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Just $20 gives you a chance to win this truly one-of-a-kind, breathtaking, magical creation and support the Waldorf School of Orange County!
Win this worldwide. Free shipping. Winner will be selected on March 9, 2013 Pacific Standard Time (California, USA).
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Part II of “Enchanted Woodland Fairy Tale” Playscape Craft Group Project. February 6, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Week 2 of our playscape project. A work in progress.
Our Morning Together. Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Our Wednesday morning craft group met again this morning in the back room of The Company of Angels store to continue making our “Enchanted Woodland Fairy Tale Playscape” blanket to donate to our school’s for our upcoming Spring Gala Auction event.
Rachel was not well, so she went home. We missed you Rachel (and your tea and biscuits!) and wish you get plenty of rest and be well again!
Kirsten sent in a thank you card (for our craft group gift basket) of her family and new baby. We missed you at craft group. Congratulations to Kirsten and family! Come in to craft group to check out her new baby pictures!
A work in progress. Please check back in a week or so on this link to bid on this auction item.
This lovingly made “Enchanted Springtime Fairy Tale Woodland” playscape will be available to bid on for our Waldorf School of Orange County’s 2013 Bliss Gala and Auction. Event: March 9, 2013. You will be able bid on it shortly on this link below!
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Friends, creating and HOT soapy water: Last week’s craft group work…
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- Gallery page of past craft group projects.
- Waldorf School of Orange County Spring 2013 Bliss Fundraiser
- Our crafting journal for The “Enchanted Fairy Tale Woodland” playscape blanket:
- Part I. Making Wet Felted Playscape and Wet Felted Rocks. January 30, 2013
- Part II of “Enchanted Woodland Fairy Tale” Playscape Craft Group Project. February 6, 2013
- Part III of “Enchanted Woodland Fairy Tale” Playscape Craft Group Project. February 13, 2013
- Part IV of “Enchanted Woodland Fairy Tale” Playscape Craft Group Project; Making Art Felt Scarves Again. February 27, 2013
- Raffle Page: You can win this gorgeous labor of love for $20 !!!
- Our Morning Together. Wednesday, February 6, 2013
- Renuka Added Unicorns to the Playscape!
- Thank You LaTeaDa Designs on Etsy For Their Generous Donation of Wools For Our School Auction
- Jzin’s Waterfall with a Secret
- Making Woodland Trees for Our Felt Playscape
- Making Pompom Foliage and Shrubbery
- I Made A Fearsome Little Snake!
- Gisela’s Woodland Gnome
- Books on Felting
- Ideas and Inspirations page (Trees, woodland creatures, cottages, fairy tale characters) things that can live in our Enchanted Woodland playscape.
Renuka Added Felt Unicorns to the Playscape!
Here is a pink unicorn handmade by Renuka for her children. Today she made new felt unicorn for our Gala fundraiser. Miniature needle-felted + hand stitched princess was made by Jzin/ Castle of Costa Mesa do ride astride this lovely unicorn.
Renuka and Courtney made unicorns this morning.
Renuka completed the daddy unicorn this morning. Look at the details, such as the rims on the horn. Thank you for donating this lovely unicorn to our auction!
Galloping unicorns!
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Thank You LaTeaDa Designs For Their Generous Donation of Wools For Our School Auction.
LaTeaDa Designs on Etsy /Marti Browne has donated some gorgeous wools for our School Auction!
Marti’s daughter and her llama, Checkers! How cute is that?
Hand dyed assortment of Cotswold sheep wool curl from LaTeaDa Designs on Etsy. These are the crafter’s dream and will be fabulous for making fantasy creatures (unicorn mane, fairies’ hair, gnome beard), wet-felting playscapes (waterfall, ocean waves, flowers, vines, foliage), and other endless creative uses!
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Speaking of gnomes, here is a page on our craft group making felted gnomes. Click here to view our gallery of past craft group creations for other wool related projects.
