New Item In My Etsy Shop

Meet Peggy, a perky pink pig just listed in my Etsy Shop . My neice and nephews are always asking for handmade pets, and Peggy was a request from my neice. So far, she is a very limited edition of three (Three little pigs, anyone?) One went to my neice for her Christmas present, one for me to keep (I have a bad habit of never making anything for myself!) and one for the shop.

The boys got spiders for Christmas, which turned out really cute, and I'll have to make more of them soon.

Froggy Friday

Here are my felted frogs that I've been working on this week. My oldest nephew asked if I would make him a frog last weekend and I had to oblige! And since I hate felting just one thing in the washing machine, I made him some buddies to go swimming with.

We don't have much planned this weekend. I think its supposed to rain for most of it (wish we could send some of our weather out to California right now!!!) and we're having our friend from Washington DC stay with us next week, so I'm thinking we're going to be doing a lot of cleaning this weekend. Once we've picked up the livingroom, I really want to work on some wire wrapped pendants. I've been stockpiling wire and cabachons for that for months!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Turtle Tuesday

Here are my latest cuties! Laverne and Shirley are the ladies with the beautifully beaded backsides. Laverne is the larger lass. Dottie is my first attempt at using needle felting to decorate my felted menagerie. I was going to add different colors of polka dots, but Eric suggested having a series of turtles with different colored dots.

While we were up visiting my in laws this weekend, I took my yarn with me to make more animals. My neice fell in love with the tiny striped one I was finishing, so I gave it to her. The boys were pretty fascinated as well-- the younger one more so with the ball of green yarn! He's getting a turtle out of his favorite green, and the oldest was asking what else could I make? So I told him rabbits and turtles, and I have a frog in the works. He wants a frog. I'll give him my prototype when I'm finished with it. Of course, my neice wants a frog now too...

Oh Look! Turtles!

Just a quick update while I'm felting these cute little guys. I love making these turtles! They are so darling and easy to make. I'm going to leave some of them plain, some of them are already pretty fancy with their racing stripes, and some of them are going to get a little bling of their own. The unembellished ones make great baby gifts, or one of the ladies I work with think they would be good dog toys. I think they would be sturdy and safe enough for that, but I don't want to know if you're using them for that purpose.

In other news, the bead class is tonight. I'm actually pretty nervous about this because Christie (my neighbor and partner in crime) and I went to the guest artist's trunk show last night which was being held during another one of her classes. The teacher totally b***hed this poor woman out for not knowing some of the stitches real well! The reason why I'm worried is because this beading technique is something I've been dabbling in, but just for simple bracelets, and I have never done Peyote or Brick stitch before. So, Christie has christened the teacher the "Wicked Bead Lady" and I hope I do okay in this class. Fortunately, I don't think there's a test at the end!