"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
~Mahatma Gandhi

Our wish for you this week is that you follow your heart,
be wholly you, and just enjoy every teeny, tiny minute of it!

Donna Brau sends us so many beautiful works of felted art,
and this one is a colorful representation of three best friends.

Featured this week on the Felting Friends Blog -- see more!

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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Living Felt 2012 International Felting Contest!!

We are starting to receive submissions now...it is very exciting!

Are you entering, still thinking about, do you have questions?

Join our conversation on facebook, if there are enough questions,
we can plan a live facebook gathering, but let us hear from you so
we can help you get your questions answered and enter!

Entry Form & Contest Rules

Register Online

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Peace Felt 2012 Registration opens very soon.
Please join the mailing list at www.peacefelt.org
and follow Peace Felt on facebook.

This is a very special project and registering commits
you to participating, plus you receive a heart felt gift
from a new felting friend. The registration window
will be approximately 4weeks, so watch for it and
be sure to sign up early!

Core Wool - You Just Gotta Have Some!

100% Wool, 8 oz Batt of LIVING FELT Brand
Super Premium CW-1 Core Wool Fiber for needle felting.

You will absolutely love how quickly and easily this merino-cross core wool needle felts!
The fiber has the perfect crimp and provide a wonderful base for your needle felting projects.

Needle Felting a Purse Kit

Its just so fun and satisfying! Plus, you get to pick
your own colors. Try this, you'll be proud of your creation!

Merino Silk Blends
A little goes a long way! Gorgeous colors and dimension,
add interest to your surface design or make scarf that
that you will gain many admirers!

Wet Felting Flowers Kit
This is so much fun! Learn to make layered
flowers without any sewing. Create incredible, one of a kind, wet felt flowers
with these easy to follow, step by step instructions.

Wear the flowers by adding a pin back, add them to your
felted bags and hats, give as gifts, add them to your knits.

Sandy Charboneau needled felted this fishing hut in Newfoundland, Canada.
She used Ocean Merino Silk for the water.
This would make the perfect gift for the fisherman in your family.

Featured this week on the Felting Friends Blog -- see more!

Ronda Loyer began making felt "paintings" a few years ago,
and like many of us most of her work was trial and discovery.
The sheep measures about 10" x 12" and is on handmade felt background,
core wool, and natural locks.

"I am a candle/soap maker. I was looking for new ideas for my soap when I came across your website on felting. I
never really new what felting was. I was floored at the things you can make with wool. I really had no idea!
I thought to myself ...where has this art been hiding? Well I saw the felted soaps on your site and thought how great
it would be to have a felted soap. From the moment I tried the felting process I was hooked. ...

I started just wet felting bars of soap but then decided to get your needle felting kit and try and make pictures
on the soap after watching a video on using cookie cutters as a guide. I found some of the cutest mini cutters and started needle felting.
I have so much fun with this craft and cant get enough of it. It reminds me of when I used to paint pictures on sweat shirts years ago.
I regret that I have not taken pictures of all my soaps. Many are truly one of a kind. I hope one day to make sculptures
or even my own felted slippers!"

Julia Laughlin, Hendersonville, NC

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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.