Fantasy Grove

Also a little peak at these fellas mid-painting! All our hand painting is done with the same silicone used for our toys. It's carefully applied with brushes to the inside of the mold, and then the rest of the toy is poured before the painted portions hit the end of their pot life/working time. That way the painting cures with the rest of the toy and they form one seamless piece! The trickiest part of hand painting is avoiding drips. Silicone definitely doesn't paint on like acrylics or watercolors, it's more like carefully laying a substance like slightly thicker maple syrup in a place and coaxing it to stay with sweet words and threats, while being careful your brush strokes don't show through and disrupt the clean crips lines.

We hope you enjoy the work we've put into these hand painted toys, and you'll consider taking a sweet treat home with you soon!

If you're new to Fantasy Grove, you may be wondering, what makes them cows? Well, cow pours have become trendy in the indie toy scene in the last year or so, and usually involve one color for the shaft, and a split base of a different color with spots on it. There are a bunch of ways to do cows, some also have drips, some folks pour the spots and others hand paint them. There have been some amazing cows from our fellow indies with hand painted bells, or themed after delicious chocolate and strawberry milkshakes.

We love to hand paint our cow spots and do some out of the box variations, like our lavender cow, which had a little painted lavender sprig. Or neopolitan cow with a chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry feathered marble shaft. And now there's this Sakura cow! With a soft lantern glow shaft, a delicate pale purple sky base, and hand painted pink spots and cherry blossom branches. Cows are a great pour variety that lets us be creative, while fitting in with a cute aesthetic that can be found from a bunch of indie shops and allows folks to curate a whole cow collection.

If you think cow pours are for you, these will be available Black Friday at 4pm EDT. Maybe they can be the start of your cow collection, or the newest addition to your growing herd!

We're so excited for Black Friday this year, we've got so many things to share with you!

First our sale of course, which will begin with our Black Friday drop at 4pm EDT on Friday the 25th. New stock will be 15% off and old stock 25% off.

In addition to that, each toy will come with one of our micro seedlings! Micro Seedling choice will be random, BUT you'll get a different one for each toy over $25 you buy, up to five. This is the first time you'll be seeing micro Chonk, Changeling, and Amarok, and we have our Microlopes and micro Akappas too! So, if you happen to get five toys, you are guaranteed the whole set!

We will also have a return of our Gigantalopes, Giga-Changelings, and Gigantortoises, and new this drop our Giga-Amarok!

Our pocket size Basilisk will also be returning after a long hiatus!

And we'll have a special item for sale, our 12 Days of Squish-mas Advent Calendar! Twelve individually wrapped gifts could contain new Woodies, Seedlings, small frogs and bunnies, Logo Pucks, micro seedlings, our original 3" Woodies, stickers, and more! Each set includes individually wrapped bags labeled with days 1 through 12 and are guaranteed to have twelve different items (no duplicates!) of which there will be at least one Seedling and three Woodies.

Last but not least, our Woodies will return for sale! There will be three pack options, each pack with five specific woodies in random colors and firmnesses. Our new woodies are a bit smaller than our old version and have a gorgeous high gloss finish. They're tiny miniatures of our toy line up, and one pack even includes a yet to be released model!

And for our inventory, we've pulled out all the stops with hand painting, confetti, and inclusions, and we'll have a inventory drop we hope you'll love!

Our very first Tumblr post! Please excuse us as we adjust to this new platform!