team FEST June Blog Giveaway!!

http://etsyfest.blogspot.com/2011/06/get-ready-for-june-fest-blog-giveaway.html





Our lucky June Winner will have an opportunity to select one item from either of Carrie's Shops - HappyLittleMonkey or MonkeySeeMonkeyDo. Carrie is a Florida native now living in Tallahassee. She creates wonderful products for kids with practicality, utility and parents in mind.

HappyLittleMonkey specializes in great baby gifts and you can choose a Premium Swaddling Blanket and Burp Cloth Set from this Shop similar to this lovely blue, aqua and white blanket combo as your Giveaway.
MonkeySeeMonkeyDo features items for bigger kids, from age 1 to around kindergarten and growing. Or select as your Giveaway, an Appliqued Shirt from this Shop. Here's an example of Carrie's special designs.



Carrie spends hours searching for just the perfect materials and fabrics for her fabulous creations and, in addition to the Giveaway, if Team FEST members purchase a