We just updated the main page with a new Halloween feature. Witches, ghosts, bats, pumpkins, leaves, and more! Pirates are popular during Halloween so we added a pirate themed subcategory.
Most of these items are cutouts. This means that if you drill a tiny hole, you can add a string and hang them on your Christmas tree!
Below, a picture of the pirate themed cutouts we offer. Includes mermaids, alligators, whales and Captain Hook’s hook.
I’m always looking for new combination possibilites and came across this new combination of 3 items for a trinket box.
The new trinket box is… our 2-1/2″ tall wood candlestick holder. It has a deep 1-1/2″ hole, much deeper than our other candlesticks which usually stops at 1″ deep or so. This makes it useful as a trinket box while other candlesticks has no room.
I noted this depth then looked for something that would work as a lid. Turns out the 1″ round bean pot candle cup worked very well… if placed upside down into the larger candlestick holder’s hole. It already has a hole in the bottom and a handle was needed. Our wood tie peg happened to fit this hole perfectly! So that’s three items you can combine to make a new trinket box! Glue is the only thing needed plus paint or whatever you like to decorate it.
Here’s a picture of the combination.
I was surprised on how well that little candle cup worked as a lid. Other handles are possible but drilling out the small candle cup bottom hole is necessary for these different handles. I will post pictures of these later in the future.
This would work best with really tiny stuff – less than 7/8″ or so. Or for spices, salt, etc. The space is only about 7/8″ x 7/8″, circular. A 7/8″ wood ball fits in the space perfect with almost no rattling with the lid in place.
For today’s blog post I’m going to show you what the wood people peg dolls look like with hats made for dolls. We have hats made from straw and black felt materials. The smallest straw hat – the 2″ version – seems to work the best of all. The smallest black felt hat is a bit too large but may work well if you add hair to the peg doll.
Check them out below!
I really like the 2″ straw hats for the people peg dolls! Looks great to me.
That’s right… we have mini wood flower pots. Add these to the top of the wood people peg dolls and you get pilgrims! Paint the flower pots black. Or you can paint them in any colors – there are conical helmets in history… Excellent for soldiers.
Check out the various pictures. Click or hover the cursor over the pictures to see additional comments which includes the model names of the items. The wood peg dolls below are either the #20A or #20 wood man peg dolls with various sized flower pots.
Below this are all lady peg dolls with flower pots. The wood peg dolls used are the #21A large lady peg doll, #21 lady peg doll, #22 lady peg doll, #21B lady peg doll, and the #1002 girl peg doll.
The flower pots can be glued on directly to the heads but if handled lots… would be more durable to drill a small hole in the head then glue in a short dowel, wrap that with cloth, cotton, etc… then glue the flower pot onto that. All flower pots have a 3/16″ hole in the bottom… perfect for our 3/16″ short dowels. Some drilling will need to be done (hole size varies slightly on the flower pots).
While going thru my wood people peg accessories project… I found out that the wood doll pin stands (used with the doll pins) can be used with the people pegs. Some are especially nice – even looks like a dress in some cases… Some can look like a crown. I only used the angled style wood doll pin stands in the pictures because… I forgot about the rounded style!
Take a look at the pictures to see how they look like. Hover the cursor over each picture to read the comments. The first one is my favorite one – #1002 wood girl peg doll with the #3075B-A wood angled doll pin stand. That one looks interesting and could work as a nice game piece!
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