A New Animal for Fall - A Squirrel

A new addition to my menagerie - a little squirrel. Hide your nuts everyone!



Made of repurposed lambswool sweaters, organic cotton stuffing and a pinch of lavender.

Vote! Vote! Vote!

The Plush Team's Plushstock 2009 contest is up! Voting is open to everyone who can click on little dots.

Go check it out, there are so many really amazing creations!
Vote!

Plushapalooza TODAY!

This is not a drill!
Today, in the Gallery room of the Etsy Labs, is the first ever Spring Plushapalooza!
Meet the plushiers behind the plush! Throw cupcakes and hedgehogs! See...things!
(Confused? Me, too. But it will all okay.)
Be there or be square.

The very important info:
12 pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern TODAY!
(Go here to enter the rooms and to see what time the Plushapalooza will be for you in your very own timezone: http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php)

Virtual Labs address: http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php
Gallery Room address: http://www.etsy.com/virtual_lab.php?room_id=gallery

As far as I know, you DO need to be a member of Etsy to attend. So if you're not already, what are you waiting for? It's free, it's easy, and they don't spam.

See you there!

Last Day to Vote

It's the last day to vote in the Etsy Handmade Kids Sweepstakes! Show Hungry Bunny some love ;-)

I also finished and mailed all the plush goodness that will be appearing at Renegade in Chicago. Here's a little peek at just some of the plushies you'll be seeing in the Plush Team booth.

Kivett Studio Blog

Zzbeadz Etsy Shop

We are off to Renegade Chicago with the Plush Team ^_^

I just got all of my little guys done who are making the trip to Renegade Chicago with the fabulous Plush Team, and they suggested I take a group photo ^_^

Plush Team At the Fair!

For the current Plush Team Project, we are creating Fair inspired plushies. I decided to create some plush renditions of my favorite foods to consume at the fair! Here are my first 2 entries, a Sno Cone and some delicious, fluffy, cotton candy! Both are done in an amigurumi style. Be sure to stop by the Plush Team Blog to see some of the other awesome entries!!!

Robots, kitties, and cupcakes from Cutesy but not Cutesy!

Hello Needle! This may or may not be my first post to the Needle...I have been a member for a while but have never seemed to have the time to make a decent post!

Here is my newest creation for a returning customer of mine. He asked me to create something that included robots, kitties, and cupcakes...how ever I wanted to handle those three things was up to me! I believe his intention is to eventually launch a website robotkittycupcake that is completely focused on his favorite artist's creations involving robots...kitties...and cupcakes...you got it! It's one of my favorites, I almost don't want to give him up! After all, what's better than a fella who carries around his stuffed kitty and has a cupcake heart???

Etsy Plush Team: State Fair (Sideshow)

The theme of Plush Team's current challenge is "State Fair", with three categories, one being "Sideshow Creatures". I was attracted to this category immediately, because I felt I could have the most creative freedom with it. I thought of conjoined twins right off the bat, when two French girls suddenly appeared in my head. Although Sideshows are in very bad taste, it was often the only line of work for people who were disfigured. Instead of making conjoined twins as part of a freak show type environment, I decided to give them a very fortunate upbringing. I would like to introduce Georgette & Lisette:



Georgette & Lisette are heiresses to a very large French fortune. Their parents have made sure to bring up their conjoined girls in a proper and civilized manner, therefore they must have perfect hair, perfect manners, and they must dress in frilly things at all times. After all, they must be presentable for their parents' frequent dinner guests. Although Georgette & Lisette have been showered with more gifts than they know what to do with, their favourite toy in the world is their black stuffed bear, Sébastien. They squabble over who gets to hold him, which once resulted in an unfortunate incident where Sébastien lost an eye. The girls are quite well-mannered otherwise, although they still will not reveal to me which one is Georgette and which one is Lisette.




Thanks for looking!
~Emily~
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PLSUHTEAM CONTEST

THIS COULD BE YOURS!

The Plushteam is celebrating our one year anniversary! As a thank you to all our customers and Etsy we are having a BIG team contest.

