Pretty Little Felts

I was chatting with a customer the other morning and she mentioned she found my webstore in the resources section of Pretty Little Felts. Wow, I'm famous!! LOL. Well, maybe not famous...he he he. But how awesome though!! So, I went to Border's and bought the book this morning...LOL

Wool and silk rovings are scanned, packaged and up on the store. Those were hard to part with, I just loved the colors!! So I had to keep just a little on the side for me. Even if I never use them, at least I can admire them...admiring and hoarding, my talents *grin*


wool roving...


silk roving...

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Well, I gave in...

Dyed the wool and silk roving this evening, even went down and got more wool. Colors came out awesome!! Jewel tones for the most part...my personal fave!! I do have to remember that not everyone shares my passion for the deliciousness of these colors. So I'll do a round of more muted colors in a few days. Tomorrow I will break them down into pack collections for felting and silk fusion or whatever else someone wants to do with them!!

Still a little wet so the colors on the silks don't look as bright yet...but total awesomeness anyway!!

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The fixins...

I brought some silk and wool roving upstairs earlier to dye later today or tomorrow and put in an order for more rayon ribbon, down to one spool!!! Oh no!!! Time to get some xmas colored ribbons done.

Being able to work from home sometimes is quite handy. I can sneak in time for some dyeing, blogging or packaging orders while on a conference call or when I just want a break. Although today it's been busy at work so not too much time for side activities. It's also a cloudy'ish day which makes it harder to get motivated. Better suited for packaging orders and webstuff than being creative.

The fixins...

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Homework finished...

Ironed, cut and packaged my latest fabric sets. And dyed a bunch of ribbons and silk fabrics as well. AND got them all scanned and uploaded to the store. Debating what to work on next. Have the usual "around the house" stuff to get done although I have a bunch of roving I could dye while putting laundry away (yuk) and vacumming (yuk).

Some of the new ribbon sets...


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October Sale

For the month of October, the 1st through the 31st, everything in the store is 20% off. Now since the silly storefront doesn't have auto discounting upon checkout, you will need to select check/money order as your payment method and I will then invoice via Paypal or email. Indicate in the comments section upon checkout how you'd like to pay.

Hopefully, when I get everything figured out, I will have the store setup in a new environment. Still working on bugs so for the moment...it's still located HERE.

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I have homework tonight...

Ironing!!!

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October has arrived...

I've been getting back into the dyeing groove, slowly. It used to be almost an obsession. Ok, it was. Coming up with new color combinations, experimenting with different items to dye. Then it just seemed to fizzle. For almost a year the last round of dyeing I had done was the day my husband passed away. He was visiting one of his daughters and I took the afternoon off to come home and play around. Well, that was 3 years ago, this month in fact. Over time I let the store fade a bit, I am now sole "owner", and just didn't know if I wanted to continue with it or not.

Well, in the past several months I've been getting a bit of the spark back. Some of it based on individual requests for specific dyed items or colors. Some of it because I just have all this "stuff" that begs for color!! Fabrics, trims, ribbons, roving and maybe even the cat!!

I found a fantastic little tutorial by Gillian from art-e-zine a couple of weeks ago. That's one of my favorite-ist places to go for mental inspiration. Oooooooo, and the colors, right up my alley!!

Well, off to post the October Sale info...

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