Animal jewelry: featuring the giant anteater!

This giant anteater jewelry comes in colors. Featuring the signature bushy tail and long nose, our stylized yet highly recognizable anteater is a symbol you can wear as a necklace (shown here), as a pin or as earrings. The necklace and earrings come with your virtually unlimited choice of bead colors in shapes chosen by our designer. For the body of the anteater, choose a color from our drop-down menu. This popular design is affordable and simple to order. Come see our anteater jewelry at Tapir and Friends Wildlife World Animal Store! You can also call us toll free at: (888) 325-3179. If you have any doubts about buying online, see our customer comments. After all these years, we're just beginning to collect them for you on our blog. Thanks for visiting!

Dog Jewelry - Cairn Terrier Pin or Tie Tack

This cute little Cairn Terrier hand-painted pin can be yours for only $25.00. We have just two of the Cairn Terrier jewelry pieces left! One is black, shown above, and one is metallic gold finish. The gold finish can be painted any color you like for no extra charge. Allow two weeks for painting. Come purchase the jewelry online or call us toll-free at (888) 325-3179.

Goat jewelry - painted by hand . . . maaaaaa!

Goat jewelry

These unusual pins are hand cast in pewter and hand painted in the USA. At $29.00 each, they are a unique gift for yourself or the goat lover in your life! You can buy them online in Tapir and Friends Gift shop or check out our other wonderful animal jewelry. You can also use our new toll-free number, (888) 325-3179, to ask questions or see if we have your favorite animal in stock. The bright white streaks are reflected light. These pieces are shiny and durable, coated to protect the sensitive-looking paint that captures the realistic details of these animals. The goats can also be painted any color you like for no extra cost. Allow about two weeks for painting. We have many, many other animal jewelry pieces. Come take a look!

Tapir Mola Art of Panama designs now on CafePress!

Dear Tapir Fans and Friends,

We've just opened our first CafePress tapir store with the beautiful tapir mola design from Panama that you see here. We've put the design on 64 different products, including many styles and sizes of t-shirts, caps, mugs, stickers, coasters, pillows, underwear, note cards, greeting cards, a calendar and more. This is just a beginning! It's one more way you can help save tapirs and their rainforest and Andean habitats and have loads of fun shopping at the same time!

Love that plastic badger!

One of TWO plastic badgers at Tapir and Friends

Thanks so much. We received the package on Saturday and the badgers fit perfectly with what my daughter needed for her school project. And both girls are enjoying their Beanie Babies. I'm so glad I found your website.

Best wishes.

Sarah

For those who like badgers, we also have a nice big, cuddly STUFFED BADGER by Hansa. And it's gray, not blue :)

Plastic sea turtles make a big splash!

Sorry, I basically hate punny headlines. My fingers made me do it!

Thanks Sheryl!

The package arrived today - YIPPEE! My third grader is doing a project on the Leatherback Sea Turtle and we were thrilled when we found a site where we could buy "plastic" turtles. We are making a habitat and they are going to work out great! I will definately keep you in mind in the future as this is the first of many projects to come!

Thanks again for your prompt and professional service! It was a pleasure doing business with you!

Have a good day!

Kathy

Peeper Keepers a big hit for Mothers' Day

Greeting.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank for u making sure I recieved My item in time for mothers day (I did) and it was a big hit My wife loved it thank u so much !!!

Steven

Cute baby tapir animal jewelry

One of our most popular pieces of animal jewelry over the past eight or nine years has been this frolicking aluminum baby tapir, hand made by California artist Corinna Bechko. It comes in a selection of colors and can be ordered as a pin, pendant, or earrings. With the pendant and earrings you have a choice of any color bead you like. Corinna has an unusual collection of artistic beads. You choose the color and she'll find a style that looks perfect with the tapir jewelry. Aluminum is light weight and durable, and your creation will be a rare one-of-a-kind keepsake.

Animal jewelry, bird jewelry - beautiful painted parrot pins!

Hand-painted parrot jewelry

These are the parrot pins we have in stock as of today, May 9, 2008. The white streaks are not part of the pin, but are the reflection of the light I used to take the photo. The highlights emphasize the high gloss, durable finish of these pieces. Yes, when you buy your parrot, you will be able to see the eye without the reflection! These bird pins measure 1 1/2 inches tall, and are packed with detail and charm. Cast in pewter and hand-painted, they are made in the USA. The detail in the feathers is created by the relief of the cast metal and the paint that settles artfully in the lower areas of the casting, such as between each feather. At $25.00 each, these parrots are a treasure to keep or to give to a friend or loved one. Please visit our painted animal jewelry site for ordering details. If you don't immediately see the photo of these birds, never fear - scroll down and type the info into the order box. You can click on the photo above for a larger view and/or click the "Parrot" link on the painted animal jewelry page of the web site. We have MANY animal pins to choose from. They also come in gold plate, silver plate, bronze plate, and natural pewter for $10.00 each.

What fun! Plastic giant squid and more . . .

