Summer Giveaway!
That’s right folks! I am giving away one Modern Animal Elephant clock to one of the Decoylab site visitors. To win this clock, you have to answer this question: what is your most cherished childhood object? Leave your answer in the comment area and make sure to include your email address. (Your email will not be public.) Entry will be closed on August 30th. We will then randomly select and announce one lucky winner on September 4th, 2010.
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July 27th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Hands down my Snoopy. He went everywhere with me, and even got new red silk ears replaced from Santa after they had too much wear. He has gone with all my life, 40 yr old and proud to still have my Snoop!
July 27th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I had (still have) a stuffed animal that is an owl – way before Harry Potter and owls came back in style
I still have him, Mr. Owl, and he sits on my bedside table.
July 27th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
My favorite childhood object would have to be Bun Bun. He was my stuffed bunny rabbit and my best bud. Bun Bun got so much wear and tear that we had to replace him several times but he was always very hugable and squooshy
Thanks for the chance to win, I love all of your creations!
July 27th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
The beautiful Barbie clothes that my grandmother made for me. The material was more beautiful than anything I had ever seen and the outfits were cooler and more glamorous than I ever have occasion to wear. She also provided gloves, boots, shoes and tiny purses to complete the looks. I spent hours dressing my barbies. They are my treasures.
July 27th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
My favorite childhood object was my Raggedy Ann doll. It was specially made for me by hand by my godmother! I still have it this many years later and now my girls play with it!
July 27th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
The musical teddy bear that my sister “bought” for me when I was born. (She was two at the time, so she had some help.) I still have it, and it still plays “Teddy Bear’s Picnic,” though a little more slowly these days. When my niece was born, I took my nephew, her three-year-old brother, to pick out a stuffed animal for her, so we could carry on the tradition.
July 27th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
My most cherished childhood object would have to be my stuffed bear. I was 7 when my mom bought him for me, and before I was separated from my sister (she lived in Canada for school, and I went back to Hong Kong to live with my parents), we sat at the top of the stairs in our home, and I asked her, “What should I name him?” and she told me to name him “Danny, but with an ‘i’” after her favorite pop singer at the time.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:45 am
My most cherished childhood object is Frizzle, this scruffy, fuzzy puppet with long limbs and a squeaker in his mouth. I used to fall asleep with his arms wrapped around me and secured by the Velcro on his paws. My mom would often talk to me and kiss me through Frizzle.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:02 am
My most cherised childhood item was actually a book. Noddy and the Toodles. It was a British book and I truly believed that the toodles lived on top of my canopy bed, much thanks to my Grandma who would read the book to me every single night, for who knows how long! This has led to a lifelong passion for imaginary woodland creatures
July 28th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
My baby blanket. My father’s sister sewed a Care Bear blanket for me when I was born. It went all over the world with me (Australia, South America, Africa) and was not retired until I went to college. If it weren’t so ragged, I would probably still be sleeping with my blankie today.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Mine is a certificate that my cousin printed and had my whole family sign that was a sweet faux “adoption” certificate saying that my great-aunt “adopted” me as her granddaughter a few years after my grandmother passed away. It was so sweet that they welcomed me into their immediate family and I treasure it!
July 29th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
My most cherished childhood object is a cheap little metal Christmas wreath pin my dad gave me when I was 4 or 5. It has colored glass “stones” + it makes me feel sad + happy when I see it.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
A crocheted wool round rug (in grey, pink and blue) made by mum and where I used to play with all my toys. It is now in my baby twin girls room.
July 31st, 2010 at 1:02 pm
My stuffed animal Kosmic, a Kodak Kolorkin from the 80s that my mom received as a free gift after submitting tons of UPCs from rolls of film we bought. Kosmic went with me everywhere, even to school until I was in Gr. 3 or 4–he’d hide in my back pack!
July 31st, 2010 at 2:58 pm
My favorite childhood object was a stuffed white hand puppet bear that I named Charity. He had a red bow tie and went with me everywhere in a blue lunchbox! Charity was so loved that he lost all the fur under his armpits. His body also became so worn from all the hugs and washes he received that he always toppled over under the weight of his head when seated. Best bear ever.
July 31st, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Paddington Bear from Deepest Peru.
