Every Colour Tweet Challenge continues...

I have been a busy busy girl since my last post... not just with the making. I have just come back from my annual holidays so I'm now ready to focus and get down to felting!

The Every colour Tweet challenge is well under way, I have now finished the pink and most of the blues... here they all are looking so cute!

So I just have the greens, purples, reds to cover now before I start thinking about if I am going to do all my browns, grays and  neutrals! I'm still umming and aaahing about if I should do the sludgy colours or just all the brights... still I have given myself a whole year to do them so I guess there's lots of time to decide.

All the tweets I have made up already are now for sale at my Etsy shop Here and are looking super cute in their egg boxes too!

 

The Every Colour Tweet Felt Challenge

I have (perhaps rather foolishly) set my self a challenge to make on of these little guys in every colour fleece that I have.

The idea came about while I was trying to think of a better way to show customers what colours they can choose from for wedding cake toppers and what the cutest way of doing this would be... I didn't just want to direct people to my suppliers sites because I use several different suppliers... and then I realised that no only would be be cute but then I can sell the little bird off once they are finished!

The only problem is I have so much fleece that it's going to take me quite a while to do! But in the meantime I am getting lots of cute photos! I've done my yellows, oranges and blues and shall be moving on to pinks and greens next! I can't wait to see what they all look like together!

I Have put some on little strings to make a window display at The Eatme Space Gallery where I am now working every Friday and Saturday to entice customers in, they make a cute window display don't you think? You can find me in the gallery from 11am till 3pm every fri and sat now... I'll be sitting in there working away and waving to passer-byes!

You can also follow the Gallery on facebook... I'll be looking after the facebook page and posting new exhibitions and news regularly!

Eatme Artspace Invasion

Way way back in November me and a couple of gal pals invaded a local gallery for a couple of weeks with our Birds of a Feather exhibition. Well from the 6th of March I'll be invading their space once more with a flock of birdies.

 

Coast Gallery owner Denise Wilson, left, and competition organiser Jakki Willby pictured with the Ray Lonsdale sculpture which will be presented to the winner. (Picture Kevin Allen)

Also in the space will be hosting a photography competition for the Freddie Gilroy scupture appeal... you can follow the Freddie's freinds here on facebook. The competition is to win a sculpture by artist Ray Lonsdale and to help buy a camera to watch over Freddie Gilroy's sculpture on North Bay... I'll be manning the space from 11-3 during the week and probably a bit longer on saturday.

 Freddie Gilroy by Ray Lonsdale on North Bay

Also in the space will be the work of local photographer Andi Blake who's work is stunning and of course a small flock of felt birds. After the sculpture moves on I'll be manning the space on a more permanent basis so the flock will remain and lots of other lovely things from local artists and makers too. We intend to be open at least Friday and Saturday every week and then more in the holidays.

 Me working in the space... ignoring the bloke with the camera

 

I'm really excited about working with Andrea of Andrea Willis design and the guys from Eat Me Cafe to make the artspace a sucess... so if you are in Scarborough pop by and say hi... the space is on Hanover Road just opposite the station.

 

Artspace invasion in November

Where has January Gone?

2012 seems to be rocketing past and I still don't seem to have got myself organised yet! I woke up this weekend and thought "enough is enough" time to start getting back on track. So I started with a studio shuffle to try and improve my working area and writing lots of lists of all the things I want to do and achieve within the next week or so.

I also decided that since I had put a few pounds on over Christmas I was going to start going for walks and leaving the house at least once a day so I checked my list of things I needed to buy and headed out to the craft shop over on the industrial estate. I've never really walked there before but I figured since it took hardly anytime to get the in the car it could be too far so I zipped up my boots and headed off.

Half way there big clouds rolled over and the whole of Scarborough seemed to be shrouded in mist... I began to get a little down as it seemed a lot further than I remembered and there was drizzle working it's way thru my coat (tempremental British weather!) but really it only took 20mins.

I got my craft supplies and sheltered in the door way till the rain passed over then headed back off. On the way back the clouds parted and I got some spectacular views of Scarborough when the mist blew away. When the sun came out so did the birds and I was delighted too find that for a few minutes I had a small flock of long tailed tits followed me along the hedgerow... I have never seen them before except in books so I was really happy and I'm pretty sure they had never seen a slightly soggy felter dragging a giant foam pad along with them!

