A cute dog slipping and sliding

Brian Pharoah fondly remembers playing with handmade wooden toys made by his grandfather. Pharoah started looking for toys reminiscent of his childhood and subsequently started an online wooden toy business called realwoodentoys.com. But will the CPSIA testing laws chip away at Pharoah’s wooden toy suppliers so badly, he will end up with a skeleton of [...]

I’m planning on bringing a small toy dog into our home. My husband just had the floors resurfaced and polished. I want a toy dog for the home. It will most likely weigh less than 10 lbs. Will these dogs hurt the floor? Or is it only large dogs?

See the full article on Etsy’s blog, the Storque. Toymaker Amber Dusick aka woodmouse has her wood shop in her garage in downtown LA. After the birth of her son, this one time farm girl from Minnesota became nostalgic for the toys from her past: simple, natural toys that would inspire creativity and imaginative play, [...]