"Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true for everybody."
~ Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Spring Greetings From The Toymaker.

You are more than welcome to share this email with your friends and family.

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The Fairy Market

Create your own sweet shop out of paper with all kinds of lovely things.

Click here to go to the Fairy Market

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" Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
- W.M.Thackeray

The Toymaker's Saint Patrick's Day Page

All the paper toys for Saint Patrick's Day from the last ten years

Click here to go to the Saint Patrick's Day page

 

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Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels.

But their magic sparkles in nature
- Lynn Holland

 

What cheers you up? I like drawing in my sketchbook of course and making toys. I've also like to bake bread and cakes. I think my current obsession with sponge cakes has inspired this month's Fairy Market. Here's the link to an almond pear cake I made this morning...

http://thetoymakersjournal.blogspot.com/2014/03/almond-pear-cake.html

Do a little something every day that makes you smile.

Best thoughts,

http://www.thetoymaker.com/

"O terque quaterque beatum”
We are three or four times blessed.

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