Feeling much better and suitably inspired I cut my foam into manageable pieces and picked up my bird books and felting needles and got to work. I'm really chuffed with the out come... these guys are so cute!I read in one of my books that they travel in little groups of six or so along hedgerows and fly across gaps a couple at the time to make sure it's safe!

Happy New Year!!!

Hello felty fans!!!

Well yes we are halfway thru January right now but after Christmas this feltmaker kinda crashed and was beset by lergi and post Christmas blah so I never had a chacne to wish you a Happy New Year!!! Since this is the start of a brand new year and the very first blog post of the year let's start with some new year's resolutions. I don't generally make them because I usually break them pretty soon but I thought we'd have some more realistic ones for a change.

1. Make new friends!
I found that when I quit my job I was free to pursue things that I must admit terrified me like supplying some shops and galleries, I made some lovely new contacts last year with Me & Mrs Fisher in York, Lazyhill Gallery in Dorset and Cambridge Contemporary Crafts in, well Cambridge! I also had a little exhibition at Eatme Art Space in Scarborough and found out that talking to real people is actually quite good fun! SO this year I am hoping to make some more new friends and supply some more shops... I've made a start with a lovely shop called Pippin Gifts in Edinburgh and am currently felting like crazy to get some birds to them very soon!

EatMe Art Space

2. Get out more
The worst part of my job is that I can go days without talking to anyone except for my boyfriend so I am going to hopefully be spending some time working in the Eatme Artspace and hopefully meeting some nice people in the process!

3. Be more creative... yep, ok so I spend every day making but it's easy just to get stuck doing the same things so I will be making sure to keep learning new things with ceramics classes and making new designs... gotta keep changing it up to keep interested folks!

And really that's it... except for the main one which is to be more awesome this year then I was last year and not go back to a tempy job for Christmas! I'll also be consolidation my blogs and places so you'll be seeing Inkmeup posts here as well because I can't keep up with 3 blogs... what was I thinking! I hope you all manage to keep your resolutions and will try very hard to keep mine!

Boxing day Sale

Well folks we hope you had a very very merry Christmas and took it reasonable easy on the Sherry! I had a lovely day filled with fabulous pressies (new Rob Ryan Book) lots of food (belly pork slow roasted in honey) and some yummy wine (pink of course)

Somewhere in the gap between opening pressies and eating Christmas dinner I got a little bored and decided to set up my boxing day sale. I am clearing the decks for a brand new year so pop along to the shop to check out my sale section where selected tweets have been reduced by a whopping 40% and blog followers can get an extra 10% off with the code DISCOUNT10 as a belated Christmas present from me!

I know I am a little bit behind with my blogging so I'll be catching up in the New Year, it's been a hectic december but I hoping to be able to relax a bit and start working on new designs and an exciting new collaboration... ssshhhh it's a secret! *:D

Right now I am off to spend some Christmas money in the sales and get to work on those new year resolotions ... see you soon!

Drumroll Please... Competition Winners Are....

1st Prize A Hoot... big owl goes to SunnySweetpea who would help me celebrate by drinking my vodka with me!

2nd Prize Choice of baby owl goes to Anna over at The House of Mouse who is going to help me celebrate with chocolate... mmm chocolate!

3rd Prize Baby Robin goes to Dina Fragola who will help me celebrate with cake!!!

All winners have been contacted and the all have lovely shops too so pay them a visit and check them out! yay... well done to the winners and thankyou to everyone who entered. I am going to frantically wrap parcels for the post office now but as a special christmas present to my blog followers you can get 10% off at Inkmeup and Feltmeup using the coupon code DISCOUNT10 at checkout and if you buy from both shops I shall combine and refund you some postage as well.

Last Shipping Dates for Christmas are as follows... and they are creeping closer at an alarming rate! So don't miss out! xx

Mon 5th December South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New Zealand
Fri 9th December Eastern Europe, USA and Canada
Mon 12th December Western Europe
Wed 14th December UK

Don't miss out!