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This toy shop is run by Paul. He sells Christmas-themed toys, such as holiday building blocks, Christmas playsets, plush toys, blind box toys, toys for long car rides to Grandma's house, and everything fun for kids during the festive season. This shop doesn't carry dolls or books, since there are other nearby shops in Christmas Town specializing in those. Come on in and browse for that special holiday gift to bring magic to a child.

Here is everything you need to bake festive Christmas holiday meals for your friends and family. There are Christmas-themed pots, pans, Dutch ovens, oven mitts, kitchen towels, bakeware, molds, spoons and spoon rests, and holiday-themed kitchen canisters.

This warm and cozy shop offers many different kinds of holiday candles. There are festive tapers, votive candles, glass jar candles, and LED candles. Some of the candles are fragranced with Christmasy scents like cranberry, peppermint or pine; others are flameless LED candles. There are red candles, green, white, striped, and pink candles. The shop also sells figural candles shaped like Santa Claus, angels, reindeer, holly and berries, and other festive shapes.

Shop here for dolls, dollhouses, doll furniture and miniatures. Many of the dolls here are Christmas-themed or wearing holiday garb. There are Barbies, baby dolls, plush dolls, soft dolls, rag dolls, fashion dolls, Polly Pocket dolls and playsets, and porcelain dolls. Many of these are for adult collectors, too.

Here are upcoming crochet crafting books for the fall and winter 2025 season. Keep your hands busy on chilly nights while creating adorable amigurumi crochet figures and dolls, or take on larger projects like crocheted blankets.

Here are the new memoirs, autobiographies and biographies coming out in Fall 2025. These books feature celebrities, including actors, writers, sports stars, music stars and other stars. Dive into an intriguing biography during cozy fall and winter nights at home by the fireplace.

Thinking of starting a small independent bookstore? Here are videos encouraging you, giving you tips, sharing cautionary tales, and being real honest about the process, struggles and challenges. I've also included some books and resources in this list for aspirational bookshop owners.

I just discovered the Amelin Archive company. Their products are so beautiful! The packaging on their candles, designs on their notebooks and tumblers is gorgeous. They use a lot of florals with a modern touch.

Here are beautifully packaged luxury candles from NEST New York. They're clean burning, have a nice throw but aren't overwhelming. They come in beautiful boxes and stunning glass vessels. I love the fragrance mixes. Here are my picks for autumn candles and holiday/Christmas and winter candles from this company.

I live near rainy Seattle, and we have long cold rainy winters to endure. In the evenings, we light a cozy fire, read books, put together puzzles, and do crafts while we watch television. Here are the new puzzles coming out for Fall/Winter 2025 that are tempting us! Pour a steaming hot mug of your favorite beverage, and challenge yourself with one of these jigsaw puzzles.

Cute and softly spooky little board books for babies about Halloween, monsters and autumn. Love how gently the spooky season is introduced!

I love spending dark, cold, and rainy autumn evenings cuddled up on the couch in front of my merrily blazing fireplace, watching Netflix and coloring in cozy adult coloring books. Here are some of my favorites coloring books for autumn!

There are so many darling recipes out there for making pumpkin-shaped bread and rolls. Usually they involve rying string or dental floss around the bread to shape it.Here are some of my favorite figural pumpkin bread and rolls recipes from blogs, Instagram and YouTube.

I love baking galettes - they're so forgiving! You don't have to have a perfect crust. They're a nice rustic way to get a delicious, comforting dessert on the menu. You can use so many different kinds of fruit, accompanied by interesting ingredients to make the completed dessert your own. I've compiled interesting galette recipe variations from several of my favorite food blogs and YouTube cooking channels. Enjoy!

Here are some beautifully packaged premium olive oils to choose from. They make fantastic host/hostess gifts, or birthday presents for the home cook in your life. Olive oil should be stored in a dark pantry to keep from spoiling. The fresher your olive oil, the better it tastes.

This company has the most gorgeous packaging of any candies out there! The candies come in little acrylic boxes. The company is doing better about having vegan and vegetarian-friendly candies. These are eminently giftable, and are sure to bring joy to the recipient. They come out with new over-the-top items every season.

Desserts with red, white and blue, stars and stripes themes. Bring these to a Fourth of July potluck and be the star of the party!

Here are the new Christmas-themed books coming out for babies and kids during the fall 2025 and winter 2025 publishing season and holidays. There are board books, picture books, sticker books, and chapter books full of festive delights. The books feature Santa, reindeer, snowmen, festive dogs and cats, elves, gingerbread people and other holiday themes.

Here are festive mugs to drink hot comforting holiday beverages out of. I have found really fun and cute figural mugs, plus more traditional mugs with Christmas themes. Don't forget the whipped cream!

Make your holiday table festive with novelty Christmas salt and pepper shakers.

The 2025 lineup of new collector and some of the playline dolls from the Madame Alexander Doll Company. There are baby dolls, playline dolls, and collector dolls. There are pop culture dolls, fantasy dolls, storybook dolls, and dolls made to represent different cultures or historical figures.

