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Better Versions of what I already had up. Several people asked for them. :)
At the top is 3 of the Banpresto prize lamps (these weren't for sale but had to be won at a Japanese arcade making it all the more difficult to get a full set). I have a full set and a couple extras of Jupiter and I think Venus. These lights were among my top favorite items in my collection. They would look great on a desk illuminating Sailor Moon stationery items as those below. :D
Also in the pic are a rare set of white chopsticks, mechanical pencils, mechanical pencil lead holders (the one on the far right has Sailor Venus as a nurse with a candy striper Chibiusa/Rini) with lead, a couple of very kawaii pencil sharpeners (which of course are quite unneeded with mechanical pencils :D but Sailor Moon as a chibi naked cupid is too cute and there is an HD Japanese pencil with Eternal Sailor Moon just above them), an Artemis, a charm bracelet with enameled charms, another glue bottle, and another style of utility knife (great for opening boxes and letters), along with a Jupiter keychain and an articulated Pluto (to help judge the relative size of the other items but she does come with her staff).
Details can be better seen by looking at the large size.
Additional Stationery accessories here. :D
More Chopsticks here.
While quite handy for eating, these also would make lovely hair accessories.
Some more Swings here
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All these need new homes as I'm going to a different country for an extended stay soon so send me a message if interested.
This Knife Block is fully compatible with the Tredente "Interactive Chopping Board".
It features a collection of knives that can be used to cut food on the chopping board. It also has a Knife Sharpener which plays a sound and "sharpens" the knife.
Hope you enjoy :)
meet jojo, a vaciador. he makes a living sharpening knives and other cutting implements. his grinding equipment, installed on his bicycle, is operated by shifting the chain of the bicycle to the grinder mechanism. the grinder is pedal powered. he charges between php30 to php50 per implement. on a very good day he could make more than php500 per day. after performing his task he will just bicycle to his next job
A wrestling between Wartortle and a car... Nope, just a car-shaped pencil sharpener. Who do you think will win?
Power Lines near Cranbourne
Nik Software package - Dfine2.0, Sharpener Pro (Raw), Viveza, Color Efex and Silver Efex Pro all Plug-ins from Lightroom. Grain added for effect
I everything I own dusty? It certainly looks that way!
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #49" "Plastic" "Texture Tuesday"
Conceived by the lovely people of Kikkerland (The Netherlands), this retro pencil sharpener looks just like the classic twin-lens reflex camera like the Rolleiflex TLR. Fans of vintage cameras are probably the type to hold onto regular old #2′s. With this retro Camera Pencil Sharpener on the desk, photography enthusiasts can have the best of both worlds. Turn the knob to sharpen the point, and make use of the integrated pull out tray to dump the shavings.
While photography enthusiasts will love this pencil sharpener, anyone can amaze and amuse their coworkers and fellow students with this clever retro Camera Pencil Sharpener on their desks.
Yay to dutch designs! This is available now at the little dröm store.
Aeroplane pencil sharpener, using swirly transparent plastic. This has a small round impression on the underside reading 'Germany'.
I'm not sure of the age, or if it represents a particular plane.
I met this young man at the Farmer's Market in Summerside during the first Saturday market of 2025. He's an engineering student at the University of PEI and sharpens knives on the weekends to cover some of his expenses. I had my venerable Swiss Army Knife with me, of course. I've carried it everyday on my belt since the late 1980's so it's seen some very good use. Getting it sharpened seemed a worthwhile investment, especially since I was helping out a student and getting a photo as part of the deal. In the end, I got a very keen edge on my old knife for seven bucks, a story, and a photo. Not a bad deal at all.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 25mm f/1.2 Pro. This is not an AI generated image.
Three plastic pencil sharpeners with veteran car models, 1901 Mercedes, 1922 Hispano-Suiza and Ford Model T. I've had these a long time and think they date back to the 1970s.
I now have a trade pack of twenty similar, which includes ten different cars, They are in better condition than these, and these photos of the pack also include a Taxi de la Marne which I bought separately: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/53991372131
Tv Plasma from Goldlock Toys, made in China, 2003.
Barbie replica Radio console. Barbie and travel case from Hallmark ornaments 2000.
The telephone is a sharpener.
My fiancee has started coloring again. The shavings looked neat so I grabbed the macro lens and snapped a quick photo. 30 second exposure edited to look like I used strobes.
ECNR Newcastle
Co.Wicklow
[group] Tits and chickadees | [order] PASSERIFORMES | [family] Paridae | [latin] Parus major | [UK] Great Tit | [FR] Mesange charbonniere | [DE] Kohlmeise | [ES] Carbonero Comun | [NL] Koolmees | [IRL] Meantán mór
spanwidth min.: 22 cm
spanwidth max.: 25 cm
size min.: 13 cm
size max.: 15 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 13 days
incubation max.: 14 days
fledging min.: 18 days
fledging max.: 14 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 8
eggs max.: 10
Ox-eye, Teacher Bird, Saw Sharpener, Black-headed Tomtit
One of Ireland's top-20 most widespread garden birds.
Status: Resident
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population has been evaluated as Secure.
