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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Santa's Halloween Costume

My four year old daughter has an amazing imagination and an inquisitive mind that never fails to fascinate. The other day she asked her father what Santa Claus was going to dress up as for Halloween. This just cracked me up!

As mentioned before, we've started making Halloween dolls. And yes, they are actually dolls dressed up for Halloween - not just our usual dolls lying about in random stages of dismemberment displayed in ketchup. Because that's just gross. Who would even think of such a thing? You my friend, have problems.

Anyway ... I've completed the finishing touches on one of the dolls. He's a sort of ghoulish combination between our dolls and our Modern Monsters. He will hereby be known as :

Monster Boyfriend of and Ill-Equipped Seamstress

The witches we've done are still being fitted in their hats, so I'll wait until they're fully completed before posting them here.

The Boyfriend monster and the witches will be listed in our shop upon completion!

Friday, September 18, 2009

Third Street Salvage Yard :: Adventures in Toy Stuffing

Original Print Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009 by Sonia

We now are the proud owners of four different types of fiber fill, that may not sound exciting to the masses... but to us it's pretty exciting news!

Yesterday Andrea and I took a trip to Dartmouth, it might as well of been Montreal though... Andrea was lost the whole time we were there. We were on a mission to find new materials and different types of fiber fill so that our plushies could have different densities of cushiness. We were happy to find a huge selection of such stuffing at Atlantic Fabrics. Now the trouble is where to store all of it... imagine if you will what three pounds of cotton balls might look like... then times that by 4 bags and that's what we're working with, luckly it doesn't take us long to go through a bag.