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Are Your Kids Making Slime?

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Slime making has been all the rage at our house. In fact it seems like it’s all the rage everywhere. It all started with our 11 year old making different types of slime. Her friends start to ask to buy it from her so she started to sell. She quickly found out what coloring to […]

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Beautiful Fashions and Accessories by Pure Icon Paris

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I recently had the opportunity to photograph a few of my 12" Fashion Royalty dolls wearing Pure Icon Paris fashions and accessories. 
The clean lines and basic fashions are extremely versatile and can make a perfect wardrobe foundation for a doll. Doll collectors can add scarves, jackets, shawls and furs to create multiple looks. 
Links are at the bottom of this page. I recommend you visit Pure Icon to see what they have to offer your beautiful dolls!

Adele is wearing a red gown, carrying a matching clutch and on her wrist is a chunky black bangle.

Elise models a perfect little black dress.
She's added a black and gold metal belt, dramatic red neckpiece, earrings, bracelet and ring.

Elise wears this long sleeved red dress to work and out for dinner.
It's accessorized bit a red and gold metal belt and bright gold jewelry.

Detail of gold jewelry.

Elise is dressed for date night in a sleek, strapless LBD. For jewelry she's chosen silver and ruby red accented earrings and neckpiece. Red bangles and ring complete her look.
Look closely at her hands. Her acrylic nails are gorgeous!

Kyori is on her way to a fashion show in a stylish print sheath circled by a red and silver belt.
She's wearing silver jewelry and carrying a roomy black handbag.

My Mini LiveWire doll is wearing a dark red gown with a deep V neckline.
Her accessories are all sparkly silver.

Jewelry detail.


Pure Icon Paris is a handmade, luxury fashion brand for 12” Fashion Royalty dolls. The business was founded in Paris in 2014 by a skilled designer. Previously, the artist was developing technologies with which to work extraordinary quality fabrics including custom-made materials. In each collection, Pure Icon Paris presents a sleek and luxurious Parisian style with lifelike, refined cut fashions, perfect details, high quality, unique jewelry and handbags. The designs are made for FR2 and CI bodies, presented on self-made OOAK dolls to create a complete Pure Icon Universe. The designer’s goal is to create outstanding perfection with care in design.
The creations are available in the Pure Icon Paris Boutique on Ebay. Earlier collections can be viewed on the brand’s Facebook page. Inquire about ordering personalized items. Pure Icon’s other speciality is permanent acrylic nails applied to doll hands in several sizes, shapes and styles.
Each Pure Icon Paris design is created to satisfy the needs of a demanding customer with refined taste.
Everything made in Paris.

Pure Icon Paris on Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/pure-icon-paris

Pure Icon Paris on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pureiconparis/


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Deathstroke Premium Format Figure From Sideshow Toy

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Oasiem Karmieh Eleven Art Toy

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Do you love Netflix’s Stranger Things? If so, you’ll almost certainly dig Oasiem Karmieh’s new art toy of Eleven. The 3D-sculpted figure brings Rocio Garcia’s fun cartoon-style illustration of the Eggo-floating telekinetic wonder to life with an in-action pose. Eleven’s dress sways and she makes the magnetic Eggos dance. The...

Craola x C4 Toons Im Scared Short is now Online

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As you likely know, Craola collaborated with the stop-animation specialists at C4 Toons on his first short, ‘I’m Scared’. Brought to life by numerous Kickstarter backers, the 5-minute film brings us Ralf, his brother and plenty of things that go bump in the night including the Stair Monsta. While the...

Staple x James Jean x Mighty Jaxx Washizu (3.4)

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Washizu, the previously mentioned collab between the Staple brand and James Jean will be available as a 24-hr timed edition on Saturday (3.4) at 8 AM PST over at StapleXJamesJean.com for an as-yet unannounced price. Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood—a retelling of Macbeth—and its lead character, the striking...

The 2018 Bumblebee Solo Movie Now Has A Director Attached

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Entertainment website Deadline is reporting that the Bumblebee-focused entry in the Transformers live action movie series due in 2018 now has a director on board. Travis Knight will have the distinction of directing the first live action film installment that won't be in Michael Bay's care. Knight was previously the director for Kubo And The Two Strings, and while that is a short credit list in this role, it's a pretty powerful first effort.

