J’ai fait une marionnette à doigt le weekend dernier pour les Journées Nationales de la laine, Felletin. Et je l’ai vendu tout de suite! Elle est fait avec la laine et une aiguille.
This weekend at the Journées de la Laine, Felletin (wool festival in central France), I made a mouse finger puppet. He was sold straight away. He is needle felted.
I made this finger puppet for my niece today. She has called it “Tata Mouse”
Hello everyone, hope you had a good Friday and have a fantastic weekend to look forward to.
Here are just three positives from today:
1. I sold some stuff at the market today (hurrah) including this wizard
which I am kind of sorry to see go, so will have to magic up another (but different wizard)
2. I made a dragon finger puppet whilst at the market, and got a lot of positive comments about my hat (if you missed it this is it:
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3. Another busy day at the B&B, we are full, but no evening meals so despite getting up at 6, doing breakfast, then going to market, and cleaning the rooms, once we’d welcomed the guests in and left them to have a ‘bonne soirée’ it has felt like a bit of a day off. Funny old world, innit?
An addition plus was the weather has been pretty good (apart from the blip of the thunderstorm half way through the day) so we have enjoyed the sun, and a nice evening walk.
Here was the view from our bedroom window a couple of hours ago:
Life is good: have a good evening 🙂
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Ce chien s’appelle Patch. Il sera disponible à vendre a la Boutique du coin, Vallière dès Samedi 26 juillet (après midi)
This dog is called Patch, he will be on sale at the Boutique du Coin, Valliere from Saturday 26th July (afternoon)
Meet Elvis the unicorn. He was created today using Pure Wool and a little bit of magic (and a felting needle). He is available on Etsy and will be at the market on Friday.
As a bit of fun I decided to try to create a needle-felted finger puppet based on Benedict Cumberbatch‘s interpretation of Sherlock Holmes.
It doesn’t look quite as much like him as I wanted (for some reason I think more of Alan Rickman’s Snape in Harry Potter, than I do of Sherlock, when I look at him! Or sometimes I see Stephen Fry! Do you see anyone else?), but it was fun, and I want to practice making human features, so in that sense it was a success.
The hair was difficult. I think it would be better not to have needle-felted it all, but perhaps to have used some Wensleydale wool, which may have given a better representation of Cumberbatch’s hair style.
Anyhoo, here are some photos showing the process of creating the little fellow:
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Just for a bit of fun (he isn’t for sale!) I thought I would try my hand at one of my favourite cartoon characters: Doh!
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