Coin banks! A charming gift idea for any youngster in your life, these little critters look cute while also reinforcing the positive habit of saving money. Because saving money can be FUN!
Right?
WE THOUGHT SO!
Just check out this cheerful little guy below. If he doesn’t inspire young Bobby to stash his nickels away we don’t know what will!
"Greetings.
I would be pleased to provide a cheerful method of coin storage IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL!!!
Oh, and will you please remove THIS FROCKING BEE from my ear already? Don’t make me poke you with my tiny wooden rake."
EeK! The weird bunny bank freaks me out! Mommy make it go away!
Not to mention the weird mouse bank, who looks like he’d take Junior’s money & score some dope.
Or the infantilized, anthropomorphized pig bank? I would think that a fat, female pig striving to look human would dress more… matronly or more like Miss Piggy- not like Tinkerbell on a bender. But maybe that’s just me projecting….
I don’t see a bunny. I do see a bear. Maybe these things are shape-shifters and they just play with your mind.
On second thought, that is a bunny with the bee on his ear. I thought it was a puppy, until I realized the pink/red eyes definitely meant bunny.
They are shape shifters.
That’s a rabbit? I thought it was a dog. A rabid dog armed with an attack insect and some sort of large stick.
I think it’s a dog, but that doesn’t explain why it has a second nose growing out of its foot, unless it’s to facilitate the ingestion of whatever is making it so sleepy.
I’m talking about the gray animal in the group photo. The demon thing is obviously a rabbit. Its demonic powers allow it to conjure up insects to do its bidding.
WHY is that Bunny holding a back-scratcher? What? Is it a “scratch & save” bank? That mouse looks like it has been imbibing. Wonder what it’s had to drink? Whatever it was, he should give some to the Owl…maybe it would calm him down.
The gray animal looks like a mouse to me. A drunken mouse. But, does it really matter? They’re all pretty upsetting to behold. You’re not going to get ordinary animal performance from any of these creatures and I’d just like to see what happens when you try to get your money back from them.
I’ve seen some freaky-looking pictures on Threadbared, but this one takes the cake. You wouldn’t make any of these bank-creatures except to frighten children you don’t like.
It’s a tough call, but I’m guessing the tutu-clad pig is probably going to be the one that gives me nightmares tonight.
LMAO!!!
Hands in the air…dropped change everywhere…a glazed look of fear…
Yep! That pig is getting mugged!
Wait, lemme guess! The John Calvin Pattern Company of Geneva, Switzerland, right? I particularly like the see-through moneybellies…keep the little blighters honest any way you have to!
Bad bad things happen when yarn comes together with plastic canvas. The medium doesn’t lend itself to normal organic shapes…I’ve yet to see anything done in plastic canvas that doesn’t disturb me. But what kind of crazy crafty woman picks red eyes?? Why does she even have red eyes?? If you see her, her plastic canvas license is revoked.
I think the mouse is high on pot, the owl’s high on speed. They spent all their change on drugs (that’s why their bellies are empty). Now they’re holding up the pig for her money, and the bear is pretending he doesn’t notice.
Also, the rabbit? Yeah. That’s what lifelong phobias are made of.
I can’t figure out why the rabbit has a bee on his ear. These have to be some of THE strangest creations I’ve EVER seen. If I had one of these damn things when I was a kid, I would have had nightmares…every night.
erm….the owl isn’t too scary…
On a very weird whim I googled Tricia Suder — author of these art pieces. Very prolific woman in the plastic canvas arts. Yowza!
the pig gives a whole new meaning to “spilling your guts”…
ROTFLMAO… omg… i just stumbled upon this site and it’s the most hilarious stuff i’ve read in a long time (the immortal soul line is still cracking me up). great site– keep up the awesome vintage commentary!
I’m with dASH on this one. I just got here & these posts are awesome! I feel the need to go through my boxes of old patterns my mom bought me at garage sales to see if there’s anything worth submitting. Those red eyes are SUPER creepy & isn’t the gray “mouse” wearing animal house shoes/slippers? Maybe? Maybe the creator was just OD’ing on yarn & it needed somewhere to go? It is amazing what people create with plastic canvas!
Terrifying! Yes they certainly are! It’s a wonder they didn’t make a moth and a few other insect and animal coin banks… lj
Hush, hush you people, it takes longer to make one of these than it takes to knit a whole sweater;and more talent to get the edges joined right. It’s real nice to see these when they are all fresh and new, the only things I have ever seen in this art medium are on old people’s kitchen tables all dusty with little spots of ketchup and cat hair on them. Mom has something like this in her bathroom to cover the extra roll of toilet paper. Its real dusty too, and spots of do do do on it, if you know what I mean..