What I Do Every Day.

This post is meant for a couple of people in particular, so if you are reading this after visiting my site regularly, that’s okay, just remember that it isn’t a “regular” WeirdCrest post.  But this post is to explain my animal care operations, and why  can’t travel, keep regular job hours, and..well, why money is always so tight!

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So I made myself an Easter basket..

I am one of those eternal, materialistic children that still loves getting an Easter basket. My mother used to put together the most amazing, fun little Easter baskets that it was like having a second Christmas. There was nothing big or stupendous or expensive, but she has always had a keen sense of fun and would put the most nifty items in the ones I received all my life.

So, I made a little Target and Five Below trip and assembled a few things I love, and only one thing was over four dollars(the basket). Let’s take a look! (click on the pics for descriptions)

My little Easter basket! The basket itself is a mermaid tail!

A smiling plush turtle peeks out. Hanging on the side is an octopus figure by Terra.

This turtle is just so sweet and fits right in the palm of your hand.

What? Don’t you get an octopus for Easter?

Unicorn eraser!

I think this must have invisible ink in it.

Better shot of the mermaid tail basket. Isn’t it cool?

I decided to try out something Hatchimals-related and got a blind-packed egg.

Well, actually everything Hatchimals is blind-packed. Let’s see what i got!

Looks like a little birdie thingy.

A sort of pink penguiny thing! I think I’ll pass out bubble gum cigars!

Kinder Joy eggs. These are GREAT all around and are only a dollar.

When you snap a Kinder Joy egg in half, you have the candy side(gold foil) and the toy side.

Here is the candy, and I quote: “it is a delicious treat made of two soft cream layers – one sweet milk-cream flavored and one cocoa flavored. Nestled into the creamy layers are two round, chocolate-covered wafer bites that are filled with sweet cocoa cream, to be eaten with the included spoon.”

Here is da spoon.

On the toy side you get a small, usually very intricately made toy that you have to put together.

Both of mine are robots!

The instructions are always with pictures only so that they can be understood by any language. They are also adorable.

Here they are fully assembled.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Here’s Nine Green Things I Love!

What better way to appreciate a day of wearing green than to celebrate things that are green?
It was hard to narrow down the list, but here are nine green things that I find especially cool:

1) Portrait of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s Monster, by Basil Gogos.
The Monster is my favorite of the “classic” monsters. I find the original movie so heartbreaking. Basil Gogos was an American illustrator best known for his portraits of movie monsters which appeared on the covers of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and painted these characters in an amazing array of c

Possibly Millicent Patrick(?) in the Usborne World of the Unknown: MONSTERS book!

I won’t go into the story of Millicent Patrick here, but it needs to be told. This blog tells it much better than I can.

That being said, I thought I would tell you about an interesting little illustration I noticed in an old monster book of mine:

Not the original cover. The old cover was ten thousand times better. I found this copy on ebay.

I checked out this book dozens and dozens of times as a child from our library; I just couldn’t get enough of the fantastic illustrations, the far-reaching stories or the fact that it had a monster glossary in the back.

Toylanta 2018!!

Toylanta was this weekend—it’s a big annual toy convention held in Atlanta over a weekend. It started as a hub for GI Joe collectors but expanded to include vintage toys across the board. I have friends that attend, friends  who are vendors, and friends who attend with me, so it was an all-around fab time Saturday! Here are some highlights:

Piles of Joes!

Otherwise nekkid Joe in spiffy Christmas sweater.

I saw three yeti-like monsters which I would have loved to have benn able to buy and have together as a little rock group. Here is the Wampa, and Mugato.

Plus a GI Joe yeti!!

A large grouping of Star Wars and other dolls that looks like a terrific class photo setup.

Took this pic for my brother, as we played with his Smash-Up Derby set when we were kids.

Monster models!

This is something I want dearly–vintage Jurassic Park CARNOTAURUS! My friend Melanie and her husband Dutch have a booth with Jurassic Park figures. Alas, this is, as always, out of my price range.

The guy whose wife was selling these terrific mini kaijus was a horrible salesman; he couldn’t tell me the price of ANYTHING after his wife left to go get lunch or something.

I love the face sculpt on this Godzilla.

My pal Fooksie went with me, and he got a version of his favorite childhood Halloween costume– a Collegeville Casper!

I really liked this JAWS Quint figure.

This stuffed Godzilla was pretty sweet, too.