Toy company transforms your child's artwork into a stuffed animal

Need a unique holiday gift for your child this year? Budsies, a toy manufacturer, will create a custom, handcrafted stuffed animal based on your child's artwork.
 
The Florida-based company can turn basically anything into a plush toy, including doodles and even pictures of actual people.
 
Budsies founder Alex Furmansky said he was inspired to create toys from doodles after watching his younger sister's drawings go from the fridge and kitchen walls to a box and then eventually be thrown away.
 
By turning his little sister's drawings into stuffed animals, Furmansky said it enabled her "quirky childhood artistry to live forever."
 
The first two Budsie dolls were made for Furmansky's sister, Michelle, with the original becoming the company's unofficial mascot.
 
To have your children's artwork come to life, all parents have to do is snap a picture of their kid's drawings and upload or email it to the Budsies website.
 
Because the company prefers to keep its production process a secret for the kids, it explains that the toys are created with "a sprinkle of fairy dust, a pinch of magic, and a wave of the wand."
 
After ordering your Budsie doll, your budding Picasso will have to be patient; the one-of-a-kind toys take at least five weeks to make.