Weekend Adventures!

This weekend Spok-spok and Spokelina went down to the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market. It was fun! They saw lots of neat things and met a puppy.

Spokelina even got some pins from the 50's!

Memories...

Writing about travel made us look through our photo album, and we found these pictures from the Lapland trip. It was a great trip, where Spok-spok and Spokelina ran around the mountains above the tree line (so far up north no trees grow there!), we also saw reindeer, and enjoyed the midnight sun.

Some of the pictures from the trip can be found in the book Dot Dot Dash, published by our friends at Die Gestalten Verlag (where you can also buy the Spok-spok plushies)! It's a great book, you should check it out!



The Baron was also there...

A travel tip of the Spok-spok kind!

As you might know, Spok-spok and Spokelina are avid travellers. They've crossed the arctic circle when they went to Lapland, and they've been to the Caribbean when they went to Culebra, one of their favorite places in the whole wide world is however Tiveden. Tiveden is a deep forest in Sweden, where trolls and moose alike roam the moss covered ground.


The reason Spok-spok and Spokelina like Tiveden so much is that one of the lakes, Fagertärn, is covered in red water-lilies. Spok-spok and Spokelina think that is beautiful.

Flott!

Have you seen Elling? It's one of our favorite films here at Spok-spok HQ. We like it so much we watched it twice in one weekend!

Elling the character is also responsible for one of our favorite sayings around here. One day when Kjell Bjarne comes home with some groceries Elling exclaims, "Flott, Kjell Bjarne! Flott!"

Roughly translated flott means "plush," as in luxurious and wonderful. We like to use it a lot because everything at the Spok-Spok HQ is plush! Get it? :)

History is fun!

Recognize the castle on Sir Rainbowbelly Von Castleback's back? It's the Örebro Castle!

It's in the center of Örebro. Spok-spok and Spoklina lived there, but then something happened (more about that later) and they had to leave. At first Spokelina was quite sad, but then Spok-spok reminded her that they could do all the traveling they want to and visit their friends all over the world. 

The Good Sir!

In case you missed the Plushform show at Rotofugi, here's a peek at the Spök-spök contribution. The show is over, so this is the only way to get a glimpse of it. :)

He's named Sir Rainbowbelly von Castleback. Guess why!

A Spok-spok kind of story!

Spok-spok just received an e-mail from a fan, telling us about how Spok-spok helped learning her baby boy to walk.

I kid you not, my son is OBSESSED with Spok Spok. It's by far his favorite toy. He just lights up when he sees it, grabs it, and snuggles it -- giggling the whole time. And it was Spok Spok that encouraged him to start walking -- I would sit across the room from him holding Spok Spok, and he'd get up on his feet and walk across the room to come get Spok Spok. So thanks to you guys, he learned to walk!

That is so heart warming!


When the Toofhairy minis hit the shelves in a couple of months, kids might actually learn how to fly! ;)