The Antibland Chronicles

Homemade toys

  • Pinhole Press ABC Book

    Is it wrong to be 36-years-old and still have this intense need to make gifts by hand? While my love to convert cardboard boxes into play things like trains, pets, theater, and spaceship, is well know, I won’t lie that getting crafty for anyone other than my kids, makes me feel a bit silly and unsure…

    Chika Gujarathi

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  • Space Ship 2.0

    I have shared my amateur craftiness with cardboard boxes here before, when I’ve repurposed them into various kid toys including a pet cat and a spaceship (1.0). As an adult with a smallish house, I can’t stand the look of big, plastic-y, brightly colored commercial toys littered everywhere (and believe me when I say that like the…

    Chika Gujarathi

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    Space Ship 2.0

  • Homemade Toys – Blocks

    My perfectly happy childhood seems to lack many recollections of toys. I remember my stuffed frog (Froggy), my miniature kitchen set, and a doll name Skipper (I think she was supposed to be Barbie’s little sister). Other than these three things, I don’t think I owned anything that was bought from a toy store. Instead…

    Chika Gujarathi

  • We have a cat

    The day will come when Asha will look at us with her beautiful eyes and say in her sweet voice, “mommy daddy, Asha want a cat”. I picture it in my head everyday when I see how excited she gets on seeing our neighbor’s cat Ziggy. She waves hello to her. Talks to her in…

    Chika Gujarathi