{"id":25,"date":"2011-04-26T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelraab.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2011-04-26T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:18:36","slug":"fun-in-harajuku-kiddyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Fun in Harajuku: Kiddyland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might seem silly, but I&#8217;d like to dedicate this blog post to my mommy.  She made a Snoopy lover out of me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I come from a family of Snoopy lovers.  I remember a grey Snoopy sweatshirt my mom dressed me in on chilly days when I was 3.  My sister had a Belle doll; Belle was Snoopy&#8217;s sister from Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.  And my mother has quite possibly the coolest Snoopy art I&#8217;ve ever seen in her current home.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Kiddyworld.  I happened upon this place in Harajuku with Kelsey during our girls shopping day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0513.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/IMG_0513.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kiddyworld is a 3-story shop that caters to all things cute.  They sell all sorts of knickknacks- notebooks, plates, cups, blankies, pens, small toys, office supplies, kitchen goodies, shirts, socks, tote bags.<\/p>\n<p>The first floor is mainly Japanese characters- characters from Miyazaki films, Rilakkuma, and some other characters I didn&#8217;t immediately recognize.  The second floor is more mainstream toys- Barbie, toy cars and trucks, monster toys, Star Wars toys.  The third floor is by far my favorite-  It&#8217;s called SNOOPY TOWN.<\/p>\n<p>The third floor begins with a good area dedicated to Hello Kitty and other Hello Kitty characters.  But the rest of the floor- Snoopy.  Words can&#8217;t describe how happy, excited, and youthful I felt here.  So much Snoopy!  Vintage Snoopy, comic Snoopy, novel Snoopy, Cartoon Snoopy.  At the moment I missed my mother and sister so much and wished they were there with me!  <\/p>\n<p>Kelsey and I spent a good long while in the store marveling all the goodies.  She hopes to go back before she leaves next week, so I will have to pick up some goodies for myself then.  I&#8217;ll leave you with some photos of this neat place- you may notice even my photos are biased toward the Snoopy section \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This is the Gigi the Cat section.  Gigi is from Miyazaki&#8217;s film Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0514.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/IMG_0514.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nI notice many large displays of small towels.  I&#8217;m not sure what people need so many small towels for, but there&#8217;s a draw for it here.  These towels feature Totoro and Catbus, from the Miyazaki film My Neighbor Totoro.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0515.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/IMG_0515.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now I present to you, Snoopyland \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0520.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/IMG_0520.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0519.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/IMG_0519.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0517.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/IMG_0517.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_0516.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c131\/pinkloo\/IMG_0516.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might seem silly, but I&#8217;d like to dedicate this blog post to my mommy. She made a Snoopy lover out of me \ud83d\ude42 I come from a family of Snoopy lovers. I remember a grey Snoopy sweatshirt my mom dressed me in on chilly days when I was 3. My sister had a Belle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,47,45,52,54,53],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-harajuku","tag-kelsey","tag-kiddyland","tag-rilakkuma","tag-snoopy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}