3 Wise Mice - Nativity 3 kings, Three Wise Men

3 new very wise and dazzling kings have dropped by The House of Mouse on their journey to find baby Jesus. I had so much fun making them using bright sparkly gold ribbons and regal colours! I hope you enjoy them too. They are the last members to join our Nativity Collection. We will soon be releasing listings for entire sets of different sizes for you to take home.

  Click here to see more photos of the Three Wise Mice

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

NEW - Nativity Mice

Theses adorable nativity mice are the first in our new Nativity Collection, which we will add more to over the next few weeks. Little baby Jesus mouse makes us squeeeee... those eyes are almost as big as his head! We'll have different size nativity sets available to suit a range of budgets and each mouse is also available separately. We hope you'll enjoy seeing this new collection evolve!

We've been away for a while because the Christmas in July SALE kept us very busy! Lots of little mice going off to new homes. If you're quick you can still grab 15% OFF everything in our store until July 31st 2011. Use the coupon code "THOMCIJ" during checkout to get your discount.

My Creative Space

Well, Anna and I decided it was about time we showed you our creative spaces. It's going to be so interesting, because of course we're both making mice, but in two different countries and each with our own ways of working and our own "studio setup"! So this week you'll be hearing from me (Naomi!) here in the UK. Right now, I am working from a mixture of little exciting bundles of materials and other goodies that Anna has been sending me (like those parcels they drop on desert islands!) and my own sourced materials, for the mice and their clothes and accessories. I've been making good use of some wonderful boxes with fabulous little compartments and cubby-holes that had not been properly used before to store my new wealth of threads, materials and allsorts.


The mice are sitting mostly on the desk with me at the moment, but as I make more and more I am finding that they need official 'homes' before they are adopted, if I want to keep my work space clear! It's going to be fascinating to look back on these Creative Space posts and probably laugh at my very first attempts at some sort of organisation. As I get more and more familiar with the mice, I am sure little tricks will emerge on how to keep things organised! (Any helpful hints, Anna? Or anyone?!) :-)

Oh yes, and finally... This little guy rarely fails to make me grin when I'm mousemaking in here.... He's been lovingly nicknamed "Pinhead", the poor little thing... If anyone would like to rescue Pinhead from his doomed existence, then please do buy me a pin cushion! ;-)

Want to play the Creative Space game with us? Visit Kootoyoo's blog!

Much love,

Naomi xx

Last chance to buy from The House of Mouse

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know I will be closing my store on Sunday so I can take some time off before our baby boy is born. I hope to reopen in the summer once I know how much time I will have for The House of Mouse while being a full time mommy.

Just letting you know in case you want
to grab a mouse before I close shop for a while.

I also want to say a big thank you to everyone for all your support, and to all my wonderful customers for giving so many of my mice new loving homes. In the summer I will be back with lots of new designs and more silly mouse fun.

I will keep blogging when I can, and you will certainly get to see photos of our boy when he is born! Keep watching this space for more info!

Hugs and cookies,
Anna

The House of Mouse

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Cody the Computer Geek Mouse

Cody lives for perl, php and regex. Nothing gets him more excited than grokking the gimp! Cody's hero is Ratbert and his one wish would be for caffeinated cheese!

Cody Mouse was hand sewn using felt, ribbon, wire, paper, glue, monofilament and stuffed with polyfil. He stands approximately 2.5inches tall (6.5cm) His costume and laptop are not removable.

Available to buy now in my store!

Father Aaron the Priest Mouse

Father Aaron the Priest Mouse was hand sewn using felt, silks, beads, cardboard, paper, metal, glue, fake leather and monofilament. He is stuffed with polyfil. He stands approximately 2.5inches tall (6.5cm) His costume and accessories are not removable.

Available to buy in my store

Don't forget to enter my September Giveaway
to win your very own mouse!

Aragorn Mouse

Aragorn mouse is the rightful heir to the throne of Gondor, but has chosen exile to wonder the wilds. He has brown curly hair and stubble on his chin. He comes dressed in leather and cloth holding the reforged sword Anduril with which he will fight to save Middle Earth and reclaim his throne.

Available to buy in my store

Another Lord of the Rings mouse coming tomorrow!

Gandalf the Grey Mouse

Gandalf the Grey Mouse is a powerful wizard. He comes with grey cloak and hat as well as a fluffy white beard and wooden staff.

Available to buy in my store

Another Lord of the Rings mouse coming tomorrow!