Robots In Disguise Combiner Force One Step Blurr Video Review

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Fresh off our forums, chuckdawg1999 has shared a quick video with us to show the new One Step Blurr figure from the RID Combiner Force line. Blurr has what may be a new transformation design, but whether it is or not, it's still a slick looking process going from one mode to the other. The video is embedded below, click through to get watching!

VAG(Vinyl Artist Gacha)Series 10 Drops March 10th

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Series 10 of VAG (VINYL ARTIST GACHA) features an interesting line-up of figure designs from 4 x creators - namely Punk Drunkers (with “Aitsu”), Blood Guts Toys (“Namanari Mermaid”), DAN (“Pogola”) and Magaido (“Jakuchu Elephant”) - with 5 colorways of their character figures to be had! Check in with your fav retailer(s) for final pricing and availability (SRP is ¥463 per blind gacha).

FUDOG Dunnies by Silvia Tampi

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A post shared by Silvia Tampi (@silviliciouss) on Mar 1, 2017 at 12:08pm PST Indonesia-based customiser Silvia Tampi shares with us snaps of her latest Dunny customs - a pair of FUDOGs! Made from 3" tall Dunny, including scratch-made “lotus base” makes this schweet custom each standing approx. around 6" total. Alas they have since been listed as “Booked” (at time of this post). Nevertheless

Toy Fair 2017: Mezco Toyz

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In the days following the 2017 International Toy Fair, one company's product reveals have been the subject of conversation more than all others, and with the publication of this story, you'll be able to see what it is that keeps Mezco Toyz on our minds when we're asked what amazed us at the annual event!

My Dimensions Cliffside Beacon Counted Cross Stitch Picture

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January and February afforded me plenty of time for cross-stitching due to some health issues I was experiencing.  So, I decided to complete some Spring and Summer seasonal cross-stitch picture kits that I had previously purchased.  Most of the cross-stitch pictures I have completed have been for the Fall, Halloween, Christmas and Winter seasons so I decided to buy some flower and beach themed kits.

The cross-stitch kit I just finished was a counted cross-stitch kit from Dimensions Gold Collection Petites entitled Cliffside Beacon.

Like the other Dimensions Gold Collection Petites kits I had bought the kit included the pattern, pre-sorted cotton thread, 18 count ivory cotton Aida, needle and instructions.

The Cliffside Beacon pattern uses full counted cross-stitch, half cross-stitch, french knots and outline stitching for emphasis and depth and this detailing really makes the picture stand out. It also varies the number of threads used with the various stitches to add to the depth emphasis. The design of this cross-stitch gives the finished picture a 3 dimensional aspect with the half cross stitch, french knots and outlining being used for artistic effect.

The pattern came with starting and working order instructions as well as samples of the various stitches required, color coded keys (with code #'s, lengths, color names, and cross-stitch symbols) and a chart with color coded symbols.  The kit came with instructions for finishing the back of the picture.

While I was very pleased with the end results of this design there are some things in the kit and in the instructions that can be improved upon.



This is the first time I've encountered a color coded chart that was extremely difficult to read.  It was just way too small.  It was not easy to distinguish between the symbols at times and made following the chart difficult.  I had to stop and undo some of the cross stitches I had just done as I had lost my place on the chart.

As was the case with previous Dimensions kits the thread sorter was poorly designed. The embroidery threads were glued to foam backed 6" by 1 1/4" strips of cardboard that had a picture of the color of the thread and it's number. In order to get to the threads you had to separate the foam back from the cardboard strip. Very quickly the threads separated from their section and then you no longer knew what the thread number was to tie to your symbols & legends.

As I have done with other cross-stitch kits I've completed I had to alter the thread sorter to suit my needs. I pulled the thread sorter apart to get rid of the foam and then punched holes in the cardboard strip just above each color and color #. I inserted the floss threads that went with that color and color # through the hole and tied them in a loose knot. I then added color coded symbols with colored pens beneath each color so I would know what symbols went with what color.

