ABOUT US

Making handcrafted unique wooden figures

Having purchased many wooden small world play figures for my child I started making figures to teach them about Scottish wildlife, the landscape and its many stories as I wasn't able to find these elsewhere. 

I decided to start Storm Kelpie in order to bring these wooden toys to other children and households play too. 

Scotland has a rich history, important wildlife that needs more awareness and plenty of interesting myths to bring to life for children to learn about through play.

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A Storm Kelpie is another name for the Blue Men of the Minch, a type of Merfolk who live in the sea off the West coast of Scotland between the mainland and outer Hebrides.  I have a love of the sea in this area having been brought up sailing the waters on the west coast of Scotland and the brand needed to reflect this.

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Each wooden toy figure is cut out individually then shaped and sanded by hand.  The figures are then stained, painted and sealed using EN71-3 certified child safe products that are as natural based as possible to meet our needs.  This makes the creation of our figures a time consuming and very hand crafted process and we hope the recipients of our wooden toy figures will appreciate this uniqueness and find them as something to cherish.

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I really love sharing these creations with you.