Cutie Valentine's Day Heart Guys

Cute, cute, cute! Admittedly, I saw these little guys on fredflare.com and fell in love so I decided to see if I could make copies of them for myself. Easy cheesy! These little guys were made my cutting out paper hearts from a perfect heart pattern I drew and cutting out white eyes and coloring in the details with markers. Maybe a half hour project total and I must say they turned out awesome.

Next time I will have to come up with my own Valentine ideas but in defense of copying, I really wanted these little dudes! Besides, I would never pay fredflare.com $10 bucks and they don't ship to Korea!

Visual Stimuli

I am a big fan of plentiful and eyesore visual stimuli so I decided to put together a little something to hold some of the photobooth stickers I have been collecting. I made this little thing by covering a piece of white paper with decorative tapes and then adding the photobooth stickers and glittery, puffy, cute, and gaudy stickers galore.

I shall call this masterpiece: "Smile Happy".

Cute Eats

I wanted to share with you these very cute kitchen goods. The little fork and spoon collection have pictures on top of a turtle, octopus, fish, and penguin. The little containers can be used for soy sauce or salad dressing for picnics or lunches. You could even put your favorite lotion in one for travel. And at only 1,000 won each, its a steal!

The New Girls

To releive stress and entertain myself a bit, I have purchased a new plastic figurine everyday over lunch break. It definitely amuses me! Makes me feel like a kid again:)

I am actually a bit embarassed to buy these little toys from the capsule machine outside of the bodega near my school. Yesterday, I was pumping my coins into the little slot when a mother and her child came behind me to buy the newest Pokemon capsule toy. I wonder are these little figures I buy considered adult toys? Or overly sexy and a bit vulgar? I felt sooo dirty! Sometimes it is a bit of a blessing in disguise that I can not speak Korean, so that I don't have to hear all of the aweful things that people probably say when they see me!

So anyways, here are "The New Girls"

Girlfriend in a Bubble

Lately, I have been fascinated by all the cute toys you can get out of the vending machines outside of some stores. My new favorite as of today are the super-sexy bubble girls! I did a bit of research on them when I got home and found out that most of the toys are produced by Bandai, the Japanese toy company that makes Tamagachi, the digital pocket pets that were popular when I was in middle school. These vending machines are called "Gashapon" in Japan.... I am not 100% sure what they are called here in Korea but I know they are common in the lobby area of Lotte Mart and E-Mart here in Suji.

"Gashapon are the nifty encapsuled toys and trinkets found just about anywhere in Japan. Gashapon machines are basically they are toy vending machines, randomly dispensing their wares when money is inserted and the handle is turned. Turn the handle--"gasha!"--and "pon!", out comes the toy!"

For more information about the phenomena:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gashapon

Here are my pictures of the girls in the bubbles I picked up today!

Cute Distro

I am thinking I should start a distro for cute things from Korea to America. I think that if I could get them shipped cheaply, I should have absolutely no problem selling them for a much higher price back in the states. Everything here in Korea is sooo cute and actually a good deal different than most of the other products you can get back in the U.S. I think of websites like Fred Flare and Urban Outfitters that sell things even remotely close to the stuff they have in Korea and I feel like I could make some money here! In the mean time, I photographed some things I have had around the house to prove my point.