#Toy Blog

[thetoddlertoybox]

First harvest of the season :)

[pixxiecup]

my faves from wave 2 so far :DD

[slugzy]

My current wishlist on Stuffed Safari!

Would you take home any of these friends? What would you name them?

[shilohsylvanian]

Happy World Frog Day! Here are the Bullrush Frogs and a bit of info dump about them <3

They were first released in 1991 for the UK and then re-released in 2001. So there are Tomy and Flair versions, as well as a release in the US, which has slightly different clothes and sitting/crawling twins. The Tomy clothes for them are similar to the Urban Life era, being a bit fancier. Official Bios (this one cracks me up):

FATHER WALTER BULLRUSH is known for being very, very lazy, but this is not really true. If Walter likes to do something, he will put all his limited energies into it. He will always be ready to drive the Country Bus for instance, he will even get up early in the morning if you need a driver. Fishing, of course, is his main love, that is, dangling a hook in the water. He does not like to catch anything because if he did, he would have to then find something else to do. Walter has found that by singing at the top of his croaky voice he can frighten all the fish away! His singing also frightens everyone else away, so he spends many a happy, uninterrupted afternoon on the riverbank singing and sunning himself.

MOTHER LYDIA BULLRUSH, unlike her darling husband, is always working and working very hard. She runs a beautifully spotless house and cares for her husband and four children, and that full time job is only a small part of her busy life. Lydia has a passion for wicker work, whether it is making baskets, hats or mats, her workmanship is imacculate and very artistic. Collecting bulrushes, dying them bright colours before leaving them to dry in the summer sun is the only job she gets any help with. Algy, her oldest son, enjoys the summer afternoons down by the river helping his mother whilst she enjoys teaching him to weave.

BROTHER ALGERNON BULLRUSH hates his full name, so everyone calls him Algy, even his mother who does not like nicknames and only does so, because it pleases her wonderful son. Algy, like his mother, has a passion for weaving, but unlike his mother he prefers to create impractical items like wall hangings. He claims these items he creates are art, not picture art like in art class at school, but abstract art where the shapes and colours portray the meaning and message. Lily his sister says he gets these strange ideas from reading too many stuffy books.

SISTER LILY BULLRUSH loves to sing and unlike her father has a beautiful voice. Because she is a little shy she does most of her practising down by the river where everyone avoids going because of her fathers singing. She originally wanted to be a pop star but now wants to be an opera singer because people go to see the opera all the time. Pop singers only have concerts when they have a record in the charts. Ottilee Marmalade is also giving Lily tips on how to be more confident, hoping she will overcome her shyness.

BABY BROTHER MOSES BULLRUSH must be about the only little boy in Sylvania who loves having baths. He spends hours and hours in the bath playing with his rubber duck and other bath-time toys. If only Lydia or Walter had more time, he would spend all day playing and splashing around in the tub.

BABY SISTER IRIS BULLRUSH must be one of the cleanest little children in Sylvania, because she just hates having baths, so therefore never gets dirty. When ever it is her turn to have a bath, she just cries and cries, then bawls her eyes out and splashes about until her parents get her out of the bath. Bath-time in the Bullrush household is always rather nerve racking!

*having trouble finding official photos so here is one from Sylvanian Store Keepers and the rest are my family who dont have the right clothes lol

<3 In my town Mr. and Mrs Bullrush are renamed Sunnypatch and they are co-mayors of Sunnypatch Gardens.

[meowsdarling]

latte cat family ☕

Daniela, Matteo, Pino and Monica

"sister, monica loves to eat. she always knows about the latest foods at the shops in the village and wants to try them. before she takes her first bife, she makes sure to take a photo and write about it in her notebook"

you heard it here first folks- calico critters' first food influencer

[big-red-velociraptor]

Found a little friend in a Smithsonian gift shop!!

Big Red thoroughly enjoyed the ride back to the hotel room ☺️.

[skipthezurrodragon]

-🌨️ZELF BLOG🌨️-

I FINALLY GOT MY FIRST ZELF! To those who don’t know her, her name is Snowanne!!! I love her sososo much!!! I got her from a seller off EBay, and she was brand new in box (from 2014)!! (Also, it came with a Collector’s Guide that said: “Do Yourzelf A Favor… Collect Them All!” Oh, guys… 💔🥹)

I cannot wait to get more (hopefully) in the future!!! I kinda wanna take pictures with her and show her around!! What do you think? :)

[dailydragonplush]

Oh So Soft Green Dragon, Vermont Teddy Bear

[thetoddlertoybox]

To be loved is to be changed

This is Uni. I got her when I was a toddler. She came EVERYWHERE with me. I recently found her brand after a long time searching, and found out what she used to look like :,]

As you can she she’s really been through it. My 3rd childhood dog ripped her up when I was 5, practically exploded her leg and who knows where her right eye went (it’s probably still in the soil in the backyard of my childhood home)

My mum repaired her, she gave me a choice of fabric to repair with and I chose the pink fabric because it looks like shaved skin. So it was like she had surgery. I remember choosing it because my previous childhood dog had a shaved leg when she had surgeries towards the end of her cancer fight a couple years prior. On her other side she’s got a reddish brown button eye, which I also got to choose from a range of buttons in my mum’s collection.

She used to smell like vanilla. I had another stuffed unicorn, her ‘twin’. She was exactly the same but pink and smelt sweet like fairy floss. It turns out uni came in many colours, white, pink, blue and purple! I gave away her pink twin when I was 4, to a girl I met on holidays. I hope she loved her as much as I loved Uni.

[pixxiecup]

lps g7 nibs ,,, :3

[slugzy]

Artichick & Radichick, by Douglas

[pony-royale-restoration]

Today I decided to restore some manes. When I bought a batch of PR ponies off of eBay with the carousel, it came with three manes that did not have matching tails. So I decided these would be my little lab rats.

I watched a few videos on people restoring MLP hair to get an idea of what to do. I used Kristin Ess Signature shampoo and Costco brand moisture conditioner. I saw the recommended was to use mild products like baby products and unscented to prevent future miscoloring, however I have neither and my wallet is still suffering from Christmas shopping so if I used the recommended products, it will be at a later time. I washed the hair in warm water and let the conditioner set for a few minutes before brushing out.

I tried to wrap the hair in little donuts as I let the conditioner set. I’m unsure if it would make a difference. Because the manes are removable, I didn’t wrap them around the pony legs which was what most MLP restorers did that I watched. Some of the manes I couldn’t wrap up like this because of the varying lengths but I doubt it made a big difference.

I used a brush that came with one of my PR ponies from over a decade ago when I was a little girl and a spare toothbrush. I first used the plastic brush to untangle the hair after letting the conditioner set for a few minutes and rinsed it out. After untangling with the plastic brush, I used the toothbrush to get out the smaller knots the plastic one couldn’t get.

Washing helped a little with overall straightening but the hair still has frizzy ends. I saw some people putting their MLP pony’s hair in boiling water and decided I’d do this if washing and conditioning didn’t work.

I set aside the tinsel hair that still had conditioner and wrapped it up in some foil. I’m going to wait a day before I unwrap and rinse it out to see if it makes a difference to the frizziness.

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[beastybitsandbobsblog]

found this lovely folkmanis puppet at the thrift store a few days ago for only 8.98 and just had to get her ^^

[t3d-the-not-a-robot]

[Revised Manual]

「Parts list on our specs page」 - Dev 1.

[big-red-velociraptor]

Well who might this handsome sir be?

He seems friendly

VERY friendly

Oh my

Let's leave them alone....