Daiso makes me happy!
I was fortunate enough to pop into Daiso on Sunday while on a quick trip to Vancouver. For those who don’t know, Daiso is a big Japanese dollar store type place where everything is $2 that carries housewares, stationary, paper products and a crafts section. Oh yes… that’s right… a crafts section. They’ve got yarn, crochet hooks and knitting needles, buttons, felt, all sorts of stuff. Despite migraines, a very busy and overheated store and exhaustion all around, I picked up some neat things for the arsenal. I’ve always loved the Daiso polyfill stuffing so I got some more of that, also found some cute plastic links that will make great stitch markers and a few other knickknacks. In a better mental state I’d have browsed around more and probably spent way more money, but it’s probably a good thing that I didn’t. The best thing about the trip, aside from the figma and gachapons the kid scored, was my newly discovered love of Bunny King and a big score of hard to find color cotton mill ends of Lily Sugar & Cream and Bernat Handicrafter Cotton at a local craft store in Steveston Village. Top that off with coming home to a newly arrived order of exotic yarn from Herrschners and I was on cloud nine. Be sure to check out the awesome engrish warning label on the styro beads “Never use it”… uhhh yeah.
They have Daiso in Canada?!? I currently live in Japan and Daiso is one of my favourite stores. Though I did have to go to a proper yarn store today to get some eyes.
BTW, your site is awesome. I can’t wait to try the Katamari Prince.
They do! Not many of them, but there is Daiso in Richmond (a suburb of Vancouver BC) and then a smaller one which is exactly like Daiso but carries less selection of merchandise and is in a smaller store, called Yoko-YaYa 123. I love their craft stuff but so much of the general household stuff is awesome too.
So besides this particular product… do you recommend any other “stuffings” for the dolls? and also… do you have to stuff the dolls? do they keep their shape or is stuffing better?
thanks!
Any type of polyfill stuffing will do. Better quality stuffing stays springier and won’t lump together or feel lumpy and densely packed inside the doll. Essentially though, pretty much any type will do a nice job. If you won’t stuff a doll it will be kind of flat and not keep it’s shape. Think of it like a stuffed animal without stuffing, flattish. Some folks use yarn ends, dried beans, rice, plastic pellets and other things for stuffing. Whatever a person is happy with is usually fine 🙂
OMGAWD DAISO o-O THERE’S A DAISO AT WHERE I LIVE TOO AND I SAW THOSE STUFFING THINGS TOO O_O I WANTED TO BUY THE COTTEN, LOL
“Don’t eating” Bah-hah-hah! Funny
I’ve never heard of Sgt Frog before. I’ll definitely have to check that out. Sounds fun.
I am in love with Piggie and Birdie from Bunny King. They are so cute!