New Felt Brooch

I always love sitting down with felt, buttons, beads & embroidery floss.

These goodies lend any day such a wonderful & delightful coziness.

So I've been indulging in such days and making some new felt lovelies.

Here's one I just finished up...

 

Isn't it just the sweetest?

It looks great on a black bag or purse especially.

If you interested in snapping it up before it's adorning someone else's wardrobe,

do click right here, for this one of a kind handmade lovely is already listed in my Shop.

See you on Sunday.



In The Works

I've been wanting to make a new batch of my bird necklaces/ornaments for a long while now!

It might be a small batch of only 20 or 30 but I am finally getting to them and it feels good.

They are unique and quirky little pieces for the whimsy-filled colour loving souls out there.

My first batch was mostly given away to family and friends as gifts.

My second batch sold out quickly in local stores and sales.

This new batch will be for sale in my shop & I'll do a blog giveaway as well.
I'll give you a heads up as to when they'll be hitting the shop.

More Polarity Goodness

So let me tell you more about my collaboration with Cat Ivins of Polarity and Olive Bites Studio.

Polarity is the original maker/home of interchangeable magnetic jewelry.

Cat Ivins of Polarity makes amazing and versatile industrial lockets & bracelets

featuring artwork from various artists worldwide, such as moi.

The jewelry is amazingly handmade from recycled steel auto parts

and are 'welded with love, propane & power tools' right in her New Jersey studio.

Look at the cool bracelet set you can now buy featuring my 'Beautiful Birds' artwork...

Just add your favorite little picture inside

and you have one of the coolest pieces of jewelry ever.

Your locket will be packaged in a cute little tin, perfect for gift giving or storage

and sent with care from Cat's studio.

You can purchase this bracelet, which has the 3 magnetic interchangeable bird lids RIGHT HERE.

The Rabbit, Fish, Bird necklace set I showed you in the last post

is now available for purchase in Cat's shop.

Just CLICK RIGHT HERE

 

2 more sets are still to come...so excited.
(They will all be available in my Etsy shop as well)

Aren't they totally awesome???

XO Mandy aka 'Bijou' of Bijou's Whimsy

A Peek At Exciting New Jewelry Collaboration

I am collaborating with fellow Etsy Seller, Cat Ivins of Polarity

and we have a super exciting new jewelry series coming

combining her awesome earth-friendly interchangeable magnetic lockets

with my super colourful and whimsical images...

Here's a sneak peek of one of the goodies that will be available...

They will be listed in both Cat's Etsy shop and mine very soon.

I can't wait.
YAYYY...

More details and info will follow.

I am sitting here feeling very grateful & excited for this new venture.

XO Mandy

P.S.  This locket set is now available in Cat's shop, right here, check it out.

Another New Felt & Beaded Brooch

Just hopping in today to show you all another felt and beaded brooch I recently made...

 I just organized a nice big toolbox for my beads, felt and stitchery goodies so I can just grab the box and get to work wherever and whenever the mood strikes me....usually it's during movies I just can't get into but still want to 'watch' or when my sweets wants to watch one of his gory zombie flicks. 

Today however my fingers are itching to work with coloured pencils, I have several pieces on the go and I am anxious to finish at least one of them and my back is feeling better...so I am off to do just that.

Have a wonderfully cozy day.

We're a little off schedule this week, so I'll be seeing you all again on Saturday.

XO Mandy whose love love loving this week of constant rain

Bird On Flower Brooch

I woke up and looked out the window to see grey skies and bright yellow leaves doing a lovely spiral dance around each other as thy floated to the ground...ahhhh, it's feeling like a very cozy day.

The perfect day to show you another felt brooch I just finished up.

Isn't it sweet sweet sweet...
I conjured up several designs in the summer & it feels great to see them come to life.
I am having so much fun with them and they let me indulge in my felt obsession.
They don't have to be worn, one could put them in a frame as lovely little originals.

On the agenda today:  
Tend to a very sore head
Get a coloured pencil finished up (Which I can't wait to show you)
Finish up a smaller 2nd image which just needs a smidge of paint added
Make a big pot of cabbage soup
tidy my forever messy house
but mostly...
the plan is to sit on the floor working on another felt brooch besides 4 sweet sweet sweet bunnies.

Hope your having a great day...thanks for hopping by.

XO A Stitching Bijou XO

Bunny Brooch

I just wanted to hop in and show you all a little felt, stitched & beaded brooch I just finished up.

I've made 5 of these little cuties so far and am having a ball with them.

I'll let you know when it's available for purchase in my Etsy shop.

Thanks oodles to everyone sending us and Jaks well wishes & healing energies...

it means so much and touches my heart warmly...hugs to you all. 

Jaks is abit better today...another positive update will follow soon hopefully.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and I hope you can hop in for a visit next week.

XO Mandy, Ella Luna, Roo, Jaks and Jinny

Some New Rabbity Treasures..

