New craft for me

Well last week I started a new craft project. I started to make needlefelted animals. I started by making a bear because I love to make bears. I am not using any pattern as I find as I felt each piece it just seems to take on its own life.

Here are the two bears that I made first. I sure do enjoy this new to me craft and I hope that as I get better on the craft that I will be able to create with more detail.

Please enjoy and I hope you will leave a comment as to what you think of my new craft. You can also buy them on my website at www.ejcrafts.com

Thanks for your time.

Eva

Happy New Year

New year, new start. What am I going to do this year in new products? Hummmm!!!

Well I did do up a few scented wax animals, but these are no brainers as I bought the stuffed animals at the dollar store and the votive candles to melt and put on the bears. They turned out quite cute and I will take them to the swap meet and see if they sell. I usually don't do swap meets but decided I need to get rid of some of my older stock and this just might be the way to do it. I have a local indoor swap meet that is free for the month of January so why not try it.

I am not sure how much or if any bears and dolls I will make this year because of a new law taking effect in February that says all items for children 12 and under needs to be tested before it can be sold. I can't afford this and I don't know of any crafter who could. This just might stop me and my website. I hope everyone will write to their congressman and all the news agencies and help all of us crafters and artists who live in the USA and sell products for children.

New design

Well I have started a new design in a bear. This one is geared to the very small child. The only pieces on it are the plastic locking eyes and the plastic locking joints. Everything else is fur. This is my first attempt and his name is Fuzzy Feet. I then knit it a red scarf. This is all in a nice soft fur.

Enjoy and let me know what you think. I have posted it on my website for sale. I am going to sell it for just $24.95 because I am using pieces of fur left over from other bears.

Eva

www.ejcrafts.com

Eva's crafts and thoughts: Merry Christmas

Eva's crafts and thoughts: Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Here we are only a few days left until Christmas. Where has this year gone? I find that the older I get the faster the years go. We have already received all our Christmas gifts this year. We bought ourselves a new sofa and chair for the living room. The old one was 10 years old and had seen its better days. Then with some of the profits from my sales we bought a Wii. We haven't really got into playing it yet as we are having trouble getting the handheld to stay on the screen. And we do want to buy more than one game. Then our kids went together and bought us a new 32" HDTV for the bedroom with a built in DVD player. This is wonderful because working with all the surround sound system in the living room with the big screen is a pain. Plus we can lay in bed and watch whatever we want.

As for my season with craft shows and website sales, I have done pretty good. I only do a couple of shows and the website is only a year old so for me, what I did was great. The money helped us but new roofing on the house and added more cement to our patio area in the front of the house. This next year we need to get more landscraping so that will be our goal with sales profits.

This picture is of the mink bear that I made and I used it on our Christmas cards this year. Enjoy and have a wonderful Christmas season.

If you would like I have reduced some of the pricing on my website. I did this so that more people could afford my work in this hard economy times. I hope you will take a look.

Eva, www.ejcrafts.com

Mink Bear

I just finished working up a mink bear made from an old fur coat. I am taking my hat off to all the people who work this type of fur all the time. I haven't made a bear from an old coat in about 15 years and it was frustration to say the least. I think I will stick to my faux furs from now on. Here is is the results in a 14 inch bear.

I have been MIA for weeks!

I have been working a mixed craft/commercial outside show for 17 days, which will end tomorrow. Boy am I tired!!!!! Sales are down from last year but I still did pretty good. The wind was extremely strong for most of the first 8 days but this past week has been good. The traffic is slow and there is a lot of down time but I have made it through.

I will try to get some of my newest bears put on my blog this next week. My house needs to be cleaned first as nothing has been done in 3 weeks.

See you all next week.

Happy Crafting.