Goofy Critters

Grumpy Baby Bird sat on my steering wheel and glared at me. I had made him a week before and still had not delivered him to his human, Youngest Daughter. He was not impressed.

I started needle felting Goofy Critters after doing a Felt your Inner Goddess workshop with Youngest Daughter last year. It’s taken over. I took a posse of Critters into work and they were all claimed within minutes. Now I sit and stab my fingers in the evenings, when not drawing, colouring, or playing games. Anything to avoid housework really.

Back to Grumpy Baby Bird. I swear his face looks like F@#K off!, so there was no doubt for whom he was destined. Youngest Daughter was delighted. Strangely though, after a week spend cruising around with me in my car, he no longer looked so grumpy. In fact, he looked down right anticipatory. Still fierce though, which suits Youngest Daughter well.

I met a mosaic artist at the Emerald Art Market who had crafted a platter with tea cups and a teapot suspended above them, tilted downward. She had crocheted little covers atop each tea cup and little flowers waving above on stems of steel. I can’t crochet, I said, but I can felt. I now have 15 little felted flowers waiting for the workshop to create my own teapot mosaic. I have no idea where I will put it but I really want to make it. I’ll let you know how it goes.