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British Toymakers Guild. - Organisation representing professional British craft toymakers. Members, events and publications.
Neil Hardy's Fabulous Animals - Automata in wood, metal, paint and fleece created by Neil Hardy of London. Gallery of evolutionery blunders in wood, metal, paint, fleece plus news and order form.
Chiltern Games and Puzzles - Traditional wooden 3D puzzles and boardgames handmade by British craftsmen. Includes tips, solution cards and instructions for many classic games.
The Carrom Borad Workshop - Offers boards individually made and finished by hand.
Haven Crafts - Hardwood 3-D jigsaw puzzles of buildings, and block models for smaller hands. Researched, designed and made to order but occasional speculative pieces sometimes available.
Decorative Puzzles - Decorative wood puzzles in bowls and trays, designed for play and display as art objects. Outlets, shows attended and ordering details. Based in Cornwall.
David Plagerson Noah's Ark - Mixed wood and painted Noah's Arks made to order. Can be based on a chosen building, breeds or family pets. Also circus, farm, chess and nativity sets. Gallery and contact details.
The Hero Manufacturing Company - Skittles, chess sets, cord pulls, star bricks, and character cars by Cornwall artisan Roger Copple. Stockists, prices and contact details.
Jeff Soan's Wooden Creatures - Gallery of articulated animals, birds, marine and early toys made from reclaimed wood. Gallery, price list, awards, comments and artist information.
The Plate, Rattle and Bowl Company - Hand-turned wooden rattles, mainly from British hardwoods. Plain, personalised or silver banded. Northampton.
Wooden Pilchard - Hand made wooden puppet theatres. Theatres, prices and themes.
Grandad's Playroom - Historically accurate dolls houses based on actual buildings plus handcrafted accessories and lighting. Houses are unique commissions only. Lincolnshire
Avon Miniatures - Fine 1/12 and 1/24 scale dollshouse china handmade by Keith and Donna Brown from Devon. Ranges, background information and order form.
Chevalier Miniatures - Miniature teddy bears and rocking horses by Shropshire artisan Suzanne Knight.
LittleBloomers - Miniature dolls and bears including 1/12 scale made by Carrie and Sandra from Halesowen. Also kits for making bears.
Penny Thomson - Paper mache miniatures of historical costumed figures. Background and contact information.
Tony Knott Miniaturist - Arms and armour, pewter,Georgian and Art Noveau household items. Also room boxes and houses made to order for film sets, museums and collectors. With price list and order form.
Toys for Children - Hand sculptured wooden toys crafted out of English hardwoods. Gallery with sizes, woods and prices plus order form.
Toytiques - Arks, animals, vehicles and furniture for children by craftsman toymaker, Robert Hearn from Hampshire. Photographs, price list and contact details.
Janette Flood Originals - British Doll Artists' Association member Janette Flood, showcases her work with cloth/felt dolls. Explains how the dolls are created and where they will be shown.
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Toys "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Toys Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Toys The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Toys If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Toys The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Toys The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Toys The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Toys It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Toys Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Toys A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Toys Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Toys Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Toys I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Toys Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Toys "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Toys When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Toys "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Toys Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Toys There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Toys "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Toys The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Toys
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