$1.50!

I went to Marukai today! The Japanese dollar store in Cerritos. I thought the top of my head was going to fly off at all of the wonderful cute-ness I found. I could have bought five hundred dollars worth of Japanese fun. I restrained myself on this trip and took many photos instead. Here are some of my favorites:
The adorable animal headed soy sauce bottles (these are quite tiny, like miniature anime canopic jars). Next is part of the 'little things to put in a child's bento box lunch' section. This takes almost an entire aisle! After that is the stationary section....and I

do so adore paper! The teddy bear family notebook, the round apple-y hamster notes and....mushroom letter paper! Gads! It was all just so yummy. I bought a few things, snacks, chopsticks with their own little carry case to keep at work, a few paper things, a notepad and some tea.
Delicious! Gotta go to Marukai!

Zakka! Japanese crafting....

Oh yeah, I know what you are thinking....'What is she thinking!' Like I need yet another craft to ______________ (you fill in the blank, here are a few suggestions: spend money on, use as an excuse to ignore people, isolate myself even further from reality, add to the pile of things 'I'm working on' next to the couch, use as an excuse to have cereal for dinner...again) I am sure you have a few of your own, all of which I would love to hear about so I don't feel so lonely in my crafting psychosis. But really, the things in these books are so cute, and I want to make each one so badly that I cannot even decide what to do next. So I started a crochet baby blanket because the pattern is easy, so there.... Now, where's my cereal, it's dinnertime.