Momiji!

365 Toy Project, originally uploaded by esmereldes.

I'm so pleased! I saw these on someone's flickr photostream a while back, and was envious. Then I saw them at Urban Outfitters, but regretfully decided I'd better not buy any. At $15 each, they just seemed like too unnecessary of a purchase. I try really hard to limit my toy purchases, so as not to go overboard and waste too much money on stuff I can't really be said to need (no matter how much "I want" FEELS like "I need"! :P). However, I feel like I've lately needed to draw a triple underline under the "Don't buy too many toys" statement because I am really running out of space. I'm at the point where I have to would have to stuff new purchases in a box and not even try to think about displaying them. My room, also, actually looks more like a kid's room than it did when I was an actual kid. Part of me feels like "hm, I'm going in the wrong direction interior-decorating-wise". The other part of me is thinking, "hm, I bet I could squeeze in another shelf over there, and maybe over *there*, and then I could display a whole BUNCH more stuff!" Guess which side is going to win out?

But to get back to my original point - at $15 each, these were easy to resist. But then I saw them in Urban Outfitters sale section for $5 each, and, well, it would just be criminal to pass them up for that price... Wouldn't it?