Fleecy Fibre And Bustin' Out Bunny Classes This Weekend


I got some awesome face wool from Gemini Fibres. The top one is dark and the bottom one is called badger face...



I got my kits ready early for this weekend's workshops. The kits contain Roving, felting needles, a sponge and beads to make two bunnies, plus I have a manual for each kit. All bunny designs created and designed by me.


I will be at Ewephoria in Richmond Hill (Oak Ridges), on Yonge St. The workshop is 11-5 Saturday.
I will be at Unwind Yarn House in Newmarket, on Main St. The workshop is 10-4 on Sunday.
Come by and visit...



These are the bunnies we are making.....



Come on Down To the Shops and you might just get "Felt-UP" (get your mind out of the gutter!)

https://motivated-motion.blogspot.com/2009/04/fleecy-fibre-and-bustin-out-bunny.html

Needle-Felting Update

I have decided to use Etsy for the majority of my selling, instead of Ebay. Please check out the the Motivated Motion Gallery to see the new features and click on all the pics to see what is moved over to Etsy!

This is the poster for the New Needle Felting Workshops I am doing in York Region

https://motivated-motion.blogspot.com/2008/10/needle-felting-update-i-have-decided-to.html

NFEST


I joined a needle-flelting group called NFEST or (Needlefelters- Stabalot Lane)on flickr. They also have a blog at: NFEST BLOG

I have added a slideshow from the flickr group in the margin of my blog.

Now you can look at the cutest needlefelting stuff ever right here in the slideshow, and you can click on any of the pics and open up the flickr for that artist.

https://motivated-motion.blogspot.com/2008/10/nfest-i-joined-needle-flelting-group.html

More Needle Felting Pieces:
Creations Are Afoot!

So I have began a project to make miniature recreations of our family pets and friends' family pets. I wish to do these for business as commissioned pieces for other folks in the future. All I need is a photo of the pet....and there I go!

The first one I made was my parents' Labrador Retriever.
Her name was Gentle.
This is how she started out.
Please pay attention to her size in comparison to the mug as it progresses through the photos as she shrinks.

This white one is our old dog Cya. She was a coyote. She had markings like a husky but she had two sets of back teeth rows. The next photo below shows how she looks now with her fur colours on.
The miniatures have glass eyes. I got them from an online shop. They are 2mm glass eyes.
I attach them myself.


Each of the dogs is about 30hrs of work. They are very dense. and I have pushed a lot of wool fluff into the the piece.

If you wish to commission a piece we can do the commission bid through ebay. I will need a good photo of your pet with a good outline of the pet's body and a good look at the colour patterns of the fur.
Please email me if you wish to have your pet captured in a collector, hand-made wool kneedle-felted miniature.

https://motivated-motion.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-needle-felting-pieces-creations.html

I Had A Great 45th Birthday
We Introduce "Maulder"
And We Catch A Rainbow And A Rose In Their Splendor

So here is the newest felted creation. Maulder. Cam named him.
He is a free-standing alien who defies all odds of balance an can stand up with his very sway back!
He has no wires inside him. He is strictly all felted.
So far, all the creations I have made are only stabilized by the felting process itself.
Maulder took about 25hrs of work.

I have one set of felts to finish, then I am putting the block of them up on ebay.
Please keep coming back this week to see when the website debuts.
Please come to the site and look around when I get it all running.

I need lots of feedback on the look and the ease of use of it etc.
So you all can help me out by giving me feedback and telling your friends about me.

Alex came this weekend for my Birthday, and for a stag the guys were supposed to go to.
He studied the needle felting stuff and has told me that this summer he will make me an official brand and he will take the time to revamp my dot com and dot ca websites to really enhance the sale of the needle felted creations.
He spent some time online looking at other needle felting creations for sale or auction, and he is quite interested in my stuff. He thinks this might fly.

Like him, I really didn't know the interest folks would have in this hobby of mine.
I am getting tons of feedback on facebook and on the blog and in emails about my photos of my work. So I am really excited about this.

Saturday Dad came up for my Birthday. Mom wasn't feeling well, so she stayed home.

My Dad and Al

Cheers Cam!

Al, Carl and Dad

Dad, Carl and Cam

Me and Al

Me lookin all 45!

