Tag: Ladder Golf

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.

Rogers

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After speaking with some of the other vendors at the Harville Flea Market (and Market Place) we decided it was time to expand our operation further east.  Hartville will continue to be a weekly stop for us; however, we wouldn’t want anyone visiting the largest open air flea market in Ohio, West Virginia, or Pennselvania to miss out on the opportunity to purchase backyard games at their finest.

Having never been to the Rogers Flea Market we didn’t really know what to expect.  As anyone who’s recently been to the Rogers Flea Market already knows, we were not dissapointed.  The market was bustling from early morning through most of the afternoon and into early evening.  Much like Hartville, there was almost always someone stopping by to play with the games, share a story about the games they made, or just trying to figure out exactly why we had neatly stacked a bunch of wooden blocks on a bench (it turns out not everyone knows what Jenga is).

This week also marked the first time we had our version of Ladder Golf on display.  The prototype had some errors in dimensions and the old golf balls we used had some people confused.  Overall the response seemed pretty positive.  We have some other products in the works.  You can expect to see those prototypes in the near future.