hello kitty everything!!

I saw this for sale in an ebay store out of China, they're selling it as a ceramic coin bank. But if you've ever seen this type of sculpture before, you know what it is.













Haniwa are clay figures made in Japan around the Kofun period. They were used for burial rituals and later as part of the retaining wall of the burial mound.
I actually made one in a college sculpture class as a culture project, so I was excited to see this. It's $25 including shipping, and I've never seen another like it. I love HK and her pals and I would model my house after Hello Kitty Castle, but that would cost a pretty penny. This quaint mix of new and old is too unique to pass up. I have to have it.
Here's my neko haniwa:Also, Piku-Zuwari!!Suko-zuwari is when a cat, after or during grooming, sits like a person. This new craze is, of course, from Japan. The phrase comes from the word for scottish fold (the breed of cat who does this a lot apparently): sukotishu and zuwari (sitting). This is Pickle having a sit, hence, Piku-zuwari. And here's Qing being naughty:

Kitty Time!

Recently I was organizing our photos and realized we have a lot of cat pics.. So many that they are divided up into folders by cat names. I thought I'd see who gets the most camera time, who the real favorite is.. Whose likeness will reign supreme?
Wimpy: 6 (No surprise here, he's only been with us for a month or two; also, we didn't name him..)
Pickle: 16 (Big upset here! I need to get out the camera! Pix isn't #5 in my heart! Also, we didn't name him, either!)
Thomas: 25
Qing: 27 (pronounced Ching)
Peanut: 35 (Almost the best, you'll always be mommy's fav, pean! Yes, I named him peanut.)
Guy: 73 (Daddy's Golden Boy wins with more than double the runner-up's pics! Pssh!)
Well, the results are in... By virtue of being in more photos than any other cat, Guy must be the favorite. Here he is in all his glory. The pic behind him is when he was an ugly duckling kitten.So going through group photos, I've found the pics we took every time we thought we had all the cats in one pic. Of course, one by one, the clowder grew from 2 to 6.