u/mantrakid

About 5-6 hours in so far and I’m half done Birdo. Next up are the little details like the tail spikes and pretty red bow 😊 wanted to share so far cuz I’m super proud haha. 🎀

Needle felted my fav lil Mario enemy. Took about 3-4 hours but I love him and now I wanna make the whole SMB2 Crew 🥰

Just poked some fluff till it made my fav Mario enemy of all time. Love this lil dude.

I tried slicing open a brand new dryer ball from fabricland, hollowing it out and putting a tongue in there then I was like wow that’s cute I better give it feet so it got some lil legs then I was like how can it see I better give it eyes and I thought it looked a bit like a frog so I gave it Kermit eyes and called him Kaeru, which is Japanese for frog, or so I hear. 🥰

My buddy (Josh Klassen) and I have a show up in Comox, BC (Vancouver Island) for the next few months. Super proud but also feeling a bit exposed and nervous about what people might think. 😅 just wanted to share here. ❤️

Meep is a rare Shagrin Leafum from the planet Exobusk Three. Her eye is capable of detecting radio waves, microwaves and infrared light, in addition to the visible light spectrum. This allows her to ‘see’ sound, so her favorite place to hang out is near a speaker, whenever possible.

• Includes: Adoption Certificate + A Werthers Original
• Species: Shagrin Leafum
• Primary Diet: Werthers Originals & Fireflies
• Height: Approx. 1.25”
• Important Traits: Greenish, Soft-Spoken, Well-Read. Extra Cute, Sprouty

Hey gang! Gen 3 + Reddit collectible artist here and I wanted to let you guys know about a giveaway I'm doing for my new project "Pet Mutant".

Im dropping a new hand-made mutant collectible toy + art + prints + apparel + stickers every week on PetMutant.com and i have a giveaway up currently that I'll be picking a winner for on July 1st. The winner will get "Xxeebs" a weird tentacled monster with tons of eyeballs and giant purple lips.

All you gotta do to enter is be on my mailing list, so just sign up at the site and you're in the draw. (You can unsubscribe after the draw if you dont actually want to get emails from me but chances are ill keep doing giveaways throughout the year!)

Hope you dig the stuff and thank you to everyone who has supported my work through the years, it means so freaking much to me!

- Nate @ PetMutant.com

Hello! I grew up trading Monster-In-My-Pockets, obsessing over Nintendo games and Jim Henson creations, performing Boglin puppet shows, and drawing weird creatures too gross for the fridge. Today I'm an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and game designer living on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Pet Mutant is the brand I would have torn open at the toy store in 1992 and refused to put back. Through the site, i offer many uglycute items that were drawn, painted, or felted & stuffed by my own two hands!

You can view my work, buy art & apparel, or adopt the 1-of-1 collectible mutants by visiting https://petmutant.com

Thanks! ❤️
-Nate

Edwin is a Brodaxxian Swamp Flopper, his species was almost extinct when the Galactic Governer of the Spegg System introduced a mandatory breeding holiday. The results of holiday were largely positive and over the years, Swamp Floppers evolved to possess multiple eyeballs (more than the original amount of one).

Scientists think the multi-eyed mutations gave the creatures a much better chance of spotting potential mates on the annual Brodaxxian Swamp Hopper Lovin’ Day. The eyeballs also helped them track down Goldfish Crackers, which just so happens to be Edwin’s favourite food!

• Includes: Adoption Certificate + Food • Species: Brodaxxian Swamp Flopper • Primary Diet: Goldfish Crackers • Height: Approx. 2.5” • Length: Approx. 5” • Important Traits: Slick, Squishy, Slurpy, Stinky, Sullen

I recently purchased this amazing guy from Etsy as I was hoping to study it to learn new techniques etc but what arrived in my mailbox was…. Not as good. It makes me think the original image is AI…. Bummer tho. It’s cool looking.

I recently started selling my felted creations via my website, and one of the biggest challenges I’ve had was knowing what to charge for my creations. I was verrry very nervous about charging what I ‘wanted’ to charge (ie based on the actual time invested, etc) because I was worried people would scoff at the price like I was charging a crazy amount for fluff.

That said, I decided to stick to my guns. I figured the worst thing that would happen is they don’t sell and it just means a) I get to keep them longer and b) I’ll be able to have them to show at markets or to approach retail spots with them. So I priced closer to the ‘higher’ end of where I was thinking, based off of researching other NON-ETSY artists. (Etsy seemed to be incredibly low prices for what looked like a MASSIVE amount of work!)

