Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

We recently hawked our Mitchell & Dent wares at the Kyilla Primary School Fête and omigoodness, were we flabbergasted by the fundraising efforts of the folks involved. It was incredible. The fête and coinciding Celebrity Book Auction (40-odd celebs including the likes of Dawn French, Julia Gillard and Tim Minchin donated books, no less) raised something like twenty thousand dollars. It sure did make the soggy sandwiches, toffee cups, chocolate wheels and kewpie dolls of our childhood fêtes pale in comparison. It was the fête equivalent of super-charged kewpies with extra added cuteness, a bit like the ones from The Little Dröm Store.

thelittledromstore.bigcartel.com

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Emily Martin of The Black Apple is a curiosity peddler and a picture scribbler and the maker of this delightful doll of many doodads and disguises. Haven’t you always wanted to be a bandit or a bear?

theblackapple.etsy.com

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Imagine my surprise when I found out that my favourite one-of-a-kind high school English teacher from days of yore has hidden talents. She makes these one-of-a-kind Diddums dolls. She’s also a singer, which I didn’t know. Singing, stitching, Shakespeare – what a combination.

www.diddums.com.au

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Isn’t she? This is Ursa the Bear. I like bears, better than Goldilocks anyhow. I’ll never understand how that binge-eating, narcoleptic, petty thief got to be the heroine of the story. Designer David Weeks clearly prefers bears too.

areaware.com

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Mademoiselle Michelle just mentioned the Sylvanians and I’ve had a total flashback to the 80′s. My sister and I had the Thistlethorn Family and the Timbertop Family, along with the house where the lights really worked. Apparently they are collectors items now, if only we had kept them.

www.sylvanianfamilies.com

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