Meet the Pengwins, a cute family of needle felted Penguins complete with igloo house.
You can buy the whole family (including house) from our Etsy shop. Or if you would like some made especially for you, why not visit us on facebook and send us a message?
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Meet Amanita Fly the mushroom fairy!
Amanita lives in a fly agaric mushroom house. Both Amanita and her house are made from 100% wool.
You can buy Amanita and her house from our Etsy Shop. Also in this new range are Patty Marron (the pumkin fairy) and Pomme (the apple fairy). Other fairies will appear very soon….
I haven’t posted on here for a couple of days, mostly because we have been having a good time with our family. Here are Sunday and Mondays positives:
Sunday:
1) Despite the heavens opening as we were about to leave the house, the rest of the day was rain free. Actual sunshine and heat: lovely.
2) Went to Lac de Vassiviere, had lunch outside overlooking the lake and took a boat over to the island
3) Had a lot of laughs
Monday
1) Looks like the summer has finally arrived. It makes such a difference when the sun shines 🙂
2) We’re full in the bed and breakfast, so did breakfast, got two rooms ready and greeted the guests: everyone happy
3) Had a lovely evening with Andrea, and went on a nice evening stroll with Basil too. Life is good
Also, the first Felt.Buzz giveaway ended yesterday so we need to congratulate our winner of our mini witch/wizard hat: well done Gypsy Mortisha Cassavetes! 
Have a lovely Tuesday 🙂
Morning all. Didn’t manage to write my three positive comments last night, so here they are now:
1. Number one has to be the weekend visit of Sian and Paul, my brother in law and sister in law. Not only family but great friends too. Lifts the spirits 🙂
2. The weather gave us a break and we sat out for most of the afternoon and evening: hurrah!
3. had some really good feedback on my creations particularly Maley the mournful wizard:
Thank you!
Hello, sorry too busy/tired yesterday to put these up. So, here they are now..
1) Not selling a lot at the market meant I had plenty of time to create! Meet Marly the mournful wizard and Welda the worried witch. It was only this morning I realised how their expressions may have unwittingly been reflecting my thoughts and feelings when I created them!
2. We had a couple of friends (Gail and Rob) pop round for some drinks and a fabulous lunch conjured up by the lovely Andrea
3. Went to a meeting of the union de commercants et artisans of Felletin. There are some good things in the pipeline for our home town. Can’t tell you everything, but one of our bakers is reopening on Monday so that is brilliant.
Hope your friday was good, and your weekend even better!
Isn’t it funny (perhaps the wrong word!) that when something potentially bad happens it doesn’t drag you down? Here are today’s positives:
1) We had a water leak this morning. Yep, I woke up and went down to prepare breakfast to find a pretty big water leak. The positive that came out of this? Well, I managed to prepare and serve breakfast (after putting containers down to catch most of the water) without the guests being any the wiser, called the plumber (Barlaud in Felletin for those of you in the area) who managed to sort it before 11am. All without disrupting our guests in the B&B. Nice one.
2) The sun. It has been playing hide and seek with us in central France, lately. But it came out and we caught some rays, walking Basil, and sitting outside.
3) Had a visit from our friends, Bruce and Sue. Short but sweet.
Hope your day was a good one 🙂
P.S. It is our dog’s birthday tomorrow. Like our facebook page and like and comment on the giveaway post and you could win this lovely wizard/witch hat:
It’s Basil’s 3rd birthday tomorrow (1 August 2014). Demain, c’est le troisième anniversaire de Basil demain (1 août 2014).
To celebrate Felt.Buzz is giving away a mini hat/facinator (the one Basil is modelling in fact). Pour fêter vous avez l’opportunité d’avoir un chapeau en miniature (le même que Basil porte sur le photo, en fait).
To have the chance to win you need to visit our facebook page and like it (if you don’t already), like the post and comment ‘happy birthday Basil’ or ‘joyeux anniversaire Basil’. D’avoir l’opportunité de gagner vous devez visiter notre page Facebook, aimer le page et le post et commenter ‘happy birthday Basil’ ou ‘joyeux anniversaire Basil’.
