I've been featured in lovely treasuries lately! Many thanks to the treasury makers!
Bettie of Collective Gathering featured my pastel rainbow silk velvet scrunchie in
her very sweet collection Spring pastels. (If you love pastels, you must visit this lovely treasury!)
Bettie makes lovely jewelry using highly polished natural gemstones, Swarovski
crystals, and sterling and Tibet silver such as this lovely pearl and Swarovski necklace. Birthstone and new Spring items are availbale. "My OOAK designs are waiting
for a new home!"
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Deb of storybeader featured my tie dyed pink swirl charity T shirt in her fun treasury white & color = tint !
Deb's shop is filled with wonderful paper items like this new to her shop set of 3 bookmarks. She also offers hand-rolled paper beads, journals, art journals, and mixed media items. "I love paper and I love books!
With each journal, you also get a haiku, written specifically for the piece, by the Storybeader!"
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Deb of storybeader also featured my "margarita" hand dyed silk scarf in her fun green treasury In honor of St. Patrick's Day.
Here are some of her handwrapped Florentine marbled paper
beads. "When I went to Italy in May 2012, I found the shops of Florentine
papermakers, Francesco Giannini and Gianni Parenti, called Il Papiro.
The gentleman at one of the shops asked me if I would like to see how
they hand marbled their papers. I was thrilled." She describes the paper making process in her listing.
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Another wonderful pastel treasury! Jennifer of White Wave Originals featured my pastel rainbow silk scrunchie in her lovely treasury color me spring.
Jennifer is a weaver who makes scarves, table runners, and rugs in various sizes like this one.
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Mary of Mary Hopkins Quilts featured my pastel rainbow silk scrunchie in her very pretty treasury Bunny's Pastel Basket.
"Welcome to my quilty world! All my quilts and quilted items are made
from cotton fabrics and Warm and Natural quilt batting. I machine quilt
all my quilts, for greater durability." Besides quilts, Mary has also added knitted items. Above is a beautiful butterfly quilt.
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Spring is in the air is the lovely treasury curated by Cynthia of Antiquity Travelers. she featured my "margarita" hand dyed silk scarf.
Cynthia makes a variety gorgeous jewelry inspired by her travels, using only gold and silver with a huge variety of semi precious
stones, pearls, shells, and handmade beads. "We hope you’ll like our broad and adventurous style in jewelry." These earrings "feature a pretty ceramic porcelain in a soft green that I paired up with
hand hammered 16g silver wire. The swirls remind me of new ferns in the spring as the
furls are just starting to unwind."
photos by each individual artist © 2011-2013 all rights reserved!
I head about this hop just today by reading Cynthia's blog Antiquity Travelers Not only is this a great idea, there are prizes to be won! (more about that later)
Rita of Toltec Jewels For Jewel School Friends created this hop.
You, too, can join in! Post photos of items from your shop and/or others.
To start here are a couple items from my shop:
a cute snowman shirt can be made in youth and adult sizes
How about a silk velvet scrunchie for your hair?
What a gorgeous bracelet made by Cynthia of Antiquity Travelers! She creates and sells even more wonderful jewelry!
Come on over to Rita's blog and learn how you can participate and win prizes. About those prizes--There are FOUR awesome prizes to be won! See them at the end of this POST. (They are compliments of jewelry artists and inventors Barbara Carlton (software) and Cindy Lichfield (Cloud Dome items).
Why support local and handmade? Here are just a few reasons. Be sure to include additional reasons in your comment.
1. You may "meet" the maker of your item
2. Care and love has been put into the product
3. The negative effects on the environment are greatly reduced
4. You will receive a unique item
5. There's a greater chance that human rights have been respected
6. value
7. support of independent makers
8. You will contribute to restoring a sustainable and personal element to the global economy
10. customization
11. Your item may be one of a kind
LINKS:
101 Reasons to Buy Handmade
10 Awesome Reasons to Buy Handmade Gifts This Year on Handmadeology
Why Buy Local? graphic map
Time article on buying local
photos by me and Cynthia © 2012 all rights reserved
