New Location at Kidult

Little Binky has found a new home at Kidult (Pacific Mall unit A18)! A smaller store but very friendly staff, providing us with more services. Drop by when you are in the area, periodically we have new felted animal members. If you haven't seen your favourite animal yet, send us an email and we'll see what we can do!

Move Move Move Busy Busy Busy

So we were in the middle of moving into a bigger condo while getting the news that Gagoo Box at Pacific Mall would be no longer in business as of tomorrow (Feb 1st). @_@

So Little Binky's little store shelf will move too. We are currently looking for another location for it, maybe at Pacific Mall again... even though our new condo is soooooooo far away from the mall. Any good suggestions?

This is also why we haven't been able to update this blog (we have lots more little felting animals added to the collection!!)... we have been so busy looking for a new home, selling our old home, fulfilling custom made orders, Christmas, Chinese new year, parties ... ... ... ... and being lazy... and now finding a new home for Little Binky. Anyway, hope to bring you some good news very soon!

May the Year of Rabbit brings you good health and lots of joy. Be kind to the buns!

waaaah what a blast

First of all, we want to say thank you to Rabbit Rescue for hosting Bunfest! We had an awesome time meeting tons of bunny lovers and their fuzzy family members! We want to thank those of you who visited our booth, with lots of squealing, laughing, oooh-ing, aaaaawww-ing, heartbeat-raising, OMG-ing, "cool"-ing and even "fainting". On a personal note, seeing all those reactions from you made me feel that building my finger calluses were worthwhile! Any sale was just an added bonus.

We are looking forward to attending Bunfest 2011 and seeing everyone again, and we hope to meet new bunnies and bunny owners next year!

Little Binky coming to Bunfest

This will be our very first event! Little Binky will be participating at the Bunfest 2010! It's a fundrasing event for Rabbit Rescue, and we will be one of the vendors! We are currently very busy making lots of cute blankie-bunnies and felt'n love charms to show off (and sell) to the public. Come down on Sunday, September 26th to check out Little Binky products. Plus, you can meet lots of cute bunnies; some brought by attendees, some available for adoption. Click on the Bunfest logo above to visit the official Bunfest 2010 website for directions and events schedule.

Little Binky's first interview

Little Binky was interviewed by Ming Pao's Saturday magazine! The article was published on August 7th, 2010. For those who can read Chinese, here is a scanned copy! Sorry for the poor quality, we are still waiting for the official pdf file.

Product list page

Here's our product list page! Sorry that it took so long!! There are still a few products and pictures missing, but it's a start =P

We now have additional colors of Blankie Bunnies!

From left to right: (top row) Green Tea, Vanilla, Blueberry,

(bottom row) Rum Raisin, Sakura and Taro

We are still in search of material for Chocolate and Coffee!

New Location!

Little Binky is no longer providing items through Eva's Patterns. Instead, we are now showcasing most of our crafts at Gagoo Box, unit E31 (Pacific Mall, Toronto). Come by often to see our new products!

Blankie Binky Bunny

Blankie Binky Bunnies are new and improved towel bunnies, made of microplush blanket for extra softness! There are now Vanilla Mochi (white) and Blueberry Mochi (baby blue) available for purchase. We are still searching for more colours - Strawberry Mochi should be next!

mee mee!

After WEEKS of needle stabbing (from time to time I couldn't feel my fingers) this giant sheep is added to the family! She is about 19cm tall!! And I swear to myself that I will not make any needle felting sculpture this big ever again! But a smaller version, less then the size of the giant's feet, is now available as a cell phone charm.

How needle felting works

It still amazes me how simple it is (but time consuming):

wool		needles
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that's it, fold the wool, poke it with the needle and ta-da















well, maybe add a few accidents if you are not careful! Do not watch TV while doing needle felting!
Here's a video to show you how to needle felt a pumpkin in detail.

My first (& 2nd & 3rd & 4th...) needle felting project!

Apparently needle felting has been around for quite a while but I've only heard about it 2 weeks ago (so slow...) A few days ago I finally got a hand on some materials and here are my results! Are they cute or are they very cute?!

my very first needle felting sculpture - baby penguin (front)

then another smaller version was born

then more and more penguins were born...

and another sea creature... (baby seal just in case you don't know what

it is)

and lastly, do you know who this is? We are still following Bleach, and my hubby wants to buy a plush Kon. So instead of spending the money, I made him a mini one sitting on top of the computer now!

Rabbit Rescue

Since we love bunnies so much, we are proud to announce that 10% of all sales will be donated to Rabbit Rescue, an Ontario based charity dedicated to finding new homes for domestic rabbits that have been abused, abandoned or neglected. Rabbit Rescue takes "last chance" bunnies from regular animal shelters finds homes for hundreds of animals each year that would otherwise be euthanized.

Our dear departed Abby was adopted from RR.

Little Binky made it to Etsy! (and facebook)

We set up a shop at Etsy!! We have wanted to do this for a long time but it was such a hassle to determine a shipping charge. @~@ At the moment we are still trying to figure out how to pack a Mamemaru product so that it is safe for shipping, so we are only selling those by request and for pick up at Pacific Mall.

It's surprising to see how expensive it could be to ship internationally! According to Canada Post's online tool, a small package, 0.5 lb, cheapest way to ship to Hong Kong would cost over $30!!? That must be mistaken!

豆丸 (Mamemaru) Series

豆 = bean (like edamame), 丸 = round/circle. All of our polymer animals are about 1.5cm long, small and round like beans. We make animals like bunnies (of course!), penguins, goldfish, little chicks, bears, turtles, seals, bees, ladybugs... etc etc. Very difficult to list them all here but I'll try to put as many pictures as possible on the slideshow (see right).

Here's some info for the "mini aquarium" above:
handmade goldfish (many colours available) and starfish with ploymer clay

Jam jar size: diameter 4cm x H:5cm
goldfish size: approx. L:1.5cm

PS: This cat is Jiji from Kiki's Delivery service. We bought it from Ghibli Museum (Mitaka, Japan) and it's not for sale ^^

Location of sample bunnies

Towel bunnies finally made it to the Pacific Mall! Check out "Eva's Pattern", a clothing store located on the upper level of the Pacific Mall (Markham, Ontario), unit M-20; the store owner has been kind enough to let us display and sell our towel bunnies (yay!!!). Drop by if you are around the area! This will also be the location where our craft could be picked up, for any client who wants to save shipping!