Fresh after a visit to the current Takashi Murakami retrospective exhibit at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, my daughter is a budding kawaii
(that's "cute stuff" in Japanese) lover. We'd have to be gazillionaires
to afford her favorite pieces — a cluster of over-sized tall,
candy-colored anthropomorphic toadstools. This paper village
playset by Fantastic Toys is more in line with our budget (not to
mention a little more G-rated than some of the...shall we
say...anatomically-correct statues included in the collection). Kids
ages six and up can use scissors, tape and glue to assemble a crew of
bug-eyed deer, bear cubs and gnomes, along with their bubblegum
toadstool home and outhouse.
$20, Mahar Drygoods.
