I’m loving the soft toys at Zara Home Kids. Crochet, black, stripes, and metallic, aeroplanes, patchwork and more, they can put a serious bit of funk da funk in your baby nursery or the make delightfully, unusual gifts.

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These Kumpel Dolls come from the Comma Universe - yes the maker has a bit of a fascination with commas. Ei Kumpel is a UK designer based between the UK and Portugal and she does lots of beautiful felt brooches as well as these soft toys.

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And for those of you who aren’t into felines, I think Tommy Target has got a gorgeous face - I love his button nose and his sideways mouth. The prices at The Shadow Cat are in US dollars and prices start at around £5.50 for a print (yes she does those too) up to around £20.

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I’m quite a big fan of Firebox as they’ve got me out of a few sticky situations by providing perfect wow gifts for teenage boys (no mean feat I tell you!)… Super Snapsuit I think these look hilarious and make perfect gifts or are a fun outfit to have your bambino catch everyone off guard in. I reckon these will be very popular!

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I’m really liking Rice, a Danish company that is described by their stockists, Cloudberry Living, as “Alice in Wonderland meets hip granny - meets bohemian chic…” I can certainly see what they mean with the Happy Hippo which is available in three different flower prints.

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If you’re a Corrie watcher, you may recognise the “Roseanne” ragdoll on the right from the ‘Harveys’ sponsored ads. She is part of a collection of handmade rag dolls made from fabric and wool fair traded from Sri Lanka.

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The designers daughter even helps her stuff the toys and then they they do a “loveable test” which involves squeezing and cuddling them to ensure that they’re loveable…. I would tell you to stock up with the fab exchange rate direct with the seller at Etsy, but she only ships to the US…

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Actually I take that back…summer is supposed to be on the way and with sun comes barbeque. Fortunately your bambino won’t have to wait until then to have their own sizzling session with this soft barbeque set from Great Little Trading Co.

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These hand knitted egg and soldiers and little ice cream cones from Jelly and Blancmange look good enough to eat and will look great when you set up a little tea party or are placed in their little pretend play kitchen. The egg and soldiers are £3.99 and the cones are £3.25 from Jelly and Blancmange .

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Meet the Delingos Milkos (left) and the Delingos Rato, two of a strange, quirky range of soft toys comforters from France…. Delingos are certainly modern soft toys combining shabby chic, a mixture of cool everyday fabrics (rather than baby-ish fabrics) and breaking the mould by steering clear of traditional and going straight to crazy cool.

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