Even frogs like to sew

How did the Japanese company that made these know perfect stickers would somehow involve frogs, cats, thread, buttons, pockets, sewing baskets, and a bunny with a bouquet of flowers? It's like a sticker dream come true.



P. got these for me when he went to one of his favorite hangouts recently: Mitsuwa. So I slapped him back by buying him this wincingly cute mug. Will you look at this thing?



It just sits there smiling at you until you turn it upside down and put some coffee in the sucker. There was a panda version, too, but interestingly, the panda lacked the bear's charisma. It's usually the other way around, I think.

And no, don't be thinking there's always such cutey cutey cuteness going on around here. Sometimes we give each other really gross, scary gifts like shrunken, taxidermied lizards, multi-tentacled, half-alive jellyfish, and other things. For serious...kind of. OK, not.