After a break, smallstuffstudio is back on track! I had to move our studio and all the stuff i need for doing art & toys was packed up in big boxes for a few weeks. Now we’ve settled down near the beautiful Zurich lake and i’ve started with new toy projects right on!

We have a lot of fancy new things ready for you, so let’s start with some shots of the PANGAPANGA CREW! The PANGAPANGABLOCKS you might know allready, but now PANGABOSS is here to keep an eye on them! They will be available soon at my shop, just be sure to sign up for our newsletter and get all the news ahead of the others! (pssst… you can even win one of these guys!)

4″ PANGABOSS with his 2.5″ PANGAPANGABLOCKS by pepe

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Fancy LEOpold II – 9″ Plush Monster
I was playing with the sewing machine again last sunday! “Fancy LEOpold II” is a little plush guy who loves to wait under childrens beds to scarry the kids with his pompon ears!

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I was totally into plush last week and made my first experiences with a swiss “bernina” sewing machine. The first idea was to make a cute jellyfish out of this nice hearty fabric! Have to say, sewing is pretty tricky stuff…but fun!

my first plush toy: Jellyfish MELVIN (cotton, batting, glass eyes)

…now the next toy idea was to do kind of a squared elephant with big red hearts on his ears. so first i did some sketches, then cutting out all the parts out of different fabric and afterwards sewing this little fella together. To wander with my toy concepts trough all kind of materials and technics is for me a very inspiring way to see new connections and synergies in toy designs.

Little Hearty HELGO (fleece, cotton, felt, batting, glass eyes)

Sometimes i think i have to be an real apple-addict… ’cause i did his ears without planing anything, exact the size of an iPhone. They would fit easily as a cute cellphone cozys too!

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Hell hell hell…. No nut stays uncracked when he comes!!!

walnut wood & brass eyes / high-gloss finish
handcrafted, iron-branding signed & numbered by pepe

available next month in our SHOP!

The first bunch of XMAS PEARBLOCK Angels are gone for Christmas and
few more waiting for their new owners. Happy Hollidays to all!

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Ok i’m late as usual

…so i’ve worked today on my small series of XMAS PEARBLOCKS.
I droped the arms because they where to small for my taste, i’m fine with
only the two wings on the back of the body.

All the pieces are now finished with semigloss varnish. Still have to
assemble them and have to find a nice giftpackage solution…no idea
about this, very simple i think. For iron branding it will be too late
…grrr no time. (and srry for the blurry mobilepics i’ll update you
with better pic’s of this series PEARBLOCKS when Christmas is over)

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Last month I had so much work to do in the model building studio and nighttimes i was more on the painting-some-stuff-wave. Finally I’m ready again to work on my Toys and I’m really enjoying it to work with wood. It’s such a wonderfull material and it offers so many ways to cut, drill, mill and carving some nice toys out of it.

For the time beeing I’m working on a first small series of my PEARBLOCK Wooden Designer Toy. Have some ideas for these first 15 pieces. I want to spend them two angel wings out of bright wood (maybe maple), but I’m not shure if it fits well…any suggestions? I planed to give most of them away as Chrismas presents. Check the WIP pictures of the process so far…well, still lot to do till x-mas! …and if you be in luck, maybe Santa won’t give away all of them and you can get even one of these guys in my shop, stay tuned

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PEARBLOCK and PEARDEER (3 inch/ 2.5 inch Wooden Designer Toys)

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I’m really having a rush with these wooden toys…it’s getting more and more like an addiction. Everyday coming home from work with a new tiny toy in my pockets. As you can see, my proto-PEARBLOCK has met some fellas to hang out at the woods

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The little Wodden PEARBLOCK is made out of pear and oak wood finished and coated with natural linseed oil

Today was fun, had to work during the morning at the model workshop. I was really bleary-eyed from last nights page template customizing, so on the side of lazy working i made me a quick wooden toy. Had no sketches for this little guy, it was just cutting and sanding into the blue. The design has only two joints for the arms, so it’s kind of simple and not rich detailed, just a rough protoype … kind of like him and want to define some details a bit more (proportions, face, painting) …and maybe i’ll try out some silly ideas (how about to drill him the whole head away… hey, just a thougt