The Snorfs are your friendly little home-gnomes to brighten up any place. They are small and quite easy to assemble so we believe we did all we could to have you build him a friend. And another one. Or fourteen!
And since we are design-savy, we’ve created many different colours to choose from. Your friends will be amazed about how magazine-worthy AND funny your crib looks like. We also made sure to hand-pick our Snorfs from all around the globe, because the interwebs simply makes a world small. You see? We try to make EVERYone a happy camper. We can not help it.
Don’t forget to share your adventures and photos with us.

Below are all the different Snorfs. Just click any friend for the template to be flying over to your browser in an instant. Ssnnorrff!

If you experience difficulty in choosing which one to be your favourite, we’ve put all the Snorfs in one image: click here.

Update:
-MaryAnne (UK) picked 12 Snorfs to help her out with Christmas.

There are a few legends around the Maneki Neko. She (or maybe a he) supposedly saved some rich guy’s life long long ago by waving him to go away from under a tree that got hit by lightning. Also there’s a story about a beheaded cat that brought the grieving owner luck after being reincarnated into a wooden statue or appearing in a poor woman’s dream with a good business-proposal.
Point is, since the 17th century this cat brings Luck, Health, Wealth and Love, so we felt the need to repay his duties by recreating him in the purest and delicate canvas of all: paper. May Maneki Neko keep on being our beloved good luck charm and live his paper-life in good health, prosperity and full of love himself. It’s the least we can do.

We have four Maneki Neko’s to choose from:
-Gold, for  Wealth
-Pink, for Love!
-White, for Prosperity
-Black, against all bad luck

Good luck everybody! Feel free to fill the commentbox with your good wishes for the world, or background information about Maneki Neko that can help us improve the kits 

In a roundabout way to make karmatical sense, creating a paper tree would be an interesting philosophical way to go. And honestly, we believe it does.

When Pirooz Kalayez from SanghaFilms asked us to help him raise money to fund his next indie movie, based on the contemporary novella ‘Shoplifting from American Apparel‘, it would be our way to gain some karma-kudos. The stars aligned quite right too: we LOVE cinema, the celebrated source-material by Tao Lin for the film shows us the life as it actually happens right NOW and around us (it’s very much about internet) and the whole project is small and independent, just like we are ourselves. Based on the tree-character for the movie, designed by comic artist Jeffrey Brown, we designed the easy-to-build paperkit to make up a bit for all the paper we’ve used the past years.

So, this paperkit is still for free, we only ask of you to investigate this movie-project (FB, Twitter) and if you like the whole idea to help Pirooz and his crew to actually make it happen. If you donate only $20 (or more!) you become a shoplifting Swami (which is a big deal!), feel established as a movie co-producer and get the paperkit, a schmancy unique T-shirt, the movie poster, the soundtrack of the movie AND ‘thank you’-credits IN the movie.  Wow, all this for about the same amount as parking your car for 4 hours here in Amsterdam.

Let’s do this! and show the world internet does make dreams come true. Maybe, if they get enough money, they might even have a little cameo for Brad Pitt, or Megan Fox! I surely hope so  
Update: since the movie has been funded everyone is now able to build trees. Thanks to Sangha Films: click!

On 25th of Januari a lot of stuff happened in the past. In 1348 for example, a strong earthquake stroke the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome. Also, on this exact same date in 1879 The Bulgarian National Bank has been founded and, in recent times, it’s the day of the first Emmy Awards being presented (1949), Idi Amin leading a coup becoming Uganda’s president (1971), MER-B landing on Mars (2004) and the invasion of Iraq in 2003… But we guess you didn’t know this: from today and this year on, it’s been presented as International Papertoy Monster Day!

Reason for this joyful event is the launch of the much-anticipated book ‘Papertoy Monsters’, curated by Brian Castleforte and published by Workman, already topping the list of children’s craftbooks worldwide. Obviously, we contributed to this book with two monsters: Grimp and Zwart, so get your copy before it’s totally out of stock.

Mind you: these are monster-sketches (duh!). In Papertoy Monsters, all the 50 (!) colourful monsters are printed on both sides of the sheet, pre-cut and pre-folded, so you only need to pop them out of the book to glue them together. It will not get easier for you. Ever.

The first kit of the new year is this deceivingly simple looking little owl to expand the bird-population in 3EyedBear’s universe.

We all know owls are one of the wisest creatures and this one certainly will be one day too. Thing is: she’s still very young and inexperienced, but she compensates that with a passion for reading thick books while you sleep. It don’t hurt to have her posted in your bedroom since owls hunt for little scary creatures by inborn instinct. She will watch over you.
Happy dreams everyone

(click one of the images to download Howie)

Collect them all! and adopt my chicken-brothers and -sisters too:
Owly, Otus, Hoothoot!, Red, Tunkuruchu, Shelbey, Lowly, Orly, Sophia, Brady, Octavia, Bubblegum, Charlie
This photo shows them all >>> click!

Edit: Thank you for all the lovely blog-title suggestions in the comment-box. We’ll go with Lling’s suggestion, so we would like to thank her in particular. We’ve adopted some names too out of humble appreciation for all your thoughts. 

Now let’s send some pictures of one of the owls and share how you are taking care of them. We would love to see the birds migrate all over the globe and will post the best ones in our Flickr-pool.

-Darla from delicious Bakingdom created 3 Harry Potter-themed owls here for downloading.