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In our last post, we started making a needle-felted blue bird of happiness. We completed shaping the body with wool, and today we are going to make the feet, the beak, and add some finishing touches. I am SO EXCITED to finish this little guy, and decide where we are going to put him on display. I've always wanted a blue bird of happiness to be perched somewhere in my home. Materials Needed In our previous post, I shared with you all of the materials needed to complete our needle-felted blue bird of happiness project. I hope you...

From the first day that we started our needle-felting series, I have wanted to make a needle-felted Blue Bird of Happiness. There is something so delightful about this little character, and I've always wanted one for my office or living room. The blue bird has long been a symbol of not just happiness, but of joy, hope, and luck throughout the world, and it is no different in our back yard. A blue bird always has the ability to stop any one of us in our tracks. We gaze in wonder at its beauty and grace, and at least for...

I'm not lying when I said that my kids and I were a little nervous of the Supplementary Models in the back of the book, Paper Sloyd for Primary Grades by Ednah Anne Rich. As we set out to make the paper sloyd triangular candy box, we were immediately shocked to find that this model - as well as many other models in this section - had absolutely no instructions! Were we supposed to be so prepared by doing the models in the previous parts of the book, that this would be so simple as to no need...

Oh dear. It seems like we are once again in the position of creating something that we will probably never need. I mean I've been alive for 50 years and I have never had the need for a paper sloyd comb holder. How about you? However, I’ve learned that each paper or cardboard sloyd project teaches us something new so we are going to create this paper sloyd comb holder and maybe we will find some other use for it! Materials Needed: The materials that you will need for this project are simple. If you’ve been doing sloyd with...