These are Copic markers-- they're waterbased artist markers that are really expensive and really high quality. I use them all the time and I've collected something like 75 different colors over the years, and I've gotten pretty good at them. They're a great way to color things on paper, but they're definitely not for beginners. I really like them. For the pictures, I chose a few of the brighter more rainbow-like colors (so it would look nicer). I played around a lot with different ways I could arrange them, including trying and failing to stack them up-- eventually I had to hold them together with some books out of frame. (they may be designed to not roll, but they still slide.) I managed to stack them up in a Lincoln Logs-style tower, but it didn't fit with the rest of the pictures so I left it out.
My dad went through this phase a few years ago where he really liked ladybugs. He found the rubber ladybugs somewhere, put up a ladybug poster from the 80s or something, bought those stone ladybugs for a lot of money in Canada, and my great aunt got him a ladybug notebook. I forgot where the turtle came from, but I feel like maybe I bought it somewhere cause it's really cute. They've been sitting on that windowsill ever since he got them. I sat there in the hallway arranging them for way longer than I wanted to. Turns out it's kind of hard to come up with a bunch of different arrangements for a turtle and 4 ladybugs.
We have this shelf in the living room that's just full of weird junk nobody wants but we feel like we should keep. I found all these decks of cards in one compartment. The Sushi-go box has yet to be opened; I got it for my birthday from someone who's not very nice to me anymore. My mom has been bugging me my whole life to play Go Dino with her. I don't want to. As for the Pokemon card box... There should be cards in there. But apparently they got moved somewhere. Or maybe my mom sold them and I just forgot. I never wanted them anyway. They were hand-me-downs from her boss's son. Cards are significantly easier to arrange in different ways. I didn't have too much trouble coming up with a lot of different photos.
The boot and the neon blue/black shoe never get worn. I bought those boots but they're by nature difficult to break in, and I didn't want to be running up and down stairs and around the school with uncomfortable shoes. I'm kind of worried that by the time I break them in they won't fit anymore. I guess these pictures serve as another reminder that I need to actually wear them. (the blue and black shoe is my mom's. I don't know why she doesn't wear them.) As for the arrangement... I really don't know. I stared at them for a long time and eventually came up with enough arrangements. It's kind of weird holding shoes and moving them around since the soles are so dirty, but I managed.
I used to do a ton of sculpey stuff, since I took an after school sculpey class in 4th and 5th grade, and then went to a summer camp in 5th, 6th and 7th grade taught by the same person where one of the options was to make sculpey things. The hot dog and pink dragon are from the after school class. I used to love making them. The turtle is from a project we had in lower school art class. The platypus which look more like a green blob was something I made in my free time at Blue Lake last summer. I have no idea what the Pikachu is from. I honestly don't know where my parents are keeping the majority of my sculptures I've made over my life, but I know they keep some in a china cabinet. So that's where I got these. Coming up with enough arrangements for these was really hard. I mean.. there's only so much I could do with the objects I chose. I could have just picked out a different object or two and it might have been easier. But the rest of them were in the dining room and my parents were having a deep discussion, and it was really late, so I decided to just go with it.