Boredom Brooch

I found myself extraordinarily bored yesterday and decided to spend my afternoon making a brooch.

It's made of felt with a gold colour button, a smaller red button and a pearl bead on top. Silk ribbon with various beads, including a shell and a glass bead attached and a gingham ribbon with a plastic bead attached.
I've been very slow in updating my blog recently - I hope to be a lot more creative over the next few weeks!


Emma
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A Christmas Decoration

I created a little elf hanging decoration as part of the Christmas decoration swap on Teddy Talk.
He's 7 and 1/2 inches (11cm) tall, made of felt and stuffed with polyester. He has black English glass eyes and has been hand sewn.
He is currently winging his way to the USA, hopefully he'll arrive before Christmas, though judging by the snow it seems particularly unlikely.
Hopefully the recipient will get to see him this side of new year and enjoy him a little bit before he's squirrelled away ready for next Christmas.
A very merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone :)

Emma
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A Little 40th Birthday Gift

This is Edward, he stands at 4 1/2 inches tall has a blue bell, a blue ribbon and a little blue embroidered heart on his chest.
I made him recently for my mum's cousin's (does that make her my second cousin? I get very confused!) 40th birthday. He seemed to go down a treat, she loves collecting Pipkin Bears but they were a little out of my price range so I thought I'd make her one of mine.
He didn't turn out perfect - he's going to have to invest in a built up shoe as he seems to be suffering from one leg shorter than the other! But I don't mind, his face turned out okay :)
Well, I'm going to start my next one now!

Emma
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Amelia

I've finally gotten round to finishing my latest bear!

Meet Amelia...

She's 4.5 inches tall, has a handmade skirt embroidered with purple hearts, english glass eyes, a pink headband with a bow on and a heart embroidered on his chest.

What do you think?

Emma

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There's Nothing Better Than Farmyard Eggs

I've finally gotten round to blogging about my farmyard egg cozies.
They're made of felt and embellished with beads and different colours of thread.
I wanted to make them bright and colourful to cheer myself up on dreary days, much like today has been; I miss the sun already!
There are four different animals in the farmyard set; a pig, a chicken, a cow and a sheep.

I've just got the cats to make for the pet egg cozy set and then I'll post the finished pictures.

Happy Creating!
Emma
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Rabbits, Eggs and Oscar

Meet Oscar...

He's made of a faux fur fabric, which I've distressed using sandpaper to make him look very well loved.

I've also decided that a red embroidered heart on the chest of my bears is how people will tell them apart from the bears of other artists because they're just too small for fabric labels!

I was going to make him a tatty green jacket before posting on my blog, but unfortunately I'm having a wee bit of trouble creating a pattern; my dressmaking skills are not up to scratch I'm afraid!

In other news...

Check out my egg cups!

Aren't they just the sweetest little things you've ever seen? I can think of little else nicer to hold my hot boiled eggs than two very cute bunny rabbits.

Happy Creating!

Emma

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A Spring In My Step

Today has been a gorgeous, sunny, spring day. So gorgeous, in fact, that I dug deep into the darkest corners of my chest of drawers and turfed out my summer clothes.

I decided I'd make the most of the sun, so I did my bear making in the garden and thought I'd take some pictures to get everyone in the springtime mood.

Please excuse my extraordinarily disorganised sewing box, it's too small now for all of my threads, pins, needles and other sewing bits and bobs, I can't even get the lid shut anymore!

Spring would not be Spring without daffodils and tree blossoms and I simply couldn't resist snapping a few shots of those too, so here's a selection of the best.

All this fresh Spring air has got the creative cogs of my mind whirring, so i must get back to my sketchbook.

Happy Creating!

Emma
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