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"Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion".

-Oprah Winfrey

Our wish for you this week, is that you allow yourself
time and freedom to play in your passions.

It has been fairy & forest folk week on the Felting Friends blog, and what
brilliant works we have seen! Like this wonderfully felted gnome by Carol Snoeyenbos.
See MORE GNOMES by Carol and read how her 82 year old inspiration,
Auntie Phyllis got her started with needle felting.

See it on the blog

LOTS More Gnome & Forest Folk Stuff Coming on the blog this week...
subscribe to see it when it posts!

As always, we wish you happy felting, and let us know
if you have any questions or need any support by emailing us at
customer service@livingfelt.com

With Love,
Marie

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Gnomes, and Fairy & Gnome Homes!

Joyce Hazlerig always felts up something unique and magical, you might recall
that she won 1st Place in the Living Felt 2010 International Felting Contest
- Alice in Wonderland theme with her amazing Cheshire Cat!

This week she not only shares her original, fantasy gnome homes,
she also gives to her Felting Friends a free step-by-step tutorial on making them!

See Joyce's Gnome Homes Here | Gnome Home Tutorial Here

 

See the fairy house by Kathleen Dickinson

 

Adorable Gnome Pin Cushion by Di Summit

 

The Seven Dwarves by Mimi Hirsch

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We're Having a Give-A-Way!

Most people agree that the "new" facebook timeline is a little clunky,
and we are all still getting accustomed to it. So to help the ease the tension
and to encourage more fun interaction amongst our felting friends...

FOR THE ONE MORE WEEK,
we're giving away $$ Gift Certificates
to anything your creative heart desires
in the Living Felt Store!

Post a Comment = Get One Entry
Post a Photo = Get TWO Entries
Visit daily & post!

POST YOUR SUPPORT FOR OTHERS & SHOW US YOUR STUFF!

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Winner! For This Week's
Facebook Post & Win Drawing

Patty Gibson! You've seen her name a lot, she is an avid
needle felter, she has gifted our Felting Friends community
with her free bird tutorial, and she is very supportive
of others on our facebook page!

Patty wins a $25 Gift Certificate
good for anything on LivingFelt.com!

Soon! We'll post a new tutorial by Patty
for making BIRDS FEET!

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Things that would make great Gnome Homes!

Start with some Core Wool

 

Choose a felting foam work surface

 

Get some felting needles and consider an multi-needle felting tool

Felting Needles and Tools

 

Apply Greens & Earth Tones with MC-1 Felting Batts

Add some color and texture
with Specialty Designer Packs

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We are just LOVING seeing all of your brilliant creations and comments online!
Visit our facebook page for more and share your comments or photos and be entered to win!

 

COMMENT OF THE WEEK:

"Man, I love felting!"

by Holly Steele
(I'll felt to that!)

 

Nick Rainey of New York, NY
shares his first needle felted bunny - great work!

 

Sara Smelt from Ventura, CA shared one of her
"felt collage" scarves...wow! If you are in Central
or Southern Calif. you may want to take a class
with her! Check out Felt Evolution

 

Sue Potter shared her "Keepers of the Secret",
that's just cool.

 

See even more great felted creations by our felting friends on facebook!

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Send us pictures of your felting projects!



- purses, bags and carry-alls

- art dolls, traditional or wild!

- hats and scarves

- mixed media with felting

(can be pictures, wearables, sculptures, etc. include details -- see below)
Send us a picture of yours for a chance to win
a Living Felt Gift Certificate!
send to: submissions@livingfelt.com

Just follow these 5 simple steps:

1) Take a nice clear photo with a complimentary background

2) Re-size to a maximum of 1000 pixels wide.
If you can’t do it with your own software, try this free tool: http://www.picresize.com/

3) Send your photo to submissions@livingfelt.com with Photo Entry - Item (hat, bear, scarf, etc.) in the Subject Line

4) TELL US SOMETHING INTERESTING about the piece:)

5) Tell us what supplies you used - be specific if possible

*Remember, every photo posted on facebook or emailed to us is entered into our Monthly Drawing for Living Felt Gift Certificates and Prizes!

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Join us on facebook, and become a friend of LIVING FELT where you can upload your felted creations for all to enjoy!

 

Sending My Blessings,
Marie Spaulding
www.LivingFelt.com ~ Act on Your Inspired Ideas!

On behalf of all of us here at Living Felt, I thank you for your letters, emails, pictures, and facebook posts. We truly love hearing from you, receiving your echoes of joy at tapping into your Inner Creativity, feeling the wonder and exhilaration of expressing from your heart. All of us here read your notes, and we all give thanks that we can be of service in lighting up that brilliant, brilliant light within you, and reminding you that it was with you all along.