Recent pinata orders

We've had a few orders recently for piñata messages, numbers and words. Including a few piñata numbers. Here's a picture of a pre-battered number 4 and a couple of birthdays that are just over a meter long (to give you an idea of size). We're pretty run off our feet at the moment with wedding season coming up, planning an anniversary party and just generally trying to keep well ahead of orders so that we can spend our free time working on a few personal projects.

Snowman pinata

This years snowman piñata. He's not quite finished yet but he'll probably have to do as is till next year as the orders are racking up and we have a party to organise for our youngest child. We're also hoping to get some more pics with a blue sky in the background before the snow melts! Here's a good preview anyway!

Depressing January project

We were recently contacted  asked to produce 21 piñatas. We're pretty sure this is the biggest piñata event in UK history - we can't see any others mentioned online.

It's kept us very busy over Christmas and new years but it's also been a lot of fun as well as quite a challenge!

We're now getting on with other projects including a giant woman, another camper van and a 5ft snowman, wedding flowers... not to mention the butler, and the next big furniture project. I haven't had much time for pictures or to upload the blog but watch this space!

The piñatas included
3 Raindrops
3 pigs
3 clouds
3 monday's
3 thermometers
3 calenders
3 smiley's that weren't smiley!

Make your own christmas pinata - no skill required!

Making your own Christmas present piñata is easy, cheap and a fun way to keep children of all ages busy this Christmas.

 All you need is;
# A cardboard box - I get a lot of packaging so I had a few saved up but you can generally get them for free at your local corner shop or buy them fairly cheaply online.
# Some stuffing - Suitable for the kids in question. This is for a family of boys, the eldest of which is 15 and the youngest 3, the stuffing also needed to be halal so I spent a while reading labels. Never knew there were so many ingredients in swizzles sweets. You can spend as much or as little as you like - from a few wrapped sweets from the local market to a whole host of flash goodies.
# Wrapping paper - you can even cut out and stick on pictures from old magazines or get your children to have fun decorating it themselves. You can even make them fluffy like a traditional piñata. 
# String or ribbon

Instructions
1) Fill the box with your stuffing
2) wrap it or decorate it
3) Add ribbon

Couldn't be simpler than that! I'm busy working and dealing with porley children this Christmas so I haven't had time to make the usual flash Christmas pinata's for the children I buy presents for so this was a quick and easy solution I thought I'd share.

Christmas orders.

We've been really busy with Christmas orders again this year. The ever popular Christmas pudding piñata's being outranked by little monsters. Which was quite surprising. We'll add new photo's when we've finally caught up with everything and dealt with the giant balls and assorted body parts! 

 

 

Russian doll pinatas

  Not only are there piñatas that look like Russian dolls,

we can also make one piñata that slots inside another!

Or seven in this case. We'll add more photos and information when the flower tower is finally complete.



We had to stand on a chair to get a picture from above it's that tall!

Marble pot.

This is our first project, made entirely from paper pulp (and marbles). We used some 'antique' and some modern marbles (140ish) as something interesting to set into the mush.

We were a bit impatient and managed to squish the first layer. It still needs painting. The whole pinata lady family were involved in the making of it.

Sorry this picture is so ropey there was a giant inflatable pink unicorn trying to eat out of it at the time. Out of literally hundreds of pics this was the best. One day we'll get around to takeing some more!

We built the base first and then built up the sides a layer at a time. We really wouldn't recommend this as a first project with pulp! We got to this point and decided it would make a nice ash tray and that we never wanted to see the blooming thing again.