Never enough time .....

My blog always seems to get neglected, as I get so busy at times. I've been doing a lot of needle felting lately, as this is ok for my hands which are getting riddled with arthritis. Anyway, the weather is terrible here on Anglesey today, torrential rain all night and gale force wind, on the upside that means I can sit crafting all day. Here are a few of my latest makes.

All can be seen on my Cosmic Crafts page here >> https://www.facebook.com/cosmiccrafter I also have an Etsy page now too https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CosmicCrafts2014

These are little needle felted woodland scenes I have been making all are One of a Kind and proving to be quite popular too. 

I've also done a few Christmassy things of course

Neglected blog

Oh my goodness, it's almost a year since I wrote on my blog, bad me !! In my defence it's been a very busy year one way and another. Crafting and then moving house, took up a lot of my time. It's only now life is starting to settle down again, and I'm able to start crafting again.

I've started doing some little needle felted woodland scenes as presents for Christmas this year, well I've done one and am on my second. I've also done some needle felted funky fairies too. Which hopefully I'll get photo's of today to show to you.

For the time being I'll show you the hats I did last year with needle felted designs on, and also the first woodland scene.

The needle felted mermaid was a commission, as were most of the hats. To see lots more of my creations pop over to my Facebook page Cosmic Crafts

Wow !!

Well in September I made an announcement on here that I was setting up a Facebook page to sell my arts and crafts creations. I did just that, and I was the last one that expected it to take off like it did !!

Since September I've been inundated with orders, mostly for crochet head/ear warmers, that are also perfect for people with dreadlocks. I started off just doing plain ones, and then to make them stand out a bit more than all the competition I started needle felting designs on them. That's when it really took off. I was crocheting morning noon and night, till my hands were crippled with pain, but I kept it up because I was so excited that people liked my designs enough to buy them.

I needle felted Celtic tree's of life, hares gazing at moons, goddess and most recently a little robin sitting on a branch. The robin is still for sale if anyone is interested and I am also taking orders for any of the others that I've made. All head warmers fasten at the back with chunky wooden buttons.

If you've got any ideas for other designs you'd like to see on the head warmers please let me know in the comments.

This is the link to my page on Facebook if any of you missed it last time https://www.facebook.com/cosmiccrafter.

Just to wet your appetite I've put some photo's of my most popular headwarmers. Which cost between £8.50 for plain ones, £9.50 for most of the needle felted ones £12.50 for the hare ones and £20 for the celtic tree's of life. As much as possible I try to recycle packaging and I keep postage as cheap as possible.

New project

After feeling a bit iffy this last few days, I feel much better today and ready to start a new project. A totally different one this time, an embellished panel. I decided on doing this after making a friend of mine a birthday present, I enjoyed doing it so much I thought I'd make a couple of similar things and see if they sell.

Todays blog is going to be photo heavy as there's no better way to show you the new project than do it with it photo's. There will first be photo's of the various things I'll use on this project, then the panel in it's early stages and lastly the finished panel for my friend ( Andy ... Mels not allowed to see the finished panel lol )

These are little bags of rovings, which I needle onto the material.Rovings can also be made into felt as I've done with the finished panel.



Next is embroidery silks, which I will embroidery with obviously but also may use the offcuts of pieces of thread on one part of the panel.



A tub full of various beads including seed beads and bugle beads. I also have a cabinet full of much bigger beads which I may use sometimes.



Next is some pretty wool I've had for a long time now which has just been waiting for a project like this. I'll use a needle felting needle to attach this to the panel. Incase some of you haven't come across needle felting before, this is a needle with a small handle the pointed end having barbs on it which attaches the ool and roving to the panel by pulling threads through the material.



A tub full of sewing thread which I use to embroidery with too as it has a different texture to the embroidery thread.



Last of the things I'll use to embellish this panel is sequins, and also a multicoloured threads.



Here is the first steps of the new panel.



Lastly is the finished birthday present I made for my friend Mel for her birthday next week. This photo has now been removed to stop MeL from peeking lol.