Colourful Caterpillar

Welcome the Colourful Caterpillar, the newest addition to the Mollydag Made family of wooden games for toddlers.

Roll the coloured die & build your colourful caterpillar. 

Who will be the first to complete their wiggly caterpillar?

This game is specially designed for young children’s hands. Through the action of bead threading, your child is developing fine motor skills, a skill which has been found to be key to early literacy. Through play, your child is also talking about colours, pattern recognition & game play. 

Who knew you could learn so much whilst having such a great time!

Game comes with:

4 caterpillar tails & threading cord

20 coloured caterpillar body pieces (stained using non-toxic food-safe wood dye)

4 caterpillar heads

1 coloured die

Instructions

Drawstring bag

I'll be listing them in the store & will have them on display at the Perth Upmarket.

Now, I had better get cracking making more!!

Tickle the Imagination has released their Christmas Magazine today. It is an absolutely beautiful online magazine (free!) full of projects, tutorials and pages and pages of beautiful handmade gifts for Christmas.  

Look who was featured!!!!

You can win yourself a Game-to-go by heading to the Tickle The Imagination Blog . If you live in the Melbourne area, don't forget to enter to win a photo session by Sara Taylor too.

I have to duck away and get the babes ready for school - damn! I'm looking forward to sitting down tonight & having a really good read.

Do yourself a favour and take a peek when you have a spare few minutes & a hot cup of coffee.

Amber

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Hey! Look who was featured!

What a thrill to be seen in the http://madeit.com.au Gifts Under $20 newsletter.

Thank you to all the new customers who came over to take a look & a special thanks to all who bought something special for a wee one in their lives.

New Instructions

Lovely postcard size printed versions of the Games-to-go instructions were posted from the printers yesterday, so will be arriving on my doorstep soon. If you already are playing the games but would like a new set of instructions, just send me an email & I'll get some mailed out. 

Till then, you can download your copy of the instructions for all my Games-to-go.

I'll be adding some BINGO cards soon so stay in touch here on the blog, or on Facebook for the update.

Bird in the Hand Instructions

Monster Munch Instructions

Memory/Concentration Game Instructions

Bubbles

Posting for no other reason than my dreamlet is just to cute.

Edited to add: Now I have a reason to post this photo. 

While having dinner tonight, we saw Miss T looking at her olive bread and saying, "That's not a penis, it's bread". 

I don't even what to imagine what is whizzing around a 2yr old's brain.

Back in business - well almost

My long awaited parcel arrived today so I set to work catching up on backordered games. 

Even the wee ones couldn't escape being roped into help....

or was that hinder?

Even visitors couldn't escape the production line! Thanks Bec for making the day pass so pleasantly! 

Bugger 'whistling while you work', I'd much prefer chit-chat over coffee. 

I'm just waiting on my printed instructions and I'll be in full production mode. 

so...

Be careful if you get a call from me in the next little while asking for a 'playdate'. You may be getting more than you bargained for!

Little Red Riding Hood

Ohhh it's been a while since I've posted here, so long in fact that blogger has changed it's layout! It's like driving a fancy new car - learning where the indicator & windscreen wipers are, new car smell, shiny & clean......Anyhoo, on to what I'm here to share with you today.

Photo courtesy of Candy Goldsmith Photography

Look at this bonnie Red Riding Hood with her new matching Little Red Riding Hood dolly!

My very good friend Candy was the one who first commissioned me to make her little girl a Red Riding Hood Cape for winter. We sat together (I sewed, she wrangled 5 children) and by dinner time, the cape was made.

Bonnie has just loved the cape, so much so that Candy commissioned a matching doll from Miss Goodie Two Shoes. These wonderful dolls are handmade down on a farm in the SW of Western Australia (you gotta love the talent here in WA!).

Photo courtesy of Candy Goldsmith Photography

The kids & I were over after school having a play at Candy's house when the dolly arrived in the mail. When the satchel was torn open, there was much squealing in delight & leaping around the kitchen (from Candy, that is!). Poor Bonnie didn't even get a look at her new doll until Candy & I had examined every square inch of stunning detail. I have to say, the workmanship in the doll is sublime. She has little ballet shoes, hand crochet flowers in her hair, a removable skirt & cape. 

Whilst there are no custom spots for a Miss Goodie Two Shoes for now, you should head over to the photo album and see the other gorgeous dolls that have come from this wonderful doll maker. While you're hopping around on the interweb, you can visit her fab blog A Country Wife (where does she find the time to farm, raise two gorgeous kids & make dolls! I suppose it's in those wee hours where the rest of us do - ha!).


If you are interested in a custom-made Red Riding Hood Cape, you can see more over at the shop, or shoot me an email.

Thanks Candy for sharing the photos.

Candy Goldsmith Photography does it again!

Sleep well Little Red Riding Hoods - keep one eye open for that wolf though!

Photo courtesy of Candy Goldsmith Photography

My inner geek

This just so appealed to my inner geek.



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