Gift giveaway Friends for Felix style

If you follow us on Facebook you might have seen that we were going to head down to our local shopping centre and give some of our feltie friends to strangers to celebrate Christmas (and reaching 200 friends on Facebook). My little man and I took our feltie friends with us to the shops twice this week and just couldn't give them away - it just didn't feel right. So yesterday, we packed up Miss Morris, Ginny the Giraffe, Budda Boy, Odelle Octopus, two Sweet Little Cherubs & Winne the Whale and headed down the the hospital where our little man was born. 

We decided to donate our feltie friends to the Special Care Nursery for Christmas gifts for those beautiful little bubs in hospital this Christmas. We were very blessed that our little man was born healthy and strong and was able to leave hospital after 2 days but there are many little ones that need that extra help. It must be such a stressful time for parents so we are hoping that our little feltie toys may put a smile on someone's face this Christmas.

Well this is our last post before Christmas and probably the year. I am off to enjoy the holidays with my family. Merry Christmas.


Sweet Dreams. 



 

Counting down to Christmas

  5 sleeps until Christmas for us! Christmas this year starts when our little man's GM & GD arrive from Melbourne. We are so excited to be seeing them again. So to us, this is when the Christmas celebrations begin. We have now finished decorating our house. I thought that I would share some pictures - a warning though, my photos are not great. My christmas wish is for a new camera and some photography lessons! I need help in that department!

Upon opening our front door, we have a cute Merry Christmas banner that is free to print from a fantastic blog, At Second Street. You can head over and see it for yourself here At Second Street.  I love it! Mine didn't print out as red as I thought it would but still looks fantastic.

 

We always have a real Christmas tree, and this year our tree is a baby so we were not able to put too many decorations on it. Our felt decorations that we made for this Christmas  (www.facebook.com/forfelix) were perfect as they were not too heavy for the branches. We has a very beautiful angel for the top from my mum but it was too heavy, so late last night I whipped up this little boy angel for the tree.

 

 

The rest of our decorations adorned some branches that I painted white. I think they look nice and wondering what I will do with the branches once Christmas is done.

Our little man and I are baking Christmas cakes today and then hoping to head to the shops to give some of our Friends for Felix felties to strangers to spread some Christmas cheer! Hope you all have a happy and wonderful Christmas.

Sweet Dreams and Merry Christmas.

The Market wrap up

I have been meaning to blog about our experience hosting our first market stall but have had a big week and to finish the week my brother-in-law to be had a motorbike accident so it has been one of those weeks. He is ok but will have a long recovery ahead of him. We are very blessed as things could have been a lot worse.

Last Sunday's market seems so long ago! When I started selling my feltie friends, I had made myself the goal to have a market stall. I put it off for such a long time, and since I had a good amount of stock I felt as though I didn't have an excuse anymore! All I wanted to do was go and sell one item which happened while I was still setting up (what a great start to the day!). I am really pleased I made it to the markets. I was able to meet some of our friends who follow us on Facebook which was really lovely! I wish I could have sold more but after lunch it got quiet very quickly. I was hoping for the perfect summer's day but it was very overcast so not as many people out at Burleigh beach as I had hoped.

I was very lucky to have a great sales assistant in Oliver, charming all the ladies browsing the markets, I mean really how could you not reist his smile!

Some of the yummy feltie treats we had on offer!

 

I gained a number of custom orders from the market that I am busy sewing to be ready in time for Christmas. Lots of pregnant mummas wanting custom mobiles for their bubbas! How very exciting! So am busy designing unique mobiles to suit either a girl or a boy. I can't wait to share the sweet bunny mobile I am about to make (it is still in design mode at the moment).

 

Looking forward to next week being full of Christmas cheer as we finish some orders and wrap our Christmas presents, decorate our house Christmas stylie, find recipes for baking some Christmas treats and have a positive happy week!

 

Sweet Dreams.