Make your advent calendar

Wooden chest of drawers is a very simple small furniture made of untreated wooden boards (solid wood and plywood). Since there are 24 drawers in different formats, it lends itself as an annually reusable Advent calendar. You can design the untreated wood in many ways. For example, you can glue, varnish or paint it with acrylic paint. The drawers have enough clearance to the drawers and are not particularly deep, so they do not jam.

These rectangular containers are handmade out of very sturdy cardboard and are covered inside and out with brown recycled paper (colour may vary). They can be painted on (with watercolours as well), glued or just used as they are - they have a very clean look just with the paper covering.

The rectangular cardboard boxes are handmade from sturdy cardboard and covered inside and out with white paper. They can be painted (including water colours!), glued or just used as they are as their paper covering has a really clean look.

The dimensions of the individual boxes in the sets:

Set of 3 square boxes (h x w x l): 30 x 75 x 75 mm, 40 x 95 x 95 mm, 50 x 115 x 115 mm

Set of 5 square boxes (h x w x l): 60 x 145 x 145 mm, 75 x 165 x 165 mm, 85 x 190 x 190 mm, 100 x 215 x 215 mm, 115 x 240 x 240 mm

Set of 5 rectangular boxes (h x w x l): 45 x 95 x 169 mm, 70 x 125 x 204 mm, 83 x 155 x 228 mm, 95 x 184 x 259 mm, 110 x 213 x 290 mm.

These rectangular containers are handmade out of very sturdy cardboard and are covered inside and out with brown recycled paper (colour may vary). They can be painted on (with watercolours as well), glued or just used as they are - they have a very clean look just with the paper covering.

These white matchboxes can be decorated by means of gluing paper, cloth or film to them. Stamping or drawing on them with felt pens are further possibilities. They are a versatile and cheap handicrafts material for children or can be used by them as a small coffer for storing their “precious” belongings. For adults, they can serve as small, individualized packaging or a simple advertising medium that does not necessarily have to be filled with matches. In the weeks before Christmas, parents can fill them with Smarties, marbles, Lego bricks, stickers or other little interesting things and – voila – you have, even in its unpainted original form (maybe you should check out the first sentence above!) - an Advents Calendar.

The set with 24 boxes offers everything you need for a quickly produced DIY Advent calendar, for example. The practical boxes are already glued together, so you only have to unfold them before they can be filled individually. Measuring 4 x 8 x 10 cm, the boxes are the perfect size for little surprises.

The Dymo Omega embossing label maker is solidly made and can be used on a daily basis for any number of useful purposes related to labelling. The tapes stick in place reliably and stay there; i.e. they do not fall off by themselves like a lot of other cheaper versions. The embossed characters are clearly recognizable and those results do not diminish even after much use.

Please note: The way the embossing of the characters into the self-adhesive tape works in the device is that there is a positive stamp on the underside of the tape and a negative stamp on the upperside. These different stamps are arranged on two wheel discs that are turned by hand when you are making your selection of one of the characters. If it should happen that the two wheel discs do not move in sync during this process, the device will no longer emboss correctly because the negative and positive stamps no longer belong to the same character but instead are displaced in relation to one another. The two wheels, however, can indeed be brought back into sync quite easily by hand without damaging your device. The lower disc has different lay-outs for the numbers and letters that are all equidistant from each other. Only one of these many fields is somewhat wider, the one that belongs to the symbol "scissors" which is the cutting-off function. At that position it is easy to see if the two wheel discs are indeed in sync.

"Stamps turn the smallest piece of paper into something special," says graphic designer Katja Kücherer. She's designed the simple and very graphic miniature motifs for every occasion. The stamps are made exclusively in Germany.

To have fun for a long time, you should stamp the rubber on a damp cloth after use until there are no more color residues.

From the idea, this limited set of watercolor paints is designed for watercoloring urban motifs and landscapes. You will find here a compilation of colors that are particularly suitable for urban sketching. If you are still missing colors that you like to use on your forays through urban or rural areas, you will find space in the set for up to six additional colors that you can add individually.

Horadam by Schmincke is a solid watercolor paint of the highest artist quality, which is available in many brilliant, harmoniously coordinated shades. The color impresses with its good solubility (even when already dried) and optimal color release even on sensitive watercolor papers. The color is suitable for beginners and advanced artists alike.

The hiding power of the paint depends on the layer thickness and the pigment used. At Horadam, the scale ranges from glazing to opaque. Although the color is relatively light-resistant, you should not expose watercolor paintings to direct sunlight for long periods of time because of the mostly fine color application and, if necessary, apply a UV protection varnish.

The Berlin Edition is the result of a collaboration between Modulor and Schmincke. The concept, the development and the design of the product were a stimulating collaboration. For us, the icing on the cake is the illustrative watercolour by our employee Regula Neeracher on the sleeve.

An ordinary card game becomes something very special: four fantastic art movements replace the four usual colours heart (Pop Art), spade (Surrealism), cross (Impressionism/Post-Impressionism) and diamonds (Abstract Expressionism).

Includes 52 playing cards with images of the great stars of the art world - including Lichtenstein and Hockney in Pop Art, Monet and Renoir in Impressionism, Pollock and Rothko in Abstract Expressionism, and Dalí and Kahlo in Surrealism - and two Jokers (Picasso and Matisse).

Select photo(s), print, glue, be happy, repeat! It's that easy with the Polaroid Hi-Print 2x3. The mini photo printer prints your favorite photos wirelessly from your smartphone, thanks to its pocket size, wherever you are. This works via Bluetooth and the Hi-Print app, with which you can edit your pictures as you wish, add filters, frames, or emojis. In 50 seconds your picture becomes powerful, lifelike, and high-quality printed on self-adhesive photo paper. Charging via micro-USB cable is also quick and easy. The photo printer is fully charged in under an hour. One charge is enough for around 12 pictures. Now you can capture anything and everything. Let's go.

Good to know: The photo paper is available separately and is not included in the scope of delivery. The photo printer is compatible with iPhone 6s and newer models with IOS 12.2, as well as Android smartphones with Android 7 or newer.

Giddy-up! The frog's cheerful up and down movements provide action wherever the nostalgic-looking animal is let loose. The movement is wound up uncomplicated with the permanently installed key and off it goes.

The age recommendation for the frog made of sheet metal is 14 years.

The French-made Sennelier Acrylic Paint Abstract you can apply both with a brush and with the painting knife. Its high pigment concentration ensures a convincing opacity and a creamy-pastose heavy-body consistency. The paint is pleasantly easy to apply on numerous substrates. The structures of the paint application remain visible.

The innovative packaging is extremely robust and, for example, more pressure-resistant than classic tubes. Since no air can get into the soft pack from the outside, it also ensures optimum preservation. The fact that the color is visible from the outside makes it easy for you to choose.

Interesting for you: The range includes many monopigmented colors. This makes your individual color mixtures particularly pure.

A lanyard from Sminx in a Modulor edition? Of course, the result is typical Kreuzberg: colorful, lively and practical!

Whether worn decoratively around the neck or casually hanging out of the pocket: The braided rope keeps your keys safely together. With separately available accessories, it alternatively puts your cell phone on the chain, equips your chest bag with a new strap or keeps your pens handy.

Like all Sminx products, the Modulor Edition Smart Strings lanyard is produced fairly in a social institution in Berlin. Since most of the work is implemented manually, there may be variations in details such as small pressure marks caused by pressing connectors tight. They have no influence on the durability of the products.