Identification: The largest of the tit family. Striking black head with large white cheek patches and black band running down the centre of a bright yellow breast. Back yellowish- green, wings and tail silvery blue. In flight, white outer tail feathers show. When perched, a distinct white wingbar shows. Bill is pointed but stout, legs bluish-grey.
Similar Species: Blue Tit, Coal Tit.
Call: Typical song a loud, full "teacher, teacher" and many other variations. Call a scolding sound or a quiet, repeated " tew, tew tew".
Diet: Mainly insects, seeds and nuts. Will use peanut feeders and take scraps on bird tables.
Breeding: Breeds throughout Ireland - prefers broad-leaved woodland, but also in farmland, parks and gardens. Nests in cavity in tree or wall. Often choosing unusual site such as a pipe or letterbox. Readily uses nestboxes.
Wintering: Widespread.
Where to See: Common and widespread throughout Ireland.
Physical characteristics
Large tit, with quite long and broad tail, quite heavy and spiky bill, and rather large domed head. Body and tail like Sylvia warbler. Plumage basically blue-green above and yellow below, white-cheeked black head, black central stripe on underbody, and white wing-bar and tail edges. Sexes closely similar, some seasonal vareation.
Habitat
Breeds in west Palearctic from higher to lower middle latitudes, continental and oceanic, in coolest and warmest forest zones, from subarctic to Mediterranean, and marginally in steppe and semi-desert. Extralimitally in Asia extends deep into tropics. Able to ascend mountains to treeline exceptionally 1900 m. But is much more a lowland species, disliking pure coniferous forest, and preferring mixed types and preferring mixed types and more open or even fragmented and scattered tree cover may be less important than structure and density of undergrowth.
Other details
Parus major is a widespread resident across most of Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global range. Its European breeding population is extremely large (>46,000,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. Although there were declines in a handful of countries during 1990-2000, populations were stable across the vast majority of Europe, and the species remained stable overall.
Feeding
Wide variety of insects, especially Lepidoptera and Coleptera, also spiders. Significant amount of seeds and fruit in winter. In winter, forages in wide variety of sites but mainly below 6-7 m. In spring, feeding height generally rises suddenly to above 9 m when feeding on caterpillars. In winter, takes insects from bark, twigs, walls, and leaf litter, and may move nearer to human habitation to feed at bird-tables, etc.
Breeding
Laying begins April over most of west Palerctic, March-April in lowland areas in south, May in north. Nest is built in tree-hole or, if not available, in wall or other man-made structure of any kind. Nest consists of a foundation mainly of moss, often with some dry grass or other vegetable matter, thickly lined with hair, wool, and often feathers. Clutch is 3-18 eggs which are Incubated for 12-15 days, by female alone.
Migration
Resident over much of southern and central part of range and irregular eruptive migrant from northern areas, sometimes moving in huge numbers. Altitudinal migrant from some of highest breeding areas.
Over-size pencil sharpener intended for sharpening carrots. Shown here with a normal size sharpener (and pencil) for comparison, and some small carrots which might be better sharpened in the metal one :)
There used to be (it may still be there) a shop in Brussels displaying over-size items, such as 6' long pencils, big furniture etc. It was using a unit in an arcade somewhere near the north station.
Plastic pencil sharpener, marked 'Germany' on the rear flap.
Despite the hint of a Standard Vanguard, at first I thought the design of the front was inspired by the Peugeot 203; of the back maybe by the 1949 Ford Vedette. Then I thought outside the box, and considered it could be a product of the DDR, so maybe the whole thing is based on a GAZ Pobeda: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/31786163283
The body was moulded in two side sections, glued together to fix the opening rear – an early prototype for the hatchback concept?! Any further information welcome.
I now have one of these in green, as well as a duplicate of this blue version.
Fred the Rapper is going on a date tonight. He is meeting his girlfriend, so he wants to show some style and look as sharp as possible. However, the poor fellow misunderstood the phrase "to look sharp" (which means to look good and stylish), so when I was out of my room, he sneaked into my pencil case and confiscated my pencil sharpener. When I interrogated him about his little theft, he simply explained that he wanted to sharpen himself for the date. Luckily, I rescued him from the blades of the evil pencil sharpener and helped him prepare for his date. If you want to see who his date is, stay tuned and meet his girlfriend tomorrow!
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Here is the inspiration for 'Marcelo Bielsa's Blue Bucket', it is the bottom of my pencil sharpener. He got his larger version after seeing me using the one shown above.
Developed with LR-C, DxO/NIK Sharpener and DxO/NIK Define (NR).
Most of the time, I know what the final product of my photography will be before I even lift the viewfinder to my eye. Even when things are heavily developed and “weird”, it is what I had in mind (“saw”) when I pressed the shutter.
This, however, was one of those other times when I took the image with something else in mind (a focus-stacking experiment), and happened upon serendipity. This was to be the distant, sky-portion of the stacked image, and I had another that was exposed and focused for the foreground. I liked the way the sky was coming out in this dark version, however, so I abandoned the stacking idea. I hadn’t even noticed how nice the contrail was until I got this into the “darkroom”.
Before anyone whines about it, the colors are natural, as viewed through the "virtual lens filter" of a strong Vibrance setting in LR.
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