Deanna ([personal profile] dr4b) wrote2008-07-05 02:43 am

A Stitch in Time Saves Ninety [photopost for [profile] muppetaphrodite]

This afternoon I went down to the immigration office in Shinagawa and applied to renew my visa. It took around 4 hours total, which mostly consisted of a 40-minute train ride, 10-minute bus ride, then filling out a form and then sitting there and waiting for 70 minutes, and the remaining time was spent getting kaitensushi to chill out afterwards.

That is boring.

So let me tell you instead about my collection of Stitches that have come out of UFO catchers. It has gotten so big they no longer fit on the top of my bookcase at GEOS:






The second Monochrome Stitch was my most recent addition. She's too big to sit on the top, so I moved her down with Sheep Stitch.


These are three of my favorites, in front: Stitch dressed up as Mickey Mouse, Stitch dressed up as a Toy Story alien, and Mickey Mouse dressed up as Stitch.


These came out of a UFO catcher that was OBNOXIOUS to figure out, in Warabi. But one day they set it so 100 yen was 2 plays and it took me about 300 yen to finally get the trick down and snag two of them. They are so cute and ducky! And are sitting on top of these Pokemon cars I got out of a UFO catcher in Kawaguchi ages and ages ago.


Cherry Stitch?


Shiny Stitch came from the catcher in Sakuragicho. Soft Stitch came from Ikebukuro. Sleepy Stitch came from the arcade next to the Tokyo Dome.


This is Super Stitch. He dangles from a string and flies around the room.

There's more, notably Elephant Stitch and Bunny Stitch, but whatever. They are crowding the Non-Stitches out of house and home -- basically Pooh and Kitty and Doraemon and An-Pan-Man and Mickey have been forced into a corner.

The best is this one kid student of mine who looks at everything, yells "KAWAIIIII" a bazillion times, then looks at me and asks in Japanese, "Do you like Stitch?"

[identity profile] eiriene.livejournal.com 2008-07-05 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ship them to me!

If you send Stitch by sea, it can't be that that expensive, can it? =)