Hi there, our parcel arrived this morning, my little boy is SO EXCITED with all his new sea creatures, he loves them all but he's especially taken with the giant squid! Thanks for the spinner too, that was so kind of you to include that. . . . It has been a real pleasure doing business with you, I'll put another order in as soon as the sea otter with the starfish is back in stock.

I showed my children where the parcel had travelled from on Google Earth this morning, Astoria looks fantastic with all that water around you.

Thanks again for all your help and for such wonderful service,

Sarah

Bird and animal jewelry: Hummingbird jewelry - beautifully painted by hand

We have two of these beautiful hand-painted hummingbirds left. We also have the same design in the cast pewter finish and plated in gold, coppery-bronze, and silver. When these are gone we can get any remaining metal-finish pieces painted. Since each one is an individual piece of art, each will be somewhat different. You an also order custom colors. See our animal jewelry web page for details.

She loves our animals!

Here's another letter that made our day:

Dear Sue, thank you for the Opossum, the meerkat, and the tazmania devil. Your a very nice person. your the best stuffed animal maker in the world. Thank you so very very much. you are a kind person.
From Teryn

Thanks, Teryn. You make our work a total delight!

Sheryl and Sue

More 3D sea life animal puzzles

So far this 3-D clown crab plastic puzzle seems to be the favorite among the four new sealife and coral reef puzzles in Tapir and Friends online gift shop. But don't overlook his three equally fun friends!

. . . the octopus puzzle . . .

. . . the chambered nautilus puzzle . . .

. . . and this charming, lifelike sea turtle puzzle! A plastic nautilus is hard to find. We had one (non-puzzle, about the same size) but it was (sadly) discontinued by the manufacturer. We were overjoyed to find this puzzle nautilus soon after we had to retire the page for our other nautilus. Although this is a puzzle, it is hard to find the breaks once it's been assembled. The details and design make it an excellent replica for school projects or for a collector of sea animals or shells.

Each animal puzzle has roughly 20 three-dimensional pieces that have to be fitted precisely or the puzzle simply does not go together. These are fun for adults, buy you may need a very young friend to help with the finishing touches. Kids take to these animal puzzles like sea turtles to water. The pieces are flexible and have interlocking parts. We have many animal types for hours of fun. And once you're finished, you can either take it apart again or keep it around as an attractive animal replica! Have fun!

Another use for our store front . . .

. . . check it out!

Our plastic animals are loved and hated in England

It was a dark and stormy night on the River Tyne, near the North Sea and not far from the Scottish border. A box had been opened . . .


. . . scary creatures had been unleashed . . .


. . . and we received the following e-mail:

Thanks for this; it arrived safely and my son has really enjoyed playing with them (personally I hate them, but I must learn to overcome my phobias!)

Best wishes

Jonathan

Thanks, Jonathan! People like you make our day!

Sue, Sheryl, and Lee

Realistic plastic jumbo shrimp . . . YES!!!

Jumbo plastic shrimp or prawn

Received them today. They look great. Thank you very much! I will have to order more in the future. Thanks.

Chris

When we first got these shrimp in stock, we presented one to a marine biologist friend over dinner. He couldn't take his eyes off the plastic shrimp. I don't remember how much of his dinner he had a chance to eat, but he DID love the fake shrimp! It's been a favorite with us, too. At 9 inches in length, it's quite impressive.

Paddlefish jewelry - just when you thought you'd seen it all!

This unusual fish comes in a beautifully detailed hand-painted pin, believe it or not! We also have the paddlefish in gold finish, bronze finish, and the original pewter casting. I think the painted ones are amazing!

The paddlefish lives the American Midwest and can be found in the Mississippi and Missouri River systems as well as in the Great Lakes. The mouth looks small here, but it can gape wider than the height of the fish. These fish are extremely ancient, showing up in the fossil record 300 to 400 million years ago - about 50 million years before the dinosaurs. American paddlefish reach a size of several feet long, while those in the Yangtse River of China are found up to about 9 feet. Rumors tell of Chinese paddlefish reaching sizes of 23 feet long, but these stories are not substantiated.

Check out our web site to order paddlefish jewelry!

Three sizes of stuffed manatee

These three adorable stuffed manatees are avialable online at Tapir and Friends. Please take a look! Our home base is in Astoria, Oregon, USA, but we'll ship them anywhere in the world. We love our overseas customers as well as those in the US. We strive to make every order easy for you. Please check out Pavel's unsolicited letter below this post!

Tapirs happily received in the Czech Republic

Uncle Baku the plastic tapir

Sue,

I got everything from you. It is great. Thank you for
easygoing purchase. Tapirs are beautiful.

Kind regards.

Pavel

She likes our plastic frogs

Subject: very pleased with my order!

Hi -- my boys love reptiles and amphibians, and I found your site through a Google search. I recently received my first order and I am very happy with the quality of the items, particularly the tree frogs. There is a world of difference between your products and the products offered on some other websites (which can be quite disappointing in real life). Thanks so much, and we will be ordering again soon!

Laura