Mrs Plop's Needle Felting Kit - Make your own 'Maisie' Mouse

Suitable for beginnners to needle felting.

Available to buy in my Etsy shop here: Maisie Mouse Needle Felting Kit By Mrs Plop's Shoppe

Make a needle felted mouse with Mrs Plop's needle felting 'Maisie' Mouse kit.
Maisie is a little mouse who lives at Mouselings HQ here at Mrs Plop's Shoppe. She loves to give flowers, and is holding a little posy of pink flowers.

Suitable for beginners. Many people who purchased my mouse needle felting kits had no previous experience, and reported back to me that they found it easy.

Tutorial support by myself is also included in this kit.

This kit provides (almost) everything you need to make a needle felted mouse. The only thing that isn't included is a felting pad, so you will need to get yourself a felting pad before you begin.

The kit contains

Step by step full colour instructions

White core wool
Champagne outer fur wool
Pink wool for limbs, hands and feet.
(The wool contained in the kit is high quality, British ethically produced wool. It is the wool that Mrs Plop herself uses)

Two felting needles - One straight and one spiral.

Cotton thread in pink and black, plus a sewing needle.

Posy of pink paper flowers.

Also included when you buy this needle felting kit - One month of free needle felting support, (but no more than 8 emails in total. Mrs Plop is over 200 years old, and when she's not felting, she does need her sleep ;0) ) in which you can contact Mrs Plop personally via email with any questions you may have about the kit, or your needle felting progress in general. The month's support begins from the date that your kit arrives, so you need to let me know when you have received it. Further details of the support service will be sent to you when you've made your purchase.

Please take great care with the needles in this kit as they are very sharp!

Madame Butterfly, Chief Mender of Butterfly Wings

The mice at Mrs Plop's Mouselings HQ have been waiting in excited anticipation for the arrival of Madame Butterfly. She is a white needle felted rat, and she works at Mrs Plop's Butterfly Hospital as Chief Wing Mender.

She arrived - as always - surrounded by a cloud of butterflies, and they are now filling the house with their soft fluttering noises, and dashes of bright colour.

Madame Butterfly is adored by butterflies all over the world and never a day goes by when she is not covered in them :)

Love Mrs Plop X

Finally! An actual website!

The Mouselings are celebrating here at Mouselings HQ, because we finally have a real website, and it's now live online!

Here 'tis: mrsplop.co.uk

The only thing we haven't quite worked out is the Woo Commerce bit. The Mouselings have been jumping up and down with frustration trying to get it to do what they want it to do, but so far, computer says no :D we'll get there in the end though!

So for now, the 'shop' linky bit goes to my Etsy shop until we've figured it all out and the Mouselings have stopped giggling at the name 'Woo' commerce. For some reason, they think it's hysterically funny, and then they can't work because they're giggling too much.

We hope you all had a wonderfully ploppy christmas!

Love

and the Mouselings xxx

A needle felted Samoyed and an eye problem

Well, it's official, I'm a needle felting addict. I've got an addictive personality, so I don't know why I didn't see this coming. The trouble is though, I've got an issue with my eyes. I told the doctor I needle felt, and he said my eyes are having problems because I'm doing too much 'close work'. How completely rubbish! Considering I'm now a felting addict (and probably have been for quite some time) It might help if I have my glasses checked though, as they're as old as the hills (ok, not quite that old, but you know what I mean)

Anyway, as you can see, I haven't listened to a word my doctor has said (apart from the glasses thing) and I've gone ahead and made a needle felted Samoyed dog. My dog, Betsy, made me laugh so much with her reaction to him! When I had finished making him, I put him on the coffee table, in front of where she was lying on the sofa. Her ears pricked up and she just couldn't stop staring at him. She must have thought....How on earth did you get to be so small? You strange dog!

Here are some pics of him....

Love as always, Mrs Plop xxx

Needle Felted Sleeping Red Fox

Ever since I first started needle felting, I've always wanted to make a fox. But for one reason or another, I never seemed to get around to it.

But recently, I found the time to finally make one. He was great fun to make, and I used lots of great big wads of orangey red, brown and white wool fibre. I'm quite pleased with the result. I hope you like him!
Love Mrs Plop xxx

His listing is in my Etsy shop here: Needle Felted Sleeping Red Fox by Mrs Plop's Shoppe

Needle Felted Little Christmas Mouse

Finished today, needle felted little Christmas mouse with a sprig of red berries.

I used ethically produced Dorset Down brown wool fibre from Newmoor Barn Ethical Fibre Co. It has lovely red tones within it. The white is Ryleand wool, also from the same company. The brown colour felts so well, it almost felts itself. I absolutely love it. The red berries are glass.

