A Little Friday Love

Set of Love Birds -... BeBopProps $10.00	Personalized Ribbon... TheLonelyHeart $5.50	Handmade Typographi... alisiaaax $1.75	Grey & White Love M... QuernusCrafts $22.00
Love Wedding Recept... anyoccasionban... $11.00	The Little Love Bun... AdoraWools $35.00	LOVE Cake Topper- M... TheCakeTopperS... $15.99	Hair pin Original L... vintagebyrache... $7.50
Wooden Rubber Stamp... PrettyTape $3.75	Love ring- Sterling... keoops8 $14.00	Love is Patient, Lo... VillageVinePre... $34.95	Personalized Coaste... MyLittleChick $20.00
Valentine's Day... theappliquediv... $2.99	A Dozen "I Lov... DanasPaperFlow... $68.00	Smore Love . 40 Per... scrapbits $24.00	Shabby Chic Valenti... DesignCayenne $40.00

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

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All in a Spin with OldhausFibers

This is something I have never done but would love to add it to my wish list and OldhausFibers raise, blend, and hand spin their own Angora wool  and are based in Amana Iowa. They use conventional spinning wheels and drop spindles to spin and dye their fibres and yarns along with a variety of felting techniques on their projects. ARBA registered so no bunny is hurt in the harvesting of Angora wool. They opened their store in January this year so if you fancy learning how to spin or need some beautiful angora wool pop over and have a look you might find just what your looking for.

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"Kisses For Xmas" Feature with Cranberry Dreams + Fabulous Giveaway

Hi everyone! If you have not yet met Londi your in for a treat, a small business owner, jeweler, designer, crafter, a lover of life, a mother first! and here she is wearing one of her beautiful felt hats, a zipper and felt necklace and a matching ring. Fabulous picture Londi!

She creates because she doesn’t know how not to! Here is a little more  info on Londi and I think you will all agree she is one very talented and amazing lady. I for one am constantly in awe of her stunning work and would like to share some of it with you.
Below is a set of her handmade gift tags and a pair of her beautiful french lace earrings which she will give to one lucky winner. Value $24



Londi originally from the U.S and presently living in France, by trade, she is a third generation jeweler, experienced in working with precious metal and stones, as well as designing, carving and finishing. For the past few years she has created works of art with felting, sewing, making jewelry and deco Christmas bulbs.

She is totally inspired by nature, lighting, flowers, children - anything from a rock to a grain of sand...a piece of gold to a piece of glitter! She loves working with color, texture and in all art mediums in every way, shape and form! As you can see from her beautiful items.

Bringing back the "Magic" of believing and old traditions past, Londi invites you to step into the "potpourri" of dreams...Cranberry Dreams "Kisses of Christmas!"

Here you will find sweet touches of cinnamon, punchy peppermint twist and delicate forms of nature, coming together to create these unique "Artisan" Christmas ornaments and home decor.

Rediscover memories of seasons past. Find the child in you (and your peppermint-patch too!), and don't ever stop believing!



http://www.etsy.com/shop/cranberrydreams


And if that’s not enough then pop into her other shop and see her stunning pieces of work using zippers, felt, lace,vintage buttons and much more.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/londicreations

http://www.twitter.com/londicreations






Londi has many hobbies – one of them being mushroom hunting! Her favorite mushroom to find is the Morel. She loves going high into the French Alps to find chanterelles and cep mushrooms! When it is mushroom season, you often won’t find her at home as she is always out looking for a new patch to discover! In the evenings, she prepares four-star meals with her finds! Lucky friends!!

Londi loves volunteering her time! She works with an organization call VSArt, an international nonprofit organization founded 35 years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts. This is a hands-on effort where they supply the materials and help the children and adults with floral composition, jewelry making, painting and music! Out of everything she does, this is the most satisfying!

Where Londi finds enough hours in a day only she knows the answer to this, and she is generously offering one lucky winner not one but two prizes, a set off four beautiful gift tags and a pair of stunning earrings both hand made with her love deeply embedded.



Londi and I thought it would be a fitting  question for this giveaway to ask you to guess how many zippers are in the photo below.

