Posts tagged: "Wooden Dolls"
Goose Grease Peg Doll Sale on Brickyard Buffalo
We are so excited to be doing a sale with Brickyard Buffalo! This sale is curated by the team of Small Fry, and we are jazzed to be involved. See below the items you will find there, at an INCREDIBLE discount! Fair Trade Peg Doll DIY Kit. ON SALE FOR $18. Buy them here. Sweet [...]
Goose Grease Peg Dolls, Fair Trade Made.
We love this video, and thought it worthwhile to share it again. This is one of the carpenters who turns our dolls which come from Colombia. The machine he is using is called a lathe, the wood is Urapán. You can see from this video that each doll takes roughly 3 minutes to turn, and [...]
Goose Grease sells Wooden Peg Dolls on Brooklyn Makers
Goose Grease is now selling a selection of wooden dolls and peg doll kits on the fantastic new online shop, Brooklyn Makers. Brooklyn Makers began as a blog, posting about Brooklyn products, and have just opened their doors to sell. We are delighted to be apart of it. Here also is a little blog post interview by Teresa [...]
Goose Grease Peg Dolls Featured on The Bump with Oliver & Adelaide
We are so grateful to Gary Osborne from Oliver & Adelaide for featuring us in his post on The Bump about Made in the USA products! These dolls come from our Fair Trade line of dolls // hand-turned in Bogotá, Colombia and the carpenter is paid FAIRLY // and we paint them here in the USA. [...]
Real Weddings: Goose Grease Cake Toppers, Wooden Peg Dolls
Shelli and Chris’ beautiful wedding was featured on 100 Layer Cake and Martha Stewart’s Wedding, and our wooden peg doll wedding cake toppers were included! They had a destination wedding in Positano, Italy. The amazing photos were taken by W. Scott Chester Photography.
The story of our Fair Trade Colombian Dolls
We just returned home from another visit to Bogotá, Colombia, with our arms full of dolls. Juan and I just wanted to share a few photos of the process. We work with a carpenter in a small shop, Torni Arte, who makes the dolls according to our designs. Here is a small part of the [...]
Teaching a Peg Doll Painting Workshop
I just came back from Virginia, where I taught two wooden doll painting workshops at Anytime Creative Childcare Center in Chesapeake. The children were delightful! We taught two classes: one for ages 5-8 and the other for ages 2-4. In the older class, we broke the lesson down into many parts. I first talked about [...]
Video: Making of a Fair Trade Doll
We thought it good to share this video again. Here is the process of one Dad doll being made, from start to finish in a small carpenter’s shop in Bogota, Colombia.
Fill your Friday with color
See these gals in our shop: Buy them here. A new addition to our Fair Trade doll collection!
Some recent Wedding Cake Toppers
Wedding season is upon us! Here are a few recent toppers we have been working on. To have your wedding cake toppers made by us, please fill out your custom form here. Email us for more info!