Told you I couldn't stay away for too long:D! I've gotten sooo many illustration sketches underway and I am so excited to get back to some of my more serious conceptual work so it was defiantly good to take some time off from my normal routine. Today I am hopping in cause I just had to show you some new treasures that I've been spoiled with over the last couple months and which I finally got around to taking some shots of... These beauties all come from Etsy shops... I can't believe the tiny carving detail and I have 1 other necklace from this carver and I just love his work. Jon said he had to get me this one cause it looks like our Roo all curled up. This little guy is from the Lavender Rabbit's shop. ...and than a couple weeks later these beauties arrived. Hand carved wooden brooches from Barabara and Marcos Suarez, I love their shop and you can see abit of similarities between their quirky style to Elsita Moras, if you a fan of her, I sure am...I have to say these are the top of my favourite rabbity things list. I haven't attached them to anything yet cause I want to make sure they are in a safe place and not in danger of falling off and getting lost. This etsy order was one of the most nicely wrapped orders yet...

and okay now this one IS my current favourite....I love the symbolism, it reminds me that all our bunnies are angels just here to visit on earth for a short time so to enjoy that time everyday no matter how long or short...this piece is beautifully made and has a nice heaviness to it...I still have to find out where this one's from, it was unwrapped awhile ago and it's the one business card I've misplaced!

That guy of mine sure does have good taste in rabbity thingies:D

Join me pn Monday for some new work and those 'wee whispys' I was telling you about.

Well, I am off to a busy day; I will bring bunnies outside for a quick romp (Jaks is finally mastering the stairs, oh I was squealing with excitement and my heart was squeezing with pride the first time he went down and up all on his little own self:D ha ha ) it's abit chilly so I'll have to bundle up. Than it'll be time for a tussle with tax papers, but I promised myself only a few hours of that crap and than on to working some more with my new linears but first before all that some lunch, some yoga and a than a cappuccino:D

Have a great day too everyone.

A New Necklace...

We've been having some rough weeks here in our little rabbit warren...but more on that another day for today I am trying to be positive and as cheery as possible....So, onto another topic....Most of you following me on this blog know I am pretty bonkers over rabbit related things. Now I am not a gal who spends alot on clothes, haircuts, make up or shoes etc...but I do indulge myself with certain things like cute socks, cute dishes, yummy delectables (I have a weakness for spicy chocolate), books and naturally of course, rabbity jewelery:D...so today I just had to show you the latest addition to my collection...this beautiful Russian hand-painted pendant from Etsy seller Lavender Rabbit. I had to take a shot before I unwrapped everything...it was defiantly a lovely package to receive...

This is the necklace, I love it...it has a lovely old world charm about it and came with matching earrings...

...AND Lavender Rabbit (a fellow rabbit lover) completely surprised and delighted me by sending me this great pair of earrings, they were totally unexpected and I love them, thanks Lavender Rabbit...I am so glad we like each others shops:D

I am proud to support handmade, fellow artists and great ecommerce sites like Etsy...speaking of which, I plan a big shop update soon, I am going to try doing batch updates instead of singular...but theres still lots of good stuff in there right now so check it out.

Have a great day, thanks again Lavender Rabbit:D p.s. She has a blog here, check it out.

p.p.s. Today I just can't get enough of this awesome Gomez song.....check it out, maybe you'll end up blasting it over and over again too:D

A New Necklace on Etsy

Just popping in quickly to let yous know that a new necklace with my coloured pencil illustration "Every thing's Going to Be Okay" has been added to the shop this week. It doesn't show up in the photos unfortunately but the glass turquoise beads go so nicely with the turquoise that's in the shadows of the illustration. I am hoping to be able to soon get a teeny weeny custom stamp to stamp my name or even logo on the back of each necklace...anyone have any ideals as to where I can get a nice stamp made without spending oodles??? To Buy It Please Click Here Until next time...thanks for popping in...Happy Creating.

Flying Fish Necklace

So over the holidays, I thought I would get alot of jewelry made, but I didn't because I ended up putting all my supplies away in an effort to make my studio spaces look abit neater during the holiday potential visits. I did however have a complete ball over the holiday sketching future Nubbins, I designed 18 new ones and I am over the moon excited about them. I am just hoping the universe and people embrace them as much as I love them! Then we would have a success I believe. But anyhow...you'll see the new nubbins slowly and soon over this next year...today I wanted to show you another necklace I made before the Holiday madness.

A pendant I made with my 'Flying Fish' illustration. This one is sold, but I will be making more of a very similar design very soon and when I do, I'll let you know when a batch of the pendants are going into the Etsy shop.

I haven't been into the Etsy shop for some time, but that's because I've been planning to re haul what's sold in there....this time round I am going to try necklaces and nubbins instead of originals and prints. Perhaps I'll introduce prints back in when I have more 'series' type of work because that seems to be what people are looking for and therefore buying. But I'll rant about this at another more opportune time!

Join me tomorrow where I'll share some of my 2009 plans with you. Be Well and Happy Creating.

A Great Mail Day

I was so excited today when I received a package from Estonia, for I knew what magical little handcraft it held within. This is my new and one of my favourite necklaces, which my sweet Jon bought for me after seeing me freak out when I saw it on Etsy. I swear there is abit of the artists energy still tingling on the piece. Thanks Marianne, I just adore it. To visit Marianne's blog please click here or to visit her Etsy shop click here.