IttyBittyBeasts
Brevard, North Carolina |
IttyBittyBeasts
Artwork and Offbeat ToysBrevard, North Carolina 89 Sales On Etsy since 2014
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Announcement In my non toy-making life I am overjoyed to work at a summer camp. Due to my summer schedule, I will not be able to offer any custom orders between May and September and I may be a bit slow to reply to messages.
Announcement
In my non toy-making life I am overjoyed to work at a summer camp. Due to my summer schedule, I will not be able to offer any custom orders between May and September and I may be a bit slow to reply to messages.
Reviews
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SarahBunny on Dec 27, 2017
5 out of 5 starsI got this for a friend for Christmas and she loved it so much! I was really happy with the buying process as well, the shop made sure I knew when it would be shipped it and even upgraded my shipping so it would arrive before Christmas.
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Alexa Nance on Apr 4, 2017
5 out of 5 starsI got Rick and Morty for my boyfriend for our anniversary for a surprise. They look amazing and are bigger than I expected! Love IttyBittyBeasts!!!!
About
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Before I made the jump to toys I was already finding ways to express my inner geek. Although I'm totes a Hufflepuff.
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A barbershop trio of penguins!! I still love this pattern.
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Wearables are just not my forte although this little, striped stocking cap is adorable and I have sported it outside.
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A living tattoo. One of the cutest Mother's Day presents ever.
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My first real trip into modifying a pattern. This is based on Hansi Singh's adorable tiny critters.
But are there cookies?
I was not naturally crafty. My mom doesn't cook or sew or knit or scrapbook or anything that you'd find at Joann Fabrics. I don't think that I realized brownies could be made without buying the Duncan Hines box until I was a teenager. However, somewhere deep down I did feel vaguely creative though and it came out in awful teenage poetry and then pretty decent photography.
Eventually, I was a soulless drone working for the man and living in Brooklyn and feeling vaguely unsure of what I was doing with my life like every 20-something feels. Somewhere during that time, my mother-in-law came to visit and decided to teach me how to knit. I started a burgundy scarf that day and I didn't finish it for about two years. I was not a natural talent. I made some truly hideous sweat bands after that and discovered that no matter what yarn I bought from a store or how beautiful I thought that it looked while I was there, it was always pea green when I got home.
Then one day I made a toy. I made a knitted penguin and my spouse looked at me, shocked, because it was adorable and that was a pretty big surprise to both of us. After that, I wanted to make more and more toys but I found knitting to be an awkward and finicky medium so I found that YouTube was full of more than just cute kittens and learned to crochet. I found the amazing book Creepy Cute Crochet by Cristen Haden and realized that toys could be weird and geeky. I started the slow march to inspiration.
Now, I'm in my 30's, working a job that I love, living on a tiny but beautiful little piece of the planet where I sometimes can hear cows from my living room and am embracing my love of toymaking. I hope that you love the geeky and strange and adorably offbeat toys that I make as much as I love making them.
Shop members
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Jeanne
Owner, Creator, Toymaker
I love to make toys. I live in a tiny town in the mountains with my spouse and our annoyingly lovable dog. I spend my non-toy hours working at a summer camp and hope to one day tour the country selling my wares at all of the coolest geek conventions.
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