Monthly Archives: July 2017

Photo-A-Day, Review, Toys, Vlog

Review: Candylab Toys Awesome Wood Cars – GT-10 and Plum50

Candylab Toys Awesome Wood Cars Gt-10 and Plum50
Photo-A-Day #4484

At Blogger Bash NYC and #SweetSuite17 I ran into Vlad and his display of Candylab Toys Awesome Wood Cars. They truly are awesome all around. The designs are simple and yet invoke a feeling of something more. The toys are built well, designed beautifully and roll along quickly and quietly on rubber tires. I was instantly drawn to the Candylab Toys booth because of the Plum50 so when I was asked if I wanted to review the toys I knew that was the one I wanted. I asked Vlad if I could review that one and also mentioned that I liked the GT-10. It reminded me of a certain orange muscle car with the number 01. He said that he’d send me both and I was very excited about that.

I’ll be taking these toys to the Cape with me and I hope to get some fantastic shots with these cars. I did try to do a sunset shot with the cars in the image above.

Candylab Toys has a bunch of great toys. Not only are there cool muscle cars but there are also tow trucks, taxis and police cars as well as campers and station wagons. The company started on Kickstarter and they are having a brand new Kickstarter campaign right now. There are 8 days to go on the Kickstarter and they are fully funded so if you want any of these Kickstarter exclusive vehicles and you better jump on it. The Candylab Toys Kickstarter for the Woodie Redux, the Airstream, the Legend & the Ghost.

Food, Photo-A-Day

The Return of Lime. It’s About Dang Time!!!

Skittles Lime
Photo-A-Day #4483

Sadly, I think way too much about candy. I remember certain candy from my youth and I miss it. When I was a kid I used to stuff Sunday newspapers at a candy store in the early morning along with my sister and sometimes my friends. We’d get paid in candy from that penny candy store. I can still remember it to this day and all of the tasty candy that I loved. I like tart and sour types of candy so I was a big fan of Sweet Tarts. Back then the green sweet tart was lime. There used to be a package of giant sweet tarts that were hard and not chewy. there also used to be Jolly Ranchers in sticks instead of the very small pieces that they have now. There also used to be lemon and pink lemonade jolly rancher sticks. My absolute favorite were Nerds and Rinky Dinks. Nerds are still around but Rinky Dinkys completely disappeared.

Rinky Dinks were made by Willy Wonka candies and there were two different boxes. There was a box with cherry, orange and lime and a box with grape, strawberry and lemon. They were about the size of tiny gobstoppers but they were tart and they had faces printed on them. The box separated each color and there was a flap with a hole in the box for each flavor so you could distribute only the colors you wanted. They were my most favorite candy ever.

Then there were Skittles. Skittles were created in 1974 but not widely made available in the US until 1982. These candies were really good because they also had my favorite flavors, Lemon, Orange, Grape, Strawberry and Lime. However, Lime was replaced by Green Apple. It seems as if so many companies have replaced the lime flavor with green apple and I was not happy about it. So, today when I found a bag of Skittles with the original Lime back I was quite happy.