Friday, September 5, 2008

NICE Site: The Toy Society

I received a wonderful email from Bianca last week, introducing me to her amazing project called The Toy Society. It's along the same lines as The Smile Project (which plans to drop 115 paintings in NYC in the upcoming week, by the way), and hopeREVO, where she started spreading some love around Melbourne by scattering adorable toys in plastic baggies with tags that say "Take me home, I'm yours".



Of course, as most nice ideas do, it spread to others who also wanted to participate in such an event. On The Toy Society blog, you can see details about each toy drop as well as messages from the finders.

I think it's a remarkable idea! Don't you? I have some little felt monsters that I made a few years ago and are just sitting collecting dust. They might be perfect for a Philadelphia toy drop! In fact, I have so much felt stored away, maybe I could make new little Operation NICE monsters with big smiles and "I'M VERY NICE" stitched to their bodies. Hmm, looks like I found a weekend project!

2 comments:

ShareWorldLove said...

This is great! I think you should do it too! I would like to do the same thing around my area, but I haven't found what designs I can create. Love the idea!

Julia

TRS said...

Oooh. I'm going to do this. And when I do I'm going add this site address to the card... in hopes they'll come here and I'll get to know who got it!!

Would that be okay with you? I don't want credit - I mostly want to be nosy (and know that it didn't end up in the trash)