Pigs Might Fly...

After having a horrendous week I felt I needed some cheering up. My suggestion that I could win the lottery was met with the standard parental phrase of "and pigs might fly". So in effort to hasten my lottery fortune I made some pigs that do indeed fly... Oh yes!

Now all I need to do is to sit back and wait for the money to come rolling in!
Flying pigs come in large, medium and teeny sizes and each is attached to a sparkley shiny lurex string for easy flight! Flying pigs are magical and there fore need lots of love and attention... flying pigs help the impossible become possible!!!

You can find them here: Feltmeup's shop

Mis-adventures in Craft Fair Land Part 2

Ah ha!!! At last I am Famoose!!! Behold my press clippings... erm clipping.

Note to self... next local event make an effort to lok less hungover!

Mis-adventures in craft fair land!

Sunday 13th July saw the first ever feltmeup craft fair adventure at Cayton village hall, near Scarborough. To be honest I wasn't expecting great things but it was a chance to give the felt an airing and see it all together in one place for once.

Sheep and aliens got a lot of attention as did badges and postcards. Bunnies were popular with the local press and Feltmeup was featured in the local paper, The Scarborough evening news. (pictures to follow since I forgot to buy said paper on tuesday!)

Cayton was also an opportunity to make new friends and contacts, as well as the glory of being in the local press, Feltmeup made connections with a couple of local businesses and are now discussing the possibility of having some felty creatures and badges in Kate's lovely shop in the market vaults in Scarborough.
I also loved seeing all my bags together, it reminded me how much I enjoyed making them. Every bag has a different memory behind it and so often I forget the reasons I started making in the first place. Lots of happy memories are in this little box! (Even if nobody wants to buy them I still love each and every one!)

All profits from the day were spent, very wisely, at the wonderful cake stall who did a fantastic line in fairy cakes!
To read more about the gala visit our local paper's website here

Isn't etsy a wonderful place? This is my lovely swap item from Bigfish of etsy. Look at all the pretty things! The UK bunch played a swapping game where we all sent of pretty things to a secret swap partner... it was coordinated by the lovely and talented Coldcell and we have our own flickr group here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ukswapmay/

Packaged!!!

Ok so I get excited about some pretty odd things and lately I got a bee in my bonnet that I needed a uniform type of packaging for my goodies... and not just any packaging...no! Mine had to be special, cute, quirky and most importantly of all... inexpensive!

I saw someone using takeout boxes to package their stuff and yep... I had to have em! Many hours of sourcing and a huge head ache later I eventually found The Forsythe Company on etsy who did a small order for me... everywhere else only handled shipments of £50 or over! EEP!!!

I love my new boxes... don't they look swell. Especially with an added moo card and lovely iridescent tissue paper. Like i said... I do get excited about odd things!

Things I love part 2 !!!

Amongst my recent purchases one of the things I love most are my Laurafallulah hand embellished pumps! They are so lovely and comfortable and really cute. These pumps make for very happy feet! They even came with a beautiful hand sewn matching rose brooch which now graces my navy military coat. I bought these to celebrate getting my first repeat customer, which was a really great land mark day for feltmeup!

Laura's shop is full of beautiful hand sewn bags and purses and gifts. I'd hurry though she's only got one pair of size 6 pumps left, in red with pink roses!!!

Things I love

I love etsy... recently to cheer my self up and banish my blues I have spent a lot of money there! I felt I should share some of my etsy joy.

I bought this beautiful necklace from Gugaw and haven't taken it off since. It's beautiful and i love it. It's available in green and blue too. I love my red apple tho it's my favorite colour and so easy to wear.