1) Please follow my blog yes you know it makes me smile

2) Tweet about this giveaway, using the hashtag #londi. Post in a separate comment, and get one additional entry each time you do this, up to ONCE a day.

3) Become a friend of Londi Mathieu on facebook, and post in separate comment below. If you are already a friend, post in a separate comment below as well. One additional entry.

4) Follow LondiCreations on twitter, and post in a separate comment below. If you are already following, post in a separate comment as well. One additional entry.


The more times you enter, the better your chances of winning!

This giveaway will begin October 22, 2010 and end at 11:59 pm EST on November 12th 2010. It is open to anyone worldwide to enter so come in and have a go. Random.org will pick a winner!

Good luck and thank you so much Londi

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TOTALARTSOUL Magical Finds



I am delighted to be a member of this  amazing team and thought I would let you see a few random finds picked from the gallery off Total Art Soul, where you can find  pottery, felting,wonderful array of artwork,  imaginative jewelery and much much more. I hope you enjoy them and if you would like to join it's Totaly FREE, follow the link below to see many  more beautufil items.

http://www.totalartsoul.com/

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http://twitter.com/TotalArtSoul 





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The Art Of Wet Felting + Giveaway Silk Scarf "Flame"

If you have not yet met Monique from Dutchfeltart before then here is a chance to see not only her beautiful handcrafted items, and hear a little about where she lives, her love of felting ......Monique is giving away  a hand painted silk scarf "Flame" valued at $30 to one lucky winner.

Grey Merino Felt Set Scarf and Beret

Where do you Live

We Live inThe Netherlands in a very small historical city called Zierikee near  the sea. For 3 months me, Rob and Sanne ( our daughter)  in our new home which is great.

Where did you learn to do wet Felting

I started my interest in fibers when hubby decided to buy some sheep. I wanted to do something with the wool and started to learn spinning. We had a spinning group at our farm and I decided to have a workshop felting to the group. That’s where it started. I just tried to treat different fibers with water, soap and warmth and was amazed the way different fibers reacted to that

What exactly is wet Felting?

Felting is the process that single fibers stick together. By use of soap, warmth and a lot of muscle power the fibers will stick together to a strong piece of fabric. Because you need at least 3 layers of fibers to get a strong fabric you can also make use of the nuno-felting process, that is felting one layer of fibers on ( read through) a fabric, preferably natural materials like silk, cotton, hemp, linen. That results in a wonderful flexible and thin piece of felt.

Do you need special equipment to felt.

 There are a few tools you can make use of to quicken the process or to ease the muscle power you need a bit. The wonderful thing about felting is that anyone can start doing it without having to buy expensive equipment. Water, soap and wool are the basics.

What materials do you use

I use only natural materials and most of the time I dye the wool myself to get surprising colors. I mostly work with merino wool and silk, but also tencel (wood pulp) hemp, cotton and other natural materials. Depending on what you are making you must count on an hour or up to 3 for a scarf and a seamless felted coat like the example shown here took approx 8 hours.

Recently I found the fun of dying pure silk scarfs, It is amazing what brilliant color combinations you can get. I would like to offer the scarf Flame as a giveaway. I realise that there can only be one winner so if any one who enters this giveaway and would like to purchase  from my shop I will offer a 10% discount , just mention Silk Scarf.

WHAT DO YOU DO TO CHILL OUT
Hobbies are of course fibercrafts, we also enjoy long rides with our eco (electric) scooter, there you just can feel at one” with the nature around you. We are now looking for a boat because with all the water around us it would be wonderful to take boat trips in our free time. Another hobby is wwes, meeting creative people and supporting each other.

GIVEAWAY RULES

1. I would love you to follow my blog, this is not compulsory, but would make me smile:)

2. Please visit Monique's shop and heart your favourite item and or shop

http://www.etsy.com/shop/dutchfeltart

 

3. Leave your name and contact details on your post.

4. You can enter as many times as you like

5. If you retweet/ facebook add your name again to the post

6. If you win this scarf will you keep it or give as a gift?

 A winner will be chosen with Random.org on the 16th July

Lastly  a huge thank you to Dutchfeltart for her generosity and sharing her love of Felting.

GOOD LUCK

 

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