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Here are two lovely one ounce mini-bottles from the House of Koshu "Rainbow Set" of flavored Japanese liqueurs from the '60s, featuring wooden Kokeshi-style doll heads. I have the Sakura (cherry liqueur) and...
July 29th, 2010 by Mark Blackwell
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This is Animal Balloon Craft complete with Inflato-pumP, to make your own balloon animals.The Dachshund on the front grows as you slide the can apart, and is happily inflating balloons with its own inflato-pump.The...
July 29th, 2010 by Planet Joan
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WHO'S YOUR TIGER?...
July 29th, 2010 by k2dtw
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When (casually) passing through Peak's Island, Maine visit the Umbrella Cover Museum. From the website: " The Umbrella Cover Museum is dedicated to the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life. It is...
July 29th, 2010 by compliance9
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My grandmother gave this to me 10+ years ago and I have no idea what it goes to, where it's from and what it's for (as with many things that are passed to me from her hands). Perhaps I'm reading too much into...
July 29th, 2010 by windupkitty
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Long before Mr. Clean and Magic Sponge promised fewer steps and happy housewives came Harwood's Sponge Cloth, one of many modern miracle kitchen products offered for the first time in history in the post-war...
July 29th, 2010 by Allee Willis
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A post here from 7/27/2010 reminded me that I have these fabulous monkeys to add to the jungle.
They look like really expensive old ivory, don't they? Well, they're heavy plastic made to fool the tourist...
July 29th, 2010 by Lisa Rios
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i took the fish photo at an auction in flint, mi though it wasn't in the auction. it's 12" wide and painted on ridged styrofoam with the word "welcome" prominently emblazoned across its side.
July 29th, 2010 by DetroitKent
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Hokey named stores like this make me break out into a rash. I may photograph them but I usually don't step one foot inside of them. I just don't get the name.
July 29th, 2010 by denny
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The most breathtaking outfit I have ever seen. What I could do with that material! I love the color combo of the purple and green.
July 28th, 2010 by denny
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I love Japanese convenience products born out of blended east and west needs and Pop Culture, especially ones by way of Vietnam as this toilet product is. In this case, not only are the translations awkward...
July 28th, 2010 by Allee Willis
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Crazy flowers grow in the jungles of kitschdom.
The blue one came from my early days of kitsch-collecting. When I was a teenager, I bought a lot of stuff like this when I would visit the flea markets...
July 28th, 2010 by Nessa
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A jackalope is a hybrid critter that is part jackrabbit and part antelope. They are found primarily in the West and parts of the Southwest. They are fierce animals when provoked, sometimes referred to as warrior...
July 28th, 2010 by Michael Ely
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Don't you think the sneakers add some personality to this lion ?
Another of many jungle animal oddities I found at a rummage sale just today. The workers were setting up and allowed me to walk around and...
July 28th, 2010 by MyFunCloset
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You're driving along minding your own business in Pakistan, when across the horizon there's a bright flash. But this isn't your run-of-the-mill Country of India neighbors setting off mushroom cloud fireworks,...
July 28th, 2010 by Mark Milligan
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I love singing insects.
July 28th, 2010 by denny
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I loved the colors and the size of these old little wooden blocks (1.25" each). I keep them on my desk.
July 28th, 2010 by Michael M.
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This is a handmade, modified version of the popular board game Guess Who. All of the mystery people on this game board come from a catalog of 1982 Miss Georgia pageant contestants.
Because all of the...
July 28th, 2010 by Mooshe
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We all know cute stuffed teddy bears, kitties, dogs, birds, whales and every kind of animals seen on Earth or on any other planet.
But have you ever been introduced to Toire-sama? (トイレ...
July 28th, 2010 by Gilles Snowcat
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Other than the fact that it's packaged in a 750ml bottle, the standard size vessel for champagne, the stretch to connect product with name is so thin and precarious here as to induce the medical condition...
July 27th, 2010 by Allee Willis
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