toys

This in response to Colleen’s post. I’ve been enjoying her advent calendar immensely, and today she writes very evocatively about the toys behind advent calendar doors; the promise they contain; and the associations of such objects with domesticity — that is, the way toys act as a sort of preparation for one’s adult life in…

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spring chicken

I must be feeling seasonal: Recently, I have found myself cooing stupidly at a number of toys and softies, in particular this reversable chicken and egg toy from mochimochi, which appears in the current issue of CRAFT magazine. But when I saw Kate’s amazing square chickens I just couldn’t resist (with her permission) attempting one…

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