Ho,ho,ho, is it Christmas yet

3 little fairies in the making

Reluctantly selling my leather craft hobby. I've had many hours of fun and enjoyment making bags, purses, key fobs, belts, bracelets and bookmarks and many hours of enjoyment at craft fairs and steam rallies.  That stage of life has come to an end, and I must sell my gear and let someone else enjoy it.

I have for sale approx 30 embossing stamps, about 1", horses, cat dog, teddy bears, bike, car etc.  please have a look at photos.

Leather splitter.

Small alphabet set in box.

80+hand stamps.

Wooden handle tooling x 10 

Big fly press with key fob cutter.

Press studs, rivets, d-rings, o-rings, buckles.

Books and patterns.

Industrial sewing machine.

Portable hot foil printer with alphabet and foils.

Ready made 80+ key rings, 60+bracelets,10book marks.

5 shoulder bags in the progress of being made.

Box of leather,ready cut for belts.

Leather skins.

Boxes of leather off-cuts

The start of something new.

After spending a couple of years in the dark, Millie is completed. I removed her toes, they just didn't look right and I gave her a pair of shoes as well as shorts and a bikini top. I've had great fun making her and there's lots of room for improvement, I can see things in the photo that I don't like and would change and Millie needs a little more strength in her lower limbs, I'm now wandering if I should start another one. Thanks to Kay Petal and her videos on making a needle felted doll, gave me a tremendous lot of encouragement and advice.

Millie has toes now, not sure whether I like them, maybe I'll have to give her shoes and remove the toes.

Millie now has hands.

For some reason the photo has disappeared from the last blog, my unfinished felt doll. So here it is again.

This is where I'm at now.

She was supposed to have a child's like body, but I'd got a little carried away. I don't like her feet, so I think I'll remove the feet and do them again.  I'll have to think of a name for her.

I started this needle felted doll some years ago, so thought it was about time it was finished if I can remember how.  I wasn't quite happy with the first head I made with the blue hair, so I started again and made the curly headed one, and made a start on the body and made the tops of the arms and legs and  then it just got left.

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