Now I'm in snowing UK!

My husband Mike and I were safely arrived in London. Heading to north (Leeds). We will stay there 2.5 weeks. Veeeeeerrrry cold! I love it.

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Cooking real food

I start cooking Niku-Jaga (beef mince, onion and porato) now. Enough making felted fried eggs today. What a hot day today. 33degree! I'm looking forward to have winter in UK next week!

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The Swiss Chees Coasters

Yes, they are new products! The Swiss cheese coaster. They look just great I love it! They will be on the shop on Saturday this week!

More Fried Egg Coasters on the way!

I am trying make stocks of them as much as possible that I can take them in the shop before UK trip. They are very popular products so run out quickly. Hope I can make enough of them.

A hand carved rubber stamp

I have bought the set of hand carved rubber stamp kit from Japan a while ago and haven't really try them yet. I made a stamp of my logo. I was not very hard but I feel I need to do more practices to have my confidence.
The good quality ink is very important. I will buy some from Japan when I came back from UK in January.
Mike(my husband) and I will go to UK between mid December and mid January. Meanwhile all my net shops are closing.

Bacon coaster

Finally I made the bacon coasters which would go with my fried egg coasters.

"Hey Hunter, what do you think about the bacon coaster?" I believe he loves it.

My flowering cactuses!

I am a bad bad mother of my plants. These cactuses have survived neglect of my care for all these days and now flowering beautifully and kept growing! I love u guys!


These are almost the eyeballs cactuses there are buts on it that I look forward to seeing them flowering!

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Eyeballs ....

It's getting there ....

Making more eyeballs!

I did not know how therapeutic to make eyeballs until I start making my "Mate" products. I believe that the art/craft people would sooner or later to improve their ability to use anything for everything to meet their needs of their art works. I use many kitchen tools for my felting (above img: the ice cube maker ) What is your strange and useful tools?

"ThNew! "The Pricess and the pea" Paper weight.

This paper weight is particularly made for the paper napkins. As u see in the second photo a pea can be under the napkins like its story. The pea is attached to the princess by thin thread so it won't be lost easily. The inside of the princess is a soap so it has a nice gentle fragrance. You can buy it at the Glebe market on Saturday this week!

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New! Sprouts on soil paper weghit.

Aren't the beautiful? I'm no sure how I call them yet, but u can use it in many ways.
Just put it on your desk / table make u smile. Use it as a paper weight I particularly like it on the pile of paper napkins on the dining table. A soil part is a soap in it so it has a nice gentle fragrance. U can buy it on the Glebe market on Saturday this week.

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More Fried Egg Coasters r on the way!

These Fried Egg Coasters really make every body smile. People at the market just love to look at them, touch them, smile, laugh... it's so enjoyable to see their reactions. Of course I would like the people to buy one or two and take home with big smiles. I use it everyday mine has two egg yokes.





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More WoolLights!

I'm so glad that i could make more WoolLights for this Saturday's market. Looks very good! Would u believe that we expected the heat wave on Saturday. It may be 40 degree! I don't know how I can survive.

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WoolLight - Sold out

I sold all three woolLights at the market! I need to make more for this Saturday.

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The peas in a pod

I made 6 of the peas in a pod. They will be a broach. I enjoy making them. They will be on the market this Saturday!

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More ReadingMate

Stripy design. Black & whit. Red & black. They look like a tie, don't they?

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Making new products

I'm making a lot of small balls and canoe shape things. What do u think they will be?

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Glebe market is on today!

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New Product "ReadingMate"

These cute look creatures are my new products called "ReadingMate". It says "I am not an ordinary book mark."


This is how to use it.
Cute eyeballs indicate where you were. Arn't they cute?


Rubbing the part you want to bend with your warm hands....

It can sit like this.

Being there for you as your reading mate.

My new shop space at "Beehive"

This is my new shop space at Beehive.
I'm so thrilled to introduce my new product "CupMate" to people. Those "CupMate"s are so cute when they lined up there.
The Grand Opening Sale! The retail price $18 is now the sale price - just $10! Offers valid until 31 October 2009 or while stocks last.
Please come to the shop!

Beehive Gallery
Shop1 441-443 King Street
Newtown 2042 NSW
Australia

Sand Art

I've never seen like this.
So inspiring. I wish I could learn how to do the sand art. Fantastic!