Short of changing the thread sorter all together to make things even easier for the user the color symbol should at the very least have been shown on the thread sorter strip of cardboard as well. That way you would only need to use the thread sorter strip of cardboard to follow your chart.

I also decided to once again utilize the rectangular wood frame jig that my darling husband built for me that I could tape the edges of the 18 count ivory cotton Aida to. The wood frame jig is a rectangular embroidery hoop of sorts and can accommodate a 5" by 5" cross-stitch picture kit or 5" by 7" cross-stitch picture kit. He had made it out of 1/2" x 1" pine wood strips with an adjustable center strip that I use for the 5 x 5 square designs.


The pattern called for leaving several sections of the ivory aida cloth showing in the beach, cliffs and lighthouse. I don't like doing this as I think it makes the picture look unfinished. Instead I used 2 strands of ivory embroidered floss that matched the Aida cloth and finished them in a cross-stitch pattern to fill in where the ivory areas of the aida cloth were to be,


The instructions called for using 3-strands of the white embroidery floss to be cross-stitched in various sections which created a thick aspect to those sections and added to the 3-dimensional aspects of the picture. However, they didn't include enough of the white thread as I ran out of it.

The kit came with instructions for finishing the back of the picture.  I had chosen an off white glass-less Mill Hill 7" by 9" frame with a 5" by 7" opening instead of a standard glass frame which utilizes a mat to finish it which I think really brought out the beautiful colors of the cottage scene. Plus without the glass you could really see the 3-dimensional aspects of the picture.

When using the glass-less frames I tend to favor 1/4" foam backed adhesive mounting boards for the cross-stitch pictures I'm inserting into the picture frame as they perfectly fill the space between the front ridge and back of the frame.  So, I stretched and mounted my picture on a 5" by 7" foam backed adhesive 1/4" mounting board, taped the four corners so I could sew them with nylon thread in a "V" to make the corners taut with the adhesive board and then taped the remaining vertical and horizontal sides with masking tape.

I added the back that was included with the frame and taped it to the back of the frame to hold my picture within the frame.  Then using paper glue I cut a piece of thick decorative paper to fit the 7" by 9" back of the frame and glued it on to totally finish the back of the frame.


It took me 86 hours to complete this picture including the framing. Despite the problems I encountered I love the way my Dimensions Cliffside Beacon picture turned out. It's absolutely beautiful and the 3-dimensional aspects of the beach scene are amazing.

“SOUKA: FIVE EYED CAT” by sombong for #UrbanToyStage

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Indonesia-based Igi Anjangbiani (Instagram @sombong_) introduces to us “SOUKA: FIVE EYED CAT” = his five-eyed resin cat creation (“jack of all trade, 50% cat, 50% insecurity”)! “Souka” will be making an appearance at the coming Urban Toy Stage in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 4-5) - where Igi will be participating in both the exhibition and as well helming his own booth space! [ Individual images

Transformers: Lost Light #4 - Alex Milne's Lineart & Subscription Cover With Josh Perez Colors

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It's been great to have Alex Milne back as a cover artist for Lost Light, the successor to More Than Meets The Eye. While we wait for him to be announced as artist for the next major storyline as promised, we'll content ourselves with this excellent cover with colors by Josh Perez! Keep reading to see the images, mirrored here for convenience!

round about: secret keychains & cardboard tube letters

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This week flew by! It’s the first couple of days of March, and I’m already sitting here planning our summer. No, not big vacations that require airlines and reservations, that might make sense to me. No, I’m just trying to plan out a couple of summer camps for Birdie – things fill up fast here […]

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Green/Clear/GID SpongeBob DX Release

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Toy Art Gallery is releasing a new SpongeBob DX from Secret Base today (Friday March 3rd 2017). The Green/Clear/GID SpongeBob DX features a glow-in-the-dark vinyl inner skeleton with a split outer shell - one half clear and the other in bright green and pink with a star eye. Also included is a matching SpongeBob enamel pin. This version […] Read more

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles To Get All-New Animated Series & Toy Line In 2018

Savor Saturday

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by Chelsea Ayers If you have ever wanted to go out and try the different foods that Parkersburg has
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