Life is What Happens...

 ..."When you are busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon

 Summer is just about over here for us on Guam. School starts early next month. So let the new school year begin!

Here are some finds recently...

vtg wire plate wall mount.

 

I was searching for a way to display my vintage Valentine's Chocolate box. Then it dawned on me I could either make a wall holder for it or buy one? But what was even easier was to find a vintage plate wall mount!! This one was perfect! It's made of a strong wire metal and shaped into hearts at the ends. Of course meant to hold a plate, but instead I used it to hold my box!! It was perfect!! Definitely happy with the way this turned out! Yay!

This is a special Aqua Valentine's Chocolate Box!

 Next, this adorable Animal Rummy card deck, that came unopened. I have a small collection of adorable Whitman card games with adorable animals in each of them!! This is a lovely set! A great addition to my collection too! My faves are the bunny and bear!

Just look at these adorable animals!!

 Below, after a month it finally arrived a 2nd version of the vintage Bandai rare anthropomorphic toaster. This one comes with original toast and winds up too! I listed my other toaster in my shop! If anyone is interested?! I've also added two more vintage festival masks to my mask wall! Now, I have a panda and Lunlun!! I love waking up to seeing my collection around me. Thanks to my husband for allowing me to have a place to display my treasures!! Love you Sam!!

Both toasters side by side!

Festival Masks Collection.

 I found this lovely minty Irice Ado Mizumori Hair Spray cover can recently and sold it. She even came with her original tag!! Truly amazing piece too! 

Original Irice Japan Tag!

Below, I have been on the hunt for a minty Macoto T. child purse for my collection of Macoto items and I finally did! She is minty and hot pink with chain straps. Lovely Macoto T. Artwork of a Victorian maiden, surrounded by flowers. Definitely one of my sought after pieces for my little collection! Yippee!

Macoto Takahashi artwork.

 Another item I have always wanted is this adorable 3D Litho posedoll coin purse. I've seen them through out my searches from time to time, but it has always alluded me. I guess it was my time. I was able to do a direct purchase and now this piece lives with me. It needed a bit of cleaning up, and it came with its original metal maker's tag!! I've never seen it with this tag! It's so cute too! Haha!

Front.

Back.

The next few items, I found in a lot. This adorable Heidi compact, sadly, missing the chain necklace. Still in lovely condition. Mahou no Makochan necklace mirror n comb. I've always wanted one, but they can be very expensive. So to find one in the lot was just amazing and cheap!! Yay me! 

Heidi compact.

Makochan mirror comb.

New Neverland goods!

Sara and I went out for a little window shopping and visited the New Neverland shop and I found these adorable animal rulers and a pink gem bow ring!! I simply fell in love with the ring! The shop owner even let me choose a gift! So I got this Sailormoon emblem popsocket! That was so nice of them! I need to visit the shop again soon! Haha!

Vtg Rattle Toy Pony.

 Above, this adorable pink corduroy Pony rattle toy is vintage and has adorable rattles tied in his mane and tail! I believe he is by Plakie. I've added him to my shop and he just too cute to pass up!! Below, I took my toy grand piano from our old house and brought it up here for some photos. So I displayed him next to the red Showa bear. Reminds me of those vintage postcards with toys. Yesss!!

On IG, I found some cute items to add to my collection from a seller. I couldn't resist this adorable Laundry Pin set with rope and toy telephone. The same seller also had this adorable Stahlwood squeak toy milk bottle still MIP!! I love the colors too! Teehee! Great prices too!

And... Lastly, this Lot of vintage 2nd generation Licca Chan vinyl paper dolls! All came with their own boxes and accessories! Whoa!! I had one in my collection. I will keep a few and sell a few. They are listed in my shop already! Just love them and I believe they went with those adorable miniature furniture pieces also by Lotte Licca! I will have to display them so you can see what I am talking about.

Welp, that's all for now. A lot more then I expected but this post also included items I found late last month! Haha! Which only arrived this month, thanks to Ground Advantage. UGH!!!

Happy Thrifting guys!

Thank you for looking! ~ ggsdolls 

A Toy A Day...

 ... "Keeps the Sadness Away." ~ unboxingtoys

 So very true. I think toys or blind boxes are the craze these days even with adults! I am not surprised honestly. While gatchas of Japan have been around for ages, it is wild that blind boxes are like a new thing these days...

Oh well, if you love to open a blind box to find the secret one is your game plan. It is all good. It's what makes you happy and no judgement here!! June is here, and I found this adorable vintage 1950s Whitman Color Fun coloring book! If you look at the front cover, it reminds me of Meyercord decals! The sweet little bun and duckling, are similar if not the same as those adorable decals, Right?! It's amazing that Meyercord was so popular back then, that they even made coloring books with the same style! Simply love the design, and inside the anthropomorphic animals are just as adorable!

None of the pages were colored, how amazing is that! I wonder who kept it all these years and didn't get tempted to color the pages!! I will keep this awesome book for now. I hope I can find more in the future!! Then, I ordered these adorable bloomers from an online shop! I just fell in love with them and thankfully they are in my size as well!! It matches my pink ruffled nighty jacket too! How cute is this?! I even got another pair of bloomers not photographed. I just love ruffles, satin and pink so much!! LMAO!

Then, I just happened upon this adorable Barnum's animal cracker magnets!! I was looking for something and this popped up. I had to get a set. Now I have one. Too cute and who else remembers these snacks?! I remember my grandmother giving me a box or asking my Mom to buy me a box at the grocery store.

Next, this lovely Kabaya Princess Jewel Box! I had to get one. I actually saw an auction on Yahoo Japan for a set of four of these and sadly I missed out on them. Darn! This heart shaped trinket case, came with an adorable pearl and diamond necklace. So cute and still in lovely condition for a 2008 Kabaya set. Reminds me of Marie Antoinette's fancy necklaces. Not real just a toy necklace, but hey us gals who can't afford the real one, can still love the toy versions!! Like me, Haha!

I also caved and ordered this Blue bear coin bank by Swimmer Japan. Swimmer JP is killing me with all these cute ceramic mugs, coin banks etc. Below, you can see examples of the other coin banks. The others are a bunny, kitty, and lamb. I ordered the bunny and lamb for now. I will see if I am able to get more in. I'm excited to see them!

Lastly, this adorable wind up vintage Bandai Toaster with replaced toast I was able to adopt from a fellow collector and friend. She needs a bit of help to work but still a lovely toy nonetheless! So glad to have it in my collection for now.

Hope you have a lovely June ahead and keep on thrifting!!

Thank you for looking! ~ ggsdolls