New little Easter Chicks

Today I worked on creating some cute little Easter chicks inspired by vintage chenille chicks of days gone by.  These little cuties would be sure to brighten someones Easter basket this spring!:)

Today I made my 200th sale on Etsy!

Woo hoo!  Today is kind of a bench mark for me as today I made my 200th sale on etsy!  It was for a special order.  My customer wanted to give this to her Mom for Mother's Day in memory of a grey cat she once had.  How sweet!

My sales have slowed down considerably so I've returned to work.  Which I hate, but the bills need to be paid...  So with my return to work, it's taken its toll with me not being able to dedicate much time to my etsy shop or creating.  Depressing!:(

Here is a photo of the the little kitty I made that just sold.  It's pictured with this cute little baby mouse I made a week or so ago!:)

My little Honey Bunny

I've been busy catching up on sending out orders and recreating the ones that sold but thought I'd share with you a pic of a little girl bunny doll I'm working on.  She's still in the rough stages and isn't finished yet.  It's the first one so I need to work some kinks out.:)  I had to crop the pic to cut out the chaos of my work table, lol!

A New Design To Share With You

Today has been a pretty productive day!  I got some things finished and thought I'd share with you all my new little mouse design.  In case you haven't figured it out already, I LOVE RIBBON!!!  I buy ribbon all the time whenever I go to any craft or fabric store.  So I have a good stash.  Many times I buy it and it just languishes around getting all snarled and tangled up.  But today I actually sorted and organized it all.  I bought the "vine" ribbon last year.  A whole spool of it.  I had to have the moment I spotted it at a little boutique.  I think I knew then what I wanted to try to use it for but it did sit around for months until I got around to it.:)  I had created a long time ago two little bunnies on a wood base.  A girl bunny sat on a swing and a boy bunny stood behind pushing her.  It was really cute.  I wanted to try to recreate it but, lol, there just wasn't enough room on this base for both.  And I made her a mouse...because, the bunny ears were too tall, lol.:)  The swing actually rocks if you give her a gentle push.

Vintage Inspiration

As all of you probably well know, I make all my little animals by fashioning them out of a simple yarn pom poms.  I wanted to share with you some vintage little pom pom animals that were made by a german toy company, Steiff back in the 50's and 60's.  I find these tiny little guys to be so adorable!

(And here I thought I was so original with my little squirrels!  LOL! :P)

Some of these vintage little cuties go for big bucks now days at auctions and on ebay.  I have some vintage Steiff but would love to add more to my collection!