Town Square Toy Shop Finished Too

Village Toys

On 5th August I wrote about doing Village Toys, and just to remind you, here are photos of the shop as it was then:







As part of my push to finish of some of my UFOs,  in October I did most of the things for the shop, then on 5th November I did the last couple of items and it is finished - yaaaaaay!  It is unusual for me to do those last few things for a project so I am very pleased with myself. I usually seem to get to just those final little details and not quite get around to them.  But on that day I made a jack-in-the-box for the remaining space on the lower shelf on the right. It is all of 2.5mm square vbg. Well, it is quarter scale after all! It is hard to see in the photo but you can see it in RL. Just. After it took me over an hour to make. And I used a couple of 'picture books' I had made and not used in the bookstore on the shelf as well. So here it is now, overall:

And here is a close up of each side:

The clown on the lower shelf was a gift from Judith Dowden when she sent the kit. Below the shelf is a tricycle that I bought ages ago ready painted

And I also bought the teddy bear on the counter ready painted. He is quite special and I wish I could remember where I bought him - I must look through my inventory to see. The teepee and the pram are white metal miniatures that I painted. The dollshouses are one of several I have of Pam Junks 'Row of Houses' and the shelf that came for them to sit on is on the other side of the shop, with toy boxes (printies) on it. More printies for toy boxes are in the attic.

 Under the counter Pickwick the cat is sleeping, securely away from boisterous children that come into the shop. It was hard to photograph him but you can see him in real life.

You can also see the lovely little rocking horse out the front, made from a kit by Karen Benson. It invites lots of kiddies to come and sit on it and to be enticed by the goodies inside the shop too.

This shop is delightful and I really had lots of fun making things for it.  In fact I enjoyed it so much and have several things made up that I couldn't fit in there that it was a large factor in my decision to buy Karen Benson's Toy Shoppe.

Here are some of the other toy kits I  made up and couldn't fit in:

The individual cars in this racing track are only 1.5mm long - if that!  There are two of each car and they need to be glued together. The wheels are painted on by putting a black dot on with a toothpick.  

I also have a train track (with train and landscaping) on a table but haven't made it up yet.   

The ride-on airplane was going to go under the shelf where the tricycle is, and the tricyle was going to go outside.  But the airplane was a bit large, so it is ready for the Toy Shoppe as well.

In contrast, this little elephant (a kit from Suzanne & Andrews) is so tiny that it is hard to photograph without it coming out blurry.  There was actually plenty of room for it to go into the shop, but after spending an entire afternoon making it and it being such a lovely little thing, I didn't want it to be in a position where it wouldn't be seen to its best advantage.  So I made the jack-in-the-box instead and this will go into the Karen Benson Toy Shoppe, in a position where it will be more visible.



And of course every toy shop or collection has to have a little red wagon!

There are more kits that I haven't made up, and even more to come.  Once I decided to order the larger Toy Shoppe, I needed to fill it, after all vbg!  So that was the perfect excuse to get those kits that I had looked at and liked but resisted.  Hmmmmm - wonder what the real reason for ordering the shop was: the desire to have those kits, or the 'accidental' ordering of it? LOL.