FELT!

We finally got the shipment of wool roving in from Nepal. We have had to deal with transportation strikes, some 'missing' wire transfer money, and a hold up at Customs (is roving an agricultural product or a textile? opinions differ!)but FINALLY we have gotten the nine boxes in our hands. Yipee!



WE have many, many new colors of roving including some truly luscious pinks and reds, and a great selection of natural colors (for making dogs) and the return of BLACK. Yippee, x2!

felting celebrity! not!

I just finished an interview with Marci Smith-Rice from the News & Observer. She is doing an article on felting and wanted to interview me and photograph me felting. I showed her how to do a dry felted flower pin last week and this week showed her how to do some wet felting. It was very nice as the flower pin I made while she was watching turned out to be my best one yet. I will be teaching a class in making those flowers at Panopolie this summer, so I have been making lots of them but it was nice to have the one I worked on with an audience (of one) turn out so well. You never know how that will work, sometimes I am so addled when I am being watched by one person, suddenly I can't find the hole in a bead. I don't get that way when I teach a group, just when I have one person watching me. I bet that is some kind of extra level of neurosis, huh?
Anyway, watch the paper for the article, should be in this weekend on Saturday, I think.

mixed media fun

We hosted a Mixed Media Guild mixer at Ornamentea today and I think it went well. There was a whole room full of folks and many brought their art work to share. Laurel and Jeanne and Jean were there (they organized it and are the Mixed Media Guild Queens!) but I also saw Amy and Miriam and Heather and Liz and Praba and many more. We discussed galleries and shows and also the work that people brought in. What a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
This pendant is by Laurel. I hope she doesn't mind that I posted it here. She makes these box-style pendants but she also generously teaches classes so that others can learn how to do this. Nice, huh?