Do you remember when you believed in magic? The Emporium opens with the first frost of winter. It is the same every year. Across the city, when children wake to see ferns of white stretched across their windows, or walk …
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A family-run crocheting manufacture from Vietnam proves that size doesn't matter! Their miniature crocheted animals are so small that they fit on a finger tip, and some of them hardly reach 1/4 of an inch. The idea for the business was inspired by the youngest (10-year-old) member of the family, who's greatly fond of various movie characters and loves animals.
Hi! My name is Maike. I'm a plush artist and doll maker from the Netherlands and I design all kinds of cuddly critters in my home studio. Ever since I can remember I've been creating things, mostly cute and funny characters.
A family-run crocheting manufacture from Vietnam proves that size doesn't matter! Their miniature crocheted animals are so small that they fit on a finger tip, and some of them hardly reach 1/4 of an inch. The idea for the business was inspired by the youngest (10-year-old) member of the family, who's greatly fond of various movie characters and loves animals.
A family-run crocheting manufacture from Vietnam proves that size doesn't matter! Their miniature crocheted animals are so small that they fit on a finger tip, and some of them hardly reach 1/4 of an inch. The idea for the business was inspired by the youngest (10-year-old) member of the family, who's greatly fond of various movie characters and loves animals.
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Description Byers' Choice Toymaker with Rocking Horse #4241. Santa's Helper - Santa's elves couldn't do it any better. This happy gentleman could easily be a helping hand to Santa's long toy wish list. Adorable rocking horse and brush add a terrific accent to this new piece to build on to your Byers Choice Caroler collection. This Caroler is a part of the 2024 Byers Choice Specialty Caroler Collection. Byers' Choice Toymaker with Rocking Horse is masterfully hand sculpted and painted with a beautifully expressive clay face. Byers' Choice Carolers have represented an American made Christmas Tradition for over 40 years. Stands 13 inches Tall. Made by hand in Chalfont, PA. Byers' Choice Carolers are varied and one of kind pieces, handmade in the USA. Clothing styles, hair and eye color, and accessories may vary. Artist: Joyce Byers Brand: Byers' Choice Series: Specialty Characters Issued: January 2024 Dimensions: 13" H
The Toydarian Toymaker shop is part of the Merchant Row district, where you’re sure to find other items to bring home from Galaxy’s Edge.
My name is Svetlana Gromova and I am an artist from Krasnogvardeysk, Russia. Welcome to my beautiful world!
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Learn how to wet felt while making a fun keepsake to fill and tuck into a spring basket. Jessica Bentson of Toymaking Magic is our Guest Blogger today, sharing another fantastic tutorial she created exclusively for A Child’s Dream. Be sure to check out her monthly plans for Waldorf-inspired toymaking tutorials and follow along on her Instagram account where she loves to share about all things handmade and homeschooling! On to you now, Jessica!Felted Easter eggs are a delightful spring craft to make. I love that these eggs can be used year after year to hold a tiny gift in your child’s Easter basket or to fill with chocolates and treasures for an Easter egg hunt. (Or a Spring Party egg hunt, as I do with my kids.)Felting around the wooden eggs creates a flat base which allows them to sit nicely on their own and makes for lovely spring decor. (To make at any time in spring! Not just Easter!) AND your kids can play with the wooden eggs all year! No craft waste! SUPPLIESProject set of basic supplies available here >OR individuallyCorriedale Wool Roving in Felting Packs (1 pack is plenty) or Single Colors by the ounce (An ounce is enough) Wood eggs, ours are flat bottomed and just what you need!Olive oil soapSharp pointed scissorsEmbroidery needleEmbroidery flossBall Brause Water Sprinkler (optional)TowelBowlGETTING STARTEDGather your materials. Lay out a towel on your table. Start by filling a bowl with water as warm as you can stand it. Submerge your olive oil soap into the water, and rub it to release the soap and dissolve it into the water. Do this until the water looks murky and bubbly.Then take your wooden egg and separate a piece of the wool roving. Smooth it out to create even density throughout and then wrap it around the egg crosswise. Then grab another longer piece and wrap it around the egg lengthwise.Hold your egg over the bowl of soapy water and sprinkle it generously with water. Flip the egg over and sprinkle water on the other side and all over until the wool is completely wet.LIGHT FELTINGGently pat it all over, cupping it in your hands. Imagine you are making a snowball, how you gently pack the snow to create a smooth surface. Depending on how soapy your water is, you might benefit from rubbing