Forrest the tribal teddy

so i've been playing around with the idea for a while but i finaly got around to making a teddy from some of my handspun wool.

here's forrest. he's the first tribal teddy. he's wearing a very attractive bunch of lime green spotty feathers i picked up yesterday from spotlight. the melbourne cup is over for the year so they're selling them off cheaply (well slightly cheaper than they usually are) forrest is made from squambo

hopefully after christmas (i have wool packages arriving soon) i'll be able to get some more made.

so following on from yesterdays theme i decided to make some ipod/mobile phone cases with matching little brooches. yep the brooches have a pin back so you can move them, take them off, or wear them yourself.

and here mum is standing with our apparently 6ft christmas tree she bought yesterday. no mum isn't a giant that's just a teeny tiny box.

felt and fun

so last night i didn't feel like doing anything much so i started looking through my felt and decided to make some colourful broochees. i haven't made any in a while and now i have my pinking shears so i added some crinkle cut ones. i've used loads of ribbon from my stash and buttons from the tin. i just love looking at these. they're soooooooooo colourful drool worthy i'd say :D

here are a couple of single pics of the two different types.

the praying mantis now has a name -rodney- liza loo came up with it. i swear this bug is looking for trouble, she keeps roaming around during the day. but i think rodney is actually a girl. i found an egg case where she's been hanging around so i think were going to hear the pitter patter of tiny little buggy feet :D

some more brooches from left overs. i'm calling these ones "stop lights" cause there are 3 buttons.

these are "push the button" but i need to retake the photos.

i've ended up with tonnes of leftovers of my spun wool so i decided just to crochet them all together to make soem new cowls. i think they look pretty darned good actually. liza loo wasn't around to do the photos so i'll retake them when i can nail her down for a little while.

new ted-e-bears

just some new ted-e-bears that were finished this week.

pom poms and stash busting

i made some more scarves from my handspun wool. so the pom pom making thingy struck again. i just couldn't resist using them on some of my scarves.



this cowl is a big tube with no opening so these are jsut decorations.

on this one they're used instead of buttons so you can open the sides.

and i've been sewing alot lately trying to get rid of some of my stash (play quilts and new journals coming soon) so i've had alot of big offcuts which i hate to throw away. so i've been turning some into jewelry which also helps get rid of some of my buttons and ribbons (clever thinking that LOL)

big storm

so i'm spent most of my time this week chasing my bantam chicken -madam squawky pants. she's decided to get all clucky and nest in an old wheel barrow we've been growing strawberries and peppermint in. the strawberries are all gone now- she stripped them and then sat right in the middle.

here she is giving me the evil eye.

yesterday afternoon we had a sudden hail storm. the clouds skated over really fast then all of a sudden it just got windy. i finished whooing the chooks into the coop and got back inside as it started. the photos don't do it justice they were actually the size of large marbles.

and yes that brown blob in the middle of the wheel barrow out in the hailstorm is madam. luckily the chicken yard has a great big tree right over it for shelter. i checked her after it all finished and she was barely damp. stupid me for worrying.

but the storm seems to have cured her of the cluckiness. she was out and about today when i got home.

mantis 1

mantis 1
Originally uploaded by rosie.ok

the praying mantis i discovered last week.

well actually i was trying to get a closer look at her friend, didn't see her, leaned where she was sitting and she tried to climb up my pants.

here's the photo from monday. hard to see but she has a bit of a dragon fly hanging out of her mouth.

gnome home update

the gnome homes looked a little naked so here's the update of 2 with their new gardens.

gnome homes and new background

lots of pics to upload from this week.

i finally got around to updating my background.

long stoy short i pulled it out this morning and got a closer look and realise my nephew had done some little scribbles on the far right tree. so this morning just seemed like a good idea to fix the whole thing. i pulled out heaps of coloured cardboard and scrapbooking papers. then made all the seperate pieces (glue all over my fingers of course and bits of paper sticking to me) each piece then gets bluetacked on so i can move them around or jsut pull them off and change them.





the trees have buttons used as the spots- the buttons are bluetacked so i can change them later.





and i used some of my big feathered butterflies which were left overs from something else





here are some photos of teddies (and the new kitty design- mouth needs reworking) i took yesterday then the new photos i retook of them. HUGE difference !!!!!!

















a new design i've been working on for gnome homes. i love the tall pointy ones. so i'm going to make some new mushrooms in the future to match them and i'm working on a little "gnome" design or something else to go with them as a set.



i love the new background. it makes everything so much brighter and happier :D i might look for some little bumble bees when i go shopping this weekend.



and of course i got a package from sherry earlier in the week. they always turn into a huge distraction LOL so the rest of that day turned into a spinning day. here's the yarn i made form it. includes some sequins, coloured metal bells (and yes they jingle) and some coloured foil butterflies.

named it "sugar coated candy bunnies"