The Giraffe aka Mr. Long Neck aka Stretch aka How’s The Weather Up There We just love giraffes here at the Bungalow. At our local zoo you can feed the giraffes a little giraffe cracker. Right out of the palm of your hand! How cool is that? Happy Bungalow’s giraffe is crafted from hickory, sanded […]
Introducing the warthog! Now, to be honest, we haven’t had a lot of demand for a warthog toy, but now that we’ve made one, people just love them. They are so darn cute! Real-life warthogs, [insert 80’s movie record screech] Q: Wait, where’s the warthog? I only see is a rhino. A: Well, you know, […]
Most animals are better admired from the far. The rhinoceros, weighing “a million pounds” and armed with “giant sword horns” is certainly an animal better admired from afar. Even without the exaggerated quotes from small children. This rhino toy was one of Happy Bugnalow’s first animal toys and still one of our most popular. We […]
One Simple Trick to Happiness You can’t flip through a family magazine, play a parenting podcast, or tune into a talkshow without being bombarded with advice, tips, tricks, and strategies to spend more time with your family and lead a happier life. Want to spend more time with your children? Have more quality family time, […]
Smell the popcorn, taste the cotton candy, and hear the calliope music filling the air! It’s a Three Ring Circus! – right in your home. The circus will always be in town with this fantastic wood play set. The children in your life will love the lions, tigers, elephants, dogs, ponies, and people. And become […]
Just because you make it, doesn’t mean they’re going to buy it. Say like you make 300 and some odd little toy train accessory buildings for your first craft show (that’s modestly attended by the way). Let’s say you make all these buildings. Not everyone wants to buy them. You can worry all you want […]
So we had a little incident here a few weeks ago; apparently you can have too much fun! A few hundred toys were gathered, creating a sort of critical mass of fun. There were a dozen or so rainbows emanating from our living room, and we’re pretty sure we saw a real life fairy. To […]
Today we throw it back to just about the first Happy Bugnalow toy ever prototyped. I think it was just about the first thing I ever made on a scroll saw. This was made when Happy Bungalow was just starting up. We were ordering a few pieces of new professional grade equipment, but still trying […]
Everyone knows what a porcupine looks like. All needles and gnarly sharpness. You know, like this: Except (as I’m guessing is the case in real life), such a creature rendered in wood doesn’t make for such a smooth experience. So in the interest of not making a 10 MOST DANGEROUS TOYS list, we smoothed out […]
Last time on Throw Back Thursday . . . We dug up an early prototype of a castle bookend. Well, here’s the computer model that preceded it. Pretty neat looking, and probably pretty fun too, but none of them ever made it into production (read more about why in the original post). I’ll ramble on […]
