evanae | Small Gift LA

Steph and I went to Sanrio's Small Gift LA on one of the last days it was here. It was held at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport (I had no idea the city had its own airport, but apparently it's one for smaller planes). The whole thing was pretty much like a carnival with games, face painting, caricature, a small ferris wheel and a few photo op places where you can stick you face into holes cut out into whatever they had. There were GINORMOUS blow-up heads of some of the Sanrio characters hanging from ceiling and everything was Sanrio-ified. Overall, v. cute. But also pricey...1 ticket was like $2....needless to say, we were being a tad cheap and thus didn't play any games (it seemed like the prizes sucked anyway...). I was tempted to make my own t-shirt (more like choose from x amnt of graphics to be silkscreened however you want...too bad you didn't get to do it yourself) and figure out if the magical shrinking tags were shrinky dinks. XD

We did however, enjoy a Beard Papa's cream puff. After walking around some more then decided to wait in line for 2 hours to get into their pop-up shop. I was a bit disappointed at the merchandise they had, but I'm thinking the cooler, better stuff were long gone and these were just the leftovers. After perusing and not really liking anything, I thought, "OMG I need to buy something, dammit! I stood in line for way too long to not come out with something in hand! >_<"

Afterwards, we headed over to Counter Burger. I think I got a beef patty with sauteed mushrooms, Gruyere and some...roasted garlic aioli sauce -- it was pretty good. :9 I'm curious to try other combos now! XD

Long line was long. But surprisingly, we didn't wait very long to get in.

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Welcome!

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HIS FACE! LOL.

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I think this was made all out of Skittles. o_o

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Some of my fave art from the gallery they had up.

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I love the varying degrees of opacity and translucency in this piece. So much to look at!

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Reminds me of the New Yorker magazine. :]

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Can you guess who's who? They're all painted after popular culture and figures.

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The answers!

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Hahaha. XD

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Poor Keroppi.

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Awww, nerd Hello Kitty! XD

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My loot. I bought a cubed plushie Tuxedo Sam keychain and stationery. Those little thingajigs on the right came with my purchase. Not sure what to do with them...