Here are vintage retro paper dolls from television shows in the 1960s and 1970s. The costumes are usually pretty colorful, funky and sometimes wacky. I've tried to include actual vintage items, not reproductions made for laser printing or PDFs. Have fun with these vintage memories!

Cute and sweet little plushies with a summertime theme. Jellycat uses the softest microfiber materials when they make their plushies. So cuddly!

Cute and soft plush toys featuring animals, foods, and sea creatures. These Apricot Lamb plushies are comparable with Jellycat. They mostly depict forest, barnyard or ocean creatures. The company also puts out quite a few food-themed plush toys.

Aurora's Palm Pals are little stuffed animals that fit in the palm of your hand. They're soft and cute and cuddly!

Laura Ashley came out with her China Rose pattern of blue and white floral kitchen accessories for romantic homes and cottages. It's a light blue on white pattern with trailing flowers.

I'm not sure I would do my entire kitchen in copper pieces, but I wanted to show you this amazing collection of housewares from Coppermill Kitchen. Besides pots and pans, they make candles in copper containers you can re-use later for jewelry; copper baking pans; barware; napkin rings; pitchers and pie servers.

Design ideas for a vintage style pink kitchen. We'll use some modern day appliances of course, and reproduction kitchen accessories. Here are our cute finds for cooks whose favorite color is pink! There are pink toasters, pink fridges, pink microwaves, pink towels, pink curtains, pink kitchen timers, and so many more cute products.

“White Christmas” was first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1941/1942. It became the best-selling song of all time (and held that record for many years). Here are various cover versions of the song, plus notes on the song's history.

The lyrics for this song about Saint Nicholas were written back in 1874, but it took a long time for the first recorded version (in 1949) to hit public consciousness. There have been many cover songs since, but modern Christmas albums by contemporary singers don't tend to cover this song. It's a bit unique. The lyrics often get changed in the part where children want certain toys.

This is my very favorite Christmas song to start playing the morning after Thanksgiving and onwards. I'll share some informative webpages on the history of the song, plus vintage renditions and modern covers of it. This holiday song was written in 1951 and first performed by Perry Como.

Cocktail recipes with sparkling wine, bubbles or fizzy water in them. Books on aperitifs, Prosecco and Cava, champagne, sparkling wine and low alcohol beverages. Also some fizzy Mocktails books!

My cookbook flipthrough videos showing you the insides of cookbooks about baking and making desserts. You can preview the cookbooks and baking books to see if they are of interest to you.

Here are the resources I use every day to find news and tips to share with my audience at CreatorInspiration.com. It's important to keep on top of what's going on in the content creation and social media sphere, so I watch a few videos every day to hone my creator skills.

Here are the food-related, food travel and cooking shows I'm enjoying this summer (June-August 2025). Some of the shows are new, some are old, and some are ongoing favorites.

Here are chic and colorful portable drink containers and ice chests you can bring with you to your tailgating party, the beach, a picnic or concert.

Host a chic summer party with cabana stripes accents!

If you love Christmas like I do, you might listen to Christmas podcasts occasionally (or often!) throughout the year. Here are some festive holiday podcasts I've enjoyed listening to. Some are about Christmas origins, others are about Christmas music, Christmas films, Christmas holiday traditions, holiday recipes and decorating tips.

Here are the new festive Hallmark Channel Christmas movies for the 2025 holiday season. There are 30 new movies in total, and of course the Hallmark Channel will repeat the most popular Christmas films from recent years as well. Here's our Countdown to Christmas schedule and movie info! If you go to the Hallmark website, you can download an app to help you check off the new movies as you watch them.

Throw this party on December 1st as part of "31 Days of Christmas Parties. Invite five or six ladies (or two or three couples) over to a grownup gingerbread house and gingerbread people cookies decorating cocktail party. Or alternately, invite two or three other ladies to bring one or two of their children apiece. It's probably best if the children are over six years old, so they can actually help create the houses and hold still long enough to do so. Anyway, this is a good party to throw early in the month, so everyone can take their decorated gingerbread house home and display it all month long. You can decide if you want to provide pre-built gingerbread houses for your guests to decorate, or if you want to all work together to bake and assemble houses. The guests you invite should all have nearly the same skill level so that any professional decorators aren't bored by the amateurs' attempts (lol). Perhaps you will work together to bake and then decorate gingerbread people cookies, or you might provide pre-baked cookies for people to decorate and take home.

Here are fun finds from Kate Spade's new collection for Summer 2025. I've included totes, crossbodies and clutches.

An espadrille is a style of sandal (whether high heeled, wedge, or flat) that uses coiled jute rope on the sole. They're distinctive, chic and classy, and here are some of my favorites this year!

A new lovely dress of the day (according to me) for us to peruse and ooh-and-aah over. I tend to prefer flowy and ruffly over preppy and modern.