Basic Fun Laugh-A-Lot Bear and a Mini Puzzle

   Just a heads up for anybody who loves mini toys, Care Bears, and cute things in general. I don't care for Care Bears. Maybe I was too old when they came out, but I always thought they were sickening. That didn't stop me from owning a Care Bear cousin, the Lion, Brave Heart. (I only bought him because he reminded me of the long lost toy from my childhood, Larry the Lion, a Mattel Animal Yakker. Nowdays, I still have Brave Heart, but I have three Larrys.) But, I do love mini things, especially mini versions of regular sized things. And of course, who doesn't love cute things? So when I was in Dollar Tree, which. be honest, isn't 'Dollar' any more, and found this tiny Care Bear, I bought it.

  I only know because it says on the box, but it's a She-bear. She's quite small. Tammy World says she's just the right size for her.

  I think she's a bit big though.

Who asked you?

  I'm not used to the recent Care Bears logo, so I wasn't sure she was a real Care Bear. But her tag proves it. She's also by Basic Fun, which has done loads of cool mini toys.

 

  She's a cute little girl, with decal eyes and an embroidered nose and tongue.  

Her box shows her with a couple of little eyelashes, but she doesn't actually have them.

She has a little embroidered heart on her rump.

  She's Laugh-A-Lot Bear. I'm not sure what a sticking out tongue or the grinning sun on her chest have to do with laughing a lot. According to her box, the 'belly badge' on her belly 'describes exactly who she truly is', which apparently is 'a star at giving others the giggles'. 

  The back of the box tells you about all the mini Care Bears you could buy.

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And the side of her box shows her cracking up another Care Bear, just to prove that she is, indeed, hilarious.

  While we're at it, I also found some tiny puzzles at Meijer. There are different themes, including paintings, and classic books. The paintings included Girl With the Pearl Earring, and The Scream. The books included The Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, and the one I bought, Jane Eyre.

  The books ones were extra cool because they have edges that look like book spines, so the whole effect is of a mini book.

  The puzzle is a bit large for Tammy World.

 It's kind of like the giant Planet of the Apes puzzle poster I used to have on my wall when I was about 12. The puzzle pieces were about 10 inches wide, and the whole puzzle was about four feet by three feet when it was put together. 

But this is a 50 piece puzzle, so the box is even more gigantic for Tammy than my Apes puzzle box was for me.

  For those following the tale of our car, we sold it, and we have a new ,(to us), van. Someone we have known since our kids went to school and each others birthday parties together alerted us to her brother-in-law's available van, and between her, her brother-in-law, and her cousin who did  work on the car, they fixed the van up for us and sold it to us extra cheaply. We are very lucky to have had their help, because we had about $1000 to spend on a vehicle, which had to get us to all Ken's doctor appointments, and be low enough for me to get the wheel chair in and out of. I'm short, old, and falling apart, so the fact that I can just pop the front wheels of the chair up into the van and just roll it in, is a life saver. This van has a lot of miles, but has had all it's problems recently fixed, (except for the air conditioning), and has lots of nice extras we couldn't even have thought of wanting, like heated seats, a 6 disc  CD player, a cassette player!, and a DVD player and screen! I doubt we'll be spending much time watching DVDs in the back seat, but it's there.

  I also had my birthday recently. I turned 64 earlier this month. I'm having so many aches and pains right now that I feel about 100. My hair is getting a lot of white hairs amongst the regular hair, and the wrinkles are compiling. But I'm in good health. I had my blood work done not too long ago, and all my numbers were perfect. Last year I was checked over literally head to toe: CT scan of my head, scan of my carotid artery, examination of my thyroid, not one, but TWO echo cardiograms of my heart, a mammogram, a pap smear, and x-rays of my feet!  Everything checked was great, except my feet, which were deemed too far past it to even bother operating on. So I can do what I want, but I hobble around doing it.

  I have some dolls to show you soon, and Ken and I are going to the toy show with my sister in a couple of days. Oh, and Raging Moon, we had quite a scare here tonight when there was a tornado spotted nearby and we were under a warning for a while. I panicked and started throwing things in bags to run to the basement with. And then, just as soon, it was all over. Anyway, I'll see you soon.