Pile of hearts

Today I went to work by train.
I thought it would be clever to use my time well on the train so I made a pile of hearts. Hope people didn't think I was searching for love! :)
I use these hearts for my greeting cards.
They are so much fun to make!

Vives les rondes

I just found out I have been featured on Vives les rondes. Vives les rondes is a site for people with zero procent complexities about their body. Yay! Thank you Anne! :)
This is what it says:
Carte de voeux ArtMind - 5,50$ - Chez Artmind sur Etsy
Un peu de laine, de chaleur et d’idées ! Voilà ce que propose Artmind avec ces si jolies cartes. Un message pour votre dulcinée et un coeur à garder près de soi. En plus la créatrice belge partage de temps en temps des tuto sur son blog : Artmind
Translation:
A little bit of felt, warmth and ideas! Here is are what Artmind proposes with these pretty cards. A message for your sweetheart and a heart to be kept close to oneself. Even more, the creative Belgian girl from time to time writes a tutorial on her blog.

Sweet little red dress girl

Customers who bought something from my shop will recognize this sweet little red dress girl. When I first started out on Etsy, I made a bigger version of these. It turned out that it was easier to send the little ones because of postage. Besides, the little ones look even cuter! :) I have had so many lovely comments about them that I wanted to share them with whoever reads my blog. There are many of them on my working table and they make me smile every time I look at them! :)

How to make a felt brooch?

Thought it would be nice to share some 'secrets' of felting by making a tutorial of how to make a felted brooch. There are many ways of felting and I just want to show you mine...Materials you need: wool roving, glas and spoon, soap flakes, olive soap (not neccesary but I like to use it), bubblewrap foil.Hold the end of the woolroving loosely in one hand and gently pull off a section with your other hand. Hold your four fingers against the pad of your palm and trapping the wool there. Put it horizontally on the bubblewrap. Lay it out in a little square overlapping each other. Put another thin layer of felt on the little square vertically. That way the fibers will be in the opposite direction to the fibres on the first layer. Repeat this until you have four thin layers of wool put onto each other. You can use different colors to have more variation. Put some soapflakes in a glas and pour hot water over it. Sprinkle with the spoon some of the soapy water over the felt square you layed out.

Push the soapy water gently in the wool roving and rub gently in circles.

Make three squares in total. Lay out the roving in different sizes so that you have three different size squares. You could cut out three different squares out of paper and put them underneath the bubblewrap so you can see through and lay out your wool on that. I do that with children sometimes and it works really well.

Rinse the felted material underneath running water and lay out to dry.

Put the three felted squares onto each other. To make the brooch, you need sewing thread, a needle, a bead and a brooch pin.Fold the three squares together and sew them together at the back.

Sew the bead in the middle of the squares by going from the front to the back.

Sew the brooch pin at the back.

Ready! :)

Frontpage by Lisaslovelies

I was featured in this very soft and gentle treasury by Lisaslovelies and this morning it got to the frontpage.

I found many favorites in this treasury so it made me double happy really! :)

The treasuries are such a great way to find new favorites, browse through the magnificent items of all these wonderful sellers and they are just a feast for the eye! Please visit Lisaslovelies shop. She sells amazing organic jewelry!

Comfy things...

Searching for comfy things to make a treasury always makes me feel better!

I just love all these things. There is so much amazing stuff on Etsy that it's hard to capture in one treasury!

My very special favorite from this treasury is the red seahorse from snaulkter. Check out her shop, it's full of super seahorses.

GREAT or GREYT ?

YAY! The treasury I made, made it to the frontpage of Etsy.

I slept so I didn't see it but Arctida and EmmaPardos were so nice to get me a screenshot.
I featured some new artists that I found in the Timemachine. I love browsing through there.
This drawing from mwedge got sold. No wonder, it looks stunning!