A few months ago I bought a wonderful toy from Designist (www.designist.ie). It was a wooden elephant that connected to a trailer filled with wooden blocks. I had been looking for something to give to my 1 year old nephew who was just about to move to Boston. I wanted him to have a way to play with all of us despite living so far away. So I did some illustrations for him of the family to engrave on the bricks. (This is where the ever-popular illustration of Me and Mike came from)
In addition to having family members I also drew him a few vehicles and then popped on the animals form the woodlands series.
When I gave it to him recently he really seemed to relish the opportunity to really drool all over us without us protesting!
This little project was also a great way to observe how different woods give such different results when engraved, the more I work with wood the more I like it.
The wonderful toy was made by Soopsori http://soopsori.eu/
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