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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

a white item treasury

I made a treasury to celebrate our most recent hue tuesday contest. The prices ranges on the last week of the month are just chock full of treasury wonderfulness :)

'blend in with the creatures' by spacefem

Snow white flying k... Bunnys $26.00	Hydrangea Hair Pins... GracefullyGirl... $24.00	BUNNY by DIMDI Orig... dimdi $25.00	Knit Necklace with ... melissahager $25.00
Blue Merle Border C... wrensroost $25.00	White Horse Photo -... RockyTopPrintS... $25.00	Fawn Bunny, needle ... needleandfelt $24.00	Blizzard Fence Line... courtneygrigg $25.00
Pearl Earrings Vint... hawaiibeads $24.00	Barefoot Sandals - ... BusyLizzyBouti... $25.00	30% OFF Sale Vintag... VintageTwists $24.50	Vintage, off white,... vintageabbeyro... $25.00
Cream rose locket n... sweetsimple $24.00	The Swan Queen -- s... PalePreoccupat... $25.00	ON SALE Cursive let... ChezMargotVint... $24.00	White Coral Chip Be... DevikaBox $25.00

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Etsy trade love and felted bowls

Last week Ruby from missyandme contacted me through the Etsy Trade-a-holics team, it's this group I'm in where everybody trades their etsy stuff and I LOVE IT!

Etsy trading combines my two favorite things:
1) Sending something that I've made out of my house
2) Having something handmade show up at my house (with no hit to my paypal account! It's like FREEE!)

Anyway Ruby made felted bowls like this so I had to go for the trade, I don't even remember what I sent her, but these were so worth it:

Bright Stripes Felted Whatnot Bowls - Set of 3
by missyandme

Trading on Etsy is easy:
1) You find someone on the team interested in a trade
2) You send them a convo proposing what you want in their shop and how much
3) They reply back yes or no, and the team is very clear about the fact that you're totally allowed to say no. Sometimes people get traded out, no harm done, no hurt feelings, it's okay!
4) You both buy stuff from each other's shop with "other" as the payment
5) When you get their stuff, you leave them feedback and mark their order from you as paid. Whall-ah!

My only trading pet peeve is when someone is vague in their initial convo, like they'll ask me for one little bag that's $8 but their shop has only $12 items. I'm like, "How do you see this working out, exactly?!" I wish they'd just say "I'll trade three bags for two of my necklaces" or "My necklaces are pricier but that's okay, I'll send you a $12 necklace for an $8 bag".

The trades usually aren't *exactly* even but that's not a problem as far as I'm concerned. When I send off slightly more than I'm getting I call it "trade karma".

But anyway, my felt bowls from Ruby were less than what I was sending her so I told her to throw in whatever she wanted to make it even, and she sent me monsters, like this one... OHMIGOD it was so cute I about died.

Sparky -Needle Felted Not-Me Monster
by missyandme

She makes all these little cute animals that are just amazing:

Shawn Needle Felted Owl
by missyandme

So yup, perfect. It's stuff like this that makes me love Etsy and love trading, especially.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Theme Thursday we had to have: Birds

Yesterday's theme Thursday was one near and dear to my heart: stuff with birds on it!

Let me first say that even though the number of birds on etsy is sort of a running joke, I fall for them every time. In my sewing room I have these beloved bird ornaments I bought last year... my favorite bird item that I've ever found (and let's face it, at this price for a set of six they're a STEAL!)

Whimsical Birdhouse Ornaments
by dreamwvr81