the elephant and the donkey Tweet

I am becoming a vintage addict, beyond clothes, and a Wooden Donkey addict, too. The latter is a brilliant shop for serious collectors, and then I come along, no idea whom all these clever designers/ makers were, and start drooling over unbearable cuteness and, sometimes, clever functionality. A bit of both arrived in today's parcel, and the orange elephant money box is definitely the highlight. Chris embraced it immediately, and couldn't stop touching it, smiling and laughing (we also dropped the first coins in). It's large, tactile, joyful to heavens and back.



But wait to see the donkey! If it weren't a piece of metal attached to a wooden base and other sweet nothings, I would definitely sleep with it. In fact, I'd be carrying it with me everywhere. As it stands, I can only look at it, and occasionally pet it. While Emma of Wooden Donkey guessed the object to be a desk organizer, and others offered egg cup, I didn't think too long about the room in which it would be best exposed (lounge!) and quickly filled it with toothpicks. I know, functional, but then 1) we failed buying clever toothpick boxes in Vietnam twice (they were either wrong or 50x the price thanks to our plump white faces) and 2) toothpicks on the table look so small family restaurant in the countryside! Enter donkey, which now gets exercise and attention joining the dinner table more often than not. And we're expecting guests, thus comments :)



All deliveries from Wooden Donkey so far had some kind of surprise and gift next to the lovely cards Emma picks and writes. Then all items are so beautifully wrapped in orange paper kept together by a single sticker (Wooden Donkey logo, no less), so getting to the goodies through the bubble wrap always feel like Christmas morning. I couldn't recommend this shop more. But I will, as I'll keep posting about the items I snatched.

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