I decided to have theme day posts. I'm bored and want to try something different, I guess.
Disneyland was major fun. I got to met my Belle and Jaime's daughter got to met her Cinderella.
She was up in San Francisco for the week. I took her to Color me Mine in Westlake to make a plate for him for Father's Day. Of course, she told him she painted a plate. There was drama with her mother because she had fun with "my Gladys." I was expecting the yelling to be about her daughter and me at Disneyland but instead it was about a plate and her having fun with me.
What can you do?
I was disappointed with Color me Mine though. It was Tea Thursday. Pretty much you paint a tea pot and get a tea cup for free. There were no tea cups to be found and all the sample/colored tea pots I liked, they didn't have for me to paint. Later, the sale girl tells me since it's not a popular night, they don't ordered much tea stuff and then it turned out the free tea cup was pretty much a sake cup.
I get to pick up the finished plate tomorrow. I'm hoping nothing happens to it because the next time she's up here is June. I read reviews on yelp.com and they were pretty bad. One lady said they broke most all the pieces her and her friends had worked on. =/
I finally picked up my "I hate you" neckalce! I got a 60 dollar gift card and used it towards it. I want to wear it at work but I don't think I can get away with it. They don't like me wearing the Pirate Pistol necklace so I doubt a "I hate you" one would fly at the Concierge desk.
Oh, I also did a lot of thrift shopping. I'll post pictures of my finds. I found a Scooby Doo Clue board game, VHS tapes of Sailor Moon dubbed, some tea cups, and clothes!
I just wanted to do a quick update. I hope everyone is doing well out there. I'll post pictures from Disneyland soon!
I am a thrift store whore.
I love to thrift shop and since I had time to kill today so I went to Goodwill.
Jaime went to the post office to pick up the package I got from JenaVi and I AM IN LOVE!!
I present to you, APPLE BOY!!
My boyfriend thinks he's the coolest!! THANK YOU JENAVI!!! She made me Apple Boy for the "pay it forward."
You have inspired to me to make more toys out of felt.
I had a blast making Cyn and just getting your present makes me want to
do MORE!! I have found another thing to make my friend for Christmas!!
Woot!! Now let's see if I can cut out a cute tooth....
Also, I had to go to UPS to pick up my package that I ordered from Joanns. It has more supplies to make the rest of my gifts. Anyways, Jaime and I hit up a goodwill on the way there and I found the cutest thing!!
His name is Cheburashka. According to Wikipedia, he's a character from a kids book in Russia. The story goes, Cheburashka is from a tropical forest. He sneaks over to a crate of oranges, eats them and falls asleep. The shop owner who gets him gives him that name because he "tumbles down." He's so numb from being in the crate that long, he just falls off the table, lands on the chair but falls from there, and hits the floor.
I found a yellow box, sitting on the shelf. I open it to see the top of the crate. I pull it out of the box and see orange sticker on it. I open it to see the doll laying on straw with plastic oranges. I had to buy him. He reminded me of Mogwai and Monchichi's.
I looked up the info online and youtube had clips of the show. I also read that the character is popular in Japan as well. I found Japanese dubbed clips too.
I get to UPS and they told me my package was on the truck again. I had called to tell them I would pick it up today but the lady punched into the computer to re deliver it. They promised me they would have it for me tomorrow. WASTE OF MY TIME!! I could be doing melt beads right now!!
On one of my many adventures I came across the most awesome thing!!
A Xyron 250 sticker machine for $1.50!!
Yes, a buck fifty!!
It didn't have a refill but that was no problem. I was so excited!!
I use to have a Xyron 510 but sold it to fund my Tokyo trip. I just haven't been able to afford another. I decided to go with a 250 instead. I only used my 510 for making stickers and not the other stuff. I also never stickered 5" items so I was wasting the sticky stuff.
The 250 is for items up to 2" and the refills are either Adhesive Permanent or Adhesive Repositionable. The 510 was both, magnets, and Laminate.
I've seen the 250 being sold in blue but the one I found is RED. It was actually sold as a Kids room project kit. You got the machine, paper, die cuts, and repositionable refill. Nothing else was included, just the machine which is fine! I paid $1.50 and the machine goes for 20 bucks in most stores.
Also, I'm bidding on 2 boxes of refill and I'm winning at 4.50!! I can't wait to get the refills so I can start using it! I use to use my 510 so much in my scrapbooking. So use to run the cut out letters and not have to deal with the mess of glue.
I haven't had a chance to take a picture of the actual red one but this a stock photo of the machine. It's cute and looks even better in red!
]]>Okay, so after the SF Pride Festival and the Asian Art Museum, we headed down to 19th street and Valencia. My main reason in going was to check out a store some one told me about on the Pinky Street Forums.
You see the mini capsule machines in the photo? That was my reason to go. The girl posted a picture of her pinky with the 5 mini Sanrio capsule machines. They are cute and I love them. Naturally, I had to get them. I've seen on ebay Disney ones. I really want them but I have to wait til I get some money because they go for a lot.
They had Twin Little Stars, Hello Kitty, Kerokerokeroppi, The Strawberry King, and Chococat. I could only get two so I picked up the ones she only had one left. She also carries other cute random toys. Mainly the surprise box toys. There are stickers, stationary, candy, and Bobba tea.
She carries a lot of Japanese items. Sad she's all the way out in the Mission. I get lazy getting out there. Ha ha!
Yes Pirate store.
They sold everything and anything pirate stuff. It was cool and really different. We didn't buying anything which in a way was good because our wallets were pretty much hurting all week.
We finally got to Borderland Books and we looked around. I found some really interesting titles but alas, all the stuff I wanted was new. I'm trying to stick in buying used because most of the time I only read them once and leave them on the shelf. I've been meaning to pick up "A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore and there was something called "The Cellar." I, like always, forgot the author. Eh, I'll find it soon enough.
We then headed back to mission and grabbed some food at Taqueria Cancun. Jaime loves the place and I could always go for some good tacos. We then walked down Mission to 16th street and visited some thrift stores along the way.
I scored the original VHS box cover of The Little Mermaid for 3.99!
Finally the box is my collection. After all the drama surrounding the damn cover art, I hadn't been able to get it for my VHS collection. It was in and out of the stores with the quickness.
If I did find it, it was priced up the ass because "it was out of print." The store also had a used Game Gear for 9.95 but it didn't have batteries or a game to try out. No one knew if it worked and I couldn't bring it back if it didn't. I decided next time I'm in the hood, bring a game and batteries. If it's still there, try it out. They even had Atari 2600 games but neither one of us has the system.
We were looking through the media section when someone over the PA system said they were closing. They closed at 7 and we didn't realize it was so late. We still had a whole half of the second floor to check out. We said we would go back when we had money.
After that we decided to head home because my ankle was killing me but I don't like to complain. It's been hurting me since that semi fall I had while a Disneyland back in January. The running joke is don't let me get churros. I was running back to the line with two churros, one in each hand. A kid cuts me off and I save the churros instead. Foot hasn't been the same. Unless I'm totally dying, I don't go to the doctors. It's always fine the next day.
That was our adventure yesterday. It was a nice way to spend a day off. Thrift store shopping is always fun, especially with him. Jaime is the only one that understands the awesomeness of finding NES games or random LPs. We can also spend hours upon hours just randomly in a book store, especially if it's used. We just lose track of time.
It's awesome!! And I leave you with this photos, which pretty much shows the awesomeness day I had!!