If you want to give this little mouse a home for Christmas, you can find him here in my Etsy shop. Needle Felted Little Christmas Mouse By Mrs Plop's Shoppe

Love, as always,

Mrs Plop xx

Needle Felted Oliver The Orphan Otter OOAK Handmade

Meet Oliver. He is a needle felted orphan otter. Poor Oliver! All he has in the whole world is his special rock :(

He needs lots and lots of love and cuddles. Orphans seem to be a bit of a theme for me....!  But I need to try and balance it with some happier felted animals, poor Mr Plop nearly cried when he first saw Oliver! lol!

Oliver the otter's listing is here in my Etsy shop: Oliver The Orphan Otter by Mrs Plop's Shoppe
He's one of my more expensive felted animals because of the time it took to make him.

Love Mrs Plop xx

A Puppy For All Seasons #2 Winter - Golden Retriever Puppy

This is the second puppy in my 'A Puppy For All Seasons' series.
#2 Winter - Needle felted Golden Retriever puppy.

The puppy in the photos has been donated to the Irish Retriever Rescue to raise funds for their dogs in need. Please check out their website and support this fantastic rescue wherever you can.  They are always in need of donations and volunteers, and of course forever homes for the beautiful dogs they rescue. You can also find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/IrishRetrieverRescue

If you would like to order a needle felted golden retriever pup for yourself, you can see his listing here in my Etsy shop: Needle Felted Golden Retriever Puppy by Mrs Plop's Shoppe

He won't look exactly the same as the puppy in these photos, because he is handmade, but the differences will only be subtle.

Unusually for me, I used a wire armature for this puppy. I find using armatures a bit annoying, and you have to be very careful you don't break your needle when you're in the beginning stages of felting, but sometimes it's better if you use an armarture as in this case, because it makes the whole piece more stronger and more solid.

The wool is ethically produced, from the fantastic Newmoor Barn Ethical Fibre Company. I used their Dorset Down wool in 'Cappucino' which you can see here on their website: Dorset Down Carded Wool Fibre and for the top coat, I used their Alpaca fibre in the same Cappucino colour. Link here: Alpaca Carded Wool Fibre
I really can't recommend Newmoor Barn highly enough! Not only does their wool come from happy, well cared for sheep and Alpacas, it also felts wonderfully, and it even smells amazing too! I don't know what they wash it with, but my whole workspace smells of this lovely, clean, washed wool smell.

Mouse Angel gets a flower garland :)

I've just finished making an order for one of my needle felted Mouse Angels, and to make a change, I decided to put a garland (halo) of paper yellow roses on her head. I think it suits her. What do you think? :)
Love, Mrs Plop xx

Her listing in my Etsy shop can be found here: Needle Felted Praying Mouse With Wings & Flower Garland by Mrs Plop's Shoppe

Marty, Needle Felted Dumbo Rat

I was chuffed to bits to be asked to make a needle felted Dumbo Rat for the famous Martin 'Marty' Mouse You can find the fabulous Marty's page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/martymousetherat

and here's my needle felted version....

A puppy for all seasons

This is the first puppy in my needle felted series of 'A Puppy For All Seasons'
Autumn - Golden Brown/White Spaniel
OOAK needle felted soft scultpure of a tiny baby spaniel puppy, nestling in the autumn leaves.

The winter puppy will be listed when all the leaves have fallen and we have approached winter time.

The wool I use is 100% cruelty free, ethically produced wool :)

This puppy measures about 4.5" long, plus his tail which is about 1.5" long.

You can see his listing in my Etsy shop here: A puppy for all seasons - Autumn Spaniel by Mrs Plop's Shoppe

A website? Really? Woohoo!

My husband (aka Mr Plop) has made me a lurverly new website! I am currently populating it (ie putting stuff all over it) and it will be ready to view soon.

It's in maintenance mode at the moment, but if you want to check back, here is the url:
http://www.mrsplop.co.uk

It's got a shop and slider thingies and everything. Ah, I'm like a kid in a sweet shop haha :D

See you soon!

Love Mrs Plop xxx

Needle Felted Dumbo Rat Custom Order "You're the rat's whiskers"

I had a message from a lady asking for a custom order needle felted 'Dumbo Rat'
I'd never even heard of one before. But they're cute little critters, and I really enjoyed making this order.  The outer fur is my usual favourite - Alpaca fibre. I blended a brown and black to make a darker brown, as I just didn't have a dark enough brown. All worked out though, and I'm happy with the result. Not as happy as Fred though, who was very intrigued! :D

The whiskers are horse hair that were very kindly sent to me by a follower of my facebook page, from a gorgeous horse called Toby. Thank you Lisa & Toby!

Fred seems to think Dumbo Rat looks like dinner!