Filigree Earrings

New summery dangly earrings in my etsy shop…$2.25 each! 

Go check it out here! 

Nine colors to choose from…

Have a great week!!

New Nests in the Shop…

I finally got around to photographing my new nests for the shop…

They are now listed…

You can go to my shop WoolenWondersByEllen to see them!

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Wool Holiday Trees

I love making these trees…I made 11 of them this past weekend and have the blisters to show it!  Last year I made a bunch of them too!

This year I made more bright colors with lots of bright pinks and blues. 

Making these is a great way to de-stash my wool addiction supply which I might add has seemed to be incredibly way out of control!  You can go here and here to see how they are made.

I think I am down to 8 giant storage containers of wool felt. 

Hoping to get it down to 5, but it’s probably not going to happen not looking good!

You can find these in my etsy shop…

I am linking to these great parties!

Black Friday Shopping

Sarah and I went Black Friday shopping…we are not traditional Black Friday shoppers, we went to JoAnn’s and then we went thrift shopping!

I found the jar on the left at a junk store…it was $1.50.  I love the bubbles in the glass and love the color.  The jar on the left has a really short neck, I think it must be older.  I was telling Mom about finding this jar and she told me she had lots of them. I wanted some pints but we only found quarts.  So now I have four of these!

I found this little box for a few bucks…definitely has some age to it.  I found the clay looking peppermint canes for $2.25 each at a gift store and also found this scrumptious room spray…it has an orange/clove fragrance which is heavenly!

I also got a pile of fabric at JoAnn’s…spent $52 and everything I bought will be used to make a Christmas present this year!  The receipt said I saved $175!!

Darling burlap garland…

Lots of snow people…

These snowman faces were painted on fabric wrapped balls…

And wonderful felted wool stockings, big enough for any sized elf!

The wool felt mooses were very cute!

I loved the brown wool heart ornaments.

This cat was the guard cat at the junk store…she was very sweet but wouldn’t budge an inch when I checked out!

She’s clearly in charge!

I listed these in my etsy shop this evening and they were gone before the hour was out!

Speaking of shopping…shop here and enter ShopMonday15 as a coupon code for 15% off everything in my shop!

Just Because!

Just because it is Monday, just because it is May 16th, just because....

Everything in my etsy store is 50% off! 

Just type in this code

50OFF

to get 50% off any item or items you want to purchase!

Ellen

Woolen Wonders By Ellen GiveAway over at The Reynolds Mom

The Reynolds Mom is hosting the Made With Love Event on her blog!
You better run over here to enter to win a $20 gift certificate to my etsy shop!!

 And while you are there go check out the other giveaways and enter them too!  There are 17 giveaways in all! 

New Etsy Items and 10% off everything!

I have been finishing up and listing a few new items for my etsy shop...

like these yellow wool felt flower pins...

And this dark purple flower pin...

And this sweet baby headband...

And this vintage looking cream colored rose with a vintage earring center...

And now you can get 10% off any item(s) in my etsy shop...just enter WOOLENWONDERS10 to get the discount!

I have also listed a few collections of wool roses ready to use for making wreaths, headbands, pins, and lots more!  Go check them out!

New Wool Pins

I made these a few weeks ago from scraps of wool felt left over from other projects.  I wanted to figure out what I could do with sweater cuffs after the sweater had been washed.  I decided to cut a short length and flat sew the edges and then gather the trimmed side.

And then I put a felt cut out or button or vintage earring in the middle. 

This one turned out really cute!

I made this stack of hearts from shades of pink and then a cream color heart on top.

Here is another cuff flower...this one is a fail though...the more I look at it the more it looks to me like bunny rabbit poo in the middle of the flower! It actually is a vintage earring that I spray painted chocolate brown.  I alternate thinking that this looks like either a pile of chocolate bridge mix or the bunny poo that I mentioned earlier!

Now I am off to make a toddler dress and a garland for a bridal shower this next weekend and a wool rose wreath for my niece.

Busy Making Flowers!

I took advantage of the snow drift on my front deck to get some natural lighting pics of what I have been up to this past few days.  I have made two dozen felted wool flowers.

I used all sorts of patterns, some I made up, some I found online. 

In the center of each flower I put a vintage earring which had been removed from the clip part!

That earring thing was my own idea...I was at an auction and saw a large lot of vintage beaded cluster earrings.

They were beautiful and in excellent shape, I left a bid, but didn't get them.

So I started looking around on eBay and found some that were affordable!

I love the pink earring above...and I love the charcoal flower below!

I have been trying to spice up my photos, so I used an old book of quotes I found at GoodWill as the background.

The flower pin below is a dark purple...I don't know if it is my computer or my camera, but I have trouble getting the true colors in my pictures.

This one looks like a poinsettia...

And this one is a strange combo of pink and red....

It has been fun having something this fun and easy to do while snowed in!  Now on to the cleaning I need to do!