heart cracked a little bit when I saw all of them were OPENED!! And the wrapping no where to be found!!! I admit its really ridiculous to over react to something like that but when its something that you cherish and hold dear to you because you know its not an easy thing to find!!
Like for example, its as if a Star Wars collector had something that was priceless to him (and probably would be priceless to anyone) that was very old and unopened, and then have a little 8 year old girl open it... and then throw away the wrapping! Its just as bad! Anyway.. had to clean them very carefully because she smudged god knows what on them and left her finger prints. Felt like I had to wipe them away as if I'm taking back my territory and marking it, like when dogs "mark" their "territory".... God I sound ridiculous!


I bought this 3D poster from the same place I bought my Sailor Moon magnets. They had more of them at that store, they closed it though. If they were still open I would have probably bought them out on any and all sailor moon related stuff they sold there!


These are actually pretty cool! I work at Quiznos, and before they "re-modeled" they had all these word bubbles with silly things talking about the quality of the ingredients and what not. I asked my manager what he was going to do with the display word bubbles, he said nothing and then offered them to me. I had an idea to buy chalk board paint, and painting them so I can write stuff on them! In this case I wrote down one of my favorite quotes on it!



This is a shelf filled with many random things... mainly toys. A lot of the stuff on the top shelf was given to us by grandma! I'll show you later on what other animal shaped things she gave us. Point is, I still have my cake top that is the little Hand made sailor moon looking thing on the bottom left corner of the picture.


These are mainly most of the figures I own. The tall badly painted sailor moon figure with Luna on her shoulder I bought on a trip to my home town in Mexico(back in 2002), Guadalajara! There was a ceramic store where you can guy bare ceramic figurines and paint it. This one is a piggy bank, there is a hole on her back for coins. The Sailor moon clock that is right next to it I think I bought it at... actually I cant remember WHERE I bought it! ... interesting... anyway I remember having it since middle school. Something traumatic happened during middle school that I cannot possibly care any less to remember so I guess that is not the only memory that I "deleted" if you will. Its super cute because when it goes off it plays the sailor moon theme song and between every pause it says "GOOD MORNING" and the song continues. It's EXTREMELY LOUD and it continues until you press the button again.

In this picture I have my super generic sailor moon wands XD because I cant afford the real ones! The little pink clock is also an alarm clock. I bought it because it reminds me a lot of the Sailor Moon castle in the moon! I couldn't take a very good picture of it, but you can make out the little crescent moon shapes on top of both sides of the poles that are on top of the little domes. and the domes themselves are very Sailor-Moon-castle-ly. But this one has yet another exremely loud sound, of an indian lady singing in that weird style that is traditional to them.



This little box was bought at the same store I bought my 3D sailor moon poster in my bathroom!
It holds my jewelry, what I mean by that is it holds all of my plugs! I have gauged ears so that is all I wear. and I wear no rings, part of the reason why I tattooed my wedding band on.. more to come for that later! and its also my book end for that stack of whatever that is.



Saved the BEST FOR LAST!
this is what my husband calls the "Eye Raping Corner of Cuteness" the day after we got back from our honey moon in San Fran, I unpacked all of my sailor moon poster finds from China Town and gathered the rest in one corner! I got 8 posters from China Town all thanx to my husbands good eye for finding things. Best story about this is the Sailor Stars wall scroll at the top I haggled for at some flea market looking place, they were using the poster to cover under a display table so that you couldn't see their unorganized mess!! WHAT A WASTE OF A GOOD POSTER!! Anyway, I freaked out with excitement and my husband was trying to calm me down and he found the lady in charge, she at first said that it was ugly and old, told her I didn't care and asked how much she wanted for it. She didn't know what to tell me, so she asked me how much I would pay, and still shocked I couldn't answer. Then she went back to ask someone about it, then she said it was not for sale... anyway I almost walked away and she I guess noticed how sad I looked and she offered it to me for $5 and I told her $4, she took too long to make up her mind and I started to walk away slowly and she said OK!
HAH!!! Score one for Me, none for Asian lady in China town!
I'm way too proud of that! Hahahaha!!


I hope you enjoyed this! and I'll try to bring more interesting things to write about! :D
HAPPY READING!

Friday, May 13, 2011

New Toys!

My husband and I love toys!
Especially this specific Japanese brand of toys that are super pose able:
REVOLTECH
I wanted some of my own but I either, 1)Don't know any of the characters they actually make. Or 2) They cost too much.
So my husband convinced me to get some anyway!
And I did! :D
I bought four and they were all under $10 each. Which is amazing because that brand of toys is not cheap, a good one will run about $60. All of these are called FRAULEIN, I guess its the line for female characters?
they are a bit flimsy, they come with different hands you can change into. Although they are really difficult to put on and off, I already broke the joint on the blonde one's right hand...
The joints from the very first REVOLTECH used to click in place, yes they actually make the clicking sound. The click I guess means that its a stronger hold on any position you put them in. The only thing that clicks on my dolls are their feet.

Being the shutter happy girl that I am. I had a bit of a photo shoot with my new toys!
Here is the result of my creative boredom!

