C is for Christmas - At Poundland

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.