Online Shop Update!

Donut pool floats, sugar shaker, letter organizer, fun utensils and more have been added to the online shop!!

Valentine's Day Gift Guide

Valentine's Day is 2 weeks away! 

Here are some gift ideas for you love. 

For the ladies:

Left to right: handmade locket necklace, TOMS yellow Jutti Flats, Wood cut Oklahoma Heart Earrings by

DNA Galleries, Chocolate Bar, Heart BKR, Handmade Earrings, Rifle Paper Co. iPhone 5/5s phone case, 

Capri Blue Candle, Infinity scarves by Shanna Banana 

For the gents:

Left to right: Can't Steal our Thunder shirt by Shop Good, Flasks, Pocket Knife, Beer socks, 

Mighty Wallets, Oklahoma Osage Shield Shirt by Bombs Away

See something you like but can't make it to the shop? We ship! 

Send us an email at order@thefeltbird.com to place your order. 

Our favorite Rifle Paper Co. recipe tin is back in the shop! 

It has metallic gold polka dots on a black background, which is my favorite color combo right now! The recipe box includes 12 letterpressed dividers and 24 recipe cards. 

Shop & Brunch!!

This Saturday (March 16th) we are trying something new!

Come out with your friends and get your weekend started right!

We will have mimosas, coffee, and other yummies while supplies last.

TINY TOMS!!

They are so tiny and sooo cute!! 

We now have tiny TOMS at the shop! 

First Friday on July 6th!

Mark your calenders! Next First Friday will be July 6th from 6-9 p.m!

Over at our shop we'll have live music starting at 7 by:

Gary Bangs

Riley Jantzen

Also enjoy cookies, punch and wine!

Hope to see you there! 

CLICK HERE to see event details on facebook. 

This Saturday we are having a release party for the new Darby & Dash

Enid shirts we'll be carrying! You can watch the shirts being made in the video above!

If you are in the Enid area come join us at the party!

NEW!

Here are some of the new summer style TOMS we have in the shop right now!







Today at the shop we're listening to the new CULTS album. We love it. And here I'll share one of my favorite songs from that album!
Never Heal Myself

Enjoy!!

a few new!

Here's a little bit of new in the shop this week!



Jac Vanek bracelets $10



Antiqued gold metal floral locket necklace $15



antiqued silver metal mustache necklace $15






Hilarious (and super useful) pads $8

And we got a restock of women's TOMS in white canvas and burlap




**Our hours this Saturday will be 11-2p.
Our friends are getting married!

We hope you have a lovely Thursday!

Meet a Maker--Hook Line Sinker

For this Meet a Maker series we interviewed Ashley Smith, awesome creator of Hook Line Sinker.
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Awesomeness: necklaces, bracelets, earrings & keychains



1) Can you tell us a little about your background and what compelled you to start a craft business?
Last year I had gotten into fishing. My fishing partner and I would go to the Bass Pro Shop to get equipped before heading out. I'd find myself just staring at the lures. They were bright, pretty and even some, glittery! I was more like, "this is too pretty to fish with. I just want to wear it around my neck." That was my "ah-ha" moment. I bought a couple of lures and took them home and experimented with them. I then found out that I liked the more vintage and used lures more than the new looking ones. The new ones just didn't mesh as well with the more vintage necklaces that I was using.




2) Where does your inspiration come from?
Fishing!



3) What are your favorite things to do for fun?
Tattoo, ride bikes and play with my dogs!



4) What's next for Hook Line Sinker?
I just came out with key chains not too long ago, which are doing well, but I am looking for more options for a more unisex demographic.



5) Any tips or advice for anyone starting their own craft business?
Keep your receipts.




6) How would you spend a million dollars?
Buying property and paying off college.


7) What would you tell your 16 year old self?
Don't tell mom, but you grow up to be a tattoo artist...




5 random facts about you
1. I am the condiment queen! I put red pepper flakes on EVERYTHING and ketchup in my mac & cheese.
2. I will wear Converse to my death bed.
3. I want to live on a farm and have a dog rescue.
4. The only food I've ate and didn't like was chicken feet.
5. I could eat pho every day for the rest of my life...or pizza...or sandwiches.

