From Hobbycraft (see previous/'older'
post), I moseyed-on over to that there Poundland
to see what their festive offerings looked like, and was pleased to find A) a
few bits worth Shelfie'ing for you, loyal readers, to look at and B) a couple
of bits worth purchasing for the stash.
I wasn't ever going to buy these, they are
shite, they have been covered in more shite, they are priced as if they are far
better quality shite than the shite they actually are! But . . . and it's a
valid 'but', they will appear in those 20/40/50p baskets in charity shops
in a few years time, either in this condition, or so tatty they can be stripped back to the (probable) neutral granule
(think - greyish-white) plastic and re-painted or left plain; a generic
cake-decoration style pumpkin coach!
The wheels are actually a leftover of
European margarine premium/US Wilton cake
decoration coaches of the 1950's, but in those cases they worked, indeed the
European one came both assembled in a mail-away box and loose as a clip-together
'kit of parts'.
A pair of small 'nutcracker' tree-decorations,
very tempted and I might go back for them, but two of each is more than I would
want, so needs some thought, but as I haven't seen many worth shooting, and because
we did a lot of them a while back, here they are!
I did grab these for a pound of your Earth
money, knowing I had the other five in the bag and having surrendered my
opposition to resin years ago! An eclectic mix, but I think they are meant to
be put in hollow-plastic 'capsule' baubles which seem to be making a come-back,
having last been seen in numbers - in the nineteen-seventies!
Reasonable sculpts for what they are and
what they are charging, and three Christmas tropes ticked-off, birds, deer and
bears - polar! they would all benefit from a bit of home-paint though?
These are also resin, and a quid-a-go, with
a gingerbread man (who looks more like a teddy bear), a very happy snowman,
similarly jocular Santa Claus and two ger'nomes; one tobogganing and the other
opening (or wrapping?) presents. There is one other - sixth - sculpt . . .
. . . a grizzly bear, carrying a Christmas
tree with two birds - probably complaining about the loss of their nest! It came
home with me, it's fun! Again a resin casting, base apparently sanded after
painting!
All the above in Poundland right now. I would add that there was nothing in
Wilkinson's I would give house-room to, and apart from the astronaut we looked
at a week or so ago, nothing in ASDA or B&M; they have plenty, but it's a
matter of taste/preference with these, isn't it?
I haven't been to look in Tesco, and our Sainsbury's isn't big enough, neither apparently are our local Flying Tiger's
both of which aren't getting the bauble issue this year, bigger stores are and
I may try to get over to Guildford who I'm assured - by the Basingrad staff -
do have some.
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