Easter Bunnies

With Easter fast approaching I thought I'd offer FREE UK SHIPPING on all the bunnies in my Folksy Shop to celebrate, so make sure you get your Easter bunnies quick!

There are more bunnies available from my Website. I am also happy to custom make you a Minifelt Bunny in any colour you'd like, so please feel free to drop me an email.

Surprise holidays are the best

Last week my lovely boyfriend whisked me away on a surprise trip to Oxford, as a late Christmas present. I had no idea about it what so ever, I thought we were heading up to stay with his mum on the Wirral. I didn't even suspect anything when we were driving down country lanes past fields of sheep, instead of speeding along the motorway!

Anyway we were driving through this little village called Stanton St John just outside Oxford, with me saying "wouldn't it be nice to live somewhere like this?" He then pulls into the pub carpark and says "well let's stay here for a few days!" He'd arranged for us to stay in a lovely little cottage just down the road. It was really quirky, had loads of antique ornaments and furniture, plus a jacuzzi and a really good curry house near by! Although the "period" style decoration wasn't all to our taste (especially the very scary giant baby painting in the bedroom), it was so much more fun than staying in a boring hotel! Oxford was also lovely and definitely worth a visit if you haven't been there before.

I managed to take a few photos of the cottage before my camera battery died...

I really liked this piece of furniture in the kitchen, it had loads of little draws each with various useful items in, such as knives and forks, thought it'd be really good for storing sewing stuff in, you could have a draw for buttons and one for fabric etc... Definitely need something like this to help me be more organised!

Here's the Minifelts filling out their postcards that they got on a visit to the fantastic Ashmolean museum. No idea how they managed to gatecrash our holiday, those Minifelts are very sneaky...

 They were especially excited when they heard the cottage was called the Burrows, and was sort of underground, they also approved greatly of the number of rabbit themed ornaments they discovered.

Projects galore

For the past week or so, I've been waking up most mornings with a head full of ideas for new projects. Unfortunately this just seems to mean I have tons of unfinished projects on the go at once, as every time I go to finish something I get a different idea, or it doesn't quite turn out how I'd planned and that leads to a whole new idea... Need to keep away from the internet there's far too many inspiring things on there!

Here are some projects I did manage to finish. Firstly with Valentine's day approaching I thought I'd have a go at making some cards. Here are my first attempts, I've listed them over on Folksy if you fancy buying one. Would love to hear any thoughts/suggestions for future cards.

I also got some new fabric for Christmas this year, so thought I'd put it to good use. I've made a load of Minifelt badges, as I'm thinking of doing my first ever craft fair and thought it'd be good to have a few small things to fill up the stall with.

I also made these lavender smelephants, from the same fabric. I made the template myself, and kept them a simple shape, think I need to add some tails to these though.

and finally an idea that still needs a bit of work, my cardboard cuckoo clock. This didn't go quite to plan as I wanted to make a net out of one piece of card then fold up the sides, but I didn't have a piece of card big enough, so I improvised! I made it out of several small bits of card and attempted to glue them together. However, this was a big mistake, as the glue didn't stick well enough. I tried to rescue it using good old double sided sellotape, but that also didn't quite stick right... So it needs a bit of a re-think. Here it is anyway.

Hope I continue to have many more successful (well at least easier to make) ideas over the next few weeks. Must make the rule of not starting something new till I've finished the last thing!

Snow adventures

Finally there's snow on the Isle of Wight, and lots of it. The minifelts were very excited as they have never seen snow before. My boyfriend, my dad and I decided to build a snowman, and a couple of other little helpers managed to sneak along too...

A good hour later we had removed most of the snow from the drive, and the road and pavement outside the house. We'd also fallen over several times, "accidently" tipped snow over each others heads and ruined several pairs of gloves but we did produce this in the process...

Not exactly a classic snowman, for some reason his head started to look like it had a parka hood on, so we made him a little fishing rod and turned him into an eskimo!

After all that we needed to go inside for a nice cup of tea and a lie down.

Well some of us did...

Mr Elephant's New Years Resolutions

Mr Elephant has been over induldging over the christmas period and so has resolved to keep an eye on his weight.

Christmas Eve!

Ooooh it's Christmas Eve! Been really busy over the past few weeks, made a couple of sales on the website, and finally got round to opening my Folksy shop which you can check out HERE and has these new additions for sale.


At the moment I'm back home visiting my parents on the Isle of Wight, feeling a bit lonely as the Minifelts have all gone on a roadtrip to Newcastle for Christmas. Where hopefully they will be having their photographs taken with a fancy camera.


I couldn't resist taking a few craft materials home with me, so have attempted a couple of projects. Firstly I found a free bird template HERE on the Spool website, which I didn't end up following but inspired me to make a bird mobile, it's still a work in progress at the moment so will share some photos once it's finished.

I also attempted to use my mums sewing machine to make a giant Minifelt bunny, or rather a Megafelt. I haven't used a sewing machine since highschool, so it didn't quite go to plan... Think I need to practise on something a bit easier first, so I finished it off by hand. It needs a name, any suggestions?



Right I'm off to eat some mince pies and watch some terrible Christmas telly.
Merry Christmas from me and the Minifelts!

Hello from the Minifelts

The minifelts are all really excited about having their own blog and are even more excited to announce that the new website is ready! (I have to admit I'm quite excited too...) They'd love it if you could pop over and have a look - minifelts.com

They couldn't wait to have their photographs taken for the shop. So I lined them up on a white sheet, stuck a huge spotlight on them to compensate for it being gloomy winter, and here they are...

The bunnies were a bit nervous at first about the idea of going off to new homes, to be honest most things seem to scare them, but once I'd explained that they would have lots of adventures with their new owners, they hopped about excitedly.

These tigers are brothers and sisters and are very competitive (as siblings ofter are) Every tiger is unique with it's own individual stripes, which is very useful for telling them apart when they get into trouble. They're favourite food for some reason is frosted flakes...

The cats are very quiet and mysterious, they are always competing to sit on the highest perch, and often appear deep in thought. Perhaps they know something we don't...

These birds are terrible show offs, they're rather proud of their feathers. Mind you they are mightily impressive!

Watch out for more Minifelts coming soon, and if you like the look of any of these they are all in need of a loving new home over at: minifelts.com