You can find Hook Line Sinker necklaces, earrings, bracelets and keychain here at the felt bird!

Wanna know more about Hook Line Sinker?

CLICK HERE to SHOP!

CLICK HERE for TWITTER!

CLICK HERE for FACEBOOK!

indie organization

Here at the felt bird we love to build our displays or find them at garage sales, thift or antique shops. It has more personality and it's cost effective! This display below is great for those who have several necklaces. Most necklaces are great little art pieces so it's nice to display them and also this keeps them nice and organized.



We found old hat racks for our necklaces and kept one the original brown color and painted the other holder yellow.
These are also perfect for holding handbags, scarves and headbands.



Another great way to display your necklaces at home is to find old hooks and a slab of wood. We painted our hooks bright colors.



A personal way I display my headbands, necklaces, and current handbags at home is with pegboard and hooks.
This way keeps my headbands from being damaged.



You can find pegboard and hooks at any home improvement store. They originally come in a brown color so we painted my board light blue.



I always feel better when I'm organized and when it makes my home a bit prettier!

Happy Monday!

Here is our attempt at a family photo


Song on repeat this week...
Grown Ocean by Fleet Foxes


Be sure to check back tomorrow for our Meet a Maker series featuring Sunshine and Carousels!

new backdrop

It was time to get rid of our winter backdrop, which was a DIY chalkboard with snowflakes.
We decided to go with art pieces as our back ground. We set out to our favorite thrift shops to scout them out and also used some of our existing pieces and our readers choice awards.





Riley also found a way to incorporate Cosby Kitty into the mix!

feelin' giddy!

We are feeling absolutely giddy today! It feels & smells like Spring!
According to our Daily Mood flip chart the definition to Giddy is...

1 Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation: Shredding documents always makes me giddy.

2 Frivolous and flighty: I get a bit giddy after my tenth beer.

To exite to the point of dizziness or confusion: Giddy up, cowboy.

From the Old English "gydig" insane, mad, stupid, possessed by a spirit. Giddy can be traced back to the same Germanic root "gud-" that has given us the word God. The Germanic word "gudigaz" meant "possessed by a god". The modern sense of giddy as "lighthearted, frivolous" is an extreme secularization of the word.

Synonym: A dozen warm chocolate chip cookies-all in one sitting
Antonym: Prison yard

Pig Latin: Iddygay


Thanks Daily Mood!
Have a giddy day everyone!!

Hello dear friends!
We wanted to let our out-of-townie friends know that you can still shop with us! No, we haven't updated the online shop (bad!) but you can browse our STUFFS WE GOT ALBUM and send us an email over at thefeltbird@gmail.com to let us know your questions/what you'd like.
We hope the day is treating you right!

LOVE this song!
Arrows by Reverie Sound Revue

Meet a Maker--Gleeful Peacock

We'd like to introduce you to one of our amazing artist that sells with us!
For this Meet a Maker series we interviewed Nikki Halgren, lovely creator of Gleeful Peacock.
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Awesomeness: earrings, necklaces, bracelets, headbands & hair clips.




How did you come up with the name Gleeful Peacock?
I knew that I wanted my name to really symbolize what I wanted my brand to be about. So I sat down and I wrote down all the adjectives and words that I felt really meant something to me and showed what I wanted to put out into the world. In the end all of the words fit into two main columns, colorful and happy. I had just taken a trip to the Zoo with my family and I spent such a long time staring at a peacock. I was so amazed with the intense colors and how interesting it was. It really inspired me so I knew that would be what symbolized color in my name. I decided that since I always seem to be drawn to things that are not so common I needed a happy word that was not commonly used. Gleeful was perfect since it was a throwback to a simpler time and not a word that was used in the everyday conversation. I asked everyone I knew for their opinion. I would say 90% did not approve of the name. I got a ton of funny looks. When I kept sticking up for it and defending it I knew it was the one. It was quirky and matched me and what I wanted in my business. After that, I stopped asking anyone of their opinion on it and decided that it would no only be the name of my business but a shorted manifesto for what I made and how I run my business.