More pictures to come. I got busy and had other things to take care of...
I posed the blonde one in a couple of popular Sailor Moon poses. That's pretty much the closest thing I can get to it so! might as well! :D

I'll have more pictures later!
I plan on buying miniature things so my dolls have something to do! XD!

Monday, November 22, 2010

XMas wish list


My other macera broke... and a little piece of me went with it..
$53



Totaly Want this... Rly bad! T__T
$95

Thats pretty much it :3

Sunday, November 14, 2010

My Godzilla fix

MECHA GODZILLA
HIGH FIVE!!!










Godzilla likes to shop
in American Malls,
only the huge
ones thought...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Around my house~ #1

I haven't been posting much, My hours at Quiznos have doubled... I'm greatful for that because my pay check has also doubled, I'm working on getting insurance and then stickers for my car so I can drive.. or at least practice for my driving test~
I pull 12hr shifts mondays and saturdays and then 2-4hr shift in the days between. Quiznos hired two new people, and I think the managers have left me to train both of them, one of them works during the day every day and the other new guy works at night mondays and saturdays with me. Come to think of it... I think I have trained everyone there except for the other employee who has been working there before me~~ ANYWAY! side story sorry~~

Since I don't have many new pictures, I'll show you ones that I already have of around my house~~



This is actually a pretty cool idea that my fiancee and his roommate have~
those are regular milk crates that they 'found' around dumpsters and stuff, its their little library of comic novels that are I guess recent.. not sure if that is the proper word for it, but they are always lending out comic books to people and I always see them putting stuff back or taking stuff out.



This is the top of our living room television~
I think more toys have been added since this picture, the MUNNY vinyl toys are mine, oh and the GAMERA one too :3


This is in our room, thats just two walls of our poster filled room!
Its so much better than bare walls!


I bought this movie shelf from one of my sister's friends who used to own a movie shop here in Austin. Long story short, she doesnt have the shop anymore and she sold me this shelf :3
I figured it was a good buy since the guys love movies and they love to collect them, it will take a few shelves out of our living space and put it all in one wall!


Thats pretty much IT for now.. Comic books, Toys, Posters, and a Movie Shelf...very exciting I know...

Saturday, January 9, 2010

My new Sailor Moon toys!!

For XMAS one of my good friends Tim gave me a gift certificate to one of my favourite stores... TOY JOY!!
It's an amazing local toy store here in Austin.
So They had these new Sailor Moon toys of the sailor scouts little house/castle things!
so adorable!!

I bought one of my own when they first got them, since they didn't have that many of Sailor Moon I decided to get her first! And that was about $20 for it. They didn't have Mercury, the register girl had told me that it was back stock of stuff they couldn't sell anymore. And I figured they had sold out of Mercury first because in Japan the most popular sailor scout was Mercury~~

It came with some accessories for her room, and stickers to put on them (which I have already put on)
I love the huge 80's phone it comes with, also tiny little pens and pencils, as well as her suit case with pencil case!! The alarm clock is another cute thing that came with her room and on top of her dresser she has her communicating watch, or a sticker of it atleast.

She comes with a super tiny super detailed wand!
I'm thinking of super gluing it to her so I don't lose it D; as I have done in the past!!
She is also very detailed!

I took a lot more pictures than I'm showing here that you are more than welcome to check out!


Well with my friends gift card to TOY JOY I went and bought the next one that they had the least of, which was Sailor Jupiter, and it was at a very discounted price!! but I was told that it didn't have all the pieces so it would just be her and the house, so I decided to go with Sailor Venus!








Sailor Venus' house/castle is medical themed~
I guess because in the show she wants to be a nurse~
I love the accessories that come with hers! she has a tiny syringe, well compared to the two inch Venus doll its huge! also some scissors a thing to take your temperature with. OH! and the things to measure your height and weight, oh and that weird round thing that also came with the Sailor Moon house, I think its supposed to be like a seat of some sort, and a screen so you can change in privacy and stuff.


My only other two inch figure is of Sailor Mars so I had her visit both houses!
OHMYGATO IM SUCH A LOSER T___T""'
But this shit here makes me happy!! >:3

I hope you enjoyed the pictures!:D!!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

INTRODUCING...

Hello I would like you to meet the people I live with!
To start with, I live with my boyfriend, Chadd. And his best friend Matt.
Recently my younger brother graduated and my mother remarried, since there was a chance that my mother was going to move out of town, we offered for my younger brother, Steve, to come stay with us and he did, although my mother never moved.

Chadd and I



Steve


Matt doesn't like pictures~~

oh btw I LOVE Sailor Moon!
I have tons of pictures of all my toys and Ill be sharing them quite a bit!




I dont know how long I have had these Sailor Mars is a little worn~
the Sailor Moon figure I have recently bought I forgot where online~ D;
I find tons of things online that I want to buy, but before a couple of months ago I didn't have card, now that I do I'm afraid I'll spend more money than I have lol
Maybe I shouldn't put so much money in my account

Thats it for now! see you later!