And The Winners Are...

A Great big thankyou to everyone who entered the blog comp this time, there were over 100 entries between the blog, flickr and my shop. Once more the entries were place in a fetching cap, inspected by a whole bunch of teeny tweets for fairness and then stolen for nesting material!

I am proud to announce that the winners are... drum roll please................

Lucyjacksondesigns, NiftyKints and Theittybittybagcompany! Well done guys and thanks for the support, you'll get your teeny tweet each in a couple of weeks once you chose your colours.

As always the competition was great fun and I hope to run another one soon, but not too soon... maybe the next one will be for halloween... or just when i get bored again... any suggestions for future giveaways please post here in the comments section, who knows I may take you up on it!

Teeny Tweet Big Birthday Giveaway

Here's a special giveaway for you. To celebrate my 30th Birthday on July 7th I have decided to giveaway not one, not two but three, yes that's three teeny tweets! Which means three winners... each winner will recieve 1 teeny tweet in the colours of their choice.


The rules are simple... there are 2 main ways to enter, firstly you can leave a comment here on the blog, secondly you can retweet the competition on twitter on http://twitter.com/Feltmeupdesigns and send me a twitter message.


Also anyone who buys from any of my shops Feltmeup, Feltanomicon and Feltmeupdesigns between now and my birthday will be entered into the competition... if you do all three you get three entries which is three chances to win!


Competiton closes 7th July and all winners will be notified by the 10th and blogged here... mostly because I'll be too busy celebrating to tell you on my birthday!


Good luck peeps!

Monkey Swap Madness

Look what I got in the post! Here's a lovely bag of loveliness from http://kelly-handmadeathome.blogspot.com/ this cam for me as part of the monkey swap organised by Claire Payne of etsy. Thanks Kelly and Claire. I especially love his little monkey scarf and he will be decorating his monkey home with these lovely stickers as soon as he gets named!Here's my effort at the monkey swap, if you want to see the other swappers then visit claire's flickr group I have to admit the monkey swap was super fun and all the swappers were so great, my little wee monkey and his little banana may even end up as a design in my shop!

VOTE FELT!!!!

I have been privilaged to be included in this weeks etsy voter feature.

This weeks vote is for the best wedding cake topper and my Monochrome Tweets have been nominated (thanks to the UK etsy massive who've been so supportive!) Please please please vote for me and I'll love you for ever!

Have you heard about the Etsy Voter? It's a fun part of Etsy where people can vote on their favorite Etsy items. Previous winners including Nifty of Niftyknits in the flowers feature.

Competition is stiff with many of my favorite sellers featured too including cotton bird and houseof mouse... of course I'm happy to take part but top 3 would be amazing... so please use your vote and vote felt. Should I win the world will be a better place... true story!

So VOTE FELT... we stand for truth, justice and cake!

Let Me Introduce You To...

This week I thought I'd show you something a little different... it's still felt but it's not needlefelted and it's fab. I'd like to introduce you to Britishcreamtea of etsy, I can't belive how real these little fancy cakes look!

"Handsewn little treats, made from 100% recycled felt, that are perfect for everlasting adult tea parties, great for keeping your pins in order, make beautiful bookshelf ornaments, are fabulous as party favours, bring back memories of anyone with a British childhood and look beautiful strung on ribbon as holiday decorations."

I love BCT's felt food made from recycled materials. Her whole shop has a whiff of nostagia and takes me back to my child hood. I love her seaside rock, ice creams and lollies (popsicles if your from the US) probably because I live at the seaside and I adore the sense of faded seaside glamour that it has here.You just have to love this "99 Ice cream" if you've not come across this before its a whipped icecream in a cone with a chocolate flake in... I'm old enough to remember when 99's cost 99p last time I bought (monday) one it cost me £1.30! Take the time to read BCT's descriptions and you'll learn a lot about these great British treats!

BCT's shop is great... I love the way she photographs her work and I could gush all day about BCT but I won't... I'll have a cheeky little moment for myself and ask you to vote for my wedding cake toppers at etsy voter

Sunday Sunday....

I hate Sundays!


This is not a random "this sunday is rubbish so I hate all sundays!" I actually do hate 'em. Mostly becasue for the last year I have work at the big W every single sunday... I'd very much like a day off now! Sundays are dull... we have few customers and we're pretty much garenteed that no matter how much work we do it won't be good enough for the boss.


I hate this particular sunday because the sun is shining and I have much better things to do with my time! Like make a million of these teeny tweets! My plan is to make one in every colour so I could do without having to work today!

Rant over... carry on!

The next blog comp is coming up soon, little heads up for all you avid felt followers... hint... this blog comp may feature teeny tweets!

Bank Holiday Fun

So it's bank holiday, I'm a bit cranky and tired cos John snored all night and I needed something to cheer me up! Etsy has been down for up date all morning what's a girl to do?


We recently go some fab stationary and books by Lotta Jansdotter at the bookshop where I languish in book hell as a book minion. They are gorgeous and I am so treating my self to both her books when I make more money. I'd love some of her post it notes but it seems a little indulgent for a gal struggling to pay the rent! (p.s you can get these at Waterstones where I am a book minion!)I decided fun could be had by making my own stamp/lino print... after all I am a fully qualified textile designer and I do have printing experience under my belt!
In traditional textile designer mode the first thing I did was make a mess! Kidding... I made a coffee then I made a mess! I got my lino and lino cutters from ebay (then stuck in a box with a one day I'll get to that gesture) and drew out my image... I then rubbed out my image and redrew it cos everything you print get reversed and I'd forgotten this!

I really enjoyed cutting out my lino... lino cutters are fun but lethal tho no major injuries were incured! I went for a tweet design, I have this thing that I'd love to customise my own stationary for feltmeupdesigns.
Here's the finished stamp, I realised after about 10mins of cutting out the lino around him I could just cut around him with a stanley knife so I did!

I then played around with my stamp stamping and then cutting away more lino where it wasn't right. I had such a fun morning... it was relatively inexpensive and I have a lino stamp I can use forever... or until I break it! It's not perfect but I am very happy with my first attempt and can't wait to try it again. (after I have made a million more birdies!)