Little mousie

Here are the insides of the creature pouches I showed last post. My blogger account only let's me post 5 pictures per post. But I see other blogspot users have tons of photos. Anybody know why I can't? I would like to do a tutorial some time, but it wouldn't be very thorough with only 5 pictures. more like fill in the blanks.! haha


And here is a little mousie I sewed up one night. It's from the kids Klutz book series. It has a cute cat pattern in it for fabric. May try that one also.


I've been making a needle felted sock monkey. it's going to be 3 hours for that baby. Geesh. How do you make your money off of that one? I used roving this time instead of a pre-roving kind of wool I had last time. it is much thicker and nicer. Now to think of a hat style.

thanks for looking,
Amanda

creature purses

Last night, I was a sewing machine.... whhhrrrrrr
He's my favorite.

This idea has been in my head for a few days. I wish I could have done it with beautiful wool felt, but the fleece will so for now.

This was my 1st one. I tweaked the others a little by using only my circle and oval die cut shapes with my cuttle bug. It makes a clean edge.

good luck purse.

happy happy


Have a good one,
Amanda

Pod baby

Here's an acorn doll and a hair clip. I made 2 hair clips, but can only find one. It's supposed to be a flower, but I was working mirror from the other one and somehow couldn't for the life of me make a proper flower. silly really.

And here is my pod baby. I bought a bag of silk cocoons from Gemini Fibres when I visited last month. I was planning on making some kind of pod thing inside. This is what I came up with.

it is very small. I should put it next to something for scale. cute, cute. Need to make another to see how long it takes to make it. The creative process in making it took a little longer than I intended.


have a good one,
Amanda

refresh

howdy,
we just got back from a 2 week vacation in beautiful Nova Scotia. aaahhh.
I feel the stress of the city life already. so I look at these pictures.

Hubby and I had an evening and a day without kids!! So we went exploring. Of course, when I saw this beach, on our last day in NS, I wanted to go back and get the kids. Luckily, my DH is more level headed and we enjoyed it by ourselves, with just a twinge of guilt on my part.

The sand felt so nice....

This was from the day before. Check out the bird flying on the water.



Trying to squeeze the last bits of summer into this last week before school. Of course, the weather will still be great when school starts, but I have a full timer and a half day bunch for school this year. Oh a times, they are a changin'.

keep well,
Amanda

Friday Ritual

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.Amanda Blake Soule

down in the valley

Many years ago, I did my undergrad at Acadia University
I spent 5 years in the lovely Annapolis Valley and have longed to live there since. Whenever I visit my parents in Halifax, I take a day to visit the valley. Yesterday I went with my family, nephew and parents. We went to Grand Pre National Park, the site where the Acadiens were deported from Canada. If you've heard of Cajun music and food, it comes from the Acadiens from Nova Scotia.

Here is a picture of the church with a statue of Evangeline. Longfellow wrote a poem of her.

There was a very good movie with the small cinema built to look like the hold of a ship. Here is a display in the church.


After the park, it was up to the Blomidon Look off. Scroll down a bit
Beautiful, just beautiful. The tide was going out. They have the highest tides in the world up to 35 feet in some areas. The bottom of the Bay of Fundy is a red muddy clay that squelches and oozes when you step in it. ugh. shiver.
Anyhow, all that adventure to say, I bought a new craft kit. Yes, I need a new hobby to try. (NOT)
Rug hooking. I bought the hooked Santa ornament at the Rossignol Cultural Centre in Liverpool, NS

It's done with some kind of strips of cloth.
The kit below has wool yarn. I need to google how to do it properly. There's no way it should go so slowly. And what direction do you do it in? I did well with the 1st row, but then I turned back for the 2nd. yeah, even slower.
Anyone do this kind of hooking? Tips would be appreciated.


Thanks for looking and reading the drudgery of my vacation. :}
Amanda

Felt clips

Here's another thing I've been meaning to do...

Felt hair clips.

Fun. I can't wait to get into it. I have trouble making two of one kind though.


Have a good one...
Amanda

silent sunday

Guess who didn't catch the fish!

Photo has been edited

Capt'n RRRR

In the land of bendy dolls, the pirates have taken over!

Pirate bendy doll can be found here at
Princess Nimble Thimble


As I can't make a pirate play set in the lines of the mermaid set at the moment, I made a wearable pouch in the lines of
gnome in a leaf pouch


But my favorite part is that the pouch can be an eyepatch!!
Clever husband of mine suggested it. There are a few boys around here, so I'm doing an assembly line of pirates.
Look out matey! There may be a pirate attack shortly!

ARRRGGH

Have a good one,
Amanda

needle felted shapes

We have a new addition to our mermaid family..

A pink wee one to be doted upon. she has been loved and ooed and aahed over muchly.


I also got a bit of an ah-ha moment in the Bulk Barn! ha. Running down the aisles, I must have paused to think or something. it was next to the cookie cutters. The gingerbread cutters jumped out at me. Christmas!

That's as far as I've gotten with it. Should I go purist and only do needle felted ones? Put buttons on them and some ric rac? Some of each to please the masses? What? What? Guess I should ask that question when i make some samples first. you can vote. And yes, I meant to focus on the gingerbread, but the camera didn't. oh well.

And some flowers I was wanting to put on dowels as wands, but not sure how to attach. Any advice?


Like the new colours I got from Gemini Fibres? They are an online company too.


Have a good one!
Amanda

anybody know this caterpillar?

We just arrived at nanny's and the kids found a new friend.

he got to know the crooks and crannies of the kid's hands.

Anybody know what it is?
Edit to add:
found it, American Dagger moth

And there has been a bit of this to keep us on our toes. I finally had to put a stop to it. My heart couldn't take it. :}


thanks for looking,
Amanda

Friday Ritual

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Amanda Blake Soule


photo courtesy of Jennifer Blaauw Photography