Strange wonders in the mail
Nov. 20th, 2008 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaSo after that last entry, I leaned back in my chair, put my feet up (not on my desk, but braced against the back panel underneath), turned on my all-time favorite song (I'm weird, I don't know) and just kind of lay there for a while, not really thinking about anything at all. And then I went and took a shower and dipped into my precious sample bottle of Lush's Snow Fairy.
And then when I got out, a package had come for me. I feel like I have to disclose this in the interest of fair play--apparently the team at coraline.com decided I should be one of fifty websites or bloggers or something to receive something "handcrafted and special" (said the email I got a couple of days ago), and my first thought was, God bless them, they're going to send me a spare Coraline head. Yeah. This package was a lot bigger than a puppet head, and it... rattled.
So I open the cardboard shipping box--I had no idea at the time if it was something from y'all or what--and pull off a few handfuls of packing paper, and I see this beautiful, battered wooden box (HANDMADE IN OREGON, 33/50), about a foot wide and maybe four inches deep, and when I open it, there inside the lid is a little movie still printed on paper and tacked up like it's an old photograph: C. LOOKS UNDER BED. In the box itself there are five deep blue HAIR SWATCHES CUSTOM-DYED FOR C. (kind of thick and bristly), a bottle of NAIL POLISH CUSTOM-MADE FOR C. in the same color, and a MINI HAT (a dark, flat cap, kind of like a train conductor's or a soldier's) CUSTOM-MADE FOR... well. You know.
There's a little compartment in the front, and inside is a big, shiny, old-fashioned silver key on a ball chain (C.'s NECKLACE). I have to tell you, I have a big thing about old-fashioned keys. I don't know why, but I have this huge fixation with just the imagery of them; I have some key earrings and a couple of key pendants, a handful of tarnished old skeleton keys I keep in a box somewhere, all kinds of things. So the moment I saw the necklace, I was completely a-squee. If I can convince myself that I will not be devaluing a movie collectible, I am totally going to wear it.
The lid itself was about an inch thick, maybe more, and it also rattled, so after some fiddling I managed to get the top panel open (a lid that thick, there obviously had to be something in there), and inside was a picture of Coraline's hand holding up a little black key with the head shaped like a button--and there, inside the lid, was a little black key with a head shaped like a button. There was an envelope glued to the top of the lid, sealed with black wax and a black button, and inside was a typed letter explaining basically the same thing the email had. And there was a password to get on to the website, but I don't know if I'm supposed to share what it is. So I'll look into that a bit later and see how that goes. I'll have to find someone's digital camera and take some pictures of the box--really, really nicely done, I have to say.
ETA: Someone else's box, with different contents. My password was "buttoneyes," by the way; I think others are listed on that page as well.
And then when I got out, a package had come for me. I feel like I have to disclose this in the interest of fair play--apparently the team at coraline.com decided I should be one of fifty websites or bloggers or something to receive something "handcrafted and special" (said the email I got a couple of days ago), and my first thought was, God bless them, they're going to send me a spare Coraline head. Yeah. This package was a lot bigger than a puppet head, and it... rattled.
So I open the cardboard shipping box--I had no idea at the time if it was something from y'all or what--and pull off a few handfuls of packing paper, and I see this beautiful, battered wooden box (HANDMADE IN OREGON, 33/50), about a foot wide and maybe four inches deep, and when I open it, there inside the lid is a little movie still printed on paper and tacked up like it's an old photograph: C. LOOKS UNDER BED. In the box itself there are five deep blue HAIR SWATCHES CUSTOM-DYED FOR C. (kind of thick and bristly), a bottle of NAIL POLISH CUSTOM-MADE FOR C. in the same color, and a MINI HAT (a dark, flat cap, kind of like a train conductor's or a soldier's) CUSTOM-MADE FOR... well. You know.
There's a little compartment in the front, and inside is a big, shiny, old-fashioned silver key on a ball chain (C.'s NECKLACE). I have to tell you, I have a big thing about old-fashioned keys. I don't know why, but I have this huge fixation with just the imagery of them; I have some key earrings and a couple of key pendants, a handful of tarnished old skeleton keys I keep in a box somewhere, all kinds of things. So the moment I saw the necklace, I was completely a-squee. If I can convince myself that I will not be devaluing a movie collectible, I am totally going to wear it.
The lid itself was about an inch thick, maybe more, and it also rattled, so after some fiddling I managed to get the top panel open (a lid that thick, there obviously had to be something in there), and inside was a picture of Coraline's hand holding up a little black key with the head shaped like a button--and there, inside the lid, was a little black key with a head shaped like a button. There was an envelope glued to the top of the lid, sealed with black wax and a black button, and inside was a typed letter explaining basically the same thing the email had. And there was a password to get on to the website, but I don't know if I'm supposed to share what it is. So I'll look into that a bit later and see how that goes. I'll have to find someone's digital camera and take some pictures of the box--really, really nicely done, I have to say.
ETA: Someone else's box, with different contents. My password was "buttoneyes," by the way; I think others are listed on that page as well.
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:31 am (UTC)(Also, seeing her perform it live was better than the rather silly video.)
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:32 am (UTC)I too love old keys, but I don't have any. I do, however, have a small stash of "odd" coins - arcade tokens, buffalo nickels, dollar coins - and that sates my need for cool bits o' metal. For now.
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 12:33 am (UTC)i just looked at the website and i can't get in. SO ANNOYING. who knows the secret password and wants to let me in to the cool kid's club?
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 12:34 am (UTC)Way to go, though!
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 12:41 am (UTC)WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO TO GET SENT GAIMAN-RELATED THINGS
(hi.)
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:40 am (UTC)I've tried a couple keys--they all fill the space on the website.
Stopmotion, buttoneyes, moustachio, armpithair, puppetlove, and sweaterxxs are all proven to work.
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:42 am (UTC)cant wait to see the pics of this.
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:50 am (UTC)Are we talking about this Lush? (http://www.lush.ca/shop/english?sc=1) Because I'm going through an crazy Lush phase right now - I couldn't live without my Celestial face cream, my Smitten hand cream, and the occasional treat of a Sex Bomb and my Heavenly Bodies buttercream. We only just got Lush a few months ago and I went head over heels.
Seriously. That's practically all I want for Christmas this year.
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:03 am (UTC)And then I had no idea who or what Coraline is. Thank you, Wikipedia. I'm really starting to think I need to do something about my ignorance of all things related to Neil Gaiman.
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:08 am (UTC)Yes, that is Connellycious in the video. :)
I have never heard this song at all.
This is weirding me out.
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:06 am (UTC)That's some really nifty swag!
I have never heard this song! Ever! Not by anyone!
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!?!?
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 01:42 am (UTC)AND NAIL POLISHI feel special now.(no subject)
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:16 am (UTC)The passwords are out and about on the internet - here (http://www.despoiler.org/2008/11/17/my-funny-coraline/), in particular - it won't matter if you share it, but it's nice for you to have emailed them and asked. :)
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Date: 2008-11-21 01:19 am (UTC)I wanna see! I wanna see!
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