So I settled on:

Small (1-2”) creatures: $60-75ish Canadian Large (3-5”) creatures: $200ish

Now I can tell you with pride that I’ve put out one new creature every week since the beginning of May and as of tonight I’ve actually sold every single one so far… it has been an incredibly cool feeling and basically every dime I made from the sales has gone into things like getting tshirts and stickers made, boosting Instagram and TikTok posts and of course buying more wool 😂 but it gives me hope that maybe there is something here…

I have been putting in a lot of extra effort to the packaging - painting up special boxes or containers for the creatures, including stickers and postcards for free, including little extras like ‘felted food’ for the creature to eat, etc. if i factor in all the effort and packaging im probably still making less than minimum wage but with the prices things are at, i feel like it’s not a loss. I feel like im doing something I love and when they sell I get to keep doing something i love, and im excited to see where things go!

Crap now im worried this sounds like bragging but i didnt mean it that way. I wanted it to be inspiring to say that:

A) if you are unsure what to price your work as you’re not alone.. maybe just go with your gut and see what happens! B) I’m more than happy to answer any questions or give more details about how im doing things with my website, with shipping, with marketing.

Felting is still very new to me but I feel like I’ve been working on all these other areas and skills my whole life and I can finally put them all to good use to build something that feels so ‘pure’ like making sweet little ugly monsters out of felt 😊. Im very grateful for the inspiration and support this community has given me and just want to give back however I can ❤️🐙🤙

Xxeebs is a strange and mysterious creature from the distant Cerulean Galaxy. Not a lot is known about them yet, so some further research may be required.

Includes: Adoption Certificate Species: Unknown Primary Diet: Unknown Height: Approx. 4" Important Traits: Tentacle-y, Eyeball-y, Snaggletoothed, Additional Details Unknown

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Xxeebs was made with a combination of wet and needle felting. The body was wet felted and stuffed with polyfill and the tentacles and eyeballs etc were all needle felted on. I wish I used wire inside the tentacles so they could be posed better but i tried to shape them as I went so they would result in a creature that can ‘stand up’. 😊 hope you dig them!

Jyrbo is a rare Brigoonian Buns Bounder. They had bounced into my pocket on a recent trip to Brigoo and when I tried taking them back to their home planet, they REFUSED to leave my pocket. They’ve since grown very fond of earthworms. 🪱

Includes: Adoption Certificate + Earthworms Species: Brigoonian Buns Bouncer Primary Diet: Regular Earthworms Height: Approx. 2”

They were needle felted in a single session in about 4-5 hours first the head then the bootied body. The fun part was figuring out how to make them stand upright and once I started adding the blue ‘moles’ I was able to put some strategically placed on their lower half to balance them 😊

Hope this doesn’t count as promo, just trying to share this lil guy since someone adopted him!

FLOORED that @puffpuffpassoutasmr (Instagram) adopted Zarles before I even had a chance to send the email out. A record 60 seconds from the time he dropped!!! Mad love my friend, hope he brings you plenty of smiles and keeps your floor clear of teeth and bones. 🦴

Zarles is a rare Finless Flopper Shark. A strange evolutionary cross between a House Hippo, a Microshark and a Underoo’d Unastonian Mini-Man, Zarles carries the best traits of all of its DNA-donors, and is currently preparing to run for Governor of Unastonia in 2027!

Includes: Adoption Certificate + Some Teeth and Bones Species: Finless Flopper Shark Primary Diet: Teeth and Bones Height: Approx. 1” Important Traits: Hilarious, pesky, honest, slippery and somewhat emotional.

Wanted to see if I could get a large-ish body without wet felting so tried stuffing polyfill into a (new) sock then needle felting it around it. I like that I was able to keep the streakyness of the dyed wool and am going to try that more consciously next time to see if I can get nice patterns or textures by coercing the streaks into shapes & patterns! The beak is baked polymer clay filed down for details and painted with a sharpie acrylic marker 😊 will post progress on him as I go!

Been really havin some laughs while I needle felt this old fella. I made eyeballs outta polymer clay and glued em into his skull then needle felted eyelids to hold em in place 😭😅😂 hope u like him at least a tenth as much as I do lol 🤣

I’ve been puttin this old guy together and made some real magical progress today.