August 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
My most cherished childhood object is definitely a porcelain doll my grandmother made for me that was made to look like me. She put my chritening dress on her. I love this and would be heartbroken if anything happened to it because I was very close to my grandparents.
August 2nd, 2010 at 6:52 pm
My most cherished childhood object is a rose pin that my mother gave me after I had seen the Disney version of _Beauty and the Beast_. I never wore it because I was afraid I might break it or lose it. Almost twenty years later I still have it and treasure it.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:19 pm
A handpainted ceramic bracelet of all 12 zodiac animals my mother brought for me in Chinatown, never worn it and plan to give it to my daughter.
You’re clocks are gorgeous and very nostalgic, great job!
August 4th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
A yellow security blanket. i carried it around with me everywhere i went and sadly had to wean myself off of it when i went to the first grade.
August 4th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
A toy gun my uncle gave me. I was told he was a secret agent and he was away a lot. I only found out when I was much older that he had passed away from cancer, so I really remember the toy gun he gave me.
August 5th, 2010 at 8:50 am
it would have to be a stuffed toy dog that was given to me by one of my childhood best friends on my 7th(?) birthday. our family had a real cocker spaniel for a pet whom i adored so i named my toy dog after her. “blondie” is still with me, many years and many moves later.
August 5th, 2010 at 9:52 am
My penguin stuffed animal, “Chubby Joe”. He was round and baby blue and slept next to me every night. I adored him all through my childhood, and I still have him today.
August 5th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Oh my gosh, it was a Mrs. Beasley doll and she talked. I just loved that doll!
August 5th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
My Barney blanket. It was just a white blanket with pictures of barney (&friends) on it. I wouldn’t share it with anyone except my step-dad. We were always really close, and one day I shared it with him while I was watching Sesame Street. My mom thought it was the sweetest thing, but she was also incredibly jealous because I wouldn’t even share it with her, haha. He totally spoiled me though, so I guess that’s why I did it. I remember one night they burned something and used it to get the smoke out of the house, and it got a couple of burn holes in it. I cried even before I knew anything bad had happened to it. I still have it though. Don’t sleep with it, but I know it’s around the house somewhere.
August 7th, 2010 at 11:58 am
That has to be my books! I loved reading since I could open my eyes and I still do. Hope my daughter will love it too some day.
ps. I just stopped by to take a look at your beautiful clocks, and now I can even win one! great they’re so cute! hope I win, fingers crossed, so my little girl can answer your question in twenty years with the answer “my favorite childhood object? That must be my Modern Animal Elephant clock!” Thank you!!!
August 7th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I still have my 2 blankets from childhood. I was like Linus, tagging his cherished blanket behind him.
August 7th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
My toy rabbit… he’s a rather dapper fellow that I’ve had from day one. He’s got sad glass eyes, a natty waistcoat and at one point had a bow-tie… but since he went everywhere with me when I was wee that got ‘misplaced’! Everytime I watch Toy Story and see Woody panicking about his hat, it makes me feel bad that I lost that darn bowtie!
August 8th, 2010 at 1:25 am
My father brought me a doll from Japan, with beautiful big eyes and long long straight ash-blonde hair. She had very smart clothes, a white hat and shoes and I would brush her hair every day!
August 8th, 2010 at 4:03 am
Ted the bear is a token from my dad. He brought him to me when I was first born, and is now more cherished since my dad’s been sick. It would be awesome to win on September 4th- it’s my birthday! And Ted’s, too, I suppose
August 8th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
When I was a child, I absolutely cherished my Gingham Girl paperdolls. I would trace their outlines and make clothes for them in every color of the crayon box. I also loved Dover Publishing Company’s various paperdoll collection, but nothing compared to the Gingham Girls.
August 9th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
My favorite childhood object besides my memories is the leather teddy bear..Poobear my parents gave me as a tot. He is suede & has a a grin..
August 9th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Nice clockage! As a small child, I loved squirrels – had a pet squirrel once.. and Superman and Batman comic books … and collecting coins out of the change received at the little grocery store down the dusty road.
Elephants are very interesting, but they are a little intimidating – used to see them when the circus rolled into town every summer, along with the clowns. Talk about scary – the clowns were even more frightening than the elephants. Not as big of course, but they had really big feet.
