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Why haven’t we realized that even the bottle corks may have lives before? Fortunately it’s still not too late for us to know that truth, and welcome you to this new world of bottle cork animals. They’re made by two Israeli design studios, who packaged all the required body parts in with each bottle of wine, for people to build out a bear, buffalo, bunny, crow, deer or monkey with the cork, so as to recycle your resources in an easy and interesting way.

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Quite surprisingly we’re informed that in the Bronx Zoo there’re several animals seldom moving or eating but keeping in merely one single posture. Why and what happened? The truth is bit of interesting, as all those animals mentioned above are actually life-like statues made out of LEGO. So how do you like them? If you’d like a tour to the Bronx Zoo, you can ask for a LEGO Zoofari Passport along with your ticket for a comprehensive guide to the installation’s whereabouts, and collect 6 different stamps for souvenir-like proof of your visit there.

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Why and how could there be trees that grow into the amazing shapes as horses?! Honestly that’s what I thought when I met these sculptures, until I know they’re actually constructed with driftwood and oak. So incredible! When creating, Heather Jansch used an underlying steel frame that has been coated in fiberglass, attached wood onto the frame in certain shapes and then colored needed parts of the wood. The hooves are usually made out of bronze or lead, in case that the sculptures may get blown away in windy days. As a result, with great passion and hard work instilled into these art pieces, each sculpture turns out impressively good, seemingly very similar to real-life horses.

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Watch out, a shark is nearby to attack you… in a special way of disguising itself as a safety helmet. Especially designed for kids to increase their safety of cycling, the crazy helmet features a vivid 3D effect, providing both a cool expression and full function as well.

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Animals are always the best friends to kids, who not only play with dogs but even sleep with them. These creative bed sheets are rightly designed to transform regular beds into giant stuffed animals, so as to provide your kids with more chances and time to get accompanied by animals.

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Would like to try anything special each morning? Start your unique life with these stunning ceramic bowls by Geraldine De Beco for Bernardaud. They all come with a twist on the bottom, which seems like a flaw usually, but display the shape of a cat, wolf or bird when filled with milk. Surprise? Oh, wait, the price is more astonishing, as each piece will cost you 240€!

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Time again new value is found with old things. With his creative design and good work, Edouard Martinet sculptures several metal animals using waste materials such as automotive engines, typewriter keys, car lights and so on. Quite surprisingly all the sculptures are created by fitting each component into place instead of using solder, while the results still turn out to be firm and solid.

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Origami is charming. You see, any common paper can find its values when transformed into a origami sculpture. Almost all the sculptures here are carefully folded from a single uncut square sheet of paper, visually represent animals, plants and fictional characters. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Japan-based Kiko recently delivered these Ashiato sandals to us. With these special shoes on our feet, we’ll leave paw marks, web-foot prints and other animals’ footprints on the ground. Super fun! [Read the rest of this entry...]

So we’re always living in a world full of animals… After the animal hand paintings, animal lip arts, animal wine stoppers, animal stone paintings and now these animal T-shirts have come to us. Really unbelievable, as the elephants, tigers seem just ready to jump out of your clothes! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Of course nobody would ever feel like to have a bath with real hippo, but they would never mind sharing their bathtub with the new foamy Hippo that also doubles as a bathtub plug. Look, it is so white and cute, and therefore will never defile your water. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you prefer vegetable salad, just as a rabbit may do? Whatever, having some vegetables is really helpful to keep our health. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The animal wine stoppers? What a strange idea! But admittedly it is great too. Any animals here love drinking and they’re sticking their noses into the bottles to enjoy the wine. I just wish they wouldn’t be drunk so that they could successfully get out of the bottles. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Your kids will love these Tree Toothbrush Holders very much. Coming with enough room to hold four toothbrushes, the beautifully painted tree also have several wide-eyed owls on its branches and therefore making the toothbrush holder a decorative item in your bathroom too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What have you seen, lively crabs, smart foxes, cute pandas, and other kinds of animals? Not exactly, because what is shown here is merely one thing: lips, and of course coming with various patterns. Isn’t that incredible, our lips now can create impressive paintings too?! [Read the rest of this entry...]