Crafters and Artisans Directory

They are two best friends, mothers of three and four kids. Bibi and Nanda have a passion for handmade products, love to create and design art, sharing lots of precious memories... The Joyful Art factory was born.

Bibi, lives in Holland, mother of four, creative, kind-hearted, temperamented, honest, loving, best friend.
Nanda lives in Spain, mother of three, creative, colorful, passionated, loveable, reliable, best friend.



A personal, custom handmade gift is one of the sweetest and most unique gifts to give or to receive. The Joyful Art Factory loves it when someone takes the effort in giving them or their own kids such a special present. These special present are gifts for live.

All items are hand made with lots of love.and they are original and from their heart.
If you would like to receive more pictures of an item, please contact Joyful Art Factory through Etsy conversations and they will send them to you.

Important for the Holidays or special occasions, Joyful Art Factory offers free gift wrapping, and if you wish they will include a card with your message for the happy receiver.

Besides the official website www.ja-factory.com, Joyful Art Factory maintains a blog "JA Factory - Jewels & Art, Gifts, Decoration and Accessories... Handmade with Love..." and you can follow jafactory on Twitter.

Additional kids decoration items, accessories and jewels can be found at Nanda's other Lil' Miss Polkadot Etsy shop which was introduced in the article "Lil' Miss Polkadot - Paintings, Accessories and Handmade Gifts for Everyone" in the crafters and artisans directory.

For the future, Bibi and Nanda are planning on opening a special Etsy shop for webdesign, graphics, banners and invitations etc. If interested, they are already taking custom orders.

Location: Alhaurin el Grande, Spain

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Monique Smelik believes that beautiful things can be made with materials straight from mother nature. She enjoys working with fibers and mix them up to create ooak felted items. Additionally she dyes silk and other fibers to get wonderful combinations and material mixes.
She makes all items with love and great pleasure finding her greatest inspiration in her daughter.

The process of wet felting although very intensive is also very relaxing and while she is working on a piece, almost always new ideas pop up. Monique compares working with fibers with painting. Both make life natural and beautiful.

Monique started experimenting with fibers years ago. First she began with spinning fibers and later she developed her passion for felting. Felting has many things in common with painting; it is therapeutic and yet abstract objects can be made. Up until last year she was teaching many felting workshops.



Her DutchFeltArt stores on Etsy and Artfire are the places where pure natural handfelted and hand dyed products can be found. As the Etsy Mini pictures demonstrate, Monique specializes in wet felting, needle felting and crazy wool techniques. Her mission is to make unique things with natural materials (fibers, nunofelt, silk, textiles) and she loves to experiment with mixed media.

All items are original designs by Monique Smelik and she welcomes custom orders.

Feel free to follow DutchFeltArt on Twitter, on Flickr or visit Monique's Dutch Felting Art website.







Location: Zierikzee, The Netherlands

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