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Wooden Chess And Mimosa In a Can

March 21st, 2006 @ 3:07 PM Miscellaneous

Today i found some rather interesting items, during the daily routine of buying food and all of that crap.

Wooden chess figures:

I had to laugh when i saw them. The facial expressions are priceless!
(At the antique shop next to Foto Eder. Josefstädter Strasse)

Mimosa plants in a can:

Yes, i bought them. I want to find out if that really works, and i never had Mimosa plants. I like their name.
Mi-mo-sa.
(At the Post Office, Josefstädter Strasse. 2,99eur)

7 Comments so far

Meral (unregistered) on March 21st, 2006 @ 4:23 pm

I’d love to have a chess set as such! Though I’m pretty sure I can’t manage to play when inventing stories/scenes/memories to the figurenes with such facial expressions…
Philipp (unregistered) on March 21st, 2006 @ 6:10 pm

those chess figures look like they know what’s going to happen to them..

“here i stand, beautifully handcrafted out of the finest woods, carefully colored, only to be sacrificed on the battlefield. bleh.”
richard (unregistered) on March 21st, 2006 @ 6:50 pm

I bought a Sunflower in a can a while back. Mine had a poem written on the can. Anything similar on the Mimosa?
daniela (unregistered) on March 21st, 2006 @ 7:01 pm

@ Meral: but imagine how much fun those stories would be! full of drama and everything!

@ Philipp: i like chess. but i am a really bad player. i always loose the whole army. tsk tsk.

@ Richard: No poem on mine. Its from a german company, and probably a different brand than your can. damn. i wanted a mimosa poem.
RS (unregistered) on March 22nd, 2006 @ 7:45 am

This is how we learned to love
the branching
and leaf-work,
the shapely persistence,
in the delicate fires of
mimosa.
That is how I came to stand beside windows in
darkness….
RS (unregistered) on March 22nd, 2006 @ 7:46 am

(David Baker)
Meral (unregistered) on March 22nd, 2006 @ 11:02 pm

Today I saw mimosa flowers have bloomed here in a carzy way… They match with the blue of Bosphorus a lot. Hope yours will bloom as such.