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Armadillo Dreams {giveaway!}

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Today’s giveaway is from Armadillo Dreams!

Armadillo Dreams is a husband/wife business run by Dustin and Amanda Cowell.  We own a home in Redmond, Oregon where we raise our family, run our business, raise backyard chickens and enjoy gardening. You can learn more about us, our family, and our activities by visiting our blog Wild Armadillos.

beesArmadillo Dreams makes waldorf inspired high quality handmade wooden toys. We have handmade wood toys for kids of all ages including baby toys, toddler toys and kids toys.  All of the handmade waldorf toys we sell are made from natural organic materials, friendly for little hands and handcrafted with love! We believe it’s important for children’s toys to be handmade toys that they can dream, imagine and play with.

 

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Some exciting Armadillo Dreams news!

Starting at the beginning of August 2013 we decided to change everything in the shop to being “ready to ship” vs. our old “made to order.”  This offers the major advantage to our customers that all of the toys shown in our shop at any given time are all in stock and ready to be shipped out in 1-2 business days vs. our previous 7-10 business day processing time.  There were times in the past (especially around the holidays) when our made to order times would be up to 12-14 days.  We decided after doing that for two years that we would rather only show toys that are ready to go and offer our customers much faster shipping times.  This does mean that our entire 200+ toy line up won’t be available at all times due to popular items selling out.  When toys sell out we will be working hard to get them back in stock soon.  We will also be working over the coming weeks and months to get more toys in stock in general.  At this moment there are about 50-75 toys in stock, but we will be working to get that back up to the 200 line up.  We will also be posting to our Facebook page when toys are restocked or when new toys come out, so be sure to “like” our Facebook page. That way you can get them before they are sold out!

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Another exciting bit of news is that we are preparing to release our 2013 Christmas line up in September.  We are currently planning 14 toys/sets for the Christmas line.  It will be made “ready to ship”, so there will be limited quantities this year.  We will be announcing Christmas toy availability on the Armadillo Dreams Facebook page in September, so keep an eye out!

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For today’s giveaway we are offering one Small Things reader the above pictured rainbow dragon. We ship anywhere in the world.

For your chance to win, leave a comment on this post.  And because I really don’t want you to miss out on Armadillo Dreams restocking news, especially if you are hoping to purchase one of their beautiful new Nativity sets, you can receive a second chance to win by “liking” their Armadillo Dreams Facebook Page.  Just come back here and leave a second comment letting me know that you have done so.

Comments are closed, and the winner is Melissa L.  “A great giveaway opportunity! The Christmas line looks like it will be great. Thanks for the chance to win!”

edited to add:  Dustin is offering 10% off purchases made through September 6th with the coupon code “ginny.”  It is good in both the main Armadillo Dreams shop, and also their Etsy shop.

Thank you, Armadillo Dreams!

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  6. I love the farm set, I am hoping to get something like that for my son for Christmas! I will be watching the Facebook page for updates!

  12. I absolutely love the toys we have bought from you guys!! I think it’s amazing that you’re now doing ready to order that’s excellent for birthday presents and things like that which would need to arrive quick. I found the giveaway on your fb page 🙂 I already liked that! too bad there is no love button!! We need to add this dragon to Pandora’s collection!!

  16. The dragon is adorable! Can’t wait to see the rest of the Christmas line, the nativity set is beautiful!!

  29. I love Armadillo Dreams! And that dragon is so precious. I ordered a three kings set to supplement our Nativity set when they had their big sale a month or so ago!

  33. Your monthly “secret gift from the faeries” that we got on ebay is such a treat. Every handmade piece is cherished by our son. They sit on a special shelf so he can watch them each night.
    Your hand work is amazon and we are very grateful for your hard work!!
    Thank you
    Rikki Bogen

  36. I love it.

    Random suggestion, though, I never remember to come back and check. Is there any way you could post somewhere who won? Just a random thought…

    • In addition to posting the winner here, I always email the winner as well, so there’s no chance you’ll miss it if you win!

  37. Put in our first order for one of the Christmas sets a few weeks ago…can’t wait for it to arrive.

  46. The wooden toys are lovely. I have 9 great nieces & nephews & 2 more on the way so these would make wonderful gifts for them. Love the dragon. Thanks for the chance to win.

  50. Lovely! Oh my–my child is getting a little old for these toys, but I know lots of families I could pass this on to. Beautiful!