Review Time! Totally Tiny Chinese Food Set

  Holy cow! Here we are in April already, and today we're having MORE SNOW! It isn't sticking, but it is falling. It's 37 degrees Fahrenheit, and due to get down to 27 tonight! Ken and I took Ivy to eat at a Turkish restaurant we like on Wednesday, and it was 81! It didn't feel that hot, but it felt very Spring like. The Turkish restaurant had really good vegetarian moussaka. But my 'birthday month' is over now, so I have to stop eating things I shouldn't and get back to normal. 

  And now, I want to point out something I bought recently that some of you might be interested in.

  I got this set at Five Below. It's a Totally Tiny set that features 1/6 scale Chinese food.

Totally Tiny has been around for a while, but I just got this.

There are several food pieces, a full take out box...

... a bottle of soy sauce...

... and a pair of chopsticks.

  The chopsticks are all one piece.

  That annoys me as an adult, and would have annoyed me as a kid, but then, that's me. My sister would have cut them apart for me. (You may recall she was obsessed with using that little razor blade that came out of a pencil sharpener.) I suppose them being stuck together like that does make it possible to pick the little foods up with them. At least, that's what the picture on the back of the package wants you to think.

The orange slices are especially realistic.

Not so much this side.

But this side.

There are some steamed dumplings.

Also some fortune cookies.

The egg rolls are probably the least realistic pieces.

At least, I think they're egg rolls.

The weird thing about these sets is, they contain a non edible 'ooze' topping. It's touted on the front of the package as a "surprise slimy ooze topping!" The exciting thing is supposed to be the mystery as to which colour you'll get. Why would I want any colour? It seems a little dangerous because you're dealing with a fake food set, and you're putting something non edible and oozy in it. I know the kids aren't supposed to eat the food either, but... I supposed the food pieces are small enough that kids small enough to possibly think of eating them aren't supposed to play with them anyway. Still. It also doesn't help that the ooze topping comes in a little sachet like you get ketchup, or Chinese mustard or soy sauce in at restaurants.

  This stuff is bound to make a mess too. If I was buying this set for my kids, I'd revoke the ooze.  

  All in all these are pretty neat little sets. I think the Five Below price is more what I would pay for them, than the regular store prices.

There were two other sets the day I bought this one. They also had the French Breakfast set, and, I think, the Pizza Party set. There are a lot of other sets, but this is what the Five Below I went to had.

  That's it. See you later!

Yard Sale Finds and Our Generation Life Science Set :A Mini Review

  You haven't heard from me for a while, but I have a couple of things I've been working on that you'll be seeing soon.
  I finally got around to going to a yard sale a coupe of weekends ago. I hadn't been to one yet this season. It was pretty tiny, but I got some stuff.

A vase,a tiny jug,a demitasse cup,a,table cloth,and a vintage scarf. I got all of it for $1!

The handle wasn't broken on the little jug until I got home. I forgot what I had wrapped in the table cloth and plopped it down on the cement!

  The other thing I have to show you is something I got on Mother's Day. I had seen it before,but didn't get it then. Then it sold out and the price went up on the secondary market. I gave up at that point. Well Target got it in again! I nabbed this one.

The set is sold for the 18" Our Generation dolls,but the scale is maybe 1/6,or even smaller.

The front of the box opens,but then I struggled for a bit to open the plastic,but then I'm kind of lame.

The contents include a biology book,a molecule model,an anatomy torso model,and a  poster.

The book is impressive looking until you open it and see that there's no print inside.

The molecule model is solid.

The poster is plastic.

It reminds me of an x-ray.

The torso has removable ribs so you can get to the removable organs: the lungs, and the liver.

The lungs pop out easily,but the liver wants to stay in there. I hadn't read the box,so I didn't even realize it came out at first.

The liver was easy to get back in,but the lungs required a bit of jiggling and rearranging.
  I really like this little set. It would be great in a 1/6 scale classroom  diorama.I suppose it works ok for the 18" dolls if you think of the body as being a hand held model. I have to say, The lungs don't want to go back and stay very well, and the ribs weren't that cooperative about snapping back in either. But still,it's a nice set. I like too, that Our Generation is selling something different from the same old ballet sets and food. I have to commend them for that. I think I would have loved this set when I was a kid.