Adorable handmade toys

Before starting Tinywarbler Designs, Kate spent years working in office after office, trying to find a good fit. "After awhile, I got tired of looking at four walls in a cubicle," she shrugs. So in 2003, Kate left the corporate grind to explore her creative side and began working at a jewellery design studio.

It wasn't long before her hands were itching to create something of her own. "I started playing around with fabric I had at home ... and the next thing I knew I'd made an elephant!"