The winner will be picked at random on Monday 4 August at midday French time. Le gagnant sera choisi au hasard, Lundi 4 août, midi.
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
The offer includes postage worldwide.
Cette promotion n’est en aucune façon sponsorisé, avalisé ou administré par, ou associé à Facebook.
L’offre inclut l’affranchissement dans le monde entier.
Good luck! Bonne chance!
Some days are much more suited to positive thoughts than others. At least, some days it is a struggle to see the positives. Not that anything bads happens, particularly: something just doesn’t click. Which is why, on such days it is even more important to look deliberately for the good stuff.
1. A good long walk with the dog cleared my head, and lightened my mood. The sun came out, birds were singing (and fighting a little bit), and hardly any man-made noise. Lovely.
2. A visit from our lovely friend Sam, always guaranteed to lift your mood
3. Managed to write two positive posts today, plus a Spotlight. Not done much felt-work today, but some. And tomorrow is a whole new day 🙂
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Today, I am going to have a look at the creative talent that is Deidre Dreams
I love Facebook and twitter because you never know where peoples shares might lead you. One of these paths led me to another realm: that of Deidre Dreams.
The owner (Deidre?) lives in a small town in the south of the Netherlands “in between rolling hills and meadows, where the wind always blows in new energy.”
Inspired by folklore, myths and legends Deidre Dreams creations are incredibly detailed works of art. She primarily uses Polymer clay to create incredibly detailed pendants, brooches and other jewellery, but she is also accomplished in the art of crocheting (something she learnt at an early age from her Grandmother and Mother). Combining the two allows her to create some really interesting, and original pieces:
Perhaps the success of Deidre Dreams is the witches, mermaids and other mythical creatures, featured on her jewellery are not generic: each one has a character and a story behind them: “All the characters that I make (the witches, the mermaids, the fairies, etc), they are not pulled from any official mythology source. They are my stories. The characters, the designs, their stories: they are my creations. I am inspired by paganism, Wicca, fantasy, fairy tales, folk tales, legends, and lots of other sources (as many artists are 🙂 ) but the characters I make are all a concoction of my own Deidre Dreams world.”
 
The characters shine through her work, and maybe it is this that draws people to them. In fact Deidre Dreams has facebook fans (amongst over 17,000 of them) who contact her and tell her how much her work inspires them to create themselves (whether that be in writing, drawing or sculpting): “I am deeply honoured to get so many messages of people telling me my work inspires them. I love that SO much! I love to hear that my work sparks something in someone that stirs passion and energy! I also would like to say that I hope anyone who feels this way, will be respectful towards that inspiration and find their own way with it and welcome their own designs and characters.”
Why Deidre Dreams’ Facebook page is so popular is not a mystery: not only does she create unique, beautiful work, but she also interacts brilliantly with her fans, and followers. She is generous with sharing other people’s work too, which is great because she helps me travel to other peoples creative worlds too.
You can find Deidre Dreams on her own Website, on Twitter, on Facebook, Etsy and other locations too
Disclaimer: this review was not asked for, nor paid for in any way. I wrote it because I love Deidre Dreams’ work and her facebook page
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Here are three positive things that occured in Felt.Buzz land, on Tuesday 29th July:
1) I completed a couple of pieces of felt work yesterday. Not as sure as I was before as to where I am going with it, but it is part of the creative process to have doubts and sometimes you ignore them and produce something great and other times your doubts lead to something even better. We’ll wait and see…
2) Had a lovely walk with Basil the dog. There are so many trees and bushes overladen with fruit at the moment (very early). It will be a bumper year for jam and sloe gin!
3) Another day with the B&B full. But no meals to prepare so felt quite relaxed and we only had one room to prepare yesterday. Managed to catch up with ironing (get it out of the way for another week or so!) so that is good too.
Looking forward to Wednesday: hope it brings you productivity and joy!
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