Almost there..
This is my good luck cat, a maneki neko. I spent hours (just ask Batman) going through Chinatown in San Fransisco looking for one which was the perfect size and didn’t have a sinister expression. Then we went away for a weekend and our horrible flatmate somehow managed to crack it almost in half and chip its poor wee nose.
But here he is, keeping an eye on our new kitchen!
(Oh yea, the bricks are pink..really!)
My Manenkineko is one of the few things from japan that was a house neccessity that didn’t come from a Hankyoen store (100 yen
), little black kitty sits overlooking my living room with Ganesh keeping us safe
Oh yeah! Ganesh and Manekineko go in the box of “to be unpacked first” stuff like the kettle, because they need to be there to guard the house