Frodo Baggins Mouse

Little Frodo Baggins Mouse is on a mission to destroy the One Ring and save Middle Earth from Sauron. He comes with furry hobbit feet, curly black hair, his trusty sword "Sting" and the ring hung around his neck.

Available to buy in my store

Another Lord of the Rings mouse coming tomorrow!

My mice on a wedding cake

I love it when my customers send me photos of my mice in their new homes, especially on wedding cakes! Thank you so much to Ami for giving me permission to share these photos on my blog.

OMG, I won!

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me in the Etsy Wedding cake topper vote! I am so happy to tell you that my Mr and Mrs Mouse won! There was some very stiff competition from some really beautiful wedding toppers, I am very surprised to have taken first place.

Read the Etsy write-up about it by clicking HERE

Gene Simmons from Kiss Mouse

A few days ago I got one of those custom order requests that just made me go "Yay!!" A returning customer asked me if I could make her a Gene Simmons from Kiss mouse! I loved the idea! Here is how he looks all finished.



I am thinking about adding him to my store as a regular, although that will have to wait until my computer is back from the shop so I can use Photoshop make the pictures look better. I am still using my sloooow laptop at the moment, although we are expecting to get my main computer back any day now.

What do you think of Gene Simmons Mouse, do you think he should become a regular in my store?

Vote for me... I´ll give you a cookie.

My little Mr and Mrs Mouse are in the
Etsy Wedding Cake Topper Voter!

If you love them please vote for me. To vote click HERE

Thanks!!

Exciting promotion announcement

Here is your chance to get more mice for your money!

I am very happy to announce a new promotion in my store.




I am giving away a
FREE mystery mouse
with every order* from my store
The House of Mouse

Promotion ends June 14th

*Orders must be $35 or over, not including shipping.
Offer cannot be used in conjunction with discount vouchers.

Ironmouse

I was asked to make a custom Ironman Mouse recently, he was a very tricky mouse to make and my first attempt was just not right. So I restarted him from scratch and using card instead of felt for his amour. He took me about 5 hours to make from start to finish. I have to say after all that work that I am pleased with the final result, but I won't be making him a regular in my store, he would be too expensive because of the amount of time he takes to make.



If you have any suggestions for mice I should make you can post them here. If you would like to order a custom mouse, feel free to contact me with your ideas.

Disaster!

Total, complete and utter disaster. I have lost my mouse book. I had this wonderful little journal that I bought from Kreativlink that I kept all my mouse ideas in, and its gone!


I have searched the whole house for it, I think I must have left it in a café. Someone is going to be very confused when they open it.

It just has lists of ideas for mice I want to make like:
Dalek Mouse
Mouse Chess Set
Terminator Mouse
Fireman Mouse
Zodiac Mice
etc...
For pages and pages and pages! Some of them were suggestions other people had made to me too, and now all the ideas are gone.

Can you help me make a new list by suggesting mice you would like to see in my store? Fortunately I have another of Kreativlink's journals that I can put the new ideas in, this one will not be leaving the house!

My independant website is LIVE!

Hoorah! It has taken about a year to get my independent website all up and running but I am very happy to announce that it is finally ready. I hope you will enjoy looking through thehouseofmouse.co.uk

May Giveaway!

From today you have a chance to
WIN a FREE MOUSE every month
for the next 12 months!

The winners can choose ANY mouse from
my store worth up to $40.

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To enter for the May Giveaway all you need to do is leave a comment under this post, if you tell me which of my mice you like the most it will increase your chances of winning!
You can leave as many comments as you like,
the more I see your name the better!
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The winner will be announced at the end of each month.

Good luck!

Update May 31st: Competition is now CLOSED,
come back later today to find out who won!

Charles Darwin Mouse

Little Charles Darwin Mouse is a very intelligent British scientist who is well known for his seminal books "On the Origin of the Species" and "The descent of Mouse" He holds the first of these books in his paws over a very fluffy white beard.

Available in my store www.thehouseofmouse.etsy.com

Sebastian the Steampunk Mouse

Sebastian is a dapper little mouse in a pinstripe suit. He has a pocket watch on a chain and wears a black waistcoat and tie. He also has very cool black and red dreadlocks with goggles over the top.

Sebastian is hand sewn using felt, silks, ribbon, card, glue, wire, sequins, rubber, beads and monofilament. He is stuffed with polyfil. He stands approximately 2.5inches tall (6.5cm)

Available to buy in my Etsy store