Nov 28, 2011

Eddie's blog

Hello you fine feathered friends!
My hubby recently started blogging, so if you haven't already, stop by and say hi here

Nov 16, 2011

Dream Pets

One of my photo assignments was to create a typology, so I decided to do so with part of our dream pet collection. 
I love the origin of these adorable velveteen animal friends.
Per Wikipedia, these miniature stuffed animals, made of velveteen and filled with Willow sawdust were manufactured in Japan beginning in 1957 by Japanese toy designers Tochigi Mongi and Tomy for R. Dakin & Co. The manufacturer surprised Dakin by using these little toys as packing material for a shipment of battery operated toy trains. Which Dakin had ordered. That same day The president of Dakin, Roger Dakin placed an order by cable to Japan for 25 dozen of the little velveteen toys, by the end of the day he changed his order to 300 dozen. By 1961 Dream Pets were being designed by Dakin's Senior toy designer Virginia Kemp in the United States. The toys became popular, and by the end of 1979 there were over 2000 different characters.
However, I must admit that the 'duck' on the very bottom-right row is not a dream pet after-all but was much too awesome not to be showcased. This celebrity has traveled from 1940s Italy. He goes by the name Donald and starred in The Three Caballeros :)
Adios amigos!

Nov 8, 2011

cauldron-trouble

It's my favorite time of the year, mostly because it involves costumes
(as if I need an excuse to dress-up!)
Here are some images from the Dia de Los Muertos festival at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
 
 
A drawing from my Eddie
 
Hooray for pumpkin patches!
A stellar time partying with friends Sean & Kellie!
 Since I didn't finish sewing my original costume in time, I decided to be Peggy Bundy for the evening
 I fare thee well and leave you with a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
 
A Dream  
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?