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Bunny themed acrylic charms arranged in an egg shape.
Finished Chinese New Year Horse decoration. Horse woodcut painted red with gold decorations, including the simplified symbol for horse. Artificial plum blossoms adorn the string tied to its back.
Close up of a completed fleece Yeti pillow. Oriental Trading Company.
Display of two rows of tie pillows, the top row are Yetis, the second row are Christmas trees
Five candy canes from left to right, white with red, burgundy, and green stripes. Yellow with green stripes. Candy cane all red, purple, green, yellow, and orange stripes. Candy cane with lime green with whitish green stripes. Red candy cane with purple stripes (wrapping has Nerds mascots on it).
Candy Cane Challenge 2025 includes five different flavored candy canes of different colors and stripes, and an answer key. Contents are sealed in a padded envelope.
Sample knot board.
Poster with instructions on how to use the knot boards.
Fairy garden centerpiece in a colorful plastic bowl, featuring resin gnomes, squirrels, and assortment of other fall items.
Three lamps, left to right a fox, a purple cat, and another fox.
Othello board game setup.
Kizuna Spider-Man string doll. White string with red and pink marker.
‘Spidey’ string doll composed of pipecleaners, string, felt, glue, and marker.
Picture showing Spider-Man: Kizuna, Vol. 1 manga, a string doll, and some materials used to make it including string, glue, and a marker.
Gardening kit including three packs of seeds, seedling pots, seed sorter, and a watering cap. A sheet of instructions or gardening considerations.
Squirtle PRIXEL Press print in black ink.
Orange Charmander PRIXEL Press print.
PRIXEL Press showing stamp piece arrangement for final Bulbasaur print.
Bulbasaur PRIXEL Press print in green, black, brown, and gold ink.
PRIXEL Press with Venus Flytrap rubber stamp arrangement.
PRIXEL Press stamp print of a green Venus Flytrap and a red fly.
Twenty-five Venus flytraps on a sunny windowsill.
Shows PRIXEL press with three modular rubber type shapes to form the word "COOL" in red ink and a star shape in gold ink, pressed on a blank envelope.
Shipment of PRIXEL press and expansion module rubber types of different shapes.
Godzilla diorama: Godzilla vs King Ghidorah.
A selection of seven family board games on a yellow background. Titles include Keys to the Castle, Baffled, Pickles to Penguins, Lambada, Karate Grannies, The Crooked Crown, and Word Thief.
DIY Bat house for fall teen library program.
Screen cap of Pokémon GO trainer.
Completed LEGO set including a taco, watermelon ice-pop, a milk shake, and an avocado.
‘Cool Beats’ theme, summer ‘24.
Yours truly giving what appears to be a very important speech to a cohort of patient music teachers and faculty.
Twenty Pocket Operators divided into two 'fleets' of ten in red and blue. Each fleet had one unit in yellow for the instructor.
Pile of ‘Pony Bead Pride Bracelet Kits’
Squishmallows Superfight signage.
Silicone charm bracelets, poster invitation/instructions, lots of different charms.
HG RX-78-2 GUNDAM model. Box open with pieces.
‘Throw a Moth Party’ kit includes some gear and information to get families started.
Table Titans Club Dragon Forged: Sword of the Champion D&D Dungeon Club: Roll Call Dungeon Crawlers Academy: Into the Portal
Showcase filled with SNES games, Nirvana concert poster, and Pokémon cards.
Display case shows many different items from the 80s and 90s including Surge soda, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures, Goosebumps paperbacks, CDs, and more.
Stitch Design A Vinyl.
Stages of building a Candy Kebob. Marshmallow on a skewer.
Flyer/poster for the Seed Library.
Various Nintendo Switch video games library display.
Brightly painted parrot wood cutout.
Alebrijes inspired animal wood cutouts include (left to right) coyote, llama (or alpaca), armadillo, hummingbird, butterfly and parrot.
LEGO Minecraft bricks, loosely organized.
Amateur Birding/Naturalist kit contains: 1 Drawstring pack with reflective strip, 1 foldable set of binoculars (that you can draw on to customize), 1 Field Book journal, 1 Bic “Xtra Strong” mechanical pencil, 1 Birds of NY State checklist, “Why Birding/Naturalist”.
ReferenceReady brand knot cards, “Camping and Backpacking Knots.”
Programs to Go: ‘You’d Better Knot!’ program flyer. Contains information on kit contents and some book recommendations from our collection.
Animated map showing advancing goblin gang. Or maybe they were Orcs? Made using Canva Pro.
Pokémon diorama kit and materials.
Miniature Pokémon diorama featuring Zangoose and Growlithe.
‘Flipbook Animation’ Programs to Go kit with instructions, flipbook, pencil, marker, and artist eraser.
Composite image of Plus-Plus figures with a background using CanvaPro. Unicorn, Viking, Mermaid, Ogre, Dragon, Wizard, Fairy, Princess, Knight figures.
Promotional image featuring both the Yeti and Bigfoot Plus-Plus models.
Added “fairy garden” accessories such as resin owls, Halloween themed plastic vase fillers such as pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, fill out and complete the ‘Goth Garden’ aesthetic.
Floral foam in the base of a bonsai pot.
Poster/Flyer for ‘Goth Garden!’ teen library program.
Tuesday Night Magic flyer.