Today is Tuesday!

It’s the lucky 13th edition of TINY TUESDAY!

Let’s see what kind of tiny I have lined up for y’all this week:

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FUNNY TINY QUOTE!

…and speaking of calories…

TINY TACOS!!

TINY BURRITOS!!

I know this isn’t a very great picture, but I had to share it anyway. Turns out, my FAVORITE Mexican restaurant Papa’s and Beer on Tunnel Road in Asheville has a TINY collection of TINY MEXICAN FOOD!!!! Omg, I know. Tiny TACOS and tiny BURRITOS! So cute and SO TINY! I think this is a sort of regional chain, but every one I’ve ever been to is pretty dang great. If you find yourself in the Asheville area you MUST stop in for their salsa bar and avocado tacos! NOMS!

TINY

STITCHES!

I found this strange unfinished cross-stitch project at a thrift store last weekend. I had no idea what I would do with it if I bought it, so I just took this picture instead. It was too good not to document somehow! I’m starting to think outside the “tiny” box–it takes a LOT of tiny Xs to make a big picture. Here’s to art made op of lots of tiny things! Here’s to strangely unfinished native American iconography!

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ENAMEL PINS!

This week I fell down the vintage enamel pin rabbit hole. I just cannot get enough of these weird old pins!! Next time I’m at my mom’s house I will take some pictures of my own enamel pin collection. It’s not a super big collection, but I do have one somewhere that is a promo for Florida Sugar cane. It says something about “raising cane” and I had no idea what that meant when I was 8 or 9 and got the pin. My mom had to explain to me it was kind of like “raising hell” which I felt like was super scandalous! Anyway, here are some great vintage finds I ran across.

Beyond weird! Maybe my Swiss auntie can shed some light on this?

I love that this one has a dangle!

TINY

TOYS!

These could really double as TINY art works, if you ask me. I am so hooked on blind boxes and this may be the best-worst collection I’ve encountered so far. Kidrobot could just take ALL my dang money! I love the Tricky Cats! I’m so glad I got this one–he looks a lot like my Mom’s cat Fraidy! I want to pick up a few more before they are gone. I’d love the Cheshire cat one XD

You might remember my first Kidrobot vinyl figure from my eyeball post a month or so back. Brand new on ebay, those watch sets are going for well over $100! The Dunny figures for $20-40! Too bad that’s one of my favorite Swatches.

I am a HUGE Andy Warhol  fan so I’m obviously drooling hard over this current blind box collection. I’ve got to find a place to buy a couple of these!!

Oh TINY TOYS you are a wicked mistress!

A TINY MIRACLE!

Today a TINY little miracle happened.

While scrolling through instagram this morning I stumbled on a picture posted by Curious Pip. The picture was a of a woman I immediately recognized as the mysterious woman I have been searching for for years!

When I was a college freshman I found a magazine scrap in the trash–it was of a dark haired woman, her striking smiling profile, her hand on her breast. I taped the picture on my dorm room door. I’m not really sure what happened to the scrap–it may have burned up in the fire. I’ve thought about it for years, though, googling all manner of word combinations and never found her again until today.

Here she is, in all her beauty: Renee Perle.

 

I can’t wait to try to learn more about her ❤

Here is your tiny video for the week!

This week’s video was suggested to me by my friend Tammy Hennessy of My Art of Hearts. Be sure to click and check out her work, too! Click here to watch incredible fiber artist Althea Crome at work. SPOILER ALERT: There is even a TINY Andy Warhol themed sweater!

Have a wonderful week full of BIG fun!

Well, just look at that!

It is Tuesday again already!

GUESS WHAT?!?!

That means it is TINY TUESDAY AGAIN!

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Let’s start it off with

TINY

MAYONNAISE!

Now really, I am disappointed that this is not Duke’s mayonnaise, especially since Amy grew up in Raleigh where Duke’s is available (I totally understand not using it if you don’t know it’s a thing). Regardless, this tiny mayo is really cute and totally worth sharing. Thanks to my buddy Howard for sharing this on my Facebook wall!

TINY CHEWING GUM!

 I have always been a sucker for this gum! I love going to Mexican restaurants with the little 25 cent bins at the checkout. I think this is the first time I’ve ever had the violet flavor! I’ve had these violet candies before, so I figured the gum would taste similar. It did! If you see violet flavored candy you should give it a try–it tastes a little like perfume, but in a good way. Plus this is purple and purple equals awesome in my book.

 

TINY ENAMEL PINS!!

{coffee flavored!}

Coffee No.5 by HsBotttino

 Vintage Carafe by InTheLavendarHaze

 Dark As The Night by AhoyKollectiv

TINY

FORK!

