New websites from Merrily Toys & Crafts Ltd

March 2nd, 2010

After adding PlayMerrily Toys to our long standing Hama Beads website, BeadMerrily 2 years ago, we’ve gone up in the world quite a lot and now stock over 4000 products, from polymer clays to dolls and wooden toys, plus a huge range of baby toys.

Recently we’ve added a specialist dolls website JollyDollies to the family and we’re now thrilled to have completed the family (for now, never say never!) with an updated craft website at CraftMerrily, selling not just our signature Hama Beads, Fimo and Sculpey but also Fashion Angels Design Kits, Plasticine and wonderful paints from Reeves, Tulip and Inscribe.

Over the next few months there will be an exciting redevelopment of BeadMerrily and more activity on our Fimo Ideas blog too – we hope you enjoy our newly expanded family!

For more information about our company, please visit our Merrily Toys & Crafts Ltd information site, including a special support desk for all your queries!

Baby Stella has a Baby Brother!

February 19th, 2010

Meet Baby Sebastian (also known in some circles as Baby Sam!) a new baby brother for the extremely popular Baby Stella doll from Manhattan Toy.

Baby Sebastian from Manhattan Toy

Baby Sebastian from Manhattan Toy

Baby Stella and her brother are gorgeous plush dolls with cute toes, a tickly tummy button, soft hair and adorable outfits. With a selection of other dolls clothes and some very cute accessories, including a very beautiful high chair, Stella is a highly popular doll (not least in this house!) and Sebastian is bound to follow given the need for early years boy dolls.

Baby Stella High Chair

Baby Stella High Chair

Baby Stella doesn’t need to be jealous though; she has 4 gorgeous new outfits as well, including the lovely Ladybird Dress Up Dolls Outfit.

Baby Stella Ladybird Outfit 2010

Baby Stella Ladybird Outfit 2010

For the full Baby Stella range, see our dedicated Baby Stella section on PlayMerrily Toys. We’ve got a current special offer which will give you free UK postage if you buy any six items or more. And if you don’t like that, you can try our new dolls site, JollyDollies, instead!!!!

Hmm… baby brothers… I know a couple of little girls who quite like the idea of one of those – well, they’ll have to wait a bit longer and see!

BigJigs Rail – full range now in stock!

February 17th, 2010

We’re delighted to be stocking the full current range of BigJigs Rail Wooden Toy Train Sets & Accessories at PlayMerrily Toys.

BigJigs Rail has been an absolute phenomenon over the last couple of years and has quickly become an affordable and highly regarded wooden train track system. With really great designs and excellent prices, BigJigs Railway items are compatible with most other leading wooden toy railways and has a wonderful assortment of different buildings, track pieces and wooden train engines.

The runaway success of the range in terms of all in one wooden train sets is the great value 101 Piece Town & Country train Set. At under £45, this set has something of everything; track, trains, buildings and lots of trackside accessories to add people based play to any game.

In the railway buildings section, one of our most popular items is the beautiful Five Way Engine Shed. At only £29.95, this is fantastic value for money and a real delight to play with; lots of working part and a huge credit to the BigJigs Rail range.

Other great accessories include the BigJigs 25 Piece Train Track Set, a perfect way to bump up your assortment of wooden train track, the bestselling Red Stone Tunnel and any of the beautifully painted rolling stock which can be bought in sets or separately.

New Ethnic Empathy Doll Outfits from Rubens Barn

September 7th, 2009

As the UK distributors of Rubens Barn Original, Cosmos, Little Rubens, Rainbow and Linne Dolls, we are delighted to add the exception Ethnic clothes rage for the original sized dolls to our range.

These beautiful outfits come in boy and girl styles in Chinese, Muslim, Indian and African styles and retail at £19.95.

As an introductory offer, you can purchase your choice of Rubens Barn Original Doll (RRP £49.95) and any outfit for a discounted price of £59.95, a saving of £10.

See our full Rubens Barn Empathy Doll range ,plus all the clothing for Original and Little Rubens sizes, for more details.

If you would like more information on stocking the Rubens Barn doll range in your shop or on your website, please get in touch with us via the contact page on the main PlayMerrily Toys website.

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Say I know that! with EIN-O Science!

July 21st, 2009

Your budding Einsteins will be thrilled with our latest range of EIN-O Science Kits for kids. Perfect for the school holidays, these kits contain everything you need (with perhaps the odd occasional thing such as water or a seed to add in) to do science at home with the children.

From the pocket money sized kits to the large boxed sets with included DVD, there is something for every topic.

See what a customer thought of one kit by reading the review of the Colour Mixing Kit.

