I just couldn't resist getting this when I saw it at the toy shop! Actually the one that really tugged at my heart-strings is the voice-activated R2D2 that I saw there - but at S$276, I need to think about it. A lot. Even though it is a toy that I have been lusting after since I saw it online here.

On a separate note, I saw the R2D2 backpack in the same toy store. It is not as nice in real life though, so I will give it a pass (not to mention how unlikely it is that I will ever carry the bag out).

Yes, I really really like R2D2.

I was surfing around and found this beautiful web-shop ran by Tiffany Ard, who proclaims that she (I assume) is the "biggest nerd you will ever meet". I don't know about that, but she does beautiful art work that is right up my alley!

Look at this -  "the effect of gravity is inversely proportional to the distance square" - How cool is that? I WISH I had a picture like this hanging on my wall when I was a kid!

Another item I am drooling after - look at this cool cool cool wallet!!



What is so cool about it? Well, according to FredFlare, despite its fragile look, it is tear and water resistant and is designed to expand as needed, with room to hold over 15 credit cards (though goodness knows why anyone needs 15 credit cards!) But you know what is the coolest part? It is apparently printed with the first 3000 digits of the calculation of pi!!

You can get this at FredFlare, but someone is organising a spree for it on LiveJournal as well!

I know this really doesn't help any claim to adulthood or maturity of thought but darn, I want one of these!! R2-D2 has always been my favourite Star Wars character!



Available at Fredflare for US$65, but I reckon the shipping will be a bomb. Sigh ...

Some of you will know that I like to shop at MAAD, and it is there that I met some feisty, courageous young people who dared to be different and took the path less taken. There is Vivenne from Fuchsia Lane, who tears apart boring T-shirts, and put them back together using lace, silk and other lovely materials, transforming them into  more funky Chinese-inspired clubbing or office wear. There is Audrey from The Girl's Kaksh, who tailors lovely cheogsams and other dresses using India-inspired fabric. As she doesn't have a shopfront, she actually goes door-to-door for fittings!  And of course, there are the two lovely ladies at Goblin Market / I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, with their seriously funky and arty designs for clothes, accessories and artwork, many with a literary bent.

I was browsing I Never Promised You A Rose Garden  website just now, and I found one of the posts which reproduced a passage from the book of the same name (yes the shop is named after a book) and which I find most inspirational:

- An extract taken from I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg

I am a new devotee of Etsy - the stuff available there is just incredible, and I mean it in both good and bad ways.

( A case in point ...  )