This isn’t the tiniest fork ever, but it is rather small and it made me smile. Part of the reason I was smiling was because it forked a sample of spicy slaw into my mouth at Trader Joe’s. Mmmmm. Slaw.

TINY ERASER PIZZA!

I love the little boxes have real pizza spoofs on them! Pizza Hoot and Mama Johns is pretty dang funny. Tofu Cute is predictably squee-worthy. Their kawaii eraser game is so strong!

TINY KNITTING!!

TINY TAPE MEASURE!

Here is your TINY video of the week! Miniature Cusina is loaded with ridiculously cute videos of micro cuisine. You really gotta watch this video which features TINY PANCAKES. This is in honor of the not-at-all-tiny blueberry pancakes Mr. Smith made over the weekend. It would have been so sad if they were that tiny!

Have a great week all you TINY pals!

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OMG!

OOPS!

I forgot yesterday was Tuesday, thanks to the 4th of July holiday

so this week we are having TINY TUESDAY

on dang-a-lang Wednesday!!!

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Let’s start this TINY party off with a great TINY quote:

(and I TOTALLY WOULD)

RANDOM SIDE NOTE: This is huge (lol, HUGE news in a TINY post–oops!) news for you vegetarian/vegans out there! Trader Joe’s is now carrying marshmallows we can eat! Just in time for s’mores season! No more pouting and pretending we don’t want s’more, too!

Now back to TINY!

I decided I needed share more of my various TINY collections. Since it’s officially summer now I figured I’d show off my TINY frozen treats! The shaved ice and ice-cream bowl are classic Iwako. The Dairy Queen treats are from miWorld. I ADORE the DQ stuff–It was wonderful  getting to go to Dairy Queen with my dad when I was a little girl! These treats are so TINY and so cute! I would have FREAKED if these had been around when I was a kid–I freak enough about them as a “grown-up” 😉

TINY TREATS!!!

 TINY STAMPS!

Have y’all heard about bullet journals? I just read about them a couple of months back, which makes me a little late to the game, but I am so smitten. I’ve been playing around with one, and seeing how it will work best for me. Once I get my system a little more defined I will share more with you. One of the things that is appealing to me about them is the daily checks and balances it makes me recognize. That, and the fun office supplies XD

Lacy Face  stamp by Kaela Graham & Yarnball stamp by RAD Stamps

TINY TOYS!

This leads well in to TINY toy talk! Oh blind boxes, you are a fickle mistress. I have a set of series 1 Num Noms and recently got a series 2 pack. Admittedly, I don’t really understand what these are supposed to do or be for. If you stretch them a bit they’ll fit on a fashion doll head sort of like a weird swimming cap (see pic below). Be sure not to leave it on the doll too long though or the little cap will split. I digress. There are some Nums that zoom around like little cupcake cars. Some come with strange tasting lip gloss. Series 2 sometimes come with STAMPERS which are ADORABLE.

They’re pretty cute even if I’m not sure exactly what else to do with them!

TINY ENAMELS!

Another week and MOARRRR awesome pins!

Jellybean Cat by ilikeCATSshop, Butt Licker by SurfingSloth, Pizza Cat by thenosuchdisco

There were too many cat cuuuuute cat pins to not pick three to make you drool over!

TINY FOOD ISLAND WITH HOUSE AND TREE!

This popped up as a memory on my Facebook feed from a few years back. My mom posted it on my wall–proof that I am a long time lover of TINY cute fun! (Though in general I do prefer large food portions when eating. 😉 )

TINY KNIFE!

I am so in love with all the work these two do over at Black Springs Folk Art. I mentioned Becca and Doug in this post from a while back. These two incredible artists not only make the MOST AWESOME TINY THINGS (click here for more) they are embarking on an additional venture called Hope Springs Animal Rescue which is a mobile Airstream they’re renovating to use as an adoption and rescue-mobile! They’re getting ready to launch a Kickstarter campaign so follow them for updates and support this amazing cause.

Also, I want this TINY knife charm SO BADDD!

It is totally on my “to spoil myself” dream list 🙂

TINY VIDEOS!

My friends send me the most fun little videos of TINY stuff. It makes me grumpy that I can’t share them on this blog, but I don’t pay the premium rate and therefore cannot embed the video. I have come up with a not-as-exciting work around to this sharing problem. I’ll just post them in sentences with clickable words and you’ll just have to trust me that they are super cute and worth clicking without a teaser picture! I’ll start including a couple of these each Tuesday.

Here is a video from Mr. Smith that is about TINY BIKES!

Happy TINY hump day, y’all!

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