This Mum's World: paper

oh how I love spring- flowers blooming, birds singing & there are baby lambies around everywhere here at the moment.

Hubby picked me some beautiful flowers. There are so many manchurian pears & prunus' starting to bloom around here. Just beautiful.

Sunday is fathers day- Unfortunately I wont get to see my Dad this Fathers Day. So I'm sending him a little parcel of some old psychology books, a lotto pack and this "Dad you Rock!" card found at kind over matter- Dads into rock music (well any music really) so I think he will like it.

Check out the other freebies at kind over matter including some lovely spring-looking affirmation cards. Gotta love a site dedicated to kidness & inspiration!

I'm loving using good ol' brown paper from the supermarket for packaging, it adds an old fashioned touch. Now I just need to get me some bakers twine.

Happy Spring Everyone!!

From time to time we write letters to our sponsor child over in Kenya. I like to include photos of our family and sometimes a small gift. Compassion don't let you send large bulky items because of possible theft and excess postage costs to sometimes very remote areas. So we send little flat items like stickers and bookmarks that fit into a regular envelope.

I've been wanting to find some other items to send & have thought of paper dolls (I remember having a Barbie paper doll birthday card as a child that I loved- I also had given to me one year a birthday card of a little girl that 'walked' as a wheel of feet spun on the inside of the card held on by a split pin- it was very sweet.)

I adore puppets, felt boards, and toys that evoke the imagination and as I have said before I love paper so I got a little carried away looking for paper dolls and the like. Here are some of the things I've come across.

The toy maker

http://www.thetoymaker.com/2Toys.html

Window to fairyland, Bear Wagon, Chocolate Truck & Paper Dolls

Features toys that move, gifts & boxes, learning toys, animals and bug friends plus lots more.

Paper Toys

http://www.papertoys.com/

Big Ben, Sydney Opera house, Harley, Dinoland

Features lots of buildings & vehicles plus more

Toy a Day

http://toy-a-day.blogspot.com/

Mario & Luigi, Sonic, Pingu, Bob the builder

Features Sci-fi characters, cartoon characters, user submitted toys, art inspired toy & lots more

Made by Joel

http://madebyjoel.blogspot.com/

Paper city, sloted building discs, Paper cowboy

Joel also has plenty of other toys & activities not made of paper to check out

and now for the big kids...

Canon creative park- paper craft

http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/1006/

Just do yourself a favour and check the site out- they also have other non toy/model printables including cards, callendars & scrapbooking....Loving it!!!

Now this is where I found the Canon site-

Creative Close Up-

100 Exceptional Free Paper Models and Toys

http://www.creativecloseup.com/100-exceptional-free-paper-models-and-toys