Today I got some new tools. First are the scalloped scissors from Tooltron and then I purchased an industrial snap installation tool. Totally stoked about both of them. My work day seems so much longer when there are new tools at home that I want to play with asap! Will post some results soon.

I saw this on the internet and thought that it was another cool way to use scrap felt. It is industrial felt so I will need to tweak it a bit with wool felt scraps. I will also change it up a bit since it is not nice to steal ideas. Have a fine and felty day!

So I have obsessed about throwing away any felt scraps, they are wool, upcycled or eco-felt all of which are expensive and being an old hippie, I live to recycle. Sooooo I was looking around the Hobby Lobby and discovered this little bracelet with squares that were just screaming to be filled in with little embellished squares of felt. When I say little, I mean little. The squares are about 1/2" square so even the smallest scraps of felt can be used. Blissful smile! The bracelets are less than $5.00 and are adjustable.

So I spent most of the weekend looking at my felt stash and coming up with ways to use small pieces. I hate to throw any felt away. I also made a cool industrial felt case with a wool felt embellishment on it. Am going to make an I-pad case so photos will follow.

So it is really hard to talk about gears without talking about Tim Holtz. He designs great die cuts and he has these really sweet little gears, keys, latches, watch faces......you name it, he already thought of it. I have a little divided box in my studio that has a little of everything from the world of Tim. Something great is always inspired by his embellishments. Anyway I decided that felt gears and brass gears should come together in the perfect storm of creativity and with some embroidery and the final touch of attaching them to a suede necklace, they would become industrial jewelry.

Lets talk about gears

just a peek at my other feltie fun!

Crazy, fun felt tooth fairy pillow

So I decided that boys get a raw deal on cool handmade things. So I decided to design a tooth fairy pillow with a more boyish theme. Yeah I know, there are girls that love robots too. Anyway I used wool felt and some small buttons and of course embroidery floss because it just has to be hand embroidered to be an heirloom (at least that is how I feel). I assembled the whole deal and put a small pocket on the back so that a monetary stipend could be left and I put a ribbon loop so that it can be hung up, will make the rooting around under the pillow a bit easier.
Check back as I continue to design in the hopes that I will be taking some of this stuff to the Renegade Fair in Brooklyn NY in June.