Frosty and his Cardinal!

Everyday I'm making more Felted Art Collectibles.  Like last year at this time, I feel a real push to create and list on Etsy.  Here are two more of my latest.....another Happy Snowman and this time a puffed up cardinal.  


The snowman is influenced by children's Christmas books - you know,  that scene where Frosty is out and about the town.  My guy is a takeoff of this childhood favorite.  He's got everything he needs - but  no broom - but he has a nice yellow (well, it looks good) moon and twinkling stars.  I've found that using white silk fiber when wet felting and when needlefelting creates an icy look.  I also used a bit of grey curly locks - which I must have gotten from a sheep friend of mine - because I have it in clumps in my artroom.  It does very well for shadowing.

 I broke one of my lights that came with my lightbox - it fell - don't think it's really broken...just got loosened.  So, I had to use only one and in the picture above, it gave off a nice glow.

 Here he is in my bedroom along side my birch collectible.  Well, it sold already so not mine.

He reminds me of the "Titanic" - "Here I am, world!" as he leanas forward - shows he's dimensional -a nice way to say he's a bit rounded.




Now, here's the second newest - when I googled "cardinal" to see what these guys really look like, I came up with many pictures - some of the "Cardinal" as in the Catholic cardinal.  Maybe that's why the bird is called a "cardinal" because the top of his head looks like a "Cardinal's" hat.  Of course, he's very important also.

 I love this picture - he's nestled in this birch bark light - hard to explain what it looks like - the photo is a bit fuzzy - but I love the branches!

He's on the wall and I'm trying to show his roundness

Here he is with a friend - this was posed in my livingroom window. ...with the cotton batting.


I puffed him out with alot of shocking red wool - the beak was rather thought provoking - how to make it stick out and then what to do about the mouth opening.  Fnally, worked out and I used a fine tipped artist's marker for his mouth-lips-whatever-where it opens. 


This is reserved for a dear friend who continually buys from me.


So, what's in the works next?  What holiday is coming up after Thanksgiving and before Christmas for Jewish folk?