Saturday, 15 May 2010

The LEGO World of Nathan Sawaya

If giving up a successful career in law that paid a six figure salary, to follow a childhood dream doesn’t spell passion, then I don’t know what does. That’s exactly what Nathan Sawaya did, but he managed to build himself another career brick by brick and now he sells his LEGO masterpieces for thousands of dollars.

Right now, Nathan has an inventory of 1.5 million LEGO bricks to use on his sculpture...

See the full story here...


Thursday, 13 May 2010

Cooking Toys are all the rave

Cooking Toys are all the rave: "
I just got back from the Housewares Show in Chicago. You may wonder what does that trade show have to do with toys?

Well, cooking toys have been...
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Organised chaos

So here we are on day one of Life in a Toybox...
... like most other days lately, it's hectic, if you ever thought starting and running an online business was easy, think again. After spending several weeks designing and setting up our online toy shop we have finally started uploading our product inventory this week.

Anyone who has sold items on eBay (which is were we started), will know writing the product listings is time consuming. Unfortunately e-commerce shops are no different.We have managed to get the first 100 products 'live' and are now dedicating several hours a day to upload the several hundred more toys we have in stock.

Next step... marketing!