Through serendipity two awsome fiber events happened on the same day, Felt United and Cynnabar’s first Fiber Faire. Felt United is a day that felters around the world make and display felt acording to a yearly theme. Cynnabar’s Fiber Faire was the first SCA event where I was the Event Steward. To celebrate both days at the same time I taught a felt hat making class and made this cute hat.
While I had the photography equipment set up I did a whole photo shoot of the hats I have at the moment.
I am so excited to announce that I will be merchanting at Baron Wars on May 8th! Baron Wars is an SCA event held at a War of 1812 fort in Perrysburg Ohio. Considering there were only Native Americans living in this area before the year 1600, it can be hard to find a site with good ambiance for a medieval event. However this fort is made of timber (kind of like a big log cabin). Its rustic feel is the perfect backdrop to the beginning of our camping season.
For those of you coming to the event, I will be teaching felting in small groups at my merchant booth all day. So if you would like a lesson please contact me to reserve a time and space!
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Lets face it, anything you get paid money to do is work. And in general everyone is trying to ballance work with a general pursuit of happiness. When I started my website 5 years ago I was just beginning my felt business. I was a preschool teacher part time and a part time felt maker. I really enjoyed setting up my shop at various events and finding lots of people who enjoyed seeing and owning my work. However this was a lot of work with no guaranteed return. So after a couple of years I decided to trade it all for the security of a full time teaching job. I know most everyone knows what its like to have a full time job, well there is only so much time left for anything else. I continued to make a few felt and other fiber pieces for myself and as gifts. All the while I’ve missed having more time to create and “play store”. I haven’t updated my website much since then, so at this point it seems quite out dated to me.
After finding the right full time teaching job for me this year, I am able to take time off as I please (without pay of course), and as it stands now I have one afternoon a week off to do creative things. And just as I started taking those afternoons off I started getting commission requests. I’m finding it very rewarding to be working at this slower pace, and think I’m making better felt this way too. I hope to proceed with Wandering Sheep in a more artsy way and may be re-opening my shop at a few events… with a new business model. In the coming months I hope to be finding a good way to archive my old website and developing more of a blog based website, so that it is easier to document my work as it progresses. The first few posts to this blog will probably be old or back logged items I’m transferring over to this format.
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