What Nature Can Bring...

 Good morning everyone out there! My first week of freedom have started and this is what I've done so far. I started the week with having a smaller meltdown due to the stress of getting everything ready for the babys arrival I guess. We've got everything ready so I really don't know where this stress comes from. I think it's just the hormones. So Monday was a complete write off besides the fact that it got me out. I needed air and I also needed to sort out some props for my new mobile phone cover photos.

 So we took a stroll down to the beach, which has become one amazing effort. It took a good while to walk back I can tell you that much. It is all down hills to the beach, which means it is all up hills coming back. It is no walk in the park when you're pregnant.

 I did find loads of free props on the beach and in the woods though. Pine-cones, seashell, oyster shells, white stones, branches and sticks. The feathers I bought of Ebay UK and they are stunning too. I have always loved feathers, but I don't like picking them up in the nature anymore, unless it is an Amazing one. I collected feather when I was a child and I can remember that sometimes they had little mites and stuff on them. Ueeeeak! I don't want that in my home so I rather buy them. But as a kid you just don't care about those things I guess.

 I kept some of the pine-cones natural. But found two that hadn't opened up yet. I think they look almost like armadillos and for some reason I thought painting them in black and while would look cool...

 And so I did... And they came out pretty cool don't you think? They work great as props! I wanted to keep the props quite simple, with neutral colours, so that they don't take away too much from the actual case I'm selling.

 More pine-cones and stones. I ended up giving the stones a lick of paint as well. I wanted them to be proper white and not a sandy white. It is impossible to find proper white stones unless you buy them. But I'm not ready to spend £10 on something I can get for free in the nature.

 I also ended up painting the twigs and sticks I found in black an white. They came out great too. I started the actual photo shoot yesterday but didn't finish everything. It is so much more work then you think but so far I am very happy with how the photos are coming out and my new photo library already have 40 different variations of promotional photos for my phone cases. Here are a few sneak peaks on what I achieved yesterday:

I would love to hear what you think. Do you think it will give my MobiLOVE shop a good face lift?

Phone cases...

Blog entries have been a bit sparse this week as I've been working allot. And I am really sorry about that. The patterns from the other day are up on phone cases at MobiLOVE anyway and ready to be purchased. Next week I will start a little series called "The Week in Pictures". Basically I will do a blog post every Monday with photos from the past week. These photos can be of anything that has happened during my week, but will mainly contain photos from my every day work. So I am looking forward to starting that, as I have loads of new projects coming up.

 Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you on Monday again! You can click the pictures to be redirected to the case you fancy.

More Patterns!!!

We've added TUNS of NEW patterned cases to the "Patterned Cases" section in MobiLOVE! Go and check them out. It's a super duper colour BURST!

Patterns patterns everywhere...

We've got a loads of new patterened cases up in the mobiLOVE shop today. For the simplicity of it I was thinking. Sometimes it can be nice to match your clothes or your bag with something simple like this. Hope you like them! I loooove them! hehe
Check them out in the Patterened Cases shop section!

mobiLOVE...

I am sooooo fed up of waiting! I thought ordering the cases from a UK based company would speed things up but apparently not. Think I will be ordering else where the next time. I really don't understand how people run businesses sometimes. Ah well, enough ranting. Since I just can't wait any longer I thought I'd show you what I am working on at the moment. I think the cases look really cute and I am super happy with how they are coming out. I can tell you now that I am opening a second store on Etsy where you will be able to find more "conventional" cases such as these two. Tomodachi Island is a yeti and monster continent and will stay that way as it is my biggest project at the moment. As you know I am building a whole story around Tomodachi Island and I don't want things in the shop to stray to far away from it. So the new store is called mobiLOVE. It is not running yet, but as soon as I get my cases it will be open. I will share the address with you when it is all sorted. Till then I would  love to hear you opinions on these two.

Now who is this?

This is Paddy Panda! The newest phone sleeve edition. A panda have been on my to-do list for a long long time. However I never figured how to make one. I had the idea the other day and I did some sketching and came up with Paddy! I used to have a felt sleeve that looked like a panda a long time ago but I took it down as I discontinued all my felt sleeves and wanted to focus on the furry ones. I have had allot of questions about the old one though and many customers wanted it to come back. I hope this one will do though and that it will be just as popular as the old panda.

