Being inspired by...

Felt

Lately I have discovered felt as a new material to work with and I love it! I have ordered some great felt from Feltcraftstudio which I'm very pleased with.

At the moment I'm workig on felt mobiles which is great fun. Take a look at the few things I've tried so far (they are constantly evolving until I'm happy to carry one idea further)

I started off with these little flowers, and even though I believe they are a bit simple they were great to start with, now I'm going from there

Now the flower shape has become 3-dimensional

And that is my little car, isn't he cute? I'm very pleased with him, but he might go from 2D to 3D too as he is a bit heavy to hang up. He needs some substance, that cheeky little guy

What do you think of my creations?

Anna from muchlove has tagged me, something to blog about very soon ;-)

Stitches and Craft Show

On Friday I went to the Stitches and Craft Show with Franziska and Anna which was great! The show was really interesting, I discovered some fabulous artists and got inspired to try a few new things.

It was hard to decide on what artists to show, there were so many great ones! But I managed to decide on two. The first one is Ink and Spindle who hand-screenprint the most fabulous fabrics! I so wanna get some, I just have to decide on a project.. and find the time:-)

photo by ink and spindle

Aren't they great? I especially love the skeleton key fabric on the top!

The next one is gayeabandon, who I have already come across on Etsy a few times. She makes the most gorgeous things from recycled wool jumpers, what a fantastic idea!

photo by gayeabandon

I couldn't resist putting up this picture that lovely Anna sent to me yesterday. It shows me, all smiling beause I discovered some great tea cups! Unfortunately not for sale :-) but the tea cosies were even better, such great work. Check out the comment on top of the photo, it made me laugh :-)

In case you can't read it, it says: "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosy.. doesn't try it on" (by Billy Conolly, Comedian)

Etsy meetups, mock-up stalls and earthquakes

Yesterday I went to my first official Etsy Meetup which was great fun! I met some really nice poeple and got to see some great artwork. Now I just need to make a lot of money so I can buy heaps of stuff from the talented people out there :-)We are looking to have another meet up in about four weeks which will be good, I'm looking forward to it!

I have been listing a few new tea cup candles in my Etsy store lately, I especially like this one:

I have called it Bamboo Garden. I have only two of them, if you would like to check it out click here

I am planning to apply for a new market in Williamstown. It will be exciting to give markets a try. But first I need to send my application in. Because the committee wants to see a photo of the potential stall I decided to do a mock-up stall in my garden. This is how I'm planning to set it up (obviuosly with a different tablecloth)

Let's hope they approve my application! I quite like the look of the three steps, I think it suits my candles really well. Do you want to know how it looked like UNDER the table cloth? Take a sneak peak

Hehe, it was a mock-up stall after all.. Again, if I end up going to the market I will obviuosly get myself a proper display instead of random chunks of wood. But it was fun to set it all up, very creative, that's for sure!

And then we had a little earthquake on Friday night!! Unbelievable! I was sitting on my dining/work table when the whole house suddenly started to shake. Our house is very old and a bit wobbly anyway, when you shut the front door the toothbrush falls out of the bathroom cabinet, basically...

So I was thinking that I had maybe knocked the table a bit hard.. but the walls were shaking for about ten seconds and there was a rumbling sound. I was just sitting on my chair, staring at the moving walls in disbelief, wondering whether I should do something, like hide under the table or so. But before I could make any definite choices the whole thing stopped again.

Later I heard about it on the news. Apparently Melbournes strongest earthquake in 36 years.

Hell, I didn't even know that this country gets earthquakes!! I'm from Europe, a continent with very little tectonic activity.

Bushfires, drought, earthquakes.. what comes next??? Maybe I'll wake up to some volcano activity tomorrow.. or how about a hurricane? They are having one up in Queensland right now.. Or what about some serious flooding? I think that would be appropriate after that long drought. And the Eastcoast gets already flooded fairly often...

I wanna go back home!

I've been tagged!

I've been tagged by Franziska from Lyptis! How exciting, I'm feeling all popular :-)

These are the rules:

"Take the 6th picture of your 6th photo folder, post it on your blog and write about it!"

There we go! Now, the problem is that the 6th folder doesn't actually contain photos. If I followed the rules I would have to post a picture of Luke's concept art for his first 3-D movie. I actually tried to upload the drawing, it's pretty cool! Unfortunately it didn't work, the picture is not the right size or the right format, or something weird that I don't understand anyway.. It has to do with computers after all :-)

Nevermind, I bent the rules a little and opted for the 5th picture of the first folder :-) seriously, I have a lot of photos floating around but a lot of them are not that exciting or they are photos of people which I don't want to post without their permission.. but I think this one is a worthy alternative:

I'm the person in green ("I wear my sunglasses at night"-YEAH!!... i'm so bad, excuse my slip into middle-class pop songs!). Under the red hat is my mother, camera at the ready! That photo got take in November when my mother and sister came to visit me from Germany for our wedding. We went to the Botanical Garden in Cranbourne (quite nice actually), a paradise for my family who love to investigate plants and everything nature.

I thought I show you another photo from the day at the Botanical Garden:

This is my nutty little sister who dislikes too much heat. As it was a fairly hot day she was wrapping up in this huge blue scarf. Not sure if it fullfilled it's purpose of keeping her cool but it certainly drew a lot of attention :-)

Now I should actually tag six other people but I don't really know any other bloggers well enough yet so I have decided to stretch the rules even further and let people decide to be tagged. If you read this post and you would like to take part be my guest :-)

I'm off, listing another tea cup candle in my Etsy store. I might post about it later!