I’m Trying Something New This Holiday Season.

Each year at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, we host a preview show for the Orange County Artists’ Guild’s Studio Tour. The tour runs the first two weekends of November. When the studio tour ends… the holidays begin at HGA!

For several years now I have created mostly one-of-a-kind needle felted ornaments. Each is a unique mini-sculpture, and they seem to be quite popular. Here’s a link to a YouTube video that I created a few weeks back showing many of the ornaments I have sculpted for this season.

This year, I’ve decided to do a little marketing experiment. I’m making several ornaments available online for the next two weeks. You can get to my sales page by clicking on the Curling Rabbit ornament below, or through the image gallery currently on this site’s home page. I will add new ornaments if these find new homes quickly, but they will only be available online through November 10th!

Other New Work.

Since, I stopped making regular blog posts, I haven’t shared much in the way of new work. Here are a few recent pieces:

Cozy Badger – Needle felted wool/mixed media. Anthropomorphic badger figure with a blue and white stripped nightcap, slippers, and “pince nez” glasses, sits on a natural wood log reading a book, with a cup of tea beside him. This piece will be available at HGA for the holiday show.

Harvest – is an anthropomorphic mouse figure with a pumpkin. Needle felted wool. This piece is currently available at HGA.

Fish Out Of Water – is a re-work of an earlier sculpture. Seated needle felted koi figure holds a blue decorated parasol, and has a obi belt fashioned from the fabric stash of a beloved art quilter. This sculpture is also currently available at HGA.