SCRAPBOOK RACHEL: THE WAY WE PLAY

by

03.12.14. Iedere maand maakt Rachel voor CITYMOM een scrapbook met de nieuwste trends. Rachel is moeder van Rilou en woont met dochter en verloofde in Rotterdam. Rachel heeft na haar opleiding Modestyling in de styling wereld gewerkt. Maar is na de komst van Rilou helemaal into kids fashion en alles eromheen. Rachel heeft haar eigen bedrijf Yummy Mommy waar zij stylingadvies geeft aan moeders en is zij de Nederlandse agent van de merken Diapers & Milk, Little Indians & Maed.  

December. De maand van gezellig samen zijn tijdens Sinterklaas, Kerst en natuurlijk de jaarwisseling. Laat je inspireren door deze mooie producten. Met de extra vrije dagen kan je lekker genieten en spelen met je kids.

Tipi tent van Gray Label

Poster van This Cool Kid en Studio Sijm

Lappenpop van Jess Brown in samenwerking met Atsuyo et Akiko via Orange Mayonnaise 

Jenga via bol.com

Loopfiets van Easy Rider via Minimiks

Opbergbox van Lego via Kids Department 

Vlieger Boot van Gray Label 

Decoreer kostuum van Omy Design & Play via Orange Mayonnaise

Wolven hoofdtooi van Animalesque via Orange Mayonnaise

-----

For the original post, see CityMom.nl blog

Play day

Play in Black and White

Hoewel kleur vaak de kinderkamer domineert, vinden wij het zwart en wit thema ook erg leuk. Natuurlijk aangevuld met hier en daar een kleuraccent. Vandaag het thema PLAY IN BLACK AND WHITE
...met een STOELTJE in retro look van Les Gambettes, hier in wit..maar in vele kleuren verkrijgbaar. Wist je dat je er ook een bijpassend  bureautje bij kunt shoppen en dat hoeft zeker niet in dezelfde kleur te zijn. Juist een contrasterende kleur is spannend. Gek ook zijn we op de VLOERKLEDEN van Pappelina, gemaakt van papier en..wasbaar! Ook hier een keur aan kleuren en dessins, maar deze wit met zwarte streepjes vonden wij erg mooi op een kinderkamer. De POSTERS van Mini & Maximus vinden wij allemaal te gek. En met de Archetoys van Floris Hovers haal je echt Dutch Design in huis.....

vloerkleed Pappelina  - Poster Mini & Maximus Le Chat  - Blaasbal  - Lederen etui van Zorro Belgium  - Les Gambettes stoeltje   - Le Marchand d'etoiles knuffelkonijn  - smiling planet kleurboek  - Archetoys Ambulance Floris Hovers

----

For the original post, see KidsRoomZuid blog

Little Green Men

AJ’S TOYBOARDERS + VIDEO

My husband has always been into skateboarding. He can’t skate to save his life, but he loves watching skate videos and even when we were on holiday in Miami his first stop was the legendary M.I.A skateshop to drool over skateboards and the skate videos.

So I honestly wasn’t sure who was more excited when this package from AJ’s Toy Boarders arrived.

If you’ve ever seen the old Bucket of Soliders you’ll be in familiar territory, small green plastic moulded men, but on this occasion the weapons of teeny destruction are replaced with Skateboards, Snowboards and Surfboards.

It was all i could do keep them sealed until Alexander got home from school, at which point he and his dad spent the next hour or so exercising their creative side building a lego skatepark with a colouring book snow ramp… and I caught some of it on video:

The toys are great fun, with figures in different action poses, there is even a film guy rolling along on his board, and as you can see it’s a toy thats easy for kids of any age to jump straight into.

Alexander loves them, and so does his dad…… and the cat. You can shop AJ’s Toy Boarders directly from their website or at the webshop Orange Mayonnaise.

For the original post, see Les Enfants a Paris blog 

Design toys

International Kids Fashion and Design Blog

MILLER GOODMAN – ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

I’ve started ordering Christmas presents! Yes! It’s that time of the year already! First thing on my list was PlayShapes from a small UK design company called MillerGoodman. A unique set of 74 wooden shapes.  With these shapes you can create any number of weird and wonderful constructions and creatures. Animals? People? Faces? Vehicles? Buildings? Abstract? Where-ever the imagination takes you. I can’t wait until he openes his pressie!

Zoe Miller and David Goodman are two English designers passionate about encouraging the imagination and creativity through play in children’s and adults young at heart, through books, toys, and beautiful objects made with the finest materials, and perfectly designed. Four years ago, they founded their own brand, MillerGoodman, to create and produce educational, colourful, modern, inspiring. What toys!

Wooden blocks like Playshapes, Shapemaker and the the Facemaker, are available at Orange Mayonnaise.

Have fun playing!

 

-----

For the original post, see Les Enfants a Paris blog !

Or see the Orange Mayonnaise shop online 

Play time...

TOYS | Miller Goodman

I get excited when there is a toy that gets my creative juices going and Miller Goodman's shape/facemaker blocks are one of those toys!  The endless ways of creating characters are mesmerizing and is promising hours of fun. The blocks perfectly illustrate Miller Goodman's commitment to combine function with the highest design principles. The result produces a beautiful, sensitive classic toy for kids and adults alike.

These blocks come in different variations that are all available at Orange Mayonnaise right now.

1. PLAYSHAPES
2. FACEMAKER
3. DELUXE SHAPEMAKER
4. MINI FACEMAKER
5. SHAPEMAKER

DeLUXE report...

MillerGoodman featured in the weekend magazine of the Dutch newspaper NRC, 

curated by Piet Hein Eek this week.

Wooden toys

David Goodman and Zoe Miller together form the business MillerGoodman, situated

 in Brighton, England. The’re funny and touching, the figures Goodman and Milller showed last year, on invitation by Piet Hein Eek at the Dutch Design Week. They’re all unique pieces, something in the middle of sculptures and toys, composed with new parts and objects from flee markets.
“I love old stuff that holds its own story”, Zoe Miller says. “Toys you love last longer and therefore is more durable. Moreover toys make memories.” David Goodman:”Our children must not only play on an iPad. It’s a whole different experience to grab physical objects, stack them and play with them.”
Both these sculptures as the wooden toys MillerGoodman produces in edition, arise from their partnership with the Tate museum in London, for whom they made three childrensbooks. The books inspired them to also design toys. Everytime it’s about loose wooden blocks, from where shapes are composed. Designs on the border of art, sculpture and toys, more likely to find in a shop for interior design rather than a toy shop.
Goodman:”We’re doing research now, how to make our toys more affordable without producing it in plastic in China.” Miller:”We hope the user, child or adult, will play with the artistic freedom of an artist. Wo don’t offer a completed process but a system you can make you own. People often send us pictures of what they’ve created with our toys. We call it Open-ended play.”

Translation by Noël Sannen, via Facebook ; thank you Noël !

---

Shop the toys collection by Miller Goodman, at Orange Mayonnaise ! --> http://www.orangemayonnaise.com/en/webshop/millergoodman/ws-br/br23/