Dolls at Playmerrily Toys

July 21st, 2009

In the first in a new series of articles, we have produced a page with all of the dolls available for sale at PlayMerrily summarised by brand. We hope it wil be helpful. We have 11 different doll suppliers all with very different features and strengths and over 100 individual styles of doll. Definitely something for everyone!

Baby Toys & Comfort Blankets

April 29th, 2009

We’re delighted to introduce two new soft baby toy ranges at PlayMerrily Toys. Forming the core of our Baby &Nursery Section, both Kaloo and Moulin Roty are premier brands with quality and originality at their core. The two French baby product brands have been an immediate success with our customers.

Kaloo Baby Comforters

Kaloo Baby Comforters

Kaloo focuses on super soft premium quality baby comforters and first toys with matching nursery accessories; with the wonderful Pink Lilirose range for baby girls, the blue ranges for boys, the Pure & Dragee ranges for neutral pre-birth purchases or Christening gifts and the colourful Kaloo 1-2-3 citrus range, there is something for every baby and nursery. The Plume range is a snuggly, cuddly furry range in unusual deep colours and super soft (pictured above). Each range has doudou comfort blankets, chubby teddies, musical cot toys and activity spirals and most items come packed in exquisite hat box style gift boxes with secured ribbons to tie around them. The boxes are very much part of the gift and will make wonderful keepsakes, a perfect place to store all those important first memory items.

Moulin Roty Malo Comforter

Moulin Roty Malo Comforter

Moulin Roty are a very different by equally desirable set of toys. Also suitable from birth, their baby range includes a wide selection of characters and styles. Some of the most popular are La Grande Famille, including Julius the Dog, Amedee the Duck and Sylvain the Rabbit. These come in several sizes and also as hand puppets. Beautifully crafted, super doft and full of character, they make great pets. Lila the Mouse and Malo the rabbit have unique comforter styles in pink and blue, plus rattles and dolls to match the range, while Eduardo the Duck is a strong, scarlet and cream range with a musical cot toy, pram doll, comforter and rattle.

Mary Meyer Baby Gifts

Mary Meyer Baby Gifts

Our choice of these two brands is complimented by the delightful and highly original Mary Meyer range. A long standing popular baby gift range, Mary Meyer combines attractive an unusual designs with great value, hard wearing, matching toy and nursery sets. This years addition of the Cutsie Caterpillar and Mango Monkey sets have added colour and fun to an already great collection. From nursery and cot accessories to pram toys, clip on rattles, booties, christening gifts and more, they have something for every taste.

W hope you’ll take some time to have a look at our baby toys section. We’ve tried to include something for everyone, from traditional soft comforters, to wooden dummy chains to first learning toys. We think it is a great mix of hundreds of products and we hope you’ll agree!

Wooden Toys win the day!

April 18th, 2009

Our first day at Bonkers About Babies was fantastically successful! We were really pleased with the stand, which looked colourful and inviting and got lots of compliments.

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I can’t remember the last time i saw so many bumps and babies about but everyone who went past seemed to find something they liked with us. Particularly successful were the wooden Heimess Dummy Chains, which practically flew off the shelf. People also loved the Crocodile Creek Bibs and placemats and the Mary Meyer baby comforters were popular all day.

We’re looking forward to going back tomorrow and seeing more people; it was a great buzz to be talking to customers face to face for a change!

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PlayMerrily at Bonkers About Babies.

April 17th, 2009

We’re off to exhibit at the great Bonkers About Babies show tomorrow, a bit of a first for us as up until now there has never quite been time in the diary for making extra work for ourselves.

We’re very excited to be taking some of our great new brands to the show; Kaloo, Moulin Roty, Orange Tree Toys, Kidorable, Crocodile Creek and more. The stand looks great, really colourful and all i wish is that i’d got one twice the size!

If you are coming along, please pop by and say hello; we’ve got some lovely offers and giveaways and Cuckoo Lts, who have sponsored our stand, have brought some lovely specialss to dip into – plenty of bargains to be had!

Free Gifts when you spend £25 or more

April 16th, 2009

We are so pleased with our new PlayMerrily website that we have added some special gifts as a thank you for shopping with us.

If you spend £25 or more you will be offered the option to place this Baby Bath Colour Tint Submarine in your basket at checkout.

Free Baby Bath Submarine when you spend £25

Free Baby Bath Submarine when you spend £25

If you spend £50 or more, you can add a free 20cm Calin doll to your basket.

Free Mini Calin Doll when you spend £50

Free Mini Calin Doll when you spend £50

Don’t forget, standard UK p&p is free when you spend £100 or more.