The Angelica Doll: A natural hair doll for young girls by Angelica Sweeting — Kickstarter

I am a grown woman, and I bought a doll. My favorite part? Feature #3 below. Yay, Angelica!

From the founder, Angelica Sweeting: 

Like most young girls with kinky/curly hair, my daughter Sophia was not happy with her kinks and curls because of the doll I was putting in her hands every day. Sophia wanted long straight hair, and she even started expressing a strong dislike for her facial features and skin tone. With the help of my daughters, we created “The Angelica Doll” — the first natural hair 18-inch doll for young girls.

Features

1. Style and wash the doll’s kinky/curly hair just as natural hair.  YES! My daughters and I tested the hair for eight months! We twisted, bantu knotted, combed, brushed, blew out, curl wanded and re-washed the hair. We did this over and over to ensure this doll would be able to withstand a young girls curiosity about taking care of and having fun with kinky/curly hair! No more tangled doll hair!
2. Facial features true to women of color!  Say goodbye to spray-painted brown Barbie dolls! The Angelica Doll has the face of a beautiful brown girl including a full nose, fuller lips, beautiful check bones, and brown eyes!
3. Exposure to new paths and careers.  Let’s not just tell the next generation of women that they can do anything. LET’S SHOW THEM! The Angelica Doll and future dolls will have new and interesting careers that will expose young girls to what is happening in the world now and the many possibilities they have in the future. The Angelica Doll is a courageous, bold entrepreneur full of self belief, natural beauty, and perseverance. For future dolls we will introduce careers such as engineering, journalism, software development, public relations, etc.

The Angelica Doll: A natural hair doll for young girls by Angelica Sweeting — Kickstarter

100 designers. 100 tiny wooden cars.

These wee wooden cars make me happy.

100 Designers Each Create a Wooden Toy Car : TreeHugger

 (view all of them here)

Toideloi Modern Design Wooden Dollhouse

Even though I don't have kids, I'm going to give a big shout out to toy company toideloi. After a long Christmas season of trying to avoid buying pink plastic girly crap for the little girls in my life, seeing this website was SO refreshing.


The messaging and photography is brilliant – making it clear that dollhouses are not just for girls, and playing together is fun (regardless of gender). The site is so simple and encouraging and lovely. And the products really do look fun. I wish more toys companies would take a page from this book.




Modern Design Wooden Dollhouse, Toideloi Stackhouse

Hoptimists.

They bounce.





Hoptimist Shop International — Products

Photography: Lars Brandt Stisen, MADDOCMAN Berlin and Me!Me!Me!

Mattel.com sale today – 20% off + free shipping + more.

Okay - this is not my usual post. Just passing along a great deal – the Mattel store is having a sale on toys for boys (flinch) - 20% off + free shipping + another 10% off if you sign up for their newsletter.


I've had my eye on this for my great-nephew for awhile and finally popped for it today – too good a deal to pass up.

MATCHBOX MEGA RIG SHARK SHIP!™ Set - Shop.Mattel.com

LEGO: Life of George

This actually looks really fun.


Introducing LEGO® Life of George: the world's first interactive game combining real LEGO bricks with apps for your iPhone/iPod Touch.



(Kudos to Wiz for this one.)

Like plastic green army men, but better.

I know a few folks who will dig on these. Available at Kid Robot starting 9/15.


Straight out of the South Bronx, Kidrobot’s first series of All City Breakers celebrates the best dance style born from 70’s hip-hop culture. Individually foil-wrapped and blind, each b-boy and b-girl’s punctuated move is captured perfectly in plastic – a stylized freeze. Injection-molded and inspired by the retro but classic green army men and their solid plastic bases, these breakers flaunt moves from Power to Flex in four neon colors: pink, green orange and blue. Each 2-inch art piece is paired with boombox to deliver the beat. No matter what your style, you’re gonna want to choreograph a collection of your own.
Kidrobot's Blog, The KRonikle :: All City Breakers Mini Series

(via My Modern Met)

Uglydoll wind ups.

I would like all of them, please.


Uglydoll Wind Ups have landed at Ningyoushi.com. Now you can own all your favorite Uglydoll characters as Wind Up toys. Watch Babo do flips, Peaco swim, Big Toe sneak away, Ice-Bat hop and jump for joy with Trunko!

Ningyoushi.com - Cool Toys For The Savvy Collector!

(via Ningyoushi News)

Kitty Go Nerdy plush.

Yes. I am a total dork. Why do you ask?


Kitty Go Nerdy Plush

Brinca Dada Emerson House Dollhouse.

WOW. This is one helleva dollhouse.





Emerson House Dollhouse from Creative Kidstuff

p.s. It's crazy expensive, but it's on sale for $350 (including the mid-century modern furniture, which is normally around $250 alone - yikes) over at theFoundary.com (free subscription req.) if you must have it.

Fractions Puzzle.

Simple, lovely and useful.

Update: Thanks to Ashley, here's a link to a much cheaper version on Amazon.com. Thank you, Ashley!


A perfectly presented fraction puzzle, which reminds us of school and also pies and cakes! Made from wood and painted in lovely primary red and blue. Great for little or big ones because it looks so darned good. 12x9"

Present&Correct - Fraction Puzzle

The evolution of toys.

Sometimes our leaps in technology just sort of mesmerize me.

1970s:


Today:



Mattel See 'n Say vintage toy photo by j_pidgeon.

Speak, Piggy! app by A Modern Eden.

Lord of the Rings plushes.

A cute gift for the little nerd in your life.




Plush Product Search

Timo Handmade toys.

Kids have it so good these days.



Timo Handmade by timor on Etsy

Erin Tyner.

I like tiny things, so I'm a sucker for this style of photography.





Supermarket - Erin Tyner

Sushi trucks!

If these weren't so expensive, I'd be all over them. So cool.


Paramodel - Artists - Online Gallery of Japanese Contemporary Art Azito

(Thank you, Kristel! These are SO fab.)

The Nicolas Cage Adventure Set.

And this, my friends, is just one more reason to love Brandon Bird.



Introducing the Nicolas Cage Adventure Set! The magic and wonder of one of the most dynamic figures of the 21st century comes home in this incredible playset (one might even call it a Colorforms set, if 'Colorforms' was not a registered trademark of the University Games Corporation). Reusable vinyl stickers cling like magic to glossy backdrops! Mix and match accessories! Peel and re-peel to create new scenes! The fate of Nicolas Cage is in your hands!

Each set includes a double-sided 8.5 x 11 inch play background (depicting 'tropical island' and 'haunted castle' environments) and one 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of nine vinyl cling stickers: 3 full-body Nicolas Cages, battle axe, skateboard, ice cream cone, scary ghost, parrot, and space helmet. Click here for a detail view of all the stickers.

Brandon Bird :: The Nicolas Cage Adventure Set

Urban Ninja Kokeshi Dolls.

These URBAN NINJA KOKESHI DOLLS are hand painted and stand at 11 CM tall. Limited run of 25.

(Sorry, no permalink - just go to the Toys category.)

Abztract – Art:Form:Function

Indie Rock Coloring Book.

This made me laugh. An awesome stocking stuffer for the music nerd on your list.




Yellow Bird Project : Indie Rock Coloring Book

Brooklyn Hipsters.

These are really fun.


Brooklyn Hipsters, collaboration with Jon Burgerman for his solo show in Giant Robot NY.

Brooklyn Hipsters - Society6