New Toddler Doll

Find this little doll here.

Babies first Doll in Blue

Find this little doll here and here.

New Velvet Fabric Color and Little Violet Dolls

Vom Glück

"Still für sich,
und doch für mich
blüht das kleine Veilchen.
Bringt mir Freud
im Wintersleid
für ein ganzes Weilchen."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Right in time for the violet blooming season in our garden I got a new cotton velvet fabic for some Violet Toddler and Bunting Dolls to make.

You can find them in my shop.

Free Gift with every Root Child Doll Order - The Story of the Root Children Book

  

Lots of Root Children Dolls have come to live the last years all inspired by Sybille von Olfers classical childens book "The Root Children". The Root Childen Dolls are one of my favorites and I really enjoy creating them. Recently I found the german version of this book in the Pixi Book Series  in our local book shop. I will offer one book as a free gift with the next twenty Root Childen Doll orders from today. 

 

A new Child of the Forest Waldorfdoll for Anja

Happy Easter!

„Erst wenn der volle Mond erwacht 

und so rund wie die Sonne lacht,  

kann es hier auf Erden wieder Ostern werden“

C. Kutik

Knecht Ruprecht Dolls in Action

             

Thanks to one little passionate play kitchen cook and doll papa in our house I got some nice "dolls in action" pictures.

New Spring Time Waldorfdoll

Little Willow Catkin Doll

The poem "Die Weidenkätzchen" written by Christian Morgenstern is one of my favorite early spring poems. This Little Willow Catkin Doll is inspired by the poem. 

Die Weidenkätzchen 

Kätzchen, ihr, der Weide,
wie aus grauer Seide,
wie aus grauem Samt!
O ihr Silberkätzchen,
sagt mir doch, ihr Schätzchen,
sagt, woher ihr stammt.

"Wollen's gern dir sagen:
Wir sind ausgeschlagen
aus dem Weidenbaum;
haben winterüber
drin geschlafen, Lieber,
in tieftiefem Traum."

In dem dürren Baume
in tieftiefem Traume
habt geschlafen ihr?
In dem Holz, dem harten,
war, ihr weichen, zarten,
euer Nachtquartier?

"Musst dich recht besinnen:
Was da träumte drinnen,
waren wir noch nicht,
wie wir jetzt im Kleide
blühn von Samt und Seide
hell im Sonnenlicht.

Nur als wie Gedanken
lagen wir im schlanken
grauen Baumgeäst;
unsichtbare Geister,
die der Weltbaumeister
dort verweilen lässt."

Kätzchen, ihr, der Weide,
wie aus grauer Seide,
wie aus grauem Samt!
O ihr Silberkätzchen,
ja, nun weiß, ihr Schätzchen,
ich, woher ihr stammt! 
von Christian Morgenstern

Root Child Cuddle Doll

This is the time of the root children.

All through the winter the Root Children are asleep underground, but when spring comes Mother Nature wakes them up. 

 Sibylle von Olfers´ "The story of the Root Children" is the perfect book for this time of the year.

 This Root Child Cuddle Doll is available in my etsy shop.

Portable Imaginative Play Waldorf Dollhouses

Some weeks ago I made one small portable dollhouse together with my daughter. It was just a try, we used cardboard that time and made some furniture as well.  I liked the idea of a portable dollhouse and the flexibility of the play it is allowing, so much that I wanted to design a more durable version of it.

And et voila! This is the dollhouse I was working on the last weeks! 

We designed two versions, one small version including two parts providing four rooms

And one larger version including three parts providing six rooms.

Both Portable Dollhouses are handmade from birch plywood and perfect for imaginative play. Each house will make a cozy home for a child's collection of little dolls, Ostheimer figures or gnomes and fairies. Like all of my toys this Dollhouse is designed as simple as possible to inspire imagination. By giving children objects that are not highly formed and detailed, they can easily become more than one thing, and give children’s imaginations free reign.

The walls of the dollhouses slide together in one second. Children can bring the dollhouse where ever they go in a neat, compact and easy to carry design. 

After some research I found a local seller who provides non toxic, formaldehyd free and certificated child-safe plywood. Each part is finished with child-safe Herbal Oil, linseed oil and carnauba wax to protect the wood and enhance the natural beauty of the wood.

Both sizes are now available in my shop @ Etsy

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