A needle felting project to be hopefully

This is Albert my 18 year old Galah or Rosie breasted cockatoo as the Americans like to call them haha. He's a character and one day I'd like to be good enough to needle felt him or perhaps have someone needle felt him for me. Like a pet portrait type thing I see on Etsy. We adopted him just before Christmas last year from a friend who runs a parrot rescue shelter. He says good boy, Bert, puss puss, Ziggy and hello, his original owners must have had a cat hence why he says puss puss. He'll also purr like a cat so I think he's got a cat complex. They also had a dog called Ziggy and whenever we leave the house he'll call out excitedly ZIGGY ZIGGY ZIGGY.

He loves a chin and head scratch as you can see, he's the most friendly bird I've ever met, he's never bitten and loves attention. He follows me around the house, waddling its the cutest thing ever.

As you can see I'm in my favorite armchair and my felting goods are beside me on a table haha. That's how I work watching tv usually with the felting foam on my lap. I'm also in love with my vintage curtains that I found at an op shop recently. I love vintage finds.

Moon Bear

I forgot to add this in my earlier post today but this is a project I'm still working on ^^ he's called Moon bear, the moon shape is wet felted in merino silk blends and the bear is a merino mix wool. I'm still working on the detailing though such as making the arms a little more solid and what not. Then I'll work out a way to turn him into a mobile or somehow to hang him up somewhere.

How should I string him up? I'm thinking maybe ribbon... not sure yet though I'm still in the thinking process for him lol I'll take some better photos of him when he's finished hopefully before Friday. As you can probably guess I have craft adhd! I'm forever jumping between projects. I'll start something and already have an idea for the next one.

Cat and Doll

http://woolpets.typepad.com/ is where I got this idea for the little girl I've created recently. She is made from wensledale locks and merino mixed wools. The cat was also an inspiration from wool pets I love that simple style. I wont be posting much unless I make something other this week just because I'm preparing to get my wisdom teeth taken out on Saturday. So tomorrow I'm going to the doctors cause I'm asking for a sedative as its a local and I'm scared out of my willies about the whole thing as I thought I'd be asleep throughout it. Last week I had a clean and de scale done and I was crying through that and it wasn't the pain as there was none its just I'm really phobic about the dentist. So you can imagine how I'll be on the actual procedure day! not looking forward to it at all. I'll be fine after I can cope with pain as I've got a high tolerance to it but just the thought of their hands in my mouth and all the tools scares me.

Secret Key

Turn that golden key
what do you see?

See those birds in the sky?
you look at me with the evil eye

Hollow and black, loose and slack
is this all we got?

A world with color, sound, heat, blistering hot
Turn that secret key

How? is he higher than you do we bow?
If you turned that golden key would you get to see me?

Lose the crap, lose it, you can do it in a snap
Turn that secret key, is it beneath you? is it beneath me?

Turn around, anti clockwise... what do bodies mean, alien, three eyes?
Golden secret key is it real like you and me.

I haven't felt like writing in ages so excuse the randomness of it, its late
at night and I tend to get weird inspiration like this. No real meaning I just like
this kinda style and secret key kinda got to me.

Whispers the bear

This little two inch bear is Whispers, she's made from a silk merino blend (white color) and the teal color is kid mohair that is created by my friend Tess. I've mentioned her before in this blog she's from NZ. Anyways Whispers was created and needed a home, Kaylee my friend from sewing class surprised me with a book called Pass me a smile. I've still got to take photos and do a proper catch up on my items. But its a cute little book with sewing, needle felting and wet felting projects so Kaylee knew I would enjoy the book and she wasn't wrong. So to thank her I gave her Whispers, she was still in my sewing bag cause Kaylee had missed one week where I was originally showing Whispers off. So now Whispers lives on this window ledge happily sun baking and watching over Kaylee and her family.

Nutters the Squirrel

I've been reading up on photography tips and am so happy with how Little Nutters the squirrel has turned out. I experimented with Litlte Nutters cause I used some of my cashmere lop's bunny fur on him, its the white you see and it felted really nicely so now I'm thinking of bagging 10 gram bags up to see if they'll sell. I've also got another lop boy bunny who's natural gray and brown colors so it'll be a nice mix. The fur is super clean and really does felt nicely.

Anyways meet Nutters the squirrel

Wizard doll

This is a needle felted Wizard I've completed over the weekend, I bought Kay Petals dvd workshop and sat down with it finally. He's unnamed at the momment and not totally finished as I want to create a staff for him to hold. Just need to work out how to give the wool that knobbly wooden texture before I get started.

Anyways he's about 12 inches tall have to measure him to be sure, he's made from merono core batting, merino wool roving in beige for skin color, merino batting in black for robe, merino wool roving for pants and shoes in orange and brown. Hair is a mixture of acrylic and wool.