New additions from the last two weeks! Gosh, I almost lost count at what I got in these past two or even maybe three weeks! A wonderful package from a dear seller named Brett. He can get me anything Japanese Brand related and I am very thankful that I can buy from him. Trade, gifts and Marktplaats (Dutch action site) additions! Lets get started and show the photos! ~Brett Package~ As I said above, Brett is a seller who sells Japanese Brands like Kaiyodo and Kitan Club. I have bought many animals from him in the past and I will continue to buy from him in the future. His sells are like 60/70% of my Japanese Brand animals in my collection. The other % are coming from trades, which I have one waiting to be shipped to me actually. Every two or three months or so, he ships his orders to his costumers. He has very nice service and packaging is always good. So is the quality of the animal models. From this lovely Kaiyodo 2016 Unique Animal Zoo part 2 set, I got the two tamanduas in a fighting/defense position and the shoebill stork in a lying resting position. All three animals are very detailed and from a very good quality. The two tamanduas are the first ones in this position in my collection. Actually not strange if you think about the fact that no other brands made tamanduas in this same position. They are not the first tamanduas, as I already had the lovely one from Mojo Fun. The shoebill is also the first one in my collection in this position. Also not the first one of his kind, as I already had an other shoebill stork from Kaiyodo UAZ part 1. They make a great pare, as my photos will show. I am a big feline fan and I could not resist the two cheetahs from Kaiyodo Amazing Animals. Their pose is striking! Running like real cheetahs do, when they are chasing a prey. One normal colored cheetah and one king cheetah. Again, the details on these two beauties are amazing! Their faces, their coloring, their pose, even their little feet are just perfect. Enormously happy to have them now. Some photos! Brett had some sales from his own inventory and I had my eye on this one for a while. But I was not sure about this little fella, until I saw some great online photos. Who can't resist this little face with this cute tongue, hanging on a green branch eying on some fruit? It is the Kitan Club fruit bat! Just look: Again a beautiful feline entered my (already crowded) cat shelf when the package arrived. One of the two color variation of the Kaiyodo Takara ChocoQ Animaltales Pets series 4 Main Coon cat. This is the brown/white one and together with the silver version (that I already had), they make a cute couple. I try to make my bird shelves more crowded and with this Kaiyodo Takara ChocoQ Animaltales Izu Island Thrush some new colors where added to the small bird section. I did not know much about this bird, so after some Wikipedia info I know a bit more about this little, beautiful bird! And last but not least from this Brett package, are some cat figures from the mobile phone game; Neko Atsume Kitty Collector. There are several sets out already, but I had no idea how they would look, how big they where and if the cats could be separated from their toys/baskets. All are important notes for my collection. So I ordered, with some doubts, three cats form one of the sets. And I must say, they are adorable! They all are well made, faces are cute, they are not too big and they come out/of they baskets and such. They don't have much detail, but the simplicity makes them so adorable. ~Gifts from my brother-in-law~ After a cat-sitting weekend, my brother-in-law came back with his girlfriend to our house to say thank you for cat-sitting their cat and to retrieve their keys. To my surprise, they bought two new 2016 Schleich animals for me, as a big thank you. How sweet! (They also had some really nice chocolates, they did not last long XD). They had bought the new 2016 Schleich oryx and the new 2016 Schleich Border Collie! Extremely happy with both of them. Or course, as a BC critic, the new Border Collie has his flaws. Especially his ears/face and his big legs/paws are a minor. But he is a BC with his own charm <3 The oryx really remind me of the old one they made years back. But it is a nice oryx and I am happy to have him now. ~STS; AAA Border Collie~ Small things can be the best sometimes. I recently got the second AAA Border Collie from a good STS member. I already had one AAA Border Collie and I was very happy when this member contacted me with the second one (I actually got the first one from the same STS member!) They are a cute pair together. ~Marktplaats Findings~ Marktplaats is a very well known second-hand/auction Dutch site. And sometimes, people can be very lucky to find rare animal models for a very low prize. I so happened to come across a Safari LTD Vanishing Wild male lion! For a very low prize I bought him, together with a husky type dog that has no brand. (Made an STS post about it, hope to have the answer soon.) Now I have both of the adult lions, I only need the cub to make the family complete. Sometimes, luck is on my side! ~The last one; a small book~The last one for this blog-entry is a small note/illustration book about the forest, that I found in a local bookstore. It has the drawings that I love. But also with handy information, stickers and some notes to wright on. It is a type of children's nature field-guide. Sadly for me, they did not have any of the other 4 types of this book. Otherwise I would be highly interested the the sea/beach or the zoo type guides.
