Koala

Like Kangaroos and Platypus, Koala is one of Australia's best known animals. It is an icon represented when promoting Australia to the tourists. Koalas are often referred to as a Koala bear. However they are not a bear. Koalas only eat certain eucalyptus leaves. The name Koala comes from an Aboriginal word. It means "no drink" as they rarely drink water. All liquid they require comes from the eucalyptus leaves. As Koalas are very placid animals, they do not move around much. They are only active for about 2 hours of the day. The rest of the day?, they sleep. Collectible snowglobe bought by my younger daughter.

New York at night

As a continuation from the post on Segovia Aqueduct souvenir spoon, when Wannee learnt that I have this blog of collectibleslovers, she remembered that besides other collectibles given to me, she also gave me a snowglobe from New York.

With the Big Apple between The Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building, showing New York at night and a red apple in the word , it is undoubtedly why they call New York City the "Big Apple".

Santa in an old veteran and vintage English car

At some point, one of my dearest friends, Onn learnt that I'm a collectibles lover and snowglobe is one of my favourite collectibles. In 2009, Onn went to visit her daughter, Nong Omm who is studying in England. She handpicked two snowglobes for me. They are my first Christmas snowglobes. This is one of them.


Instead of sleigh ride, this Santa Clause chooses to travel in an old veteran and vintage English car. I'm sure that he's loaded lots of toys and goodies in his car too.

Thanks Onn and Nong Omm. It's a high quality snowglobe and I love it so much.

Snowman Snowglobe

Being so fond of snowman and so obsessed with snowglobes, I must admit that I'm double happy when my colleague, Sinee gave me this snowglobe. Sinee went for training at UNHQs, New York in November 2009. Since it was in winter, I asked her to find snowglobe with Christmas meaning. This smiling snowman holding "SNOW" label and standing next to Christmas tree makes me feel cold when looking at it.

Thank you Sinee, it's now one of my three christmas snowglobes collectibles.

Snowglobe - Disney theme park

This is my first Disney Snowglobe. Actually, I have been in love with snowglobes for more than a decade. Snow globe is a transparent sphere usually made of glass or plastic with miniature scenes or objects, water and white particles of "snow", which when shaken, falls on the scenery.

From what I've read, snow globes was believed to originate from France during the early 1800s. In 1889, a snow globe featuring a model of the newly built Eiffel Tower was produced to commemorate the International Exposition in Paris which marked the centenary of the French Revolution. Snow globes became popular throughout Victorian-era Europe, with snow globes featuring religious figures, scenes, medals, flowers and other objects produced and sold in Germany, Russia, Poland, England and other countries. Snow globes sometimes have a built-in music box that plays a Christmas carol or other songs.

My colleague, Pui Nawaporn visited Los Angeles in April 2010. Out of my request to buy one of disney snow globes, she was so kind to carry this for me.

This Snowglobe featuring favorite Disney characters enjoying the Parks with Alice in Wonderland in teacup on top, Mickey Mouse and Minnie in the globe while the wonderful characters of Disney such as Snow White, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Aurora Princess, Nemo, Merlin and other disney characters circle the base of this snowglobe.

After this snowglobe is under my possession, I started to fall for other disney snowglobes. After searching the internet, I couldn't wait to have more of them. Gosh, they are so beautiful. Thank you Pui, it's now my most favourite collectible.

The Wizard of Oz

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow Why, oh why can't I? last line from Over the Rainbow, soundtrack from The
The Wizard of Oz.


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. It has since been reprinted countless times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version, directed by Victor Fleming with Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale . The story is about a girl named Dorothy Gale who was swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

Back to the year 1996-1997, my eldest daughter, Foil was an AFS exchanged student to Manhattan, Kansas, USA. Upon completion of an exchanged programme, her friend Irlanda gave this music snowglobe to her. It's now one of my favourite collectibles.