Showing posts with label needle felting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label needle felting. Show all posts

Thursday, December 12, 2013

My Life as a Twenty-Something Robot

Hey-o!

So ya'll may be wondering why I haven't posted anything in pretty much forever. The answer is, astoundingly, I haven't finished anything in forever....

As you may or may not know, I happen to be a college student and planning a wedding set to happen next fall. And my wonderful fiance just accepted a job as an artist for an agency in Hollywood (Yay Erik!) which means now we're going to also be moving on top of everything.

Understandably (I hope) thanksgiving vacation was insane this year and then finals started happening and, well, you get the picture. I would be working on new things except.....my workspace currently looks like this:

Supposedly a desk is in there somewhere...

Yes, that is my bra on the ground, deal with it.

I'm pretty sure I have a problem.

Yes, I am a total wreck at the moment. There is no excuse, but the evidence is right in front of my face. Another reason I'm so behind is that Monster High Dolls went on sale over the black friday part of the Holiday. And I of course thought 'custom monster high dolls? That's a thing I could do!'
Which resulted in this:



A half-finished X-men Mystique doll. I could go on and on about the dozens of unfinished projects I have laying around, but really if you look at those messy pictures you can already see each and every one of them. Plus there's the needle-felting I have been doing but not posting about...





Yay for needle felted pokemon!

But seriously, I need to get myself organized for the new year. Badly. So please excuse my absence from the internet world lately, I'm doing my best to rectify it. Give me this week to just organize my mountain of neglected projects and hopefully new stuff will start happening again soon. Until then enjoy the posts of treasures I found while digging through my mess heap.
Maybe I'll get some of them posted in the Lee's Menagerie store.

Dutifully Yours,
Stefani Lee



Thursday, November 21, 2013

Needle Felting Anyone?

Holy Goodness Sauce Batman!


So I have discovered needle felting and I think I may be in love. My wonderful artistic grandmother Lee Daniels introduced it to me and my sister over this last weekend and I can't stop thinking about making little wooly creations. I'm completely obsessed.

I mean, have you seen this stuff? Here's one of my favorites by flightofheart on etsy:

Life-sized american kestrel doll?? Too amazing.

Or how about this dragon by AliceFelts:
I don't want to alarm anyone, but I'm pretty sure I NEED this dragon. I'd be honor bound to buy it if there was a little more color, but the detail work on this is stunning.

And lastly MarchHareCreations with the most awesome griffin plush:

Needless (needle-less?) to say I went ahead and ordered a starter kit of assorted felting needles and some delicious wool ASAP! Anyone else looking for a great website to order from, I like Felt Alive personally. Even though the website is a little...shall we say 90's chic? She has wonderful prices and a great selection.

Anyway, my wool and tools aren't here yet but expect to see lots of felting experiments on the instagram feed (leesmenagerie) and the tumblr (Creatures of Lee's Menagerie) hopefully this weekend. I'm thinking....pokemon. Lots of mini-pokemon dolls for practice.

Faithfully Yours,
Stefani Lee