A penguin a day... » 2000 http://meltin.net/penguins ... penguins, penguins and more penguins! Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:00:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Thai penguin http://meltin.net/penguins/2009/08/20/another-thai-penguin/ http://meltin.net/penguins/2009/08/20/another-thai-penguin/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:54:26 +0000 mel http://meltin.net/penguins/?p=150 1929

This is yet another Thai penguin. I’m pretty sure it also came from the floating market. It is carved and painted wood…

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These are Ritzenhoff shot/schnaps glasses, designed by Iti Janz. They were a Xmas present for Martin – I saw them and couldn’t resist – although purchasing them was a bit of a saga as I really wanted two but they could only find one box and would absolutely not put one of them into another box… In the end they got another correct box from another store I think!

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We are not actually 100% sure that this is a penguin. It could be an owl… but we decided it looked enough like a penguin to be part of the collection. This one also came from the floating market in Thailand.

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We got this penguin in Thailand at a floating market. It is carved into some sort of animal horn. It’s not a very cute penguin, physically of philosophically, but I guess it is original…

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These little guys came in packs of ten or something like that. We got them in Thailand from the giftshop at a teak carving ‘factory’. We’re not sure that they are teak but they sure are cute!

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A penguin windchime from Japan. A present from Martin that he bought in a department store when he was there for work…

]]> http://meltin.net/penguins/2009/08/01/wind-chime-penguin/feed/ 0 The first one http://meltin.net/penguins/2009/07/27/the-first-one/ http://meltin.net/penguins/2009/07/27/the-first-one/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:44:17 +0000 mel http://meltin.net/penguins/2009/07/27/the-first-one/ 1782

This was the penguin that started it all. It was the centrepiece (& inspiration for) of a box full of penguins given to Martin for his birthday. The reason for a box full of penguins – he was working for a Linux company and the Linux logo is Tux, a penguin. Since then the collection has just gotten bigger, and here we are – doing a penguin a day!

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