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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Have a bunch of wood & resin toy projects going on right now. I really hope i can release these little fellas as a DIY edition in march when spring is coming and the sprouts are growing! ^_^ Now i have a lot of details to sort out, especially how to export the cress seeds from the “Happy Gardening” Set i’m planing…

Meanwhile some WIP pictures of my first custom i’m working on: “Golden Age” AncientCritter. Hope you like him

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4″ Wood Designer Toy by pepe
(pear- and maplewood, high-gloss finish)

Besides pushing my resin AncientCritters to get them ready for shipping, i felt like i should do another Wooden Toy for the Collection. The idea for this tiny giraffe came little by little while cutting and sanding the pet out of a rough wooden sheet and somehow i finally bring up to a round figure. There was no concept drawings or sketches for this design. I used pearwood for the body and maplewood for the smaller parts, then finished the piece with a high-gloss varnish to get all these sweet highlights.

PEARGIR will be soon available in our shop, follow me on twitter to get to know when he’s up for you!

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Short update on my AncientCritters. Just applied basecoat filler and sanded down the ABS layers till everything is sleek & smoothed

Finished 3D-Print Proto with white NC-paint. Now this fella is good to go for a first mold! Check back soon…

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Designer and Architect Mathias Bax from Germany has created his first DIY Resin Toy the Ham-ster Cavy. I’m pretty shure the Ham-ster will become a nice plattform to realise lots of awsome custom jobs. The Ham-ster’s comes in two versions one with movable arms and one with fixed arms (for kids;). A piece will cost approximately 10$ plus shipping costs.

So get your hands on your own DIY Ham-ster straight from his creator and place an order at bax.architekten@arcor.de. He will handling production and shipping by himself. The first cute fellas will find their new owners right now in January 2010.

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After reconstructing the “Ancient Critter No1″ information from a tiny bio-harddisk we were finally able to revive a first specimen of it! For the time beeing it’s growing fast and we feed it with fern and other ancients herbs. But see for yourself!

More about these long time died out “Ancient Critters” next week…

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Happy New Year from smallstuffstudio to all!
The year is pretty young, but i have so much new stuff to show you!

First of all, the last few PEARBLOCK Angels will find a new home today at my grandparents and grandaunt’s shelfs. They where a great joy to give away as Christmas presents. So i have one last left (no. 01/16) and i will sell him here on the smallstuff page for you in a few days! Stay tuned if u want to grab this unique handcrafted 2.5 inch Wooden Designer Toy py pepe for your own collection.

Now to the fresh stuff: Ancient Critter #1 – Keep your eyes open, long gone species will revive 2010! Check the data-sheets I found deep burried in a secret vault of this ancient little fella… Strange things will come! Be warned!

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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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Voting for the DIY Designer Toy Challenge on aarting.com is on!!!
Please vote for SQUIMONK till 15. november 2009 (every vote counts, you can vote every 30min for my design). If my concept wins, SQUIMONK will be produced by Aarting and you can grab your own 4.5 inch blank D.I.Y SQUIMONK for customizing!

VOTE HERE! thx