Kitty Bozzini has a memorable shop name!  Who can forget the Stinky Dog Beads store? Her three dogs make her smile!

Plum Medley Wooly Wire Earrings Tutorial

Kitty started out as a lamp work artist and has now branched out to "offering one of a kind findings and beads that add that special something to any design."  

Autumn Harvest Wooly Wire
One of the things she is starting to offer in her store is Wooly Wire.  Wooly Wire is an artisanal product - felted wool on 24 G craftwire. This is the brainchild of Nellie Thomas, the fiber artist behind Spin Culture. She prepares the yarn all the way from the sheared fleece through dyeing, spinning and felting the wire.

Bazaar Wooly Wire

As Wooly Wire is so new, Kitty realized she had to show its potential. So Kitty teamed up with Polish artisan (don't you just love the borderless collaborations?) Kasia of KicaFiKa  to come up with a wire work tutorial using Wooly Wire.

Water Lily Wooly Wire
As you can see from the Plum Medley earring design way at the top, Wooly Wire adds color to pieces. Mixed media projects results in a much softer look to wire work pieces.

Kitty also pointed out two inspirational Wooly Wire earrings design are by Meridy Migchelbrink of Two Trees Studio on Etsy.



Giveaway
Want to have a go with Wooly Wire?  StinkyDog Beads is offering the Plum Medley tutorial and the supplies to make it.

If you'd like win the kit and tutorial, please make a comment below.  Make sure you leave contact info below if you do not have an online shop or blog.

Extra entries if you become or are a blog subscriber or follower etc. If you also do shout outs about this giveaway, those will count as additional entries too! Please say so in the comments.

Subscribers need to click on the post title to come to my actual blog. Scroll down and enter your comment. Pick Name/URL. If you don't have a store or blog, leave the URL blank.

This giveaway is for US and Canada only.

It ends in a week's time at 6 pm EST Monday,  January 20, 2014. I will pick the winner randomly and announce the results as soon as possible after. So be sure to leave a contact email if you don't have an online link or make sure you come back and check! Otherwise I will redraw in a week. Good luck!


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