your hand on your bar of soap before you begin to pat and rub the egg. Rub with a light hand, focus on keeping the surface all smooth.Once your egg is starting to look lightly felted you can either add another layer of the same color, or my favorite is to add another color! Wrap the wool crosswise and lengthwise as before. Repeat the previous steps of wetting, patting, and lightly felting. (Applying the wool in two layers helps the innermost wool to felt well)Once you notice that some felting is going on, that your wool has smoothly formed around the egg, it’s safe to dunk your egg into the water. You want to keep the wool wet and sudsy at all times.VIGOROUS FELTINGOnce you notice that the second layer of wool is felting well, then you can start to rub it with your hands a little bit more vigorously. If you rub too hard too soon, it can create ridges or folds. The focus is always on keeping the surface smooth and felting evenly all over.To felt the top and bottom well, rub them in a circular motion in your curved palm.You can roll it in your hands like a ball.At some point you’ll notice that you can feel less space between the wool and the wood as the wool shrinks tighter and tighter around the wooden egg.Gradually get more and more vigorous with your feltingOne way to help the felting along if you’d like to try it, is to run the egg under very cold water (or dip it into a bowl of cold water) and then run it under a hot faucet (or dip in a bowl). These drastic temperature changes will shock the fibers and felt them nicely.You can do that 2 or 3 times back and forth, hot to cold and then dip the egg back into your soapy water and continue felting with your hands. Add more soap to your hands if necessary.When you feel like maybe you’re almost done, then you can get really rough and you can squeeze it all over in an even manner. You’ll know you’re done when you get the feeling that your wool cannot shrink any further and it feels like it is tightly hugging the wood.Once you are satisfied with how it has felted, rinse it under cold water (or even shock it under hot water one last time). Squeeze out the excess water with a towel and set it somewhere to dry overnight.CUTTING AND SEWINGOnce your egg has dried, take some sharp pointed scissors and insert them into the felt and cut around the circumference of the egg, leaving about two inches uncut. If you cut it too much then it won’t hold its shape as well. Remove egg.Now you’re ready to do a blanket stitch. You’ll notice the edges where you have cut are fluffy and a blanket stitch makes it look nice and tidy-looking as well as helps the egg hold it’s shape. Start with the bottom of the opening. Cut an 18” length of embroidery floss. Knot the end and sew your blanket stitch from left to right. If you’re not familiar with the blanket stitch you can check out my video tutorial HERE. Then sew the top of the opening.FINISHING TOUCHESOnce I’ve sewn my blanket stitch across the top and the bottom, I like to take each tail of thread and connect it to the opposite side by going underneath the stitch above and then going back underneath the stitch below. This gives added strength to the opening so that if kids are playing roughly it won’t rip open further. Then make a knot and pull tight.Finally to hide the tails, I poke my needle into the center of the layers of felt and come out an inch or so below. Pull the thread through and trim.Rethread your needle with the other tail and repeat on the other side. Then you can trim the embroidery floss tails on the inside if they are too long. And you’re done!(An optional, satisfying final step is to give the egg a little haircut to trim any little fuzzies that didn’t get felted down. This can also be done to refresh them after they have been “well loved” and are looking a little worse for wear.)Notes:When I am felting eggs by myself, I actually prefer to do the whole process in the sink. Sometimes I don’t even fill a bowl with soapy water, I just use water from the faucet and keep my hands very soapy with my bar of soap. It creates less mess.I like for my felted eggs to be a quarter inch thick but it’s hard to know if you have achieved that until you have cut it open. After making an egg or two, you’ll have a clearer idea of how much wool to wrap your egg in. The thicker the wool is, the more sturdy the egg shape will be. If it’s too thin, the egg will look a bit saggy and floppy. We hope you enjoyed this fun spring felting tutorial! If you make these felted hollow eggs, we would love to see!Be sure to tag us on Instagram! @achildsdreamcrafts @toymakingmagicand use #achildsdreamcrafts Happy Spring!
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Toydarian Toymaker is a truly unique shop full of seemingly hand-crafted toys in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
I have been crocheting toys for many years and very often I have leftover yarn. I collected all the scraps and the idea was born to create scrap yarn toys.
My name is Svetlana Gromova and I am an artist from Krasnogvardeysk, Russia. Welcome to my beautiful world!
