I made these cats out of wool, and then needle felted wool on top. Needle felted the ears and other bits too.

1. Felted kitties together, 2. felted kitties, 3. felted kitty, 4. close up felted kitties

Makes it easier to splurge on this amazing lamp. Now in my living room!!

You can see some more of the porcelain lamps there.

I love working small.

The eyes on this tiny one are German glass eye beads. These are much better than seed beads because the hole isn’t as large.

I bought them on Ebay, from a very helpful seller who sells bear making supplies.

http://myworld.ebay.ie/mohair-bear-making-supplies But I can’t see any eyes there for sale at the moment.

I also bought cotter pins for jointing. Must figure out how they work.

Screenshot from Emily Bazeley's website

So sweet. Emily Bazeley and other artists in her collective in Donegal pool their resources and show their work together around Ireland.

She makes the dresses out of pressed flowers and leaves, some of the materials she has been collecting her whole life, and materials from her grandmother. What a legacy

Sadly no. Not unless I could take that ceramics class again at Benbulben Pottery. That was so much fun.

I recommend these lovely elegant Round Tuits from Aoife Fey on Etsy. The theme for this weekend is “Getting around to it!” and a number of those things involve my new scanner, so exciting

Round Tuits by Aoife Fey on Etsy

My favorite is Petits appartements À paris. I own this one already… but I’d love another one. I wish I could look inside.

See some pics from this book on Flickr. I tagged w the ISBN so you can also search for other pics from it.

Lisa Congdon's collection a day blog

Maitreya of Craftlog posted about photos of Collections. Yeah, makes me want to photograph some of my collections… if I had that many of one thing.

Lisa Congdon is posting a collection a day for 2010. She has… alot.. of collections.

Camilla Engman is posting collections.

And I started seeing photos of collections on Etsy… but I have no idea where they are now. Wish I could tag things there. It’s so hard to find things.. when not everything is “favorite”. Hmpf.

Slideshow from the organized collection group on Flickr:

I put this how-to up on Cut & Paste.

I love diamond shapes… So nice. This is a diamond mural over our mantle.

I put up a how-to on Cut Out + Keep. I’ve been meaning to add some how-tos. OK, so this first one is pretty simple.
Diamond Mural how-to on Cut Out + Keep.

I got this idea from the Home Studio Home book from Todd Oldham’s decorating series. I now have that one and Camp Nest. I love the series.

Fecal Face put up some photos from the Home Studio Home book.

Photo from Home Studio Home at Fecal Face

Great stuff!

One of the first assignments!

This wreath follows some ideas I discovered doing my Style file: light colours, and punches of red.

I made a few alterations because I’m awful for following craft directions.

• Cheeky, I combined the fabric pompoms with the wreath project. Truth is, I would not likely wear the fabric pompoms.
• Also, foam circles were too dear… ($10 USD each). So I used an old shirt and parted with some of my vintage buttons. Then stuffed it.
  I made one ‘mistake pancake’ before this… trying to get the seams on the inside on my first try… Turning it inside out looked wonky. Better to let the seams out and use pinking shears!
• I cut 2 out of a knit tee, and 1 out of cotton batting. I machine quilted the batting to the top layer. Then sewed all 3 together, leaving a stuffing-hole. Reason for batting? To reduce lumpyness when stuffing.

See more in my My Styleschool assignments

Hmm.. one problem with wreaths… no one hangs wreaths on their doors in Ireland (a very few people do at Christmas). Wreaths really are for people’s graves. So in Ireland this doesn’t say: “welcome”. I think it’ll be coming down for St Brigid’s day when I can get a cross for spring.

Maybe I can find someone to swap with me… Or I might harvest the buttons off it later, not sure!

Here’s a mini documentary about her at Babelgum…

I like this populist kind of art… which I couldn’t seem to imagine when I was in art school. I felt everything was in little boxes at the time. Especially my work which also was in little boxes.

Katie has a similar flavour as Miranda July who’s work I love too.
She is colouring the world around her. For example, spraying snow with crayon colours. I love the mural she did on her wall with clouds and raindrops.