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Wooden Bead Loom
Wooden Bead Loom
This wooden bead loom is great for creating friendship bracelets and all sort of jewellery!
Ideas for colour combinations and patterns are endless.
Comes with a colourfully illustrated instructions on a wipe clean card that shows you how to get started.
I gave it a go!
Patients is a virtue.
The needle has to go under, over, under while you thread a bead in-between.
So you can see, as a beginner, it is not perfect weaving!
The tension on the string started to twist which means some of my beads were not sitting straight.
I didn't give up and kept on beading my multi-coloured friendship bracelet.
It will require some supervision for the younger kids or maybe just to help get them started.
But it is really cool to have a wearable bracelet as a end result.
The kit includes: 2 x needles, small bag of different coloured beads, wooden loom and string.
Loom Dimensions 15cm in length and 9cm in width.
Suitable for Ages 4 and Up.
Available in store at Shorties and online for $8.00
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Fresh Baby Gifts
Cheeky Little Soles shoes - $35.95
Wooden hand rattle -
Naturebaby Wrap - $29
Tinker Baby Wrap - $25
Hand-printed Owl - $15
Hide and Seek Bloomers -
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POP-OUT by petitecollage
POP-OUT Winter Wonderland by petitecollage
Petitecollage is a San Franciscan based design company making mobiles, toys to wall decals and stationary products. Where playfulness is at the centre of each design.
This POP-OUT Winter Wonderland is perfect for during festive season ahead!
There are 4 thick and sturdy pop-out cards. (Printed both sides.)
Each character has pieces that easily slide into slots for instant assembly.
POP-OUT is an eco-friendly product made form recycled stock and printed with vegetable inks.
Create a magical world of play and display with the POP-OUT characters.
Use them to brighten up shelves, desks and tabletops.
Heaps of fun and once finished playing you can re-use the packaging box for storage.
Dimensions for each page are 12.7cm x 17.8cm
For Ages 4 and UP
Available in store at Shorties or online for $15
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Book Launch for 'My Australian Alphabet' by Ochre Lawson
You are invited to come and join us to have your copy signed by Ochre Lawson!
Head into Newtown's local kid store Shorties on 537 King Street
Thursday 27th November, 6-8pm.
E for Elephant is out, and E is for
Echidna is in! The new A-Z of Animals and Plants,
Local artist Ochre Lawson releases new children's book 'My Australian Alphabet’
“The
inspiration for the book came after trying to find a book with Australian
content for my niece and nephew. Most children will know what a Zebra is but
not a numbat or quoll, and for that matter, it’s the same for many adults! Teaching
art to young children, I know they love animals and particularly Australian
animals, and so the idea was born,” says Ochre, “I am passionate about our
incredibly ancient and unique environment we have here in Australia and I am
passionate about educating our next generation to know about our country through
art.”
‘Shorties’ owner Celia Morris said “When Ochre brought in her children’s book of Australian plants and animals, I knew it was perfect for our store. Shorties supports handmade and handcrafted products made in small runs by local designers with all our clothes, toys and books and Ochre’s book was a standout in relation to being beautifully illustrated and educational”.
Ochre
will be sitting at ‘Shorties’ 537 King St, Newtown,
this Thursday 27th of November between 6pm and 8pm,
ready to sign your copy of
‘My Australian Alphabet’.
Copies of
the book will also be available for sale on the night.
The
book has been published by independent publisher ‘Windy Hollow Books’ and has
national release.
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Up in the Clouds
Joey Jelly Bean Top - $24.95
Kido Plane -
Saltwater Sandals - $69
Nogaravin Bunny Rattles - $25
Minti Shorts -
Ball -
Joey Jelly Bean Wrap - $34.95
Plui Cloud Bath Toy - $19
Tanabata Star Cookies - $39
Styled and Photographed by Ingrid
Mini Pollock
Munster Heart Splatter Overalls - $79.95
Littlehorn Tee - $29
Vilac Paint Tin - $20
Sketchpad - $10
Chalkables - $7
Coq en Pate Bag -
Beeswax Crayons - $19.95
Styled and Photographed by Ingrid
Haute Coutre Paper Dolls by Mon Petit Art
Haute Couture Paper Dolls by Mon Petit Art
French brand, Mon Petit Art Haute Couture Princess Paper Dolls includes five Princesses from around the globe, ready to shine with fabrics and accessories inspired by the fashion world. Gold and silver papers, sparkly stickers, hairstyles as soon as you open the box…are you ready for the fashion house runways?
The over the top Princess dresses are spacious canvases for any potential fashionistas or perhaps for any young emerging stylists!
The kit is skill-fully thought out such as the dotted-line templates for young children who are still adjusting to utilising their scissor skills. It also allows them to use a variety of creative mediums which will result in a mixed- media collaged masterpiece!
Hours and hours of fun to be displayed vertically on a cardboard stand so that both side of the dress can be seen!
5 x
detachable Princess Dolls to decorate!
1 x Dye Cuts
2 x Silk Paper (dotted-line templates traced on the reverse)
2 x Pages Stickers
3 x Sheets Paper
Catchin' Bugs
Mini Munster Playtime Tee - $34.95
Bug Catcher - $8.50
Saltwater Surfer Sandals - $69
Munster shorts - $59.95
Acorn Hat - $29
Rare Rabbit Sunnies - $15
Explorer Set - $55
Styled and Photographed by Ingrid
Jungle Beats
Coq en Pate Tee - $29
Ladedah Cockatoo -
Sunnylife Ukelele - $39.95
Sonny Boy Shorts - $
Saltwater Sandals - $69
Rare Rabbit Sunnies - $15
Handknitted birds -
Styled and photographed by Ingrid
Alphabetical Sydney Book
This is our Sydney, the brightest and best of it,
North to the south and the east to the west of it.
Bats and Cicadas, lawn bowls and the zoo,
This is our town. Let us share it with you.
A playfully and vibrantly illustrated book, created by Hilary Bell and Antonia Presenti, celebrates Sydney in all its diversity-from A to Z.
It features all of our favourite local places to go in Sydney and is a great gift for children whether they are still learning to read about Sydney or especially if they have already been to or seen the places described in this book such as Toronga Zoo pictured below!
Click HERE to read a review of Alphabetical Sydney in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Available in store at Shorties and online for $19.95
Available in store at Shorties and online for $19.95
Shortlisted
for Australian Book Industry Award
Hardback
Cover
56
Pages
17.5cm
x 26.2cm
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Brick Layer
Brick Layer Tee - $35
Playable Art Cube - $39
Sandy Feet shorts - $45
Nano blocks- Empire State Building - $49
Brikbag - $54.95
Acorn Darcy Trucker Cap - $29
Rare Rabbit Sunnies - $15
Styled and Photographed by Ingrid
Roll up, Roll up! Our new online shop is in town!
We are super excited to announce the birth of our new online shop! We can now offer you a much bigger selection of Shorties goodies, including the gorgeous new range of organic Naturebaby (pictured)
We'll be continuously uploading more and more products.
Check out our online shop here
Skeanie Leather shoes - $29
Naturebaby Stripe Wrap - $29
Ladedah Lion Rattle - $15
Quoits - $55
Hide and Seek Nautical Romper - $25
Ladedah Elephant Rattle - $15
Alphabetics by Little Gestalten - $32.50
Styled and photographed by Ingrid
And now for some more circus fun....
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