Mary had a little lamb

I gave him away.

Now Jaynie has a little lamb,

it's fleece is not as white as snow,

it's natural/off white.





I bought some needle felting supplies a while back,  I tried to follow the directions from a book but I didn't get good results.

Then I followed the directions from about.com for this little lamb and I finally got results that we liked.


The difference is that you build a frame from pipe cleaners/chenille stems first, I found it so much easier to get the shape and proportions right.


I still need to add face details but I wanted to show him to you first, just in case.

I'm also working on a black cat,


tutorial at   about.com



The directions were a bit different,
you  make the frame for the body,

And you make the head separate.

Again, I still need to add face details,

I'm searching my supplies for the right green or yellow beads for his eyes.

After the face is done, the head can be felted to the body.


I think the next time I'll try to make a frame for the head attached to the body first.


If I can get the faces done and finish these I think that I will really enjoy this craft. 
It uses very little material and doesn't take too much time and my favorite part, NO GLUE.


I hope that I will have more to show you soon.
The heat and humidity this summer really tapped my energy and slowed me down,
to even slower than my usual slow pace.

With the weather cooling I'm working to catch up on every thing that fell so far behind and also find time for minis and blogging.

Thank you for visiting, Mary

A Big Day

A drawing, a prize for me, my blog anniversary and a new blog.

First:   My cat's name is   SPOT 

I decided that no one guessed his name correctly so I will do a drawing.
I gave everyone a number by order of first participation.

1) Lataina
2) Audra
3) Ana
4) Cote
5) Ascension
6) Drora
7) Maria
8) Malu
9) Jazzi
10) Rosamargarita

I had my husband shuffle and cut a deck of cards, he didn't know why.

The winner is Malu.

Malu, I will email you,  welcome to my blog and thank you for playing.

I think that Rosamargarita was the closed to his name, with her guess of freckles, so I've decided to send her a second prize.

Rosamargarita please email me your address.


BTW  -  Spot was Data's cat on the 'Star Trek, Next Generation'  TV Series and was also in the the movie 'Star Trek, Generations', which came out in Nov of 1994.   We decided to take our Spot in just before we left to see the movie, we stopped and bought a cat collar on our way home.   As you saw by his nose he has freckles or spots, he also has them on his ears and the bottoms of  his paws.  He also loves to slide into our seat or our spot as soon as we get up and sometimes before we really get up. I think that it is a good name for him.

Second:  I received Jazzi's darling give-away prize.  Jaynie and I love these beautiful pillows/cushions.  These will be great in Jaynie's Loft.  I'm just not sure if Jaynie is going to have a bedroom yet or just an office/craftsroom with a daybed.








Third:  I started blogging one year ago today.   I'm so glad that I did, it has been a great experience.  I feel very lucky  that I have found so many friends.

Fourth:  I started a new blog  M's Lists   to try to  get a bit more organize.  I started by organizing a fairly long list of mini tutorials,   I will continue to add more.   I hope that you will take a look and let me know what you think.

Thanks again to everyone that participated in my game.

I hope that you had a great weekend and have a great day.

Thank you for visiting, Mary

Another Clue

I'm going to give you another clue, you can make another guess today.  If no one guesses correctly, I'll do a drawing tomorrow, Monday about noon my time, giving 1 chance to each person who participated in my game.    The good part  of it going this long is that I keep thinking of more things to add to the prize package.

I think this clue will help but I don't want to just give it away.

We are sci-fi fans and we took our cat in, in the fall of 1994.

Good luck and

Thank you for visiting, Mary

Want A Hint

Thank you for participating in my game,  I don't want to keep you guessing too long, so I thought that I should give you a little hint.

Maybe a closer look might help and his name is not a usual cat's name but is the name of many pets.

Thank you for visiting, Mary

Happy Friday 13th

I think today is a good day to give you the chance to win a prize.

This is a picture of my cat taken a couple of weeks ago, he loves getting into my chair as soon as I get up.

Rules to win the prize are:
 1.  Be or become a follower.
 2.  Leave a comment on this posting with
      a guess of my cat's name.    1 guess per
      person per day will be allowed until
      someone guesses his name correctly
      (doesn't have to be exact but close, my
      judgement if you guessed correctly).



You can see more pictures of him   here .  I did not get a picture of him  today because he's not feeling well, has a cold.  I don't think you want to see his snotty face.

The first person to comment with his name  will win  a  surprise package of mini making  supplies.

Good Luck and
Thank you for visiting, Mary

Meet My Cat

Olwyn of   Oly's little world  had a picture of her 2 ginger kittens on her new blog, so cute.  I started looking through pictures of my old boy,  so I thought you might like to see some.  These were taken this July.

This one is one of his senior moments,  he decided that the kitchen table (piled with alot of my crafts at the time) was a good place for a nap.  My husband took the picture and left it to me to move the cat. 

And here are a few older pictures.  He was a bit chubbier in these.

And an even older one with his older brother Kit.   ( He lived to just shy of 15 yrs old)

                                                           

I hope you enjoyed seeing my pictures.                                                                                                     

Thank you for visiting, Mary



Shh Jaynie

Jaynie has been complaining for some time that I have not finished her chair. Today she started following me around saying over and over that I really need to finish it now.  (Sorry for the blurry picture.)

 It really is too short for her and I did plan it to have legs.  I finally took the legs that I wanted off a Michael’s hutch, now I can’t find the stain pen that I need before I glue them on.

 Maybe I can distract Jaynie for a while.

It worked, Jaynie is distracted for now with the new cat.

  Hopefully I’ll be able to find the stain tomorrow and finally finish it before she starts in again.

I think I will try to (some day) make a new seat cushion also, I think this one is too flat.

Thanks for visiting, Mary