watercolour experiments...

I have a stupid crush on a boy. He knows I like him, but I don't think he knows I like him. Bah.

I've also updated Strange Little Bear with my heart cards!

They're pretty cute, I think.

(they can also be purchased though etsy, if you prefer)

I went to Felt Club today, and it was pretty awesome, as usual. I bought a gorgeous, perfectly sized hand bound book from Broken Press Studio and a really cute needle case from Wendy, from The Singing Librarian and some buttons from sewing stars.

I also got to talk to the awesome Silvia from Chebang! who told me about the wonders of shrinky dinks! She ran a workshop at 2, but I had to be off by then...still, the strange little bear shrinky dink experiments are forthcoming!

In a somewhat oddly coincidental turn of events, Wendy asked me about the shirt I was wearing, which led me to singing the praises of Oddica, my new favourite t-shirt site. Anyway, I also mentioned that one of my favourite artists, and felt-clubber, Jordan Crane, had a design up and that I really liked it...and Wendy points to the lovely woman next to her and says "Haha! This is his wife." Who then says - "Oh, we have tons of those shirts! Do you want one?" So, I now have this awesome shirt that I would have bought off the website the next time I decided to buy clothing. I'll probably buy one as a gift, anyhow.

So, yeah, it was a pretty cool day.

Felt Club!

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Originally uploaded by strangelittlebear.

So, Felt Club was awesome. I sold stuff, I gave out lots of business cards, I talked to lots of people and it was just so damn cool.

I finally met Kevin! I didn't recognise him, he had to go "You're Shing right? I'm Kevin Hanna." Duh. His kids are super adorable(and his wife is a crafty type and may do a future Felt Club. Yay!). My roommates came and so did Ryan and Shaun from downstairs, and Lindsay and Olivia, and I'm excited and happy that my friends showed up!

I'll write more later!

egg pillow

Another stuffed thing for the Gathering. It's called "Oops."

Get it? Get it? gargoyles lay eggs and so...ah, nevermind.

Just a quick post to let you all know that strange little bear and I have been accepted to the July 8th Felt Club! Apparently another vendor had scheduling issues, and I was top of the fill in list! It's a craft show in Hollywood and I'm going to start panicking about getting enough stuff together, being good enough and getting all my promotional material together...right....now.

Eggplant, the bear(from summer 2005).

Robyn sent me pictures of Eggplant, a bear I made in Vermont and gave to her. He's my last completely handsewn bear and stuffed with goodness knows what(a lot of dryer lint and scrap fabric, I think).

This is my favourite picture of any of my bears.





He has weird feet!


I'm going to make more vegetable/fruit themed bears in the future...even though I should be making more gargoyles! Aaaaaa.

elsie, the gargoyle

This is Elsie. Elsie is a shy little gargoyle with self esteem issues. However, today she is going to ask her crush out to the prom!

I swear, I'm going to end up creating a series of gargoyle stuffed animals based on my high school experiences. Actually, I wasn't terribly shy in high school and I NEVER asked my crush to the prom.











I started out with the intention of making cure plush versions of the Gargoyles canon characters. Hahaha, yeah right. As if I could ever develop that much attention to detail. I couldn't even remember what colour Goliath was(I couldn't remmeber if he was purple or blue. apparently it's a purplybluey.).