You can find Paddy Panda in the Etsy shop as usual!

Nichi Rabbit...

FINALLY! Something new for you guys! I am so happy that I finally found the time to make something new. There is allot I want to do but money is short on the ground at the moment, so I just have to take it a little step at a time. I am trying to save up for a big batch of new fabric that will be like nothing you have ever seen before. But I do need quite a bit of money to sort this out so trying to save.
Anyway this fabric I got a while back and I have one more case coming for you as well. However it didn't come out the way I wanted it to so I will get back to the drawing board today and see what changes I can make.

As for now this is Nichi in a Rabbit suit. I always loved Nichi's face and she has been very popular in the shop so I thought it was time for a little make-over. And after I did the Easter Buggle I fell in love with those cute rabbit ears so I thought that they would look super cute on a phone sleeve too. So here we are! You can find Nichi Rabbit in the Etsy shop as always.

Candy Owling...

There's a new Owling in town! This is the Candy Owling. Made out of super soft pink faux fur and she it super duper adroable!!! <3 Available in the Etsy shop as you probably know by now ;)

Whitee...

Finally I got to create something new! It's been two stressful weeks but now we have finally landed and things are starting to calm down a bit. We will be on the move in about 1 month again though so no rest for the wicked. But until then I hope to get time to work on Tomo. I've finally managed to get enough money saved to get a table at London Comic Con this October and am super excited about it. I will spend the next 4 weeks working on getting my stock up for the Convention, so there will be many hours of sewing. I also plan to make Halloween limited edition cases for the convention and will show you more of what my plans are when I get to it. This means that there won't be much new stuff going up in the shop until I've been to London. I'm sure there will be a few newcomers since I can't stay away from making new stuff but I can't promise anything.

Anyway, I've had a few emails coming my way from people asking about a white version of Blackie. So here we are, originally enough I decided  to call him Whitee (>.<) hehe. And you can find him in my Etsy shop as always.

Geeky and the Hipster Yeti...

Here's Geeky and the Hipster Yeti! I made them both yesterday and the Hipster Yeti was a real hand-full haha. It was hard to get the glasses on there but they did end up sticking in the end and he came out just as snooty and cool as I'd planned.

As for Geeky, he's basically just a different version of Snowy, and in fact he is Snowy's cousin.

Available in my Etsy shop as usual!

Three Cyclopses...

Yesterday I finally had enough of the waiting. Yes I am STILL waiting for the safety eyes I ordered more than 3 weeks ago. I need them to make more cases and since I have tuns of big eyes I thought I'd just make Cyclopses instead. And so I did. So this is Kuma, Mi-Hoo and Zed. The three newcomers to the Yeti family. They came out way better than I thought they would and I am proud to include them in my collection. Hope you like em'!!!

You can find them in my Etsy shop as usual, just click the images to take you to the right shop section!

Hotcher and Flyn...

Today Hotcher and Flyn has joined the Tomo Yeti Family. I just adore these two and it was great to work with top quality fur. I am staying to quite earthy colours, I don't know why really, but they are more appealing to me and it is really hard to find good quality fur that is colourful over here. I've become much pickier with the fur I use and I don't think that is making it any easier to find colourful pieces. But I am sure I will come across something one day, until then I will stick with these thick and super soft furs. Hope you like em'!

Igor Jr, Snowy and a review from Georgina...

 First of all I want to send out a BIG thank you to Georgina Doull! She is the owner of one of my favourite blogs CupcakesClothes.com. Georgina agreed to make a review of some of my Jewellery and the review is absolutely adorable. The photos are just beyond and you just have to go an check it out! Click the picture above to come to Geroginas Blog and follow THIS LINK to read the review. Thanks again Georgina <3

Photo Credit: Georgina Doull

 We also have two new comers!!! This is Igor Jr and Snowy! You can find them in my Etsy shop! Just click the pictures and they will take you to the specific shop section!!!