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Hello! I am Sveta. Welcome to my fabulous crochet world! If you have always wanted to crochet a toy, but didn’t know where to begin? The desire is there but the lack of experience is holding you back and you really need someone to show you how? Then I have an answer! Join me and you will learn how to make adorable crochet toys. I sell crochet patterns on my Etsy so you can make them yourself!
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Stars: 4 out of 5 Pros: Fun ornament, especially for girls Cons: Could have been two ornaments; tilts The Bottom Line: Tea party for dolls Might have been better as two Still, fun for young girls Toymaker Santa is Hosting a Dolly Tea Party While there are several ornaments in the Toymaker Santa series from Hallmark that are gender neutral, there's only one that is really made for girls. That ornament was the second one in the series, released in 2001. The ornament depicts Santa all ready for a tea party for dolls. He's standing and has a doll hooked in his left arm with a cup and saucer balanced on her stomach. His right hand is holding a tea pot with 2001 written on it. Santa himself is hatless but has a full white beard and eyes scrunched up from smiling. He's got a noticeable belly under his tan toy making apron. You can also tell he's wearing a green shirt, red pants, and red and white striped socks. He's even got a teddy bear in his apron's pocket. I'm of two minds about this ornament. I get that girls love to host tea parties for their dolls, which was probably the inspiration for combining to the two. But since sculptor Ken Crow obviously has problems finding ideas for girls for this series, it's a shame he didn't use these are two different ideas. On the other hand, I don't connect with this one as much as some of the others, probably because I was never hoping to find a doll or tea set under the Christmas tree. So maybe the fact that it's just one ornament is a good thing. On the third hand, it looks really busy, like Santa's about to drop that tea cup. Apart from that, I can't fault how it looks. It's a nice sculpt, and the teddy bear is a fun touch. The ornament does have a 2 in a Christmas tree since this is the second in the series, but you need a magnifying glass to read it. Also look for Ken Crow's initials. You can balance the ornament on Santa's feet, but I wouldn't recommend it; he doesn't seem very steady at all. When you hang him, he tilts a little to the right, but with the slight angle to his head, he actually looks like he's hanging straight. Despite all my reservations about the ornament, I do like the second in the Toymaker Santa series. It's not my favorite, but it's quite good and will be a favorite with those who loved hosting tea parties for their dolls. Be sure to check out the rest of the Toymaker Santa series. Original Price: $14.95
The restrictions are gradually removing around the world, and there are so many things you want to do in time. Meet with family and friends, and just travel—it's summer!
Hi, my name is Alla. I am a master of miniature crocheted toys, I have been creating dolls and animals for many years. This is my passion and the meaning of life.
I went thrifting today, and had some great luck. I got several old wooden alphabet blocks, a big bag of vintage white buttons, a glass jar filled with wooden spools, and a small beat up looking hardware shelf with plastic drawers (rusty blue metal!). Here's the best thing, though...I saw this wooden stacking toy from the 40's the last time I was at a local antique mall. I drooled over it then, but it was too expensive. It was still there today, but on sale! It's mine now. I just love it so much. Look at that patina. LOVE!
These crochet animals and plants are sure to be the cutest little things you'll see today! Not only are they adorable, they are also extremely tiny! Artist Lucia created this wonderful series of macro animals and plants, and she also shares her knit and crochet designs with her followers.
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Hello everyone!I’ve got a new plush pattern I’ve added to my shop! This time last year I released my Long Dragon Plush pattern, and ever since then I’ve had it in my mind to try a…
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A family-run crocheting manufacture from Vietnam proves that size doesn't matter! Their miniature crocheted animals are so small that they fit on a finger tip, and some of them hardly reach 1/4 of an inch. The idea for the business was inspired by the youngest (10-year-old) member of the family, who's greatly fond of various movie characters and loves animals.
Elena from Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, knits toys and dolls to adorn the brightest holidays — Christmas and New Year. And there is a pinch of magic in her story. Born on January 7 — Russian Christmas — Elena fell in love with the family celebrations of the holiday.
It’s no accident that HIS Dance Ensemble’s production of The Toymaker: An Easter Story bears little resemblance to the traditional Easter fables. It’s no accident that HIS Dance Ensemble’s production of The Toymaker: An Easter Story bears little resemblance to the traditional Easter fables. “It’s th...
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