I’ve been pretty frantic finishing off goodies for the Michael Park School Fair happening tomorrow (!!!) some pretty new sea horse softies as well as sewing kits.  It’s time to share some new photos!

Lorenzo (on the left) and Matilda, these two are so sweet, I have a couple in the fabric of Lorenzo, but Matilda is a one off!

Cool huh.

Here’s Shirley, she’s really good at camouflaging with vintage sheets.

See her tail…

Bye bye Luna I’m off to work..

Lets go!

Getting set for another Kraftbomb and it’s the end of another busy month…  Sunday was fun, loads of people, so nice to have a little chat with shoppers and other craftsers.  I’ve been thinking I ought to share some of the goodness that other clever makers bring to the market, so here you go, a couple of photos and a few links..

My table is all set up, so a few quick photos of others getting organised.  Kristen from the lovely Cheekpinchy, she sells pretty things on Felt.co.nz too, so go take a look, if you’re a Facebooker, she has a page here.

Elizabeth from Zippty doo dah makes COOL stuff.  Don’t you love the bears?  (And check out that tablecloth!!)  See her Felt.co.nz shop here.

Flossy’s Fancy…. rabbits AND beautiful vintage fabric, how can you not want one?  I own one of her beautiful purses…  Maybe you saw her at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair?

I haven’t seen this woman’s work before, and it’s lovely, check out these felty flowers.

How about these for snuggly winter hottie covers?  Adventures of Alex O and Co sell on Felt.

I love the elephants, and the owls seem to always popular for crafters, the felt is delicious and thick too.

Some treats for sale at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair…

And some fuzzy photos of my lovely snuggly Sea Horses and Scallops.

Come and say hello, take home something lovely and have a delicious cupcake at Kraftbomb, in the Grey Lynn Community Centre, 11am – 2pm. x

Only five more sleeps til the Auckland Art and Craft Market!  Wohoo!  You’ve probably heard the adds on the radio and seen posters up around town, so you’ve been saving up and planning your shopping list for AGES.  We’ll I’ve been planning for agaes too and I have some sweet treats lovely Scallop Snuggly softies and new Sea Horses too, as well as gifts for craftsy peeps!

So.. if you need to know the details, visit the website, or look here!

Saturday 11th June 2011
11am to 3pm
Aotea Centre, THE EDGE
Auckland Central
Gold coin entry donation

Did you see all the artist interviews?  I have been reading them too, here’s my one…

Here’s Stanley, I’ve had this fabric for ages, just a small remnant, about one meter square, one of my favourite pieces, and now it’s become a Snuggly Sea Horse!  Check out Nancy below…

These new Snuggly Sea Horses are the first of my softies to be stuffed with Innergreen toy fill.  It’s quite exciting, Innergreen is lovely and soft and made from corn fibre, so much nicer for you and nicer for our planet.  I’ll be using Innergreen from now instead of polyester stuffing.

Luna has her own Nancy and loves her, she is also made from a smallish remnant of fabric.. love those green eyes!  these new Sea Horses are also sporting my new fabric tags, all very exciting!

This is the last one, Edward, he’s made from some smart glossy cherry coloured fabric.  I’m glad it worked out well for this guy, some of these firmer fabrics just don’t work so well, but Edward looks great!

Here are some new Don’t Give Me The Chop!  carrot softies, coming to Felt.co.nz soon…  These are bigger then the old ones, and use the lovely new Innergreen corn filling, rather than polyester, which is soooo good, soft and lovely, low allergenic, biodegradable and easy care.

They’re still pretty freaked out.

I came across a new product recently. Innergreen a toy filling made from corn, my sample arrived the other day and it is so soft, I love it!  It works out a little more expensive than the polyester filling I have been using, but in bulk it works out ok.  So I’ll be using this lovely biodegradable filling once I get the end of my current bag of polyester, it will me nicer for my softies and for you.

Here’s another photo, it feels kind of silky..

Make gingerbread?  That’s what I thought I’d do.

I love the colours, and the printing on the card is great!  So nice to get my hands on some nice vintage ric rak, it feels lovely and soft too.

So here are some photos of the gingerbread dolls I’ve been making, fun really, I get to use some of the hundreds of buttons I have stashed away.

That one is a bit fuzzy!  Here are some details…

I have some nice colours to play around with.

My lovely sea horses are all coming along just well, swimmingly…  I’m enjoying using up some fabric pieces I’ve had stashed for years on one of my newest designs.  I decided to make some giant sea horses after I had a dream about huge sea horses, over one meter tall, they swam through the air, and were amazing, so real and just huge!

Here are the ones I have made out of a beautiful cot sheet mum gave me, they are sooo soft and snuggly, I have enough to make about three or four.  I have also used the material to make some scallop shell softies too.

I have been experimenting with some of the embroidery stitches on my machine..

If you haven’t liked my Facebook page yet, please do!

I’ve been around on fb for a while now and I’m making some exciting new changes, I’m sharing my projects, kind of like here but with more photos, and now I’m uploading catalogues so you can buy directly from me!  At present I’m just selling and shipping in New Zealand, but will be working on getting out to a wider audience – just need to sort out Paypal deets and shipping..

In the meantime, go take a look, I have listed these pretty needle wallets, all hearts for Valentine’s Day…

And these Don’t Give Me The Chop!  Carrots are cool too.  They’re actually huge, about 50cms long each!