Alpaca pencil roving in white, light fawn, medium fawn, dark fawn and black from Marti’s alpacas on her ranch. It can be used for doll hair, felting doll skin, wet felting trees and playscapes or for your Artfelt scarf project.
Check out Marti’s rainbow array of alpacas!
Some of Marti’s alpacas in Phelan (Wikipedia), the high deserts of Southern California.
One of my favorite is her tussah silk on Etsy.com, which I used in making a Sleeping Beauty doll’s hair last year.
Marti can make custom orders for people if they want certain amounts of certain colors of fibers on her Etsy store.
Thank you Marti for your support of our school!
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Jzin’s Waterfall With A Secret.
February 6, 2013. Jzin (yours truly) worked on waterfall with a secret at home in the past week and brought that in, along with the Prince and his sister, the Princess.
What is the secret? Click on link to see The Story, more views of this waterfall and whatever yarn Jzin loves to spin.
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Making Woodland Trees for Our Felt Playscape.
Christine brought in some cone shaped foam cores to needle felt into trees.
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Making Pompom Foliage and Shrubbery.
Liz and Julie made pompoms with yarn and roving for the foliage of the big woodland tree and for bushes.
Wool Carder and The pompom maker!
Our little pompom sweat shop was churning out pompoms like popcorns in a hot kettle!
Christine trimmed the pompoms and added them as bushes to the playscape.
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I Made A Fearsome Little Snake!
I love to add an element of danger to a scene! This is the fearsome serpent I made this morning out of sheer will, pipe cleaner, glue, felt remnants, red yarn and some embroidery floss.
The little snake is perched atop the wet-felted rocky cave I made in the past week. Click here to look at pictures of my crafting process of the above cave.
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Gisela’s Woodland Gnome
“To fish or not to fish, that is the question.”
Gisela worked on adding a sweet cottage to a corner of the woods.
This will be a great surprise! Check our craft group blog for next week’s post to see it!
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Books on Felting
A Felt Farm by Rotraud Reinhard. Good instructions on wet-felting.
Carnival of Felting by Gillian Harris
Amazon.com. Check out Gillian’s website: http://www.gilliangladrag.co.uk/
Creating Felt Artwork (Instant download) E-Book by “Handmade by Rosiepink” 
Too-dle-loo! See you next Wednesday morning! Thanks! -Jzin
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Check out my handmade Fairy Tale Dolls: Dolls and Tales page.
My handmade dolls for Waldorf Seasons Nature Table
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Waldorf School of Orange County Spring 2013 Bliss Fundraiser
Craft donations are being accepted in the front office. Fill in Auction Donation form (Click here to download) if you have craft (or other) items to donate to our Waldorf School Spring 2013 Gala Auction.
Here are some auction items to get your bidding mojo running! Auction items are being added daily to the Waldorf School of Orange County Bidpal site so please check back periodically and do share this link with your friends and family!
Waldorf School Auction items on Bidpal. Share the magic fairy tree house on Facebook.
Jzin’s needle-felted miniature Snow White, Rose Red and Dwarf set is available for bidding on Our Waldorf School’s Gala and Auction bidding site.
Bid on Snow White, Rose Red and Dwarf miniature handmade dolls set onWaldorf School Bidpal site.
Here’s a partial list of Waldorf School of Orange County auction items (mainly crafts are listed here) on Pinterest…(check back periodically for new additions)…
Please follow WSOC Auction Items on Pinterest
Rachel Skelly’s work of art is available for bidding:
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Support Our Local Waldorf Community/ Place a Free Ad
If you are interested in placing an ad on “Support Our Southern California Waldorf Community” (free if you are a member of this community) please e-mail me a good picture and a link.
Meanwhile, please support our local peeps! Thanks! – Jzin
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Sue Butler
I’ve really enjoyed reading about the playscape you all created. It’s inspiring and absolutely gorgeous.
jzinius
Thank you Sue. We are very fortunate to have Rachel Skelly and Christine Newell organize our craft group. It was fun to create the group playscape.