Sale! - Grab a stocking filler

I'm having a mini sale! Including a mixture of old designs and one off pieces. They'd all make great little stocking fillers and are ready to ship. There's only one of each design so it's first come first served. Drop me a message if you'd like one and I can take payment through Paypal. I'll be slowly adding them to my shop, but you lovely blog readers along with my facebook followers get the first chance to snap up a bargain!

Brooches £3.50, Keyrings £4.00, Purses £5.00 and a set of 2 finger puppets for £4.00.  

UK Shipping is £1.50. 

Minifelts are getting bigger...

I decided to buy my boyfriend a Kindle for Christmas this year which he's really pleased with but has been carrying around in a envelope, so he asked me to make a case for it. Whilst I was at it I thought I'd make a case for mine too!

Can you guess who's is who's?? They have also been added to my Etsy and Folksy shops as custom orders if you'd like one of your own.

New Additions

I'd thought I'd share with you what I've been up to recently. I've been meaning to add a cat and pig design to my iPod /Phone range for a while now and after a lot of designing and several different prototypes, I've finally got them to turn out how I wanted.

Both designs are now available to purchase from my Folksy and Etsy shops. I have also been working on mini penguins. They fit the new iPod Nano and are super cute!

Web Wednesday - Halloween

Some of my favourite Halloween and monster themed finds from the web.

Demetri The Yeti by The Felt Mistress

Pumpkin carving idea via MartaStewart.com

 Halloween Cupcake Toppers by Kiwi Tini Creations

Batman Owl by Lauren Alane

Web Wednesday

Web Wednesday's are back! In an attempt to get back into a regular blogging routine, I've decided to bring back my Web Wednesday blog post, about anything and everything that catches my eye on the wonderful web.

This week the theme is my new obsession; Washi Tape. For anyone that's never heard of it before, it's brightly coloured and patterned masking tape from Japan. 

Image courtesy of Nauli, check out their shop for loads of Washi Tape designs with Worldwide Shipping.

I recently bought some Washi Tape to brighten up my parcels, but there are so many other uses for it, check out some of the creative things people have been doing with it:

How pretty is this keyboard!

You can even use it to create artwork. 

Images above courtesy of Poppy Talk Handmade, Heart Handmade UK, Washitape.net 

I think I may have to start collecting a lot of this stuff! 

Panda Phone / iPod Cases

A couple of new additions to the Minifelts Shop include these cute panda phone / iPod cases. They fit everything from iPhones to Blackberry Phones as well as many other types of smart phone and the iPod touch and iPod Classic.

Easter Cases

After spending the past few months working on re-stocking my shop with lots of my most popular designs, it's been nice this week to finally get some time to work on some new cases. 

Here they are! Brand new Easter / Spring themed Minifelt Phone / iPod /Gadget Cases. 

An Easter Bunny. Available HERE.

A little Sheep. Available HERE.

Little Big Planet

I must admit I'm a bit of a computer games geek (I blame this mainly on my boyfriend!) One release that I've been particularly looking forward to this year is a game called Little Big Planet 2.

The first game (Little Big Planet) was extremely fun and having just played the demo I can safely say the sequel looks even better! However, the main reason I'm such a big fan of this game is because of it's distinct handmade feel.

You play as Sackboy a knitted character who you can dress up, sew buttons on, change the material of and decorate however you want by collecting outfits and accessories through out the game. The game world itself also looks handmade from all sorts of different materials such as cardboard, fabric, wool, and wood. It's like one big craft adventure! 

Also when you've finished playing through all the pre-made levels that come with the game, you can use your own creativity to design and build your own handmade adventure using the level creator. (I'm thinking of making a Minifelts level, with little felt characters!)

Take a look for yourself! I can highly recommend giving this game a go even if your not normally a computer games fan!

Happy New Year

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. I had a very relaxing week off which I spent back home on the Isle of Wight with my family, eating way too much food, drinking lots of mulled wine, playing board games and watching Christmas telly!

Anyway I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a very big thank you to all of you for reading and following my blog, as well as of course my customers and everyone that's supported Minifelts over this past year, it really means a lot to me.

I can't believe that Minifelts is now a year old, and that this time last year I was just starting out, trying to learn as much as I could about selling online, promotion and photography. It's great to be able to look back over old blog posts and see how much my designs have changed. When I first set up my shop on Folksy it was selling small felt toys...

and now my product range has grown so much as I've gradually adapted my original designs to include brooches, purses, iPod cases, keyrings, cards, Nintendo DS cases and laptop cases.

The end of 2010 was so busy with me starting a new job as a product photographer (which never would have happened had I not have started Minifelts and developed such an interest in photography) and making loads of Christmas orders that I haven't had much time to work on new designs, so one of my resolutions for this year is to create a whole new range of Minifelts.

I'm also planning on trying out some new crafts and learning a lot more sewing techniques this year. I was lucky enough to receive some lovely craft books for Christmas which I'm really looking forward to reading and trying out. I also want to get better at using a sewing machine, which is going to take a lot of patience and practise! But I'm hoping it'll mean I can take on bigger more ambitious sewing projects so that I can fill my new flat full of lovely handmade things.

Anyway here's to a very productive and fun filled new year!

Web Wednesday

Today's Web Wednesday features the inspirational work of Margaret Oomen, who I discovered whilst browsing through Etsy. Her work is so unique and really captures the beauty of nature. The Knitalatte Shop is full of beautiful still life photographs and crochet covered stones.