Horses - New Year Handmade Toys

My dear readers I wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I wish you to get everything you want in the New Year and overcome all your difficulties of the past year. I hope these handmade horse toys will bring you success in the New Year!

Handmade Horse Toys - Presents for New Year 2014

Some more Christmas and New Year Handmade Toys...

By publishing this post I want to finish my Christmas and New Year series.

1. Handmade Christmas Trees
I sewed three such Christmas trees. My daughters took two of them to the Christmas exhibition at their kindergarten. The third one was sold at the Mlyn Christmas craft fair.

Handmade Toys Dolls - Christmas Tree Toys

2. Gingerbread Men - Handmade Toys
These are tinted handmade toys with the flavour of coffee and cinnamon. The icing on them was made by acrylic paints. Some of these funny guys have buttons made from cinnamon sticks.

Handmade Toys Dolls - Gingerbread Men Toys

3. Snow Maiden Handmade Doll
Just a Snow Maiden doll with a bag for wishes in her hands :)

Handmade Toys Dolls - Snow Maiden Doll

Dragons for the New 2012 Year (Handmade Dragon Toys)

While preparing to the Mlyn Christmas Craft Fair and in continuation of the dragon theme started with the Handmade Dragon Scamp I sewed these nice dragon toys:

The first dragon team was sewed from fleece...

Handmade Toys Dolls - Handmade Dragon Toys (fleece,  all)

Handmade Toys Dolls - Handmade Dragon Toys (fleece,  left)

Handmade Toys Dolls - Handmade Dragon Toys (fleece,  right)

The second dragon team - tinted dragon toys (with the flavour of coffee, cinnamon and with a faint note of chocolate). I painted them with acrylic paints...

Handmade Toys Dolls - Handmade Dragon Toys (tinted, staying)

Handmade Toys Dolls - Handmade Dragon Toys (tinted, lying)

Handmade Toys Dolls - Handmade Dragon Toys (tinted, back)

"Everyone can dance the classics" (Handmade Doll - Santa - Ballet Dancer)

"Everyone can dance the classics", this is what one teacher in a ballet school likes to say.

A very good friend of her asked me to sew a doll for the her. She wanted an original and exclusive handmade doll that should be associated with Christmas, New Year and ballet simultaneously. And it certainly should incarnate the phrase mentioned above ("everyone can dance the classics").

That's how this nice stout Santa in a tutu and pointes was born:

Handmade Dolls Toys - Handmade Santa - Ballet Dancer Doll (full)

Handmade Doll - Ballet Santa in tutu	Handmade Toy - Santa with a bag	Handmade Doll - Santa ballet dancer

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair, Minsk, Belarus, 2011, December

Three days of the Christmas handmade Mlyn (Mill) Fair have finally passed. It gathered about a hundred handmade masters from all over Belarus. Masters working in different areas presented their works: textile toys, batik, floristics, decoupage, knitting, fulling, leather work, wood- and stone-carving, beading, embroidery, clay work, wickerwork, coopery... It's hard to enumerate them all...

At the craft fair I got acquainted with a lot of people, experienced positive emotions by communicating with other masters and visitors of the fair.
It's very pleasant to realise that people like your works very much. It's so inspiring ))

Here are the pictures from the craft fair.
My stand...

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair - Handmade Dolls Toys (Julia's stand)

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair - Handmade Toys Dolls (table with toys)

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair - Tilda Angels, Sleepy Angel

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair - Handmade Textile Dolls

... and here are the works of other masters I managed to take photos of...

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair - Wooden Storks

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair - Pictures made from Leather

Mlyn - Christmas Handmade Fair - National Costumes

Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy - Part II (Textile Handmade Toy)

I didn't want the elk (moose) in a blue sweater to be lonely, so I sewed him a brother ))
His younger brother turned out to be more tanned as if he had just come from the Mediterranean sea )
These two brother elks will go to the Mlyn handmade fair to find a new house for themselves.

Handmade Toys Dolls - Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (right)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (top-right)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (front)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (top)

P.S. This tanned elk toy also smells of coffee, cinnamon and a little bit of vanilla

Snowmen Parade (Handmade Snowman Toys)

In the course of preparing to the Mlyn (Mill) Handmade Fair and Christmas and New Year Holidays I sewed these funny cheerful snowman toys. Surprisingly enough, they are quite different, although I used the same pattern to sew them all.
Look at these lively guys:

Handmade Toys Dolls - Snowmen Toys (all)

Handmade Snowman Toy (pink, front)

Handmade Snowman Toy (pink, right)

Handmade Snowman Toy (yellow, front)

Handmade Snowman Toy (yellow, right)

Handmade Snowman Toy (green, front)

Handmade Snowman Toy (green, right)

Handmade Snowman Toy (red, front)

Handmade Snowman Toy (red, right)

The one in yellow is my favourite ;)

Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (Textile Handmade Toy)

I've been having a desire to sew such a long-legged Elk (Moose) toy for quite a long.
Two reasons for doing this appeared recently. Firstly, Christmas and New Year are coming and I regard The Elk as a Christmas animal :). Secondly, I'll be participating in a Christmas Handmade Fair soon. The fair is again named Mlyn (Mill), like the one that took place this spring (you can find my post about the spring handmade fair Mlyn here). So I'm starting to prepare for it.

Here it is, the long-legged Elk (Moose):

Handmade Toys Dolls - Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (right)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (front)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (top)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (left)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (head and horns)

Handmade Long-Legged Elk (Moose) Toy (legs and hoofs)

P.S. I was about to post when I remembered that I wanted to write that the toy smells of coffee and cinnamon :)

Dragon Scamp

This Toy Dragon is my first New Year toy. Yes, I know it is September yet )) I'm beginning to prepare for New Year because I've got so many ideas and so little time.
According to the Chinese Calendar the next year is the Year of the Dragon, so besides usual Christmas and New Year toys I'm going to craft little (and not little )) dragons.
So this is my first toy dragon; I called him the Dragon Scamp, a disobedient 25-cm tall boy ))
I made the catapult he's holding in his hand by myself from plastics.

Handmade Toys Dolls - Dragon (collage)

Handmade Toys Dolls - Dragon (full)

Recalling New Year…

It’s snowing hard… -13 C… My desire of warmth is so understandable. I’d better go to the kitchen and make a cup of flavored tea. Suddenly my elder daughter comes to me and asks:

-          Mum, when will New Year come again?

-          My daughter, you can ask New Year to come to you again any time, just close your eyes and remember. And it’ll come from your memory

So we both close our eyes and dive into our memories: the Christmas tree, our daughters playing on the carpet, my husband sitting in the armchair and reading a book and me sitting beside them and making these lovely Tilda kitties to give as Christmas presents to my mother and sister…

Tilda Toys - Cats (black and white)

Tilda Toys - Cats (red and white)

Tilda Toys - Flying Cats