August 9th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
My most cherished item was a yellow blanket with satin ribbon edging I called “bee”. I took it everywhere and was unwilling to give it up to be laundered. My mother was clever and bought a second, identical, blanket and switched between the two so she could clean them.
August 9th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
i just found your gorgeous etsy shop and i am in LOVE!!! so beautiful- i am doing my son’s nursery and this clock is too perfect, so big fingers crossed for me!!! as for my childhood item, maybe my my child doll ( i thought she was real until i was about 12!!!) a bit sad, but maybe only child syndrome ; )
please pick me!!!!!
x
August 10th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Mine would have to be a sheep skin that I used to sleep on as a baby, and, sadly today, I still have on my pillow. It was once fluffy and yellow and I used to be able to fit on it, now it is tattered, not so yellow, and only fits my head. I can sleep without it, but life is better with it!
August 10th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
my most cherished item from my childhood would have to be my baby blanket. i still to this day sleep with it and im 24 years old!
August 10th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
I had (still have) a tiny little Hello Kitty plastic jewelry box that held all of my most “valuable” possessions. The best part? When you lift the lid, underneath the mirror it says, “You’re Beautiful!”
August 12th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Probably my baby blanket. . .considering I still have it and sleep w/ it on my pillow and i’m . . um. . .over 30
!! This clock would be so adorable in my little girl’s room, and the drawing is on her 2nd birthday!!
August 12th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
My most cherished childhood object would have to be my family pictures! I love going through the pictures and thinking about all the wonderful memories that my parents help make for my sister and I as children
August 13th, 2010 at 1:58 am
My Paddington Bear was my most cherished possesion and now it has become my son’s favourite too. It is beautiful to sit down with him with Paddington and read the Paddington Bear books from my childhood.
August 15th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
My most cherished childhood object is a tiny doll about 10 cm, that was given to me when I was born at the hospital in South Africa. It is pale pink with minimal stitching for the eyes and mouth and tiny tuft of hair popping out of the pale pink Body suit! I am now 22,living in Australia and it has survived.
August 16th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
My most cherished childhood object is my parent’s wedding album. I used to look thru the album every night before going to sleep and my mom will tell a love story about them.
August 16th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
My musical giraffe. I can’t wait to put it in my babies nursery.
August 17th, 2010 at 12:25 am
You probably won’t believe this but my favorite toy was a fisher price wind up clock. I still have it up on my bookshelf, and my two-year-old frequently asks me to get it down so he can play with it. I still love clocks…
August 18th, 2010 at 2:29 am
My favorite book The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Taught me to be a giving person and still makes my heart warm everytime I read it <3
August 18th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Stuffed animal bear. My two brothers had the lighter version of the same bear and I had the darker version. I wanted it to be a girl bear, so despite the bow tie, I dressed my bear with a dress.
August 18th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
I never had a cherished ‘object’ but a pair of corduroys I loved and wore til they didn’t fit. They were pink with giant blue roses. Yep – I was one stylish 5 year old.
August 19th, 2010 at 1:24 am
My most cherished childhood object was my little stuffed monchichi monkey. It went everywhere I went as a child. Unfortunately, during a family vacation to Disneyland I forgot him in the taxi cab. When I remembered that I left my monchichi sitting on the seat next to me after we got dropped off it was too late and there wasn’t much mom and dad could do. I remember crying and being absolutely crushed!
Shortly after we returned home from our trip to Disneyland, my dad tried the “we found your monchichi!” with a new replacement but I knew it was not MY monchichi and didn’t want it.
August 19th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
My most cherished childhood object is not really an object as we moved around a lot when I was a kid but it is a photo of me and my grandmother who raised me as a baby. She died when I was 8 and I always have had the framed photo on my nightstand wherever I have lived.
August 19th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
My favorite childhood toy was quite big-it was my strawberry shortcake dresser. I liked it because it was where I got “pretty”, did weather reports, spilled apple juice, hid all my treasures and of course, had strawberry shortcake! That’s long gone now, but I always have fond memories of this dresser.