Visit our team blog for details

The Little Mermaid: PlushTeam's Fairytale Project

Hi! This is my first post here at The Needle. Thank-you for letting me join in on the fun, too! ♥

The Little Mermaid plush was made for the Fairytale Project with Etsy's Plush Team. We were each partnered up with another member, and had to create a plushie based on our partner's favourite fairytales. My partner (the very talented Area Thrifty One) chose The Little Mermaid as her favourite fairytale. She's a big fan of the Hans Christian Anderson version, and has never seen the Disney version of this story, although she loves a very tragic anime version of the story that premiered in 1979. So, I wanted to try and make my plush capture the emotions of the original fairytale, stay away from the one that is heavily merchandised, but possibly keep her animated looking. After several sketches and hours of work, this is what I came up with:



Area Thrifty One said that she really likes the darkness that fairytales have (I have to agree with her!). She loves The Little Mermaid sculpture in Copenhagen, because she looks so sad as she stares out at sea, since she is not really part of the land, and she is no longer a part of the sea.



At first I thought of giving The Little Mermaid legs and feet, try to show her sadness of being removed from the sea, but then I thought she wouldn't really look like The Little Mermaid upon first glance (and there's no way I could come close to replicating the famous statue in Copenhagen!). So I decided to keep her in mermaid form, but to make her sad, and to definitely stay away from the identifiable Disney colours. ^_~ I added netting on the blue background to symbolize her feeling of being trapped. There are a couple of starfish trapped in the net, too. ^_^


Thanks for looking!
~Emily~
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Spring cleaning

I think my house is in serious need of a Spring cleaning! I keep finding monsters hiding in dark places. I found this one in my closet eating a cupcake. Meet Hungry Bunny and his Carrot Cupcake. He may look vicious but as long as he has some munchies nearby he's perfectly harmless and loves to cuddle. He's up for adoption in my Etsy shop.



These two, Chinchilla and Cupcake were found behind the refrigerator. Who knows what I'm going to find when I start spring cleaning in the garage!

Braveheart Monkey

Hello! Just wanted to share my latest Superstar Sock Monkey: Mel Gibbonson as William Wallace in Braveheart. I have been hiding him away as he was a custom order for Valentine's Day but now the secret is out, so here he is. I had a fantastic time researching and making him - I hope you like him!


Braveheart monkey is the latest in my series of 'Superstar' Sock Monkeys based on characters from TV and film.

Sian x

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentines Day Contest

We at the PlushTeam are asking all plush fans to cast their vote for the favorite plush creation out of three categories:

PLUSHLOVE

SWEETHEART TREATS

BITTER VALENTINE

your vote also enters you into a random drawing to win a $20 gift certificate into a participating plushteam shop. Simply leave a comment with your favorite pick on the teams blog.

Voting last until tomorrow night with the team winner and gift certificate winner announced on Valentines Day.

Show your plush love and vote now!

zipperman

My line of zippermen is expanding with this new all vinyl creature. Gotta love those eyes.

anti valentine plush

I stayed up until the wee hours of the night until I had this new zipperman just right.
His heart comes out of his chest through a zipper and is attached to a ribbon, which is attached to his body. So his heart will never leave you but he has the right to tuck it away and zip it back up when you make him made.
Don't we all wish we could do that sometimes.
Happy early valentines day to you bitter plush souls!

Greetings from Patti Haskins

What an honor to be invited to join this group of superb plush creators. I too look forward to seeing what Claire's got up her sleeve. Should be fun. I'm a member of the Etsy Plush Street Team and I always enjoy the projects and group challenges. For instance, my latest plush creation is my Heart Skips, velvet hearts that skip that I made for our Valentine's challenge. I have a weird sense of humor, I know. But I like to be the cause of spontaneous smiling. Laughter accepted as well. Onward towards a plusher future!

hiya

hey all you plush lovers out there!
I'm megan, aka moogancreations, I've been making my plush line over a year now and head up the plushteam.
A great big thanks to claire for organizing another outlet for plush makers and lovers.
I can't wait to see what she has in mind for this group!