Congrats!
Me & My Veritas is celebrating more than 1000 likes on this blog! Woohooo! 🙂 Thank you so much to everyone! By the way, on Facebook I’m just a few likes away from the hardest milestone of all: the first 100 likes… Did I get
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The journey started at the local library. Looking for a way to teach our daughter some early reading skills we checked out a Launch Pad from our local public library.
http://www.playaway.com/launchpad/
Viv selected Pango Zoo and we started our adventure.
http://www.studio-pango.com/en/
From star to finish this game hit every mark. The actions were intuitive and our four year old began experimenting immediately with great success. She was able to progress through the elements of the mini plots for each little vignette where she helped an animal in trouble. The characters are dynamic and while non verbal they communicate their feelings perfectly through gesture and sounds. I found myself grinning throughout the game at every little surprise and delight and laughed out loud more than once.
If you have a chance to check one out or pick a Launchpad up for yourself or download from the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pangoland/id946841821?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
I highly recommend it.
Enjoy!
I came, I saw, I sewed!
Welcome to the very first post of my super new DIY toy series. *drum roll* Ladies and Gentleman, I am more than excited and proud to introduce the DIY Felt Tools—a series of 6 very cute felt toys. This series is going to cover the following: a saw, a screwdriver, a hammer, a wrench, a carpenter square, and a tool belt.
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Excellent Step by Step Instructions. Thanks for sharing. Could make for a great rainy day Spring project with our 4 year old!
This is the second part of a very basic rooster costume consisting of a comb and a beak (with wattles). For the comb tutorial please click here. As is the case for the comb, the beak is also made from felt and comes with two wattles at each side. The nose is stuffed in order to allow for a nice picking experience… 😉 Nevertheless, there is enough room left for small (and big) noses.
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Thanks Supriya and looking forward to reading your new book to Viv at bedtime!
In the late 1990s, relatives of the twins found an old box with their toy molds and sketches and dropped them off to Heritage Battle Creek, where the toys remained a part of history until recently, when my friend Ken Faris, made a licensing agreement with HBC to produce Twinzy Toys, reviving the original designs but going green for the modern world.
The new Twinzy Toys are made with an organic cotton hemp blend, stuffed with raw, organic cotton and sewn with organic thread by Battle Creek students interested in careers in fashion design.
The dolls are black and white. You can leave them as they are or you can decorate them and share your or your child’s creation at Twinzy Toys’ website.
The dolls can be purchased at Twinzy Toys’ Etsy site. The current designs available are Buddy the Elf, pictured here, Hy Jack the Fox Terrier, Miss Mary, Cowboy and Rabbit.
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| Front view of Buddy the Elf |
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| Back view of Buddy the Elf |
We take a trip to New Babbage – a rather chilly one too, if all the reports we’ve heard about the coal shortage are true!
What could possibly go wrong in New Babbage at Christmas?
Now, our trips to that industrial steampunk city have not been entirely without incident in the past – what with murders, dangerous dark mermaids, mendacious Santas and purloined diamonds … to say nothing of Elrik being mistaken for Sherlock Holmes, or that time we discovered the dark secrets under the lost Asylum …
But really, we’re visiting libraries this time! What could possibly go wrong?
Of course, we have failed to reckon with the Most Dangerous Book in New Babbage (kept under strict guard in a few Babbage libraries).
Uncle Tingly’s Christmas Tales for New Babbage Young ‘Uns, secure in its case
You’ll have to watch this special episode to unlock the true terror of…
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Boldly going where no gingerbread has gone before!
Hi all,
It has been awhile but we have been busy. Twinzy Toys are now in production and available for sale on Etsy. The blog will soon be redesigned so there might be a few glitches and edits but I think it will be for the best in the long run. The blog will also be integrated with Etsy to make for one easy stop to do your Twinzy shopping.
Before we get to that though there is something more immediate to attend to. A Booster.com fundraiser was launched a few days ago to buy sewing machines for students to help them pursue their fashion design dreams. The funds will also buy Twinzy Toys for preschoolers here in Battle Creek and our Sister Cities of Santo Andre Brazil and Takasaki Japan to enable cultural exchange. Please check it out at the link below and buy a shirt or pass on the link to someone who might.
Twinzy Booster
Thanks!
Designing Worlds show about the wonderful One Billion Rising event is now on the web!
We talk to Victor Mornington, who created the fabulous stage, to Taralyn Gravois, who curated the fantastic art installations, to Samantha Ohrberg, who organised the amazing music programme, to JuJu Apollo Starr, the stage manager lead, and to Jilly Kidd, who organised the poetry sessions. And we learn more about some of the individual art installations with artists Mikati Slade, Krystali Rabeni, Reuben Mayo, Finn Lanzius and Betty Tureaud.
The Stage at One Billion Rising
We also something more of the live event – both the musical side, and the poetry sessions as well. It’s a great show – don’t miss it!
TWINZY TOYS 