twig creative makes the coolest stuff. i mean, whats not to love about this adorable wooden camera?
all toy reviews, here.
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{photos by me, Jane Rhodes, taken in Mexico.}
we craft all year, but at this time of year we super-craft. gifts for others, homemade decorations for our home, creative gift-wrapping, and of course festive-crafting-for-oneself because of the love of crafting!
kiwi crate sent us their crafty christmas crate and we are hooked! do you remember getting packages in the mail as a kid? happiness explosion! {i actually still feel this way when i get packages in the mail! ::smiles::} sela went to the post office with me the day this box arrived. when i told her it was for her – she might have jumped up and down hugging the box nothing short of twenty-five hundred times. before we got back in the car.
it took every ounce of her will power to wait till we got home to open it up…
how kiwi crate works:
1) you sign-up here for a monthly or annual subscription. or gift!
2) you receive a crate.
3) open the crate, and let the fun begin!
there are so many cool crates to choose from, i particularly like the Rockets crate.
let your creative little go wild with the supplies, and then display the festive masterpieces! ..sing a carol, light a candle, shout a crafty-amen!
kiwi crates would be an ideal gift for those kiddos you need to ship a gift to already!
bonus: kiwi crate is hosting their first ever 12-day gift away! each day, they will be gifting a great prize from some of their favorite brands, including: tea collection, tiny prints, and sprout. each day is a new chance to win! {i signed up!}
photos by me, Jane Rhodes. this is a sponsored post, if you have a shop or product that you think would be a good fit for seejaneblog and are interested in a sponsorship, i’d love to hear from you! email me at jane@prolook.com for more information.
today, i am sharing with you one of my favorite -cutest- toys ever. {this is not a favorite because i am a fan of the story that inspired the toy – uh-hem, i think the princess is perhaps a bit bratty!} but… look how darling this toy is! sela agrees on this point.
if you are shopping for the holidays or have any special reason to buy this adorable set, you can find it here at maileg.
{pictures by me, this is not a sponsored post.}
for sela’s birthday, she received two sets of tegu magnetic wooden building blocks. happily, we are now the owners of the endeavor set in natural and the explorer set in tegu tints. we have enough so that everyone in the family can participate — and they absolutely invite participation…
the blocks are so well-designed. but the best part is the concept behind the company. from their website:
In addition to supporting sustainable forestry, we are actively replanting to help Honduras regain the forest cover it has lost in past decades. Whenever you purchase a Tegu wooden toy, you have the opportunity to choose to send a Honduran child to school for a day or plant a tree. Our partner, Trees for the Future, facilitates our replanting project. Tegu looks forward to being a driving force for the stewardship and regeneration of the Honduran forests over time.
what a treat to own something so well-made and that respects our planet. if you check out the tegu online store – you will notice you can add school and trees to your cart! genius.
you can find more tegu products here. i can’t imagine a child who wouldn’t love these.
{all photos by me, Jane Beckner Rhodes}
we are all seriously obsessed with sela’s new i-wood chalkboard laptop. this is one of her favorite gifts that she received for her birthday. i would rather use it than a real laptop!
you can find it here! this would make a great christmas gift – are you thinking about the holidays yet?!?
{pictures by me.}
wikki stix are the perfect mix of toy and craft. my favorite part: they encourage the imagination, and they are not messy. my myla is a big fan —
i just love walking through my moosey’s room and finding these wikki sculptures hanging around. sometimes she is mid-project and I can see her mind at work or the wikki stix are literally hanging from things. Most of the time we are given these in restaurants and the kids play with them while we wait for our food. But lately, they like wikki stix so much i try to keep some in the art cupboard. Are your kids fans?
check out other toy review blog posts, here! and, lots of ideas for playing with little ones on my pinterest board – here.
{photos by me.}
we really can’t get enough cardboard around here. we upcycle cardboard boxes to create and we buy cardboard to create. when i stumbled upon calafant, i knew it was a perfect match for my kiddos imaginations…
myla is the perfect sis to assemble projects, and play with the younger kiddos. since this has been put together i’ve spotted lego people living in the treehouse, each day their is a different little stuffed animal living in the treehouse. it’s so cute! my mom is visiting us right now and this past week i saw grandma’s glasses perched on the front steps – so there you have it – the cardboard treehouse has multiple purposes!
check out the small, medium, and large calafant toys. the large robot is so cool! we would love them all!!!
are you and/or your kids a fan of cardboard? it’s a great, inexpensive way to create fun projects with your kids. for more ideas, check out my pinterest board titled, “cardboard diaries” xo.
{photo by me. this is not a sponsored post.}
plan a food truck party!
build mini sandcastles!
time to barbecue!
homemade fun!
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