Re: [Chihuahuas] Checking in - found some Chi collectibles

[maryjane turner]

Welcome back....   what a lot of fun chi things you found in your travels.   That is always so much fun.    Hope all of your trip was as much fun and as productive as the hunting for chi collectibles has been. <G> I collected my first chi thing <G>    just a salt a pepper shaker... one light like Benji girl and one dark like Tilly....   too cute.    Not an antique or anything but found on eBay and just a fun little thing..   couldn't help myself <G> Glad you are back home safe and sound.    mj MJ in  AZ maryja...@me.com On Apr 14, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Liz Bickel & Irv Weinberg wrote:   Hello, everyone. I haven't checked in since I got home from the Caribbean. Great trip over all, but the news that might interest this group is the Chihuahua "stuff" I collected during my travels. First I found a stuffed, singing & dancing Chi in the Dallas airport. Too cute & I couldn't resist. Then, in Miami I found the cutest little Chi in a blue basket (a sculpture) that I now have sitting on my kitchen island to hold doggy meds. Because it's a heavy piece, I was concerned about it pushing my luggage over weight limit going home. If I didn't buy anything else, I'd probably be okay in my luggage weight. However, this all happened during day #1 of my trip, and I had another 3 weeks to go. The stuffed Chihuahua sat on my bed the entire time I was away from home. Not quite the same as a real Chihuahua, but it made me think of my real Chihuahuas. Day #3, however, I found the cutest Chihuahua Wine Holder at the beach in Virgin Gordo. That was someplace I never dreamed of finding a Chihuahua collectable. I've never seen anything like it; so I had to get it. He's a cute, little Smooth Coat with a big smile and a place to put a wine bottle next to him. There was a matching Chihuahua wine stopper, too. The only problem was that he is extremely heavy (like stone); so I knew this would put my luggage over weigh limit going home. Oh well. It did. He probably weighs 5 or 6 pounds. Maybe more. So I ended up sticking a lot of smaller (but heavy stuff into my rain coat pockets) to keep the suitcase under 75 pounds. Then in Dallas on the way home, I found still another Chihuahua collectible. This time it was a standing, ceramic Chi that was made in Mexico. He came in bright colors, and I picked red. Only he was 10 inches tall, and I had no room left in my carry on's or my rain coat. That was a challenge getting him onto the plane with my camera gear. A Caribbean trip is certainly not a trip where I expected to find Chihuahua "goodies", but finding these collectibles made my trip extra memorable. I'll have to take photos of the things I found. The Chi Wine Holder and the Mexican Ceramic piece are really cute. Liz