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What is a JulieJulie Box? And wat was in it? The most original package I ever had, came last week at the end of a long day. Some of you may know me and may know the fact that I have a very good friend called Julie, who is a fantastic collector as well. Last year we began sending each other packages, just out of fun. It became a tradition and so, every 3/4 months or so we sent each other a package filled with not only model animals. But this package from her was just the best! I told her about a Monthly Subscription Box called DokiDoki, from the people of Japan Crate (www.japancrate.com/dokidoki) that is filed with Kawaii stuff. Sadly the box was 30 dollar per month and the shipping costs (and import costs as well) where to much to continue the two gifted boxes I got from Tijn <3 So after two boxes, no more DokiDoki for me. But my sweet, crazy friend decided it was not the end and... made her own JulieJulie box, inspired on the DokiDoki one. For clearance, this is inspired on the DokiDoki box and not a new brand at all! Let that be clear. It is just for fun <3 She filled the box good, with all kinds of stuff. Look: Too much! Ohmygoodness the stuff <3 I will go trough it a bit on this blog-entry, mostly the animal models. Lets begin with stuff other than model animals. Big cat 3D card, Playmobil panda key chain, food erasers, Kawaii cat stickers, doughnut phone hanger (I will have some fun with this guy later! XD), a make-up mirror and a cute little cat post-it notepad in a box. My very first Warrior Cat book! With a shiny owl bookmarker. I can't believe I have my very own Warrior Cat book now! I have heard so much about this series and watched fan-art, that I was very curious about it. I have not start to read it yet, this book will go on my vacation in the end of August, begin September. Now I have to get other book too :D To stay in the Japan Kawaii theme, Julie made her own Re-ment based set: Breakfast <3 The creativity is level 1000 here! Breakfast contains a milk pack, toast, bacon and egg and coffee! Getting hungry now! Now for the animal models! My very own Tabitha, my favorite cat in a phone game called: Neko Atsume Kitty Collector. A very cute game with many cats that you have to collect. You do that by luring them in your back garden with toys, food and other nice cat stuff. Tabitha is hand-made of course! <3 Look at the cute face. ^..^xxx~ Tsum Tsums! I have been collecting them for a few weeks now. But only the animals from the Disney series, such as Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Lion King, etc. Mickey and Minny Mous, Goofy and Donald Duck are not welcome as they are to humanoid for me. Julie included a package of two (one visible, the other is a surprise) in her JulieJulie box. I got Babbel and the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. I get more and more AAA animals in my collection lately and Julie included one heck of an AAA animal. The gray howling wolf! It is big and beautiful and my little Safari LTD Vanishing Wild white wolf pup adores her new big brother as you can see. The details are great on this wolf <3 Julie also included some new 2016 animals from the big brands in the box. This is the new Papo 2016 hare. Its style reminds me of Watership Down and I call her Hazel now. It has a very friendly face and the upright pose makes it curious as well. I love the colors on this one. An other 2016 animal, this time from CollectA. CollectA is on a roll with unusual species and poses and this Wombat with baby in pouch joins this line. It is enormously cute, how the baby looks out of his mother pouch like that. My first wombat in my collection, so proud of this one <3 Julie wont be Julie is she doesn't include an animal with a brand that I never heard of, Brunnen. Brunnen is a company who makes learning supplies and had made a small line of common wild animals. This cute little jaguar cub is a very welcome new addition to my ever growing feline shelf <3 Some small animals and a plush. Safari LTD salamander, what a cute little amphibian! Two Play Visions, Hourglass dolphin and a cape buffalo. And the most adorable shark plush I have ever seen! It has a very charming smile. Julie knows me, as she included one of my favorite sea mammals, and orca! It is a puzzle orca from a series of three (shark, orca and whale). It comes in a fancy blue shell and it is set easily, lucky for me as there is not leaflet how to assemble it XD The orca can be pinned on a rod in the cap of the shell. Or it can be laying loose, with Kaiyodo orca for size. And last but not least, some small animals from different brands and sizes. One Finding Dory blind-bag otter, Good Dinosaur egg capsule flying dinosaur XD. A dog I suspect of being a Border Collie, but I am not sure, from the Polly Pocket Sparklin Pets Dual sets and a very cute little sheep who needs a bit of love and attention form my brushes and paints <3 Thank you so much dear Julie, for the awesome package! <3 |
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