As Part of Christmas in July we are offering a discount code CIJ15 for 15% off your order from our Etsy shop. Offer runs until July 31st and coupon code must be used at checkout to qualify as a special bonus you can also use this code at Inkmeup too and if you buy from both shops we will refund any postage overpaid so that all items are shipped together.

This is a great time to get ahead and start your Christmas shopping early as many sellers are having clearouts and sales right now. Lots of my favourite sellers in the UK Cake and Chat Team have sales too... I'm so tempted!

Drumroll Please!!!

And the competition winners are:

1st Prize Owl and Owl Baby Katrina from Mrs Leaney's Vintage China Hire

2nd Prize Owl Baby Helen from Hypsela  and  FFFlowers on Etsy

Winners have been contacted and their birdies will be flying to the as soon as possible. In case you didn't win but still really really wanted a birdies I have a little discount code for you, because we had 1200 sales to celebrate all blog readers can get 12% off using the discount code 1200SALES at my Etsy shop

 

I'm off to get to work on the next 1200 birdies... so watch this space we'll be having another giveaway as soon as we hit another big number!!! Thanks to everyone who took part in the competition and has supported me in my lunatic plan to take over the world with lots of teeny birds!

1200 Sales Giveaway

GIVEAWAY TIME... YAY!

We passed the 1200 Etsy sales mark and I am feeling "well chuffed" as we say in Yorkshire... in fact I so happy that I thought I might spread it about with a lovely Father's Day giveaway. I spent a day with my Dad and Grandad yesterday so I couldn't put the competition up. Dad found these scarecrows and leapt out of the car for a sneaky photo!

I have decided to pick 2 lucky winners to celebrate 1200 sales.
1st Prize... In honor of Father's Day a large feltmeupdesigns owl and a fluffy owl baby of your choice and a nice bag of goodies too*
2nd Prize... an owl baby or mini owl of your choice and some goodies

To enter simply first leave a comment on this blog post telling me what your favourite item in my Etsy shop is ... that simple!

For extra entries then if you can leave a Twitter comment mentioning this blog post with link @feltmeupdesigns or become a fan at facebook ... and if you want an extra chance you can become an Inkmeup facebook fan too... If you do all 3 you get 3 bonus entries . Just make sure you come back here and tell me in a separate comment that you have twittered and facebooked, if you are already a facebook fan just let me know to get your extra entry! (but if you only want to enter once just leave a comment on the blog)

I do read all your comments and they are moderated for naughty words so they might not appear immediately. Winner will be contacted within 3 days of close of competition so don't forget to leave me a way to contact you a facebook, etsy or twitter username will do... don't leave an email unless it is in the form of myname(at)hotmaildotcom... this is so spam bots don't get your email address and spam you!

The competition will close on Saturday 23rd June and the winner will be picked by random number generator (aka John, my lovely boyfriend!)

*does not include the BIG barn owls, don't get cheeky now

Big Birdies at The Felt Menagerie

I've been pretty quiet in the blogosphere lately, I've been keeping my head down and working hard and haven't had the energy to blog so I thought we were well over due an update since the last one I posted was in April. The last 2 months have pretty much been about weddings, wedding cake toppers and generally going mental making them (yellow and grey are the current bestsellers!) but I have managed to fit some fun time in for myself as well and made 2 big barn owls.

I made the first one as an experiment and love her sweet little face but I wasn't totally happy with her tail and wings so I set out making another one. The 2nd owl has a much fluffier bum and looks a bit like he is wearing very frilly knickers! They look so cute as a pair!

The owls stand at around 7.5 inches tall and each took more than a week to complete... although I wasn't working on them continuously because this feltmaker has a very short attention span! I had so much fun making big owls I am planning on making a bunch more next on the list is either a snowy owl or a scops... I haven't quite decided!

Also I have been watching lots of nature programs and think I really need to make some more life sized realistic babies to go with the adult birds as the babies grow very fast and are almost the same size as the adults but really really fluffy!

One barn owl is up for sale already in my shop here at etsy and the other shall be up for sale soon.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/96540997/needlefelted-barn-owl-life-sized

On another note I am currently languishing at 1197 etsy sales so pretty soon I'll be passing the 1200 mark... and you all know what that means... yes... we'll be having a giveaway! Yay!
 

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