Felt Flowers

I bought a rolled rose die from MFT and love the way I can cut felt with the die (using my cuttlebug). You can roll the flowers up tight, or leave them more open as I have done here. I dropped a blob of PVA glue in the centre of each and sprinkled that with tiny seed beads. The bird is a Fiskars punch, and the branch was cut from the Bloom cartridge on my Cricut. Sentiment label is by Craftwork Cards

edited to say I have been to the MFT site and they don't have the rolled rose die showing. It's a new product, so if you want one, I would email them and ask when they will be back in stock

Here's what the die looks like, and the felt when cut, but not rolled - you just start at the centre and roll up, glueing it as you go



I gave myself a much needed weekend off this weekend - time to alter the look of the blog, it looked very summery in it's old clothes, now it is all wrapped up for winter







I also had time to sit slumped in front of the TV for hours, something I rarely do. I watched a load of old rubbish, but there was one advertisment that had me crying with laughter.....someone has invented slippers with a LED light in the front, that apparently will stop you suffering all sorts of disasters. It made me wonder how I have been getting up at night and groping my way into the bathroom in the dark without breaking my neck. How lucky I must have been for all these years not to trip over a sleeping dog or cat, fracture my skull on a doorway or break a leg when going to soothe a crying child.



Now on the advertisment (which went on for some time, and was priceless), the light looks like a tiny LED bulb that lights up when you slip your feet into the slippers. But in the examples shown, (some camera trickery going on there without a doubt) these little lights were as bright as the headlights on a truck, indeed, you could probably safely guide a jumbo jet into land with nothing more than a pair of these miraculous slippers. They brought a whole new meaning to the term twinkletoes. I do hope you get to see the ad - watch out for the bit where a whole family are squashed up on the sofa all wearing their twinkly slippers (a nice feature was that the light switches off when you take the weight off your feet, and comes back on automatically to guide you safely into the kitchen to pour yourself a very large glass of wine in an attempt to blot out the mind-numbing effect of watching the ad) - I do hope that I am not talking to someone who has bought light up slippers for every member of their family, if I am, please do not be offended, as you know it doesn't take much to tickle my sense of humour!

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