One World One Heart 2011 Blog Event

I'm joining in on the One World One Heart Blog event again this year. It's my second year. I had so much fun last year I decided to do it again. You can click on the OWOH image on my right side bar to get more info about the event and see all the great folks that have joined.

My name is Jennifer and I have a passion for felt, specifically eco felt. Eco felt is made from recycled water and pop bottles. I make all kinds of plush dolls and softies. I also make art dolls from felt too. I love anything super cute but also enjoy the odd and slightly twisted too, like zombies, I love zombies. I'm a huge Dr. Who fan. I have a grown up son and a college age daughter, also a cat and my third child is my chihuahua Carmelita.

I made a special fat penguin for this event. As you can see she has a lovely red heart. There is also a smaller heart on her backside.

This penguin is about 9.5 inches tall (25cm) sitting and 11.5 inches tall (29cm) from the feet to the top of the head. A nice hugable size plush. If I get enough entries I'll add some more prizes.

All you have to do is have a blog of your own to enter. Then just comment on THIS post with some way to contact you. Please just leave ONE comment. A winner or winners will be picked on Feb 17th. Thanks so much for joining in on this great event and stopping by to say hi!

What's Going On in Sassy's Studio?

Well it's been an odd beginning to this new year. Started it off right with a newly cleaned studio that I really haven't used cause I don't want to clutter it up again! Silly I know! And then I got sick.

Then I thought about my goals or resolutions for this year. But I'm finding it very difficult to get excited and moving on anything. So perhaps intentions are the better way to go. Intentions seem less formal and serious. If I don't actually do them them no regrets, right? 

There are several things I intend to do and these are in no particular order.

1. Blog more consistently. More likes of others work and tutorials.
     Post on all 3 of my blogs!

2. Send some of my plush creations to Stuffed Magazine for
     consideration to be published in the Summer edition.

     (this is a big one and I'm already waffling on this so we'll see)

3. Spend more time and energy on my stationery business and
     make some hard decisions about keeping it or not or going
     in a new direction.

4. Take my plush and doll making more seriously and really
     put effort into it.

5. Explore new mediums.

As a Pieces I'll change my mind on the above list a hundred times so we'll see.

Well this month I'm doing a lot of custom stationery work. More than I thought I'd have right after the holidays. That's where most of my time has been allotted recently. I'll show the items I've done on my stationery blog soon. Need to list all my Valentine items on Zibbet asap.

On the etsy side I'm working on a PDF Paper Toy of the TARDIS for those Dr. Who fans. Almost done. And will open listings for more Plush TARDIS soon.

I've been working on a new doll body design. Looking for a way to do more natural boobs and hands with fingers.

I guess I should add a 6. to my list about completing unfinished work. All of these are WIP. Still have the other 5 Alice in Wonderland plush designs to finish too! Sigh!

I have lots of Valentine type owls, penguins and etc in my sketchbook that I HOPE to do. There is also a Leprechaun plush doll that wants to be made plus I need to make a door prize for the One World One Heart Blog hop that starts at the end of this month.

So much to do and so little time! Is your January as wild as mine?

One World One Heart Winners!

I want to thank everyone who signed up for
my giveway! The response was more than I
could have hoped for.

I ended up with 203 entries so ended up
doing one large and two smaller giveaways.

I used Random.org to pick my winners.

The winner of the digial print Penguins in love

plus the 2 mini penguins is:

#12 is Sylvia of My Trinkets

There are 2 winners of the mini penguin in the bucket
with Valentine Goodies. One penguin will be red as shown
and the other winner will get a hot pink penguin. Both

penguins have hearts sewn on their chests.

#65 is Edi of Memories for Life Scrapbooks

#161 is Karla Rosendall of Day Dream Studios

Congrats to the winners!

I'll contact you all later this afternoon.

I didn't enter every giveaway on the ride but I did stop

by and see everyone's blog and had a great time

doing it too! So many interesting people to

meet. Can't wait until next year!

One World One Heart Giveaway Event

Welcome and Come Ride The Magic

Carpet Around the World!

A Whimsical Bohemian created this wonderful international
Blogging event.

This is it's 4th year and I'm so please to be a part of it! This event
has bloggers from around the world offering wonderful giveaways
all at the same time and a wayto connect with others around the world.

You can click the link on my sidebar to get more info about this
event and a list of all the great creative bloggers who are participating.

***I realized after I started reading other people's blogs that I should
have put some info about myself, so here it goes.***

I'm an avid reader.

Mother to 2 teenagers.

I have a Chihuahua furbaby.

I'm completely obsessed with Dr. Who, international

soccer and zombies.

I have a serious addiction to coffee. I design stationery and
have started making dolls and softies.

This is my giveaway. It's an 8.5" 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) digital print
of my Penguins In Love design plus my original small 5" (13 cm) plush

based on the design. The print is on linen textured stock and printed

with archival inks so will not fade. The plush penguins are hand sewn

by me from my own pattern. I would be happy to change the

English words to a language of your choice.

To enter the giveaway is easy as pie! No jumping thru hoops!

Just leave a comment and an email address so you can be contacted if you win.

You do not need to blog, tweet or follow my blog in order to win.

The giveaway starts today and I'll pick ONE winner on the 15th of February.

Remember to enter this giveaway just leave a comment - One one comment per person please! Good Luck and have fun riding the Magic Carpet Around the World!

The response to this giveaway far exceeds my wildest dreams! So in all fairness I'm going to add another giveaway so that 2 people can win & possibly even 3.

This is the additional giveaway. A little Valentine's
bucket, magnet shown on front, mini red penguin,
note pad & some other goodies.