Trinket Picnic Podcast

Your trinket auntie is fiiiiinally back with a new episode of the Trinket Picnic Podcast. This episode kicks off our epic 7-episode series on what is perhaps the quintessential trinket company: Sanrio! Founded in 1960, Sanrio began as the Yamanashi Silk Center in Japan. What followed was more than 60 years of retro art, books, magazines, movies, animations, music, video games, home goods, and yes...

Your trinket auntie is here with episode two of the Trinket Picnic Podcast! This episode is part 2 of our mega deep dive into Sylvanian Families (aka Calico Critters) - be sure to first listen to part 1, which you can find here or wherever you listen to podcasts. In part two, we pick up where we left off in part one: we cover the toy’s history from 2010 up to present day, including more video game...

Your trinket auntie is here with the first episode of the Trinket Picnic Podcast. In this inaugural episode, we kick off our picnic game strong with snacks and a deep dive into the history of the Japanese toy Sylvanian Families—or for you Americans and Canadians, Calico Critters. In part one, we cover the first 25 years of the toy’s history, including their inception in Japan, their disastrous ori...