Some New Faerie Houses and a New Bird Potholder Design

So, it's been forever since we posted.  Sorry.  In the meantime we've been working on lots of things.  First we have a new design of a bird potholder.

We've also used a similar design on notebook covers.  There the bird is bigger and has eggs and a hatchling around it.

Next a new faerie house by Aline.

And one by Lorena.

So, I just got married!  And of course, we made some wonderful things out of felt for the wedding.
Such as this 'Here Comes the Bride' banner which is felt letters and flowers on cotton

And here's the ring bearer pillow made from felt and ribbon

We also inspired a family friend who's getting married in the fall and are making her a t-shirt flower garter.

And here's a cursory picture of my new husband and me and our parents (hi mom!)

We're back! It's been a long time and a lot has happened (Aline got married, for one thing!), but we've never stopped crafting.We've been making a few things from t-shirts (like the purse crocheted from t-shirt strips below), since it's too hot for wool right now.

Still, we continue with the sweaters, and local folks have been really encouraging by giving us lots of fuzzy donations. These felt flower barrettes/pins are now listed on etsy.

Our List of Brick and Mortar Stores

Our list of brick and mortar stores that carry our products is expanding across Georgia!  Here's some quick links to thank these stores for loving our products so much! <3

http://www.reinspirationstore.com/

http://www.frontierathens.com/2801.html

http://sparkle-ga.com/

http://www.madeyoulookstore.com/

and finally, we just sold some items to:

Ann Peden Jewelry ~ The Studio Store in Watkinsville GA

We hope to be expanding this list and moving more towards selling wholesale than at fairs (they're hard work!) but a huge and grateful shout out to our fair patrons, we couldn't have gotten this far without you! <3

Vintage Bird Cage for a Fairie

Okay, so I am totally in love with own creation. I may not be able to part with this one - at least until I make a few more. First of all, let it be known that the fairie who makes this cage her home has total control over her own comings and goings. No caged fairies around here!

Here's a view through the front door. She has a crocheted rug on a floor of moss, a twig chair, and a vintage cocktail napkin for a table cloth.

A close-up of her hammock, a cotton quilt encased in brass-colored tulle. Notice her overhead crystal.

 

And finally, a rear view. The back of her cabinet is decorated with an actual butterfly wing, and bells are strung from the outside to tinkle in the wind.

Okay. One more picture. This one shows the basket of flowers on the table, the mirror on the back wall, and the antique radio on top of her blue cabinet.

I have another vintage birdcage awaiting decor and have spotted a few more at the local flea market. Can't wait to start on the next one.

A FEW MORE NEW ITEMS:
In this scene, a young bird awaits a fairie's return.

And here's a really cute owl purse recently completed by Aline.

 

Wow! That's a lot of pictures. We've been busy making, but not keeping up with our etsy store and our blog. Do check back soon. Lots of new stuff is due to go up on our etsy site.

November 13, visit our booth in Norcross at the Pinckneyville Arts Center holiday sale. Then, the next day, join us in Athens for an intergenerational Fairy Harvest Scene workshop at the new space Whole: Mind, Body, Art. You can register here.

That's all for tonight. Thanks for reading. ---Lorena

Trip to FL and Contest Piece #2 Is On Display

Wow, lots of things to blog about, first a quick pic from our trip to Florida.  And we promise we didn't just go to forage for faerie house supplies! ;)  Though we did find some great parts of palm trees and black shells.  I'm excited because black is such a hard color to find in nature, and there have to be some gothic faeries out there!
 Here's my fiance Edmund on the beach looking for shells early one morning.

From Blogger Pictures

 Next, update on the miniature contest; all the entries are in and on display at Miniature Designs.  Mine is next to one of my best friend's pieces! (Amanda Carmen)  She did a great piece of a mouse that is using only human sized things he could find around.  If you don't recall the rules of the contest, check out my past post on it.

From Blogger Pictures

There was also another faerie themed piece there!  Done by Sandra Jusak.

From Blogger Pictures

From Blogger Pictures

NANOWRIMO

If you can pronounce 'nanowrimo'...you might be a writer.  Next month, November is National Novel Writing Month.  You are encouraged to write 50,000 words in the 30 days of November of any novel, any genre.  Nanowrimo stands for NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth and I just signed up today!  I am allowed to start planning before November, but no actual writing until November 1st.  I encourage everyone to be apart of this and use the available motivation to help them get that idea that's been floating around started.  To win, you just have to finish your 50,000 words in those 30 days.  Good luck! <3

Recent Projects

Here's a faerie pouch i made for a swap on swap-bot.

 

I also made a tea faerie house

 

I hope you like them <3Aline

Happy Equinox and Updates for October

Happy Equinox everybody!  Just a quick note about some of our plans for October;
We've got the oh so popular miniature Halloween cabinets up on etsy and some in the works as well.

