"Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything,
and love is all there is."
- Gary Zukav
The
gift of loving kindness is a truly amazing thing, as love can travel
great distances through space and time to bring healing when and where
it is needed most.
One of the things all of us here LOVE about our job, is that our clients - aka You - our "felting friends", are so often creating gifts from their hearts for those they love, or even as a treat for themselves. There is something magical about playing a part in this perpetual stream of loving, giving and creativity that makes our work incredibly rewarding.
We
hope this week that you will reach out to someone in your life, near
or far, present or past, and let them know how they touched your heart
in some lasting way.
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
Elizabeth Payne of Erie, PA created this amazing Poppy handbag
for her sister. Read about it below and see more photos on our blog.
“Hi there! This past fall, my sister commissioned me to design a handbag for her inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s legendary poppy paintings. I knitted and fulled the base handbag from Louet Gems Chunky Wool from an original design. The poppy petals were needle felted over the earth harmony hat form to help form their curved shape with shades of Marigold, Tangerine, Red NZ Corriedale, Merino Top and Poppy [Merino-]Cross Fast Felting Batts. After needle felting, the petals were firmed up by using an electric sander to wet felt them.
The edges of the outside petals were wired with 24g wire to help
hold the curved shape. The center bud of the flower was needle felted
from Black,
Lilac Haze and Lima
Bean. A fringe of black wool yarn was accented with seedbead fringe
tipped with dark amethyst Swarovski Crystal. The back of the purse was
needle felted with a pictoral design of a poppy garden. The inside of
the bag is lined in red silk shantung with black ultrasuede trim for
the zipper facings. My sister loves the bag! It was a stunning accessory
when she wore her red boiled wool blazer and black skirt over the holidays!”
Elizabeth Payne ~ Erie, PA
Elizabeth's purse appeared on our Felting Friends Blog
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more great pics by our mutual felting friends!
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month we give away Living Felt Gift Certificates
just for sharing your photos! Winners are selected by
random drawing of all entries for the month.
Send us your photos for a chance to win a Gift Certificate
for loads of felting fun from iIving Felt!
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you sent in a photo and don't see your entry, either it is yet to be
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Fun colors and great fiber
for your Valentine's Projects!
Try this Studio Pack from our Merino Cross line....you'll
get an assortment of pinks and purples that will inspire
your heart-centered creations.
Another fun pack for exploration is the Fairy
Hollow Designer Pack.
You'll love the assortment of different wools and textures with locks,
and yarns to interesting surface designs.
We wet felted this fun heart talisman using the fairy hollow pack!
NOW
AVAILABLE: The Living Felt 2010 International Felting Contest
Winners are featured in a gorgeous article in
Art Doll Quarterly's Spring 2011 Issue
You'll
LOVE this 7-page article that shares brilliant photos of all six winners,
along with some insights
about them, their work and their feelings about participating in the
contest.
We're still
cooking up our plans for this year's contest, but in the meantime, be
sure to bookmark the page
that will allow you to get your copy on the way!
In
2010 Living Felt held an International Felting Contest with two themes:
Felted Dolls
and Alice In Wonderland.
The contest was designed to inspire quality in craftsmanship, to encourage artists to reach for their very best effort, to create a lasting source of inspiration to artists, and to support promotion of felting as an artistic medium.
We received over 50 fabulous entries
Like this sweet Knave of Hearts by Bettina Groh |
And
this wonderful needled felted marionette by April Ross |
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Sending My Blessings,
Marie Spaulding
www.LivingFelt.com
~ Act on Your Inspired Ideas!
P.
S.
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.
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