Posts Tagged ‘children’

Magical ‘Childs Own’ Paper to Plush

April 26, 2012

Any one who knows me, knows that I hate plush toys, I really truly dislike them, they are great for children under the age of ‘loves Barbie’ after that I am sure they become disease infested dust collecting, dog toys, that are terribly slippery when placed on polished timber flooring in ones house.

That being said, I am always rather partial to children’s idea being forced into reality especially their crazy little drawings of different creatures and people. Whilst they push you to the limits of what’s annoying/humorous/tiring/hygienic, that also push their own little imaginations into the unthinkable.

Some of the faces and drawing our little team members have doen are pretty cool and I have found a website that turns such drawings into very cool plush toys!

Child’s Own Studio is an amazing website/craft artist who puts children’s crazy/amazing drawings into beautiful handmade plush toys.

Each one a perfect recreation as it passes from imagination into plush toy existence. On the Child’s Own Studio Website, there is also some very cool accompanying stories from the children that make the original drawings.

As per the site, Child’s Own Studio is described like this by the site.

“Child’s Own Studio is a place where your child and a craft artist, together, can create a keepsake to be cherished for a lifetime”

all so cool, my favourite is “Steggy off to school”

I know this is not the first of this kind of idea. I remember seeing child’s art being recreate by adults some time ago, but the fact the Child’s Own Studio turns them into cool plush dolls for the child to keep, I think is very cool.

Please goo and check out the site, or the Flickr

I love the annotation to explain the computer. Totally cool.

 

 

Why Not for Adults?

January 19, 2012

Just the other day to treat ourselves we ventured to Wagamama’ s on Lime Street (Cockle Bay) in Sydney.  We frequent here a bit, it is like the McDonalds’  of Ramen/Japan fusion restaurants. Yep sure it is not the best Ramen/Chicken Katsu in the World, or even in Sydney I love you Gunshara*Whispers* But it certainly is tasty and the Moyashi Soba is great, big, and great, and the curry sauce for the katsu is also delicious.

However, this is not a food review, although it turned into one right there, about eleven words ago.

Mrs Panda raised a really good point. As we were seated, with team Turtle Small Fries’ they gave the kids colouring in paper, with cool pictures to colour and a whole jar of crayons.

“I don’t know why they don’t give these to adults”, she stated

Why don’t they give these to adults?

Probably the best question asked of 2012 already looking like a contender for the whole year.

I would definitely frequent a cafe/restaurant if they supplied paper and pencils/crayons/pens for your creative delight.  It would definitely be a great way to decorate. When you are at dinner, sure the conversation is good, and the company is great, so why not also have a little bit of creative fun.

It raises the question. Why?, or more so when?, do humans deem it fit not to be eligible for crayons and colouring in pictures of princesses and pirates. When we are 15 and too cool for anything other than Nintendo DS’ I am sure I would still like to draw my boyfriend/girlfriends name in a pretty heart, perhaps inspired by the latest art work on my favourite bands CD, and leave it on the table to display my love for them as a protest against the ‘man’ for not letting me buy the latest Dream on Dreamer CD.

Perhaps when we reach 25 we are too interested in our twitter TL (timeline) or our our face book TL to be creative. Perhaps this is why we are obsessed with social media, because all the iphoneography and funny status updates, is our way of being creative.

I was overjoyed to colour in and ‘doodle’ all over the menus and place mats at Wagamama’s. Why, I even helped the children draw a little.

I think if restaurants offered this to adults, they would love it. I am sure there is some restaurants already doing it that I don’t know about,  but also keep in mind, I don’t want to have to order a triple shot soya chino, with fair trade dust sprinkled on the top. Just to draw my version of batman crossed with a whale shark.

It is hard not to stray onto the topic of where do we lose our youth, some people never lose it, but in a way that just makes them 30 year old fuck ups.

I wish I could definitely say I still have mine, at the beating centre of my chest like some sort of freedom power source akin to Iron Man’s failing nuclear powered heart.

But I am ‘serious’ now, a dad, I like tech and sneakers, but trampolining has turned into something kids do, and pushing someone on the swings, although fun is now one of my functions.

Please restaurants, re introduce adult colouring in. Mrs Panda is full of great ideas, please utilise them.

Cubby houses. [part 2]

November 4, 2011

I know, I know, we have been over this before but, this time it is true love…..oh wait, that was for the latest edition of mills and boon I am writing.

I love cubby houses.

 

I really just do.

I treat our grown up house like a cubby house. Well I found some new ones, perhaps in a more reasonable price range (when I say reasonable, I mean if I was a single millionaire, and the kids I were entertaining were the ones I bought from an orphanage).

These simple modular cubbys give the kids that certain modern minimalist chillout sopt they deserve.

 

I would order a birch double.

 

check them out over at Play-Modern

I think I really like the little planter boxes as well, gives that appeal that you kids pad is in SoHo NYC or Camperdown SYD

 

Architectural Playhouses

March 19, 2011

Architectural Playhouse via Design Milk.

Makes you want to be able to fit in a cubby house huh?

Our girls have a really cool cubby house thanks to their Aunty’s close friend ‘Santa’. here is some other cool alternatives. IT make me really happy to know that people aren’t totally forgetting children. But sometimes you have to wonder. The dirty looks from the 67.5ers when your children hide in the clothes racks or speak above a level of 10 decibels in Myers. Or they might not for a split second be looking where there are going while walking past a toy shop and the 40 year old with no strings and too much money to  spend on no one but him or herself can’t help but give the 3 year old a disapproving look. Due to the fact that the child didn’t hop out of the road and organise for a ‘king henry style’ trumpet announcement that the king of IKEA and Woolworths Rhodes is approaching, and that all his subjects, (everyone else in sydney in his or her brain) should be aware that he is on his way pushing a trolley (job of his or her lowly servent) to a right ol’ session of pretending to like sushi, especially the one with friend chicken, and that he is definitely wearing a ralph lauren shirt.

clap.                                                    clap.                                                               clap. [insert spinifex hilarious whistle type country western roll by]

mate. (referring to male or female) I am going to share the craziest notion with you.

My children are not going to smear donuts/chips/biscuits/cheese sandwich into the leather interior of you VW Polo, and guess what.

yes.

You wear once a child.

Sorry total rant. Sort of like I had too many (insert popular drink at the moment here, usually something with Jagermeister) and too many ‘Styvo’s’ are they still around. Oh they would have to be, Newtown and North Sydney still exist right?

on with the show.

Here are some cool pictures of Cubby house from Design Milk. if you are not subscribe to the team at Design Milk, or don’t refresh their site on you PC every hour you have not lived. I might have stolen that quote from some 40.00y/o that told me that If i had not eaten at a certain cafe in surry hills then I have not lived.


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