Can you tell us a little about your background and what compelled you to start a craft business?
There was this watercolor I did in 5th grade. It was a Iris. The center of it bleed out and it made it look so artistic. It was a serendipitous moment. My teacher put it up on the wall of fame. I was so proud and at that moment a artist was born. I was very involved in art all through school. I identified myself as an artist. Then I got into my twenties and 'grew up'. I got a good job and worked my way up. I was all spreadsheets and sales reports. Then right about the time I hit 30 I realized that I had lost myself. I was no longer the artist and the quirky girl I had been. I was pin stripes and slacks. I was also way to serious and not so happy. About that time we moved to Tulsa so that my husband could finish his education. It was the perfect time for me to spend some time getting to know myself again. I got back into crafting and art. I started to find myself again. As part of my journey I got back to wearing clothes that spoke to me. But I just could not find jewelry or accessories that I thought were me. Rhinestones were everywhere and I am just not a rhinestone type of gal. So I decided I wanted to make my own. I taught myself the basics and the next thing I knew people were buying my pieces. One day a epiphany hit and I just blurted out 'I am going to start a business'. That was about 16 months ago. Here I am today, a full time small business owner.. and most of all I consider myself an artist once again.



Where does your inspiration come from?
As part of my journey I wanted to be more present in my life. Be awestruck by my surrounding and all that is beautiful in the world. That is the single most common way I get inspired. Colors speak to me very loudly. So if I am taking a bike ride with my daughter I notice how different colors in a garden make me feel. Particularly how they look next to each other. I also pay close attention to images on TV or in magazines. If I like how a yellow lamp looks on a teal table then the next time I am in my studio and yellow and teal headband might just be born. Although I still am a 5th grader art student at heart and I still chase after serendipitous artistic moment. So I tend to also paint trays and trays of pieces with certain outcomes in mind and then I sit down right before I set them all and place them in piles and they turn into something else entirely. I let what ever colors combination I am feeling at that moment take over. Some of my most favorite pieces and color combination's came about that way.




2 favorite websites:
I love facebook. I know.. not the most creative answer. But I love that it lets me connect with hundreds of people that get what I am doing. I also love to follow what other people are up too. I love to see that other people are making great things and living life to the fullest.
I tend to try and not spend too much time in front of my computer since I feel it can really eat away at my creating time.


What's next for Gleeful Peacock?
I am working on a wedding and a home decor line. I also plan on playing with some new mediums to keep me inspired and learning new techniques. I have so many ideas right now and I am so excited to get them out into the world!



Any tips or advice for anyone starting their own craft business?
The best advice I can give to you is to do your own thing. I can say I am not perfect at running a business and I am learning as I go. But I can say without a doubt that my work is mine and can come from only me. I see people trying to jump on the newest trend and make a business out of it. Producing something that is already being done makes it hard to stand out and lowers your credibility as a artist and a creative business person. Find your art, your style, your inspiration and then find your niche customer base. If you are making something that truly comes from you then you will be proud of it and stand behind it. Handmade customers are intelligent and they want something that you put your heart and soul into. Trends fade but creating something you love will always speak to someone. Also, surround yourself with other handmade business owners that you look up to and can learn from. Then pass along what you know to those starting up. What goes around comes around. You want good crafting karma.


5 random facts about you
1) I am the messiest crafter. I am so visual that I pull out everything out so I can see it. It makes for one messy studio!
2) I make up holidays since I feel like there are just not enough of them in the year.
3) I feel strongly that my most important job as being a mom is to teach her how to be happy. So far so good!
4) I am originally from Utah and have lived in Oklahoma almost 5 years. I dont plan on moving back, ever. I found my home here.
5) I seriously look at the boxes I am mailing out with my product and I envision my love going into them. I usually doodle a peacock or feather on almost all shipments.. even the ones the stores get. I want everyone to know that if they have a GP piece that I really did put love into it. Kind of a silly thing, but it makes me happy.

You can find Nikki's earrings, bracelets, necklaces, headbands and now hair clips at the felt bird!

Wanna know more about Gleeful Peacock?
CLICK HERE to SHOP!
CLICK HERE for FACEBOOK!
CLICK HERE for TWITTER!

Remember that awesome sleeping bag I blogged about HERE? Well, we finally got a product that is just as sharktastic!

BAM!

It's an oven mitt!!



Song on repeat this week goes to....

Too Beautiful to Work by The Luyas