School Uniform Hair Accessories

School Uniform Hair Accessories - Headbands, Clips, Pony Os

What fun, my oldest daughter started Kindergarten today! Her school requires blackwatch plaid uniforms from Flynn & O'hara. One great thing about school uniforms is that they will make mornings super easy. Of course we still want for her to express herself within the guidelines. A new pink backpack was definitely in order. When it comes to accessories though most schools require that hair clips, headbands and barrettes match the colors in the uniform and be tasteful. That wasn't so easy to find.


I came up with some simple styles that fit the guidelines and made her happy - navy, white and sweet flowers! Hand cut and made with a nice wool felt, these accessories will definitely give her look a bit of style.

Need some for your little girl? We're happy to make these and other styles in your school colors. Just email us at sales@tinycupcakes.com

Pretend Play Just Got Sweeter

Felt Cupcakes for Pretend Play

Imagine kids setting up a tea party with these sweet felt treats. How will they choose just one? We all know pretend play is an important part of kids development and felt food is a great addition to any tea set or kitchen play center.

Since we launched our shop on Etsy we've been dreaming up new designs. We're excited to launch some sweet new styles this fall. Shown here is a group of felt cupcakes featuring some new color combinations and toppings including a birthday candle, chocolate heart, strawberry, cream puff and cherry! These felt treats will be available for sale at the Packanack Lake Craft Show on November 1st in Wayne, NJ. After that we plan to list these for sale in our shop at etsy.com.

With every piece of felt food we complete we find ways to make the designs even cuter. Our ice cream cones are a good example. We found a way to make the felt ice cream scoop a bit rounder and the ruffle more finished. We offer felt ice cream cones in strawberry, chocolate, vanilla (shown here) and mint chocolate chip too!

Up next are some new cake slices. We haven't done these in a while but have lots of ideas for color combinations and designs. Check back soon to see what we bake up ;)

Dreaming of Felt Food

Felt food is great way to encourage pretend play

Like many moms, I get my work done after the kids are asleep. Last night I was dreaming up a new style of icing for our felt cupcakes. The first post on this blog showed our original attempts at creating a realistic cupcake shape. If you've tried making your own patterns for felt food you know it takes a few tries to get a piece looking just right. Katherine and I initially settled on one icing style and have sold several in our shop on Etsy. These cupcakes feature soft ruffles in pink and white felt.

The fun thing about cupcakes today is variety, so we're going to keep dreaming up new designs for our felt cupcakes too! Our newest style features bold swirls of felt. I still need to stitch the layers together but so far I think it looks great. I couldn't resist putting a cherry on top. This was my first try at a felt cherry!! It was tedious to stitch the pieces together, but I think it's a nice finishing touch on this piece.

If you're shopping for play food this holiday season, please consider handmade felt treats like ours. See more of our felt goodies in our shop on Etsy!

Transportation Themed Boy's Room

Affordable, heirloom quality wall hangings

We all know the dilemma - you want to decorate you're child's room around a theme but you don't want to plaster the licensed characters all over the bedding, walls and accessories. PJs are definitely OK. Last month a mom was designing on her son's "big boy" room and she turned to Etsy for a solution.

Like many seasoned Etsy shoppers, she posted a request to Alchemy. If you haven't checked out this feature on Etsy - please do!! Alchemy is a place where shoppers can request custom items - really anything under the sun - and Etsy shop owners will bid on the request.

This mom wanted something to decorate her son's walls that was based on the bedding. The bedding set she selected offered optional wall decals, but she wanted something nicer.

We bid on her request and she selected us to create two custom wall hangings based on the wall decals shown above. We had a few conversations and settled on the Jeep and Truck icons.



It was so much fun to take these cute images and turn them into heirloom art for her son. As it turns out the week I mailed these to the family - they were still welcoming home a new baby boy!

Our wall hangings are made with wool felt and are sewn entirely by hand. We'd love to hear from you and talk about how we can create a custom design for you.

Visit us at http://www.tinycupcakes.etsy.com or email us at sales@tinycupcakes.com

Evolution of our Felt Cupcake!

We tossed around lots of business ideas, and then we discovered felt play food. We were immediately hooked on the idea felt food and set off to try our hand at creating our own versions. Our goal was to keep our product original so we decided to create our own patterns. Not as easy to do as we thought. My first cupcake was too large, Katherine's was smaller and more along the lines of what we had in mind. My second cupcake was cute, but looked more like those great mini chocolate mouse cakes. The third attempt was too small and a bit boring.

We really wanted a realistic size and shape - easy for kids to hold. Although kids love icing the best (and that's usually all they eat), we thought a detailed cupcake wrapper was important. So we experimented a bit, and then found a process that worked for us and makes our cupcake look authentic. Our end result is fun for kids - soft, squishy, and a replica of one of their favorite foods. Plus we think it looks gorgeous with lots of ruffled felt layers of icing on top.

We used acrylic felt and fleece for our prototypes - we now have a great supply of heirloom quailty, wool blend felt that's resists pilling and will better hold up to years of fun.

This is just the beginning for us - we look to real desserts as the inspiration for our felt play food. The ideas are limitless and we hope you check us out again to see what we're baking up next!