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New crafty stuff at Japanistic

Gonna party like it’s your Birthday–or at least, you can make a card for a loved one’s birthday, right? Use this new Happy Birthday stamp.

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If it’s your own birthday, why not use your manners and make a card to say Thank You for all those wonderful gifts? Use this new Thank You stamp.

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Maybe the crafting is not your thing. That’s okay. Use these awesome magnets to stick your kid’s artwork up on the fridge. That’s kind of like being crafty, right? Choose from Music, Paris, or Cameras.

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Not quite the right look for your refrigerator artwork? How about embellishing it with these cute vintage-style clips?

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Always more to come, of course. (Are there things you wish we would carry? Please let us know.)

Totoman Toy Museum in Seoul

This past June, the family and I went to South Korea for ten days. One of our favorite hot spots was the amazing Totoman Toy Museum in Insadong.

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Tucked into a second story spot on the main drag, Totoman is easy to miss. Costing 1000 won for admittance, the “museum” is really one large room, crammed with endless toys from the 50s through today, many from Japan. There’s no really rhyme or reason to the organization, which is part of what makes it so compelling. Every nook has more to see, with things piled  on top of one another, generations of toys lumped together.

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Of course, we had some personal favorites. Who doesn’t love a child with a machine gun?

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There were plenty of treasures to buy and we stocked up on stickers, wall art, and small notebooks.

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I did get a little obsessed with the collection of rubber stamps.

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Of course, our favorites were the Japanese toys–and Tintin just loved Ultraman.

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