World Famous in NZ

Hi Everyone!  Hope the new year is treating you well!

Lots of things have been happening here at Little Handfuls Headquarters!  I have been absolutely stunned and honoured to be filmed for a local crafts segment on tv!  I was invited just before christmas and filming took place this week.  Below are some shots from my workspace which is where most of the filming was done!



I've been told the show will be available online, but perhaps only for NZ people.  I will have to see if we can get it onto youtube so everyone can see it!

After an entire day of filming I was pretty tired, I guess the build up to it was rather more draining than I had realised and I needed a lot of recharge time!

I had created a special piece just for the show as well, Loveseat Lovers are a pair of little bears who sit on a gorgeous vintage reproduction loveseat or Tete a Tete seat.  I will add more pics another  day I think or you can pop by my facbook page to see all 30 odd pics there!  :o)

Lots of shows coming up for me this year too, lucky I chucked in the day job! hehe

Hope all is well with you and yours and thank you for continuing to drop by and see my creations!  If you are new here, I hope you will keep visiting and join me on facebook too!

Happy crafting!

Bear Examples for Teddies Worldwide Online Show

2012 is here!

Happy New Year!!

I hope you all had a wonderful christmas with family and friends!  Here in New Zealand we had a great time, it didn't even rain for a change! :o)

2012 is going to be a big year for Little Handfuls.  I have some great shows coming up, I plan to travel out of town this year, which I haven't done in a while.  I have a regular local show that I plan to keep going along to, I wasn't able to do that last year as I was always working on the weekends!

But the big news is what is happening next week, which is that the TVNZ7 film crew are arriving to film me making my bears, for a local show called Hearts N Crafts.  I don't know yet when it is airing but stay tuned for more info as I get it!

So that's my big plans for the start of the year!  My son is starting college this year and my 2 girls are still at primary but the middle one is in her last year there.  They are growing up way to fast for me!!

Happy crafting to all and I hope to hear from you all soon!

Liza

Hello Again

I can't believe it's been months since I last put new photos up!  I guess I haven't made a lot of bears in the last little while, rather focussing on my little monsters as I needed them for the markets that were coming up over the silly season.

I do have a few little friends to show you and I have made a start on some new work which I haven't photographed yet!

Barclay is felted from a lovely copper brown with lemon embroidered accents! 
Just a wee fellow under 2.5 inches

Buster is needle felted from gorgeous shades of merino greens

Linus was sold minutes after he was shown on my Facebook page! lol  So if you are wanting to get in first it pays to be a fan of the page! :o) 

Raspberry Souffle is a lovely big bear.  The photo does her no justice as she is a much darker, richer maroon with pink blend.  She is over 3.5 inches tall.

If you are interested in adopting any of the bears shown (apart from Linus who I already have to make 2 similar bears to) please just let me know.  Along with any other bears shown on the blog!

More news to come as Little Handfuls is going to be on television next year.  Filming for a quick segment on TVNZ7 will begin in early January!  I will update you as we get closer! :o)

If I don't get in beforehand, have a wonderful Christmas filled with family, fun and most of all love!  I thank you so much for taking the time to drop by my pages and all the support that you give!

Much love
Liza Adams

New inspirations

Hi Everyone!

Thought I better update you on the latest from Little Handfuls! 

I've been floundering a bit lately, a lot of the shows I do over here in New Zealand just don't go well, no one wants to part with their money (can't blame them for that!) and while they have high praise for my work I still end up packing it all up and  taking it all home at the end of the show!  Which is really expensive I might add! lol

So I've been trying to think what I can do to create a range of less expensive items which appeal to more people than bear collectors which we don't seem to have a lot of over here.

For some reason I stumbled across some monster cartoons, and those cute pics, combined with the pile of christmas balls I had sitting on my desk got me thinking.  The result is this crazy collection of little monsters.



What I intend to do is to have a whole lot of them at the next show, and be able to personalise them for people.  So if you want a couple to hang over your car mirror, you just pick the two you like and I will string them together while you wait!  If you want one to clip onto your childs pram I can do that too, maybe your older child would like one on a bungy cord so he can play with it!  I will make mini ones too, so if you want a keychain, or brooch, necklace, it's all possible! :o)

Hope you like them!

Happy crafting,
Liza

New bears and other news!

Hi Everyone

Thought I had better check in as it's been a while!  Had a lot of things happening at this end and apparently lost my mojo for a little while due to the stress of it all.  I think I'm back on track now and I have a few new bears to show you.

I also finished my Give Away bear for my facebook fans and we just announced our winner so if you haven't joined us on Facebook please do check us out, just look for Little Handfuls and I'm sure you will find us!  It was a great give away and lots of people joined in!  I will show you pics of the finished bear in my next update!

For now here are a few newbies:



Kanto
This little bear is felted in merino/silk.  He's rather different but I quite like him.

Rigley
Needle felted from a gorgeous dusky pink corriedale that was hand dyed here in NZ.  He has lil pink toepads too! ;o)

Cora
This little girl is so sweet in her lace skirt and crochet bonnet!  Felted in hand dyed cotton candy pink romney.

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Visit my Etsy Shop, lots of new bears available!

I have added lots of new bears to my etsy store as I am now officially finished at my day job so time to take the bear by the ears as it were! lol I hope you will drop by and visit!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you have been having a productive and happy time since my last post!  I wanted to let you know that voting has ended for the 500th bear giveaway!  I will start work on him soon and post pictures as he progresses hopefully!  The winning name won't be drawn until he is done!

I got a box full of lovely new wools last week and I am itching to work on those, plus I have some hats to knit as a few finished bears look a bit hatless.  It takes me so long to knit a hat and then often the finished results don't suit the bear I was making it for!  Not the best knitter! lol

Not much else to tell, life has been a bit messy here lately so I haven't been creating as much as I would like to!

Fingers crossed I can relax into some felting again soon!

:o)