04/25/2023
These folks make wonderful furniture, toys and dolls' kitchens! Last chance to buy from this family business.
Attention! Please share!!
Very Important Notice
We regret to inform you that due to circumstances beyond our control,
Elves and Angels will be closing within the next few weeks.
This will be the last chance for you to purchase one of our Heirloom Quality Toys.
We are offering our entire inventory for purchase until it is gone. If you have ever wanted one of these lovely toys, act now, as they won’t last long.
If you’re shopping for Christmas...buy it NOW!
Dear Friends and Loyal Customers,
It has been 35 years since we began Elves and Angels. What a story the walls of the Workshops could tell if they could speak!
My wife Susan and I actually began Elves and Angels back in 1972 when we made our first toy for our son Jeremy for Christmas. It was a simply designed Rocking horse , and at 18 months old, he loved it! Then, for the next 20 years we made wooden toys in our basement for our children every year at Christmas time. By then there were 8 children.
Then in 1988 we made our first wooden kitchen for our daughter Priscilla’s birthday,
and Elves and Angels was born.
What a ride it has been!
In 1994 we moved north to our farm in northern Maine with our very large family, and surrounded by our children and the beauty of nature, I felt it could not get any better.
After the fire of 2004, we rebuilt a beautiful spacious Workshop with the help of our family,
friends and neighbors. To work together with our children as they grew up, is a special memory for me that I hold very dear to my heart. All of us working together to produce true Heirloom Quality Products for children was my joy!
There were so many long hours around the holidays. We were tired, but pressing on to keep up with the demands of the season. There were Christmas cookies, hot chocolate and other snacks, and for me, lots of coffee. There was that ever present feeling of Oneness that comes from all of us working together, toward the same end.
Love of labor and a love of Beauty is what made Elves and Angels special. We have shared our lives with so many of you over the years, and many friendships have emerged and grown from our relationships with our customers, suppliers and shippers.
We have loved hearing from you over the years, and we are so thankful for all of your love and support when times were hard.
When we started Elves and Angels I was 38 years old. I am now 73.
I want to thank each one of you for allowing our products to have a place in your homes and families. I will miss this business and nearly everything that went into it. I am simply in love with wood, and creating beautiful things for beautiful children.
It has been our Life and our Life’s work.
We have suffered two devastating fires. The first in 2004 destroyed the Workshop, and the next last June, destroyed everything, both our home and workshop gone. We decided to rebuild and begin again. We thank you for your patience and support as we tried to rise out of the ashes.
We discovered during the past year, the cost of operating, the price of wood, and all the component parts, have all doubled or tripled. The availability of the very high grade of wood used in our products has become harder and harder to find.
At this point, it is almost impossible to find high quality clear Pine. This has created an ongoing problem, that we do not seem to be able to remedy.
It makes going any further nearly impossible.
We have decided to close Elves and Angels Heirloom Quality Toys for good.
As we end this season of life, I want you to know that we are ever grateful to all of you for making our lives so very full and very special. We will remember it always.
Sincerely David & Susan Smalley, & the Smalley Family
for Elves and Angels.
Elvesandangels.com