WoolLights

I made this candle lights shell (I'm not sure how I call it yet) today for the wedding anniversary gift to my friends. I have purchased a quite few Wendsleydale wool to make them. There are several colors but I am glad I did not use red for this otherwise it would look like "heart organ", doesn't it? This is light lime green. I am very happy with it.
I have been struggling to find a right candle glass I can put in the wool shell. Its height should be more than 6cm so the candle flame wouldn’t come out of the glass. Even though wool generally wouldn’t catch the flame (amazing!) it’s safer to use one with certain height. Then it should be a cylinder shape. I found them at IKEA. It was not candle holder but a drinking glass. I was so happy when I found it. Didn’t cost much either.
I used a sanding machine when I made this it helped me to save a lot of time

A Great sale of wool yarns at Spotlight in Belrose

I went to the Spotlight yesterday to get a small thing and ended up to buy a huge bagful of many kinnds of wool yards which I will be able to use for my felting. They are just a half of the original price, it' s incredible!!! I am always looking for the nice colors of wool yards. The image is one of the 100% merino wool yards I bought which is beautifully died as gradation and thin and thick texture. I am going to use this when i make the candle holder sculpture... also Nunofelt scarf as well. Sooooo exciting!

CupMate :: My new product!

I am so excited about the new product I made this time because I love it and use it everyday.
It is hard for felters to make something you can sell in Summertime. The CupMate is the one you can sell and use it all year around.
I am making a lots of color variations. This will be on the shop very soon too.

Felted Postcard + Candle Holder

I made this new product. It's a felted postcard (a felted picture sheet and a paper card are jointed together), you can use it as candle holder as well. I really like the look of the felted picture casted by flickering candle light from the back. It's bit like a shadow picture. The nostalgic feelings. What do you think?

Making stocks of the Fried Egg Coasters

Because I sold a quite few of the fried egg coasters at the market, I need to make more stocks of them. I am really enjoying the procedure of making them, listening to the podcasts and wondering about those beautiful people who bought my fried egg coasters how they enjoy showing them to their friednds and laughing about it.... These fried egg coasters would at least make people smile. :-)
　

New coasters

I made 3 coasters just now at the market.
1. [Left] "My glass is half full!"
2. [centre] "face"
3. [right] "flower"



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Glebe Market Today!

We r having a cuppa before market starts.



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Huge trees give u energy to think positive!

Mike(husband), Henry(dog) and I visited the centennial park this afternoon. Dogs can run around without leash. Huge trees are impressive.



Found the beautiful patterns of pine tree skin. Aren't the gorgeous?









Pine cones r beautiful too.



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Spring

Such a wonderful feeling when u see the spring flowers here and there that give me Great inspirations.



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I went to the Stiches & Craft show on Sunday afternoon. It was the last day of the show. I bought a few things. Not much for the felters but interesting to see what's going on in the craft world. Did anybody go there too?

Huge Felting Works

This is amazing!

Beautiful silhouette

Could see the silhouette of ivy against the curtain. Nice.



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Wonderful wedding dress!

http://www.alpacafarmgirl.com/2009/08/shepherdess-bride-grows-her-own-dress/

I wish I could have a farm like her Wonderful dress. Check this out!



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A dog which is made of comic paper.

How about this dog? Isn't he cute ?



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Ideas

Found this cute lights. Can I make something like this with felt?


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Candle light decoration

This is something different.

A new product

Don't worry. though the burning candle stays in the 100% pure wool vase, the wool won't get burnt at all. Amazing!

Huge!

Lincraft 50% off fabrics

I went to Lincraft in Belrose last week and got a quite few cotton muslin fabrics and a couple of silks. I was so happy that I could buy them with 50% off. They will have 50% off sale 3times a year they said. :-)

Shibori Dye Workshop (Tie Dye)

This is one of my favourites. using plastic pegs. I just love the effects-shapes and gradation colour... and sooooo easy.


I loved this scarf my teacher made. simple and modern oriental. Even though you use the black dye, you can get the rusty brown colour here and there which I feel wonderful!

using 2 rubber bands to tie twice and make interesting patterns. I feel those patterns are pretty much oriental taste.

One of my favourite skills, the flat buttons inside and tied with rubberbands. I used the marbles but I prefer the flat buttons because they make clearer circle patterns.
If you leave the buttons with it untill it's completely dry, it will make 3D effects. But I don't like to use this for my scarf somehow.... i don't know... I like smooth scarf than bumpy ones.

There you go, putting in the black dye pot.

This is one of my favourite skilles.
I used string to tie my wool scarf around a plasti ctube.

I used the dye on 3 kinds of fabrics. All of them were very white.
1. silk
2. nuno felt (cotton + wool)
3. wool

Because the dye we used that day was only for the protein base fabrics, so I cannot dye on the cotton. However, when I dye one the cotton + wool fabric, the very interesting result came up.


Here are 3 kinds of techniques I used on my coaster.
1. using pegs.
2. using rubberbands.
3. using strings.

My favourite one is pegs, so easy and almost you won't make mistakes.
The hardest one is the one with strings, as you see it's not so clear ... this suposed to be shape of heart ..