August 25th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
I have a handmade doll, Lucy. My mom and I called her Lucy-bear when I was growing up but later we realized she wasn’t a bear at all. She was a cat (whisker-less, which is were I think the confusion came in.) I still have her, though now her little dress is so worn and she’s only got one good limb. I pull her out sometimes when I need to be reminded of a time and place that no longer exists. My mom and I now call her Lucy-bear-that’s-really-a-cat.
August 26th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
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August 26th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
There was a butterfly necklace my aunt gave me, it was gold filigree, and very delicate. I wish I knew where it went.
August 27th, 2010 at 12:31 am
I had this huge baby blanket, but it wasn’t your typical baby blanket. It was satiny and very thin, with pink roses all over it, with orange borders. It was strangely loud and girly, but I still remember a baby photo of me crawling on it. It lasted quite a long time before it ripped apart but I loved that blanket. It kept me cool on warm summer nights.
August 27th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
My best friend and I met in 1st grade. Growing up, she had a vintage ceramic bank in the shape of a baby elephant. I coveted that bank with everything I had. As an adult, I even scoured ebay for one just like it. When my daughter was born, my wonderful friend gifted her with the bank. It now sits, prominently displayed and frequently admired, on a shelf in her room.
August 28th, 2010 at 11:17 am
This one is easy
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It was my “Blue Bird of Happiness”, my crib mobile that played “You Are My Sunshine” and I would wake up every morning begging to hear it sing!
Alicia
August 29th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
The first book I really discovered and read over and over as a little girl was my mother’s old copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I could never quite follow Disney movies the same after reading the Grimm version of Cinderella, but I loved the dark thrill of the witches and disguises, the Seven dancing Princesses… Oh I’m so glad I still have this book!
August 30th, 2010 at 12:18 am
My favourite cherished object would be my Winnie the Pooh bear! I still have him.
August 30th, 2010 at 5:03 am
For sure my baby blanket. It’s name was bah bah, but after taking it everywhere i went it became just a piece of cloth that flew off the clothes line and was never seen again. Then I got a monkey stuffed animal. His name was Monk monk. I used to play a game with my parents, and I would throw monk monk out of the window when we were in the car. And we would always stop and go back and get him. But one day i threw him out the window and they didn’t notice. Never to see monk monk again. And then I acquired a new blanket “Watsey” It has been with me for 22 years and I still sleep with it under my pillow every night.
August 30th, 2010 at 8:58 am
My dollhouse for sure, I played with it long past I probably should! I just put it down to developing my love of interior design at an early age! I still have it and I’m ‘renovating’ it for my oldest daughter for her birthday! I also have a gorgeously illustrated hard cover version of the ‘secret garden’ it’s probably my most cherished book (I was a real book worm) I’m saving that until my children are old enough to appreciate it too.
August 30th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
i had a toy fire hydrant that my sister and i used to play with in the backyard. it had many different ways of spraying water. endless summer fun was had in our backyard!
August 30th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
There was a plastic foot attached to an extendable contraption that I used to “kick” people under the table with. It was used so much that eventually, the big toe had a giant hole in it and so I taped up the hole and it looked like a giant foot with a broken toe bandaid. I don’t know what happened to it after we moved cuz now I’d really like it back to give my husband a swift kick off the couch!
August 30th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
My favourite childhood object is a large salmon-coloured towel that I would rub between my fingers when I went to bed, because I liked the “prickly”-ness of it. It started to fray on the edges as I grew up so my mom would roll in the edges and sew it so that as the years wore on, it became significantly smaller in size. I still have not been able to part with it, and I even brought it with me to university.
August 30th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
I used to have a white stuffed bear with a Christmas hat and bow tie which I named appropriately, Christmas bear. I was chasing my cousin one day and he grabbed Christmas bear and threw him on the floor and Christmas bear’s eye broke off. I burst out in tears, but eventually got over it. I still sleep with him and his cracked eye (which was badly super-glue’d back on) beside my pillow.
August 31st, 2010 at 9:54 pm
My most cherished childhood object is my teddy bear named Quilty, he had hand stitched patches all around him.
September 2nd, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Oh man I so bummed I didn’t see this till today; I love that elephant clock! I would say it is a tough call, but I’m going to settle on this silk flower with a face (like in Wonderland) that my dad brought me when he came back from a trip.