Tag: gifts

Great Gift Ideas: Chess on a Budget

Kit includes (1) Sharpie Pen and (1) Deck of cards. Provides hours of head-scratching fun.

[Found in here.]

Last Minute Gift Ideas: Musical Instruments and Vases

electic_guitar-35x12

electric guitar            $29.95
size of model:  W 3 1/2″  h 12″

Missing one tuning peg. Continue reading “Last Minute Gift Ideas: Musical Instruments and Vases”

Another Great Gift Idea: Kawaba!

What a great toy!  Man-o-man this sends me back.  What 9-year-old boy could resist a wooly mammoth with wings and don’t-eat-the-yellow-snow tusks, with a pair of, um, snow-covered cookies growing out of its trunk.  Japanese marketing is amazing.

The folks from Nippon are amused by us westerners as well.  If you ever find yourself among a group of them, all you have to say is “Detroit” and they double over laughing.

Careful with the Kawaba site on the advert above; might not be safe according to Firefox.

[Update:  Try this Kawaba site instead: http://www.kawaba.co.jp/index.php ]

[Image from the Awesome Cheese.]