Ok, last Christmas present related post (for now  
my friends asked me to make her a bantha for christmas. This was my attempt. I'm not 100 percent happy with the face, but I think it looks cute, despite not being totally Bantha-like...for those of you who don't know, Banthas are from star wars  


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this last picture is him without his fur on yet. He has a full wire skeleton, including a kind of rib cage, to give him a stable form. I filled him with polyfill and then wrapped him with thread to keep it all inside the skeleton. Then, I wrapped with white wool batting before putting on the higher quality brown roving for fur.

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and here is yet another teacher present. One of my son's teacher's is obsessed with smooshed faced kitties, but then again who isn't?


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This is another owl for a different teacher. I have four teachers to give presents too!!



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I started this dragon at a craft fair as a demonstration. A woman watching me asked if she could buy it, so I finished it up over the next few days and sold it to her. It had a pipe cleaner skeleton in the body, tail, legs, arms and wings. the spines were the most tedious part!

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My son's teacher loves owls, so I decided to make her one for Christmas. This little guy is all wool needle felted with pipe cleaner feet wraped in wool


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I'm starting a crafting business and am trying to pick a name. I feel really self-conscious about picking a name because I can't tell if they are cheesey or not. Every time I ask friends for suggestions they tell me to call it Karen's Crafts, which just doesn't do it for me.

Anyway, my intention is to make waldorf toys. Right now I mostly have needle felted wands, fairies, mermaids and fairy crowns. I also plan to expand to play silks, waldorf dolls and needle felted playscapes if this works out.

These are my ideas so far :

Encanto

Shady Grove Wool Works

Snapdragon Toys

opinons on these names or suggestion for others would be much appreciated!

My daughter is obsessed with my little ponies, almost as much as I was when I was little. She has the figurines for all of the major ponies from the Friendship is Magic series, but she does not yet have nightmare moon. I've been making a lot of stuff for sale lately, and it's been making her feel left out since I she can't play with the stuff I make. When I read that the challenge was about midnight, I immediately thought of nightmare moon and figured I would make it for the challenge and let my little girl keep it.
Details - her body and legs are made from four pipe cleaners. Her head was shaped from wool batting and felted onto the body, which also has a wool batting core within the skeleton. Her horn was the only none needle-felted item. I wet felted it to make it a little more stiff. I took a wisp of black wool and rubbed it with hot water and dish soap, then rolled it between my palms like making a snake. The wings and ears were flat felted on a sponge and then attached. She is about five inches tall and she took me two nights to make

Hi, I'm going to be selling at a craft fair for the first time and I'm agonizing over how much to charge. I know the materials formula, but I'm interestingly knowing how much people think I should charge
Thank you in advance for any advice!

What is the rule on selling crafts based on movies, books, chartoons etc. if I make a doll the is the likeness of something from a movie, can I sell it? What about patterns from a book. Can I make it and sell it?

I've been making various holiday themes needle felted sculptures for a holiday market and decided to try out a jack skellington sandy claws style :-) hope you like it!