"Peeps" Steals Your Heart

It's funny how things evolve.

While shopping in a thrift store, an item on a shelf  made me smile. It was a little bunny with one eye closed in sleep and one eye open. A pink and white blanket with a white flower and black leaves on it covered the small creature. He was only about three inches long from top to bottom.

Picking up the bunny, I decided to buy him because he was so darned cute. Flipping it over, it read "Peeps" as well as the word Pendelfin and made in England.

Because I love researching any "new to me" items, it was a delight to read that Pendelfin bunnies are very collectible and there is quite a history behind them.

It seems that Jeanne Todd and Jean Walmsley Heap made animal figures as gifts in Burnley, England, in the 1950s. They worked in a backyard wooden shed. Their very first piece was apparently modeled after "the Pendle Witch,"  according to one Internet website. Animals that followed had an elfin look to them. Consequently, the name Pendlefin evolved. As the popularity of the figures grew, the founders established a factory named Pendlefin which produced the art figures for many years. It eventually relocated to Briercliff, England.

A family of rabbits the artists modeled in 1956 gained immediate popularity and completely sold out. More figures were introduced and have been collected ever since. They are quite charming and often have humorous expressions.

There are even names to dozens of Pendlefin bunnies such as Bongo, Butterfingers, Dandy, Dodger,  Muncher, Pieface, Rocky, Scrumpy, Totty Bunny, and Whopper.

When I saw that my bunny's name was "Peeps," it made me happy because I have so many "peeps" in blogland!

So that's the story of my Pendlefin bunny, "Peeps." He's half asleep on the corner of a table in our front hall for the Easter season, charming every guest who passes by.

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We have a winner in the Writing Straight from the Heart giveaway, Mo from the blog, Rose Petals from Heaven.       

Congratulations to  Mo. Check out her very lovely blog. She's always designing artistic buttons and sharing them with people throughout blogland. She's a wonder!

Check out her blog at http://www.rosepetalsfromheaven.blogspot.com/    

Thanks to everyone who participated. I wish I could send a big fat package to every single one of you because each of you is so special to me. Unfortunately, I haven't won the lottery yet so have to stick with one winner for now. :)