Category: News

New Season, New Products (Sort of)

Towards the end of last year’s flea market season we introduced two new products:  Yardzee and LRC.  A little later in the year we gave toy trucks a shot at the Weaver Holiday Mart.  Given the success we had with both of those products we’ll be bringing both to the the beginning of this flea market season.  It’s been a busy spring.

Blood, sweat, and tears
Look, tiny wooden barrels
Someone was busy
Tiny truck
Cute truck
Well… Uhhh… it’s a truck

We’ll also be unveiling a brand new product:  Not so Giant Tumbling Blocks.  We had a lot of potential customers ask about a more portable version of our oversized wooden block game and this is what we’ve come up with:

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Still big, just less big
So nice and neat

Much like our Giant Tumbling Blocks, you’ll be able to customize the carrying tray to match your personal interest.

We’ll also have a few toy chests on hand.  The construction is essentially the same as our storage benches for Giant Tumbling Blocks; however, the toy chest features a hinged lid.  We’ve add a slow close hinge to ensure no one ends up with injured fingers.

First one complete
Elsa from Forzen
Classic Lettering

We look forward to seeing you at the Hartville Marketplace & Flea Market.

 

Getting Ready for the Weaver Holiday Mart

This weekend (November 12th and 13th) Weaver Industries will be putting on their annual craft show:  The Holiday Mart.  The Holiday Mart has “grown into one of the largest and most prestigious juried shows in Ohio” (their words, not ours).

We have no idea how accurate that claim is, but there is only one way to find out.

This Saturday and Sunday we’ll be selling our hand made wooden toys and games at the Summit County Fairgrounds.  This is our first trip to a craft show.  We really look forward to seeing how a new crowd of people react to our yard games and wooden toys.

As usual we’ll be selling our Giant Tumbling Blocks, Ladder Golf, Left Right Center, and Yardzee.  While it may be a bit too cold for outdoor games, now is a great time to give them as gifts.

We will also be reveling three new products: toy chests, trump blocks, and toy trucks.  While over-sized yard games will always make up a large part of our product catalog we are excited to expand into new product categories.

Toy Chest

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Wooden “TOYS”
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Elsa from Disney’s Frozen

Our toy chest features a high quality lid support that prevents the lid from slamming shut on fingers and hands.  Like the benches we build for our Giant Tumbling Blocks, our toy chests can be customized to showcase just about any logo or image you want.

Trump Blocks

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Trump dice featuring each suite and a no trump indicator

While Left Right Center and Yartzee have been a hit, we’ve had a surprising number of people ask about a small block to indicate what suit was called in games like euchre and 500.

Toy Trucks

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Three variations on a theme

With a name like Timber Toys it seemed like a good idea to actually have a toy of some sort in our product lineup.  The 2″ x 4″ trucks you see above are the first of many toys you’ll see from us over the next year or so.

We look forward to seeing you at the Weaver Holiday Mart this weekend.

It’s Football Season

Football season is in full swing and a chill is in the air.  This time of year means a few things for Timer Toys.  The flea market season has come to an end and the craft show season is about to start.  It also means we’ll be doing a lot less spray painting.  It turns out cold weather and spray paint don’t mix.

We’d like to thank everyone that stopped buy and saw us at the flea markets.  Regardless of whether or not you purchased something it’s always good to chat with anyone interested in what we’re doing.

The new products seemed to go over well.  Left Right Center was a hit (we sold out of that) as was Yardzee.  You can expect to see at least one new product from us next year (possibly two).  We’ll update our site with details later in the year or once we have something ready to show.

In November you’ll be able to find us at the Weaver Holiday Mart (craft show).  The show runs Novermber 12th – 13th (Saturday and Sunday) at the Summit County Fair Grounds Arena.  You can get all of the details on their website.  We hope to see you there.