Road Trip to Msia

The new Nici bear 'Heartless' went on a road trip over the weekend to Malaysia.


All tucked and ready to go in Michi's little bag. :) It's Heartless's first road trip.


So many toll booths on the way to Malacca from Singapore.. Zzz... Unfortunately, everyone was so tired by the time we reached Malacca that we forgot to take some photos for Heartless..




After resting for the night in Malacca, we made our way to Penang. Heartless has lost much of his natural bear tracking abilities since he's been domesticated and was quite unable to figure out where he was. Thank goodness for the GPS.




Nearing destination.. Palms and coconuts! Heartless loved the tropical greenery and landforms visible along the highway.



Finally, the Penang bridge! But Heartless fell asleep several times while waiting to get across during the evening peak period...




By the time Heartless and gang reached Penang it was rather late. So he went for a couple of drinks at Gurney Drive.




And a few drinks later....



The following morning, Heartless went to visit the beaches and farms along the Northern and Western coast of Penang.



Durian~


Rambutans


Heartless, a true blue city kid felt in awe of the variety of tropical fruits available on the small penang island.






Coconuts!



Up Penang Hill, with his snug scarf on.









Stones taught me to fly/Love taught me to lie/Life taught me to die/So it's not hard to fall/When you float like a cannon


Way back to the mainland



Basking under the Malaysian sun


Jam on way back towards the Tuas 2nd Link, Singapore

Under Spotlight - May 09

We found some cool food-inspired designer stuffed toys that the gang are hoping to add to the family ;).



Corn by Anna Chambers (don't think it's for sale)



Cutesypoo Egg Tarts with hot dog buns ;D Can be bought here


Sleepy Little Miss Eggtart & Happy Little Miss Eggtart!




Franken Foods by I Heart Guts, genetically modified food? Don't think its for sale.



Kate Sutton's high fibre Pirate Vegetables has loads of attitude and tenacity. Pirate Peas and Carrots ;D


Snaggs Cereal boxes


Brocoree by Nick The Ring


Sad breakfast from Miskellaneous

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Many of these food toy designers particpated in the 'Stuffed - a Plush Food Show' in 2007. Some photos from the really cool exhibition..


Poster








Pictures from http://www.my space.com/stuffedplush

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For all carnivores.. ;) Sweat Meats



We love Mr Toast and his friend Shaky the Bacon :D.
The World of Mr Toast



Tricia Chan's Esty Store!

Celebrities & Stuffed Toys

From Top Left to Right: Scarlett Johansson & Pig. Hayden Panettiere, Wentworth Miller with bears. Megan Fox & Teddy. Blake Lively & Duck. Venessa Hudgens, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, Teri Hatcher, Drew Barrymore, Keira Knightley, Liv Tyler, Kate Moss with Teddies. Mark Walberg & seal. Megan Fox (again with teddy). Penelope Cruz & Tiger.



Karl Lagerfeld and his Steiff Bear, made in his likeness! ;)


Sources:TMZ.com, popoholic.com, http://www.zealus.org/index.php?showtopic=11377&mode=threaded, mrsgrapevine.com, gossipgirlinsider.com

Under Spotlight - Apr 09

Michi was shopping online for clothes and whatnots when she discovered a link to I Heart Guts, a US-based store that sells plushies in the shapes of internal organs (hearts, kidney, lungs, liver, etc), with cute positive smiley faces to boot! The Guts stuffed toys were covered in many blogs and news sites such as the consumerist and wired! We think these geeky toys are not only educational for kids, they're perfect fund-raiser gifts for health awareness campaigns (anti-smoking, cervical cancer) and charity organisations (Singapore Heart Foundation) as well~


We so want these crazy organs to join our stuffed toy land family!



The innards go on vacation! Much like the ToyVoyagers concept. ;)


Heart Plush - I Got the Beat! A personal favourite. Awww, why didn't we have these (instead of some cow heart or something?) during our biology lessons?


Kidney Plush - When Urine Love. Uhh... I imagined the Singapore ministers whipping this out when debating how organ donors can be 'reimbursed' under the HOTA act..


Cool organ graphic designs

These toys also reminded us of the GiantMicrobes website, which offers a series of plush toys based on tiny micro-organisms (viruses, bacteri,cells etc..) Notable plush toys include The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, Stomach Ache, E. coli, Ulcer, Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Black Death, Ebola, Flesh Eating, Sleeping Sickness, Dust Mite, Bed Bug, Mad Cow, Anthrax, Chicken Pox, Malaria.. you name it.











Not very sure whether some of these makes good gifts though....

A Visit to Himu's - Part 2

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Stuffed toys wishing everyone a Happy Lunar New Year!!!