Elephants in grey and red

There is something about this colour combination that I particularly like. Deep, warm and eye catching - red has always been one of my favourite colours. Add touches of red to grey, you get a stylish and easy colour combination to work with. I can easily see these elephants as a part of the nursery decorations.

elephants, red and grey, a photo by Katia Donohoe on Flickr.

They are two brothers and best friends:) The one on the left is made with cute "Boys will be boys" fabric by David Walker in tomato red and the one on the right with "Stars Red"fabric by Lesley Grainger in Moscow red.

During the week in the studio....

Happy Sunday! 

the frogs, forest and tropical

When I was creating "Plushkandia, enchanted forest" collection, an army of rattling forest frogs were created to accompany these hedgehogs. You probably already saw them on my Facebook page or the shop, they were a great success! 

I tend to go with "safe" or traditional colours when I try a new toy but now I can start experimenting! Thus, the new army starting to appear. I call them the "Tropical frog rattle toy".  

The are so many colours to go with as mother nature really made it easy, frogs come in so many gorgeous colours that I don't really need to think! There are even blue frogs:) The only part that can be tricky is choosing fabrics to match but I was lucky so far....

I am planning on making yellow, red and blue frogs soon. 

Love frogs!

Have a wonderful Friday! 

New creations and some changes...

January went by so quick and it was so strange to be away from the blog for so long! I never expected the first month of the year to be that busy... I do have a lot to show for two weeks but at the same time nothing that I was hopping to achive. Maybe I just have high expectations when it comes to the productivity and efficiency! 

Anyway, that's what I've done since you saw me last here with the blanket progress...

- New decorative cushions collection. I had doilies that I was urging to put to a good use and, as I love cushions myself, I created a few to start and there are a few more creations I want to add to this collection  so stay tuned! 

- I wrote an article for the Cheeky Chat, that made it easier to reflect on the last 2 years, my business and what I achieved. 
Am I where I wanted to be?  - I think so.
Would I do anything different? - Most certainly! 
However, these are mistakes I learned so much from and, hopefully, this article will be helpful for crafters who just started. It will be out in a few weeks or so. I will post a link here so stay tuned!  

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That article and Cheeky Chats are one of the reasons why I made a decision that there are a few changes need to be made so my business will keep going. The price change is going to be the first, following by a new collections created together with lovely talented ladies;) I will blog about it next week with a previews on what's coming! 

- A few customer orders were finished. I love them so much and for some reason all the toys ordered are pink or purple:) 

I love finding new fabrics for my toys and this one I allocated to the elephants. You may be noticed that I try to have fabric piles for each toy that I make. Rabbits have their own selection, hedgehogs have more forest themed fabrics that suit their shape and colour. It makes them more individual and unique and I love that:) 
This fabric is by Liz Scott, her new collection called "Domestic Bliss". He turned out very cute and is in the shop, waiting for a new home;) 





Happy Monday!