We are planning a Pink promotion since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
We are also starting a line of felt gift card pouches for the upcoming holidays!
And last but not least we are getting our felt scarves ready to go as the weather cools down.  Bundle up! <3

My Second Faerie Miniature Contest Piece!

So I am about to turn in my second faerie miniature contest piece ever!  you might remember the library faerie that lived inside the book was the first one.  This contest is being done by my local (an hour away) dollhouse miniature store, Miniature Designs.  The theme is Christmas in July and we were given a 6x6 base and a tree to make whatever we wanted out of.  Here's a link to the actual contest.
And heres some pictures of my entry, I did a harvest festival including the tree.

 

Personally, I love the greenman face on the tree.  I tried to figure out a way for it to be the tree topper, but i like this better.

Whole Opens and We Teach There

There is a new artist community center opening up in Athens, Whole Mind Body Art, and we are part of it!  We have planned definitely two workshops, one for faerie houses and one for felt items.  They are not happening until November but I got some great shots of the inside of the center where some of our items are on display.

 

I think they go really well with the art of the flowers that they are displayed with.

Faerie Foraging Bag from Zazzle.com

Check out our new items on Zazzle, here's a great reusable bag!
Faerie Foraging Bag from Zazzle.com
Much <3
Aline

Free shipping on all potholders!

In order to celebrate our new line of funny novelty potholders (which are up on etsy BTW) we are having a sale where all potholders (even the older ones) have free shipping!  Get them quick, we've already sold a few, and free shipping won't last forever!
Also we have a few new treasuries on etsy, be sure to check those out!
http://www.etsy.com/people/thegreengriffin/treasury

<3
Aline

Potholder Teaser

Heres a quick look at some of our new line of potholders.  We'll be putting them all up online soon...teaser!

It's Like a Concert Tour But with Sketchbooks!

I just signed up for 'The Sketchbook Project' from the Brooklyn Art Library.  And they say it's like a concert tour but with sketchbooks!  Basically you choose a theme and they send you a sketchbook.  you decorate the sketchbook with anything (drawing, painting, collage, found objects, poems, ect) and send it back to them.  Then they send it and all its companions on a journey around the country to different galleries and museums.  After that is done they archive it permanately in their collection!

There's still time to sign up!!  It costs a base $25 for the sketchbook and then they have optional extras like a t-shirt.
The theme I chose is '...you'd be home by now'  I plan on extending it to be 'If the Earth was your home, you'd be home now' and doing lots of nature related things, photos, paintings, pressed flowers / leaves, maybe even some pictures of faerie houses since they make the earth their home!  a very sustainable / recycle-y / hippie kind of thing. lol  I am super excited and will be sharing the process when I get mine!
<3 Aline

Assorted Faerie Stuff

First I wanted to give you a list of great faerie related books. These all link to Amazon, but we are also proponents of your local library. That is until you find out how great they are and have to buy them!

Felt Wee Folk This is a great instructional book about making little faery figures. It includes some great pictures of groups of faeries that I find very inspiring
Fairy Island This is probably my favorite faerie book. It is a little thin on story but the pictures are so incredible! They are incredibly detailed pictures of these houses that the author found on a faerie island.

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book I just bought this one and am so excited! There are multiple Lady Cottington books and they are all brilliant and funny. My fiance described this book as similar to how people press flowers...but with faeries.
Fairie-ality This is a great book of fashion designs for faeries. They are made form natural materials and the book includes both design drawings and photographs of the finished products.
A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk This one is less of a picture inspiration and more of just text about faeries in general. It is a great book to lean about the different types of faeries and such, and who knows what will inspire you!

And here's a little bit of fun, a Faerie Name Generator! <3 Aline

Your fairy is called Gossamer Willowdancer

She is a caster of weird dreams.

She lives in spiderwebbed wonderlands and insect grottos.

She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup.

She wears tiny black spiders on her dresses. She has delicate green coloured wings like a cicada.

Get your free fairy name here!

Thanks to those who link to us!

Just a quick thanks and link back to those who are linking to us!

Bloggin in PA

Prayer Bedes

Thanks so much! <3 Aline

The Green Griffin @ Flickr

The Green Griffin has a Flickr! We have loads of pictures of our faerie houses and some nature photography taken around the country. Check it out!
www.flickr.com/photos/thegreengriffin/

Any be our friends on Flickr if you're on there!
<3
Aline

New Faerie House!

I'm blogging form the library! Be proud mom!
So I have some new pictures of another finished faerie house that I'm finally going to put up. It was inspired by sort of a Mongolian yurt mixed with Peruvian mountain houses, but its not exactly based on anything, just my strange imagination.
I liked the idea of these cultures using carpets on the walls as insulation, so I wanted the whole thing to be covered in carpets.
I bought a ton of carpets from ebay and used most of them, I had one left that I'm using in a faerie sewing room that's set in an embroidery hoop.
But more of that when that's finished...









I hope you like these and please comment and let me know favorite parts and such!
<3 Aline