A lovely rainbow over the park

Tea Rose Out Front

This week we have also been very busy prepping two rooms to take on student boarders in the fall. Seems like all of our spare time has gone into painting and recarpeting and furnishing the rooms.
One is taken, and the girl is the daughter of an old friend of mine, and we hope the second room will be taken this week.
It is really exciting taking in the students. They are all Seneca at King, or Seneca at York Students or York Students who are looking.....
So if you have a kid going to these schools this fall and they are looking for off-campus housing...the Tucker Inn is in business! LOL
The great thing about our town is we have all the stuff the big city has but it costs less and it is safer here. Plus we have a direct bus to Seneca at York University and a quick transit to Seneca at King from the bus stn right near our home. Plus our home is walking distance to the big mall, movie theatre and all the good restaurants.
I can walk to everything within three min of our home. That is the blessing of being on the edge of a town surrounded by farmland. It is funny to look up the road and see the Costco, and a few feet from it three huge barn silos! We have a huge super movie theatre called Silver City. It is surrounded by fields.
The downfall of the smaller town life is you can look up the road and see modern stores and shops of all kinds and at certain times of the summer if you take a deep breath you can smell the sheep manure on the farm fields just behind all that.
Guess it still smells better than city pollution.

https://motivated-motion.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-had-great-45th-birthday-we-introduce.html

The Menagerie Of Tiny Felted Creations

Yep I have been busy with my needle felting.

Most of the creations shown here will be put up for bid on ebay on June 15th.
I will show these creatures closer and base-priced soon.

I want enthusiasts, or those that collect these little friends to not miss the big sale I will have.
I am very excited.
I am not putting them as sales but as bids so I can see what kind of prices they can fetch.

I will also do commissioned pieces. Like perhaps a model of your dog or cat or hamster in miniature.
I will make one of my hermit crabs to sell as a start.
Click on the photos to see them bigger.

twitter the computer mouse, chief the dragon, humphry bunny, dreddy bear, oulette the frog, sleeping smouse, pinky (not for sale), twig the bunny, and darwin the skull

Humphry Bunny and Dreddy Bear with his Rasta hat

Twitter the computer mouse, Chief the dragon

Twitter the computer mouse

Side view of Twitter's tail

Dreddy Bear, Oulette the Frog, and Sleeping Smouse

Sleeping Smouse
Because I drew cartoon mice, and I was the smallest person in school, I got the nickname of Smouse. Even in my Sr. High school year book my nick name is printed.... So smouse is still a name folks from high school call me. Just like my friends from Europe call me Amy, because I was the author Amy. It has been a great life having personas. Everyone in my family is familiar with all of them.

Pinky the Bear, Twig the Bunny, Darwin the Skull with an amethyst crystal in his head

Pinky is a replica of Cameron's childhood Teddy Bear. Twig is a likeness of one of the twin bunnies in our garden. Darwin was inspired by the first skull I made for my friend Sue. I decided that magical likenesses will get crystals.

Oulette has a great story. When I was very young, about age 8, I created two cartoons. One was a frog and one was a mouse. My Dad was a detective and one day he brought his new partner, Andy Oulette, by for a coffee. I drew Andy my frog. He laughed. This was in the early '70s and I did not know that in slang French Canadians was Frogs. So that is how Oulette got his name.

Humphry bunny came from my imagination. He formed himself as I manipulated the roving.

Chief was named by Cameron. But the idea came from my friend Margaret who said that I should try a dragon. So I did.

Well this is the mouse I drew since I was 8 or so. Now he finally becomes 3D. I have actually made three of these. This one is the largest and he is Twitter. Carl has the next size smaller and he is called Bit, and Al has the third one that is really really small, and he is called Eee (cuz he was made small to go on Al's Asus Eee mini laptop)

Please keep coming back over the next few weeks and I will show you more of these. Next post I will show you pics I took at the museum, and I will show you a book I got for ideas of more creations. I was inspired by what I saw at the museum, and my imagination is reeling and ready to burst with ideas. Monday I will order more roving (the carded wool fluff) so I can begin some pet likenesses.
Right now I am working on a fairy/angel...

https://motivated-motion.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html

Some More Needle-felted Creations By Me!


I am so addicted to this needle-felting.
When folks ask me about how I do it I say this:

Remember the story of sleeping beauty? She pricks her finger on a spindle needle?
Ever think what a spindle needle is? It is a very sharp needle with barbs on it.
You take a hunk of carded wool fluff and press the needle into it repeatedly to shape it. The ball of fluff gets smaller and smaller and out comes a creation from imagination.

A very old toymaking trade.

Chief the Dragon

Sleeping Smouse

Sandy Bear, Pinky Bear, Lilly Ladybug, Rose, and Humphry Bunny

Humphry and Chief and Smouse will go on my other web site soon to Auction on Ebay.
I will let you know when they are up.

https://motivated-motion.blogspot.com/2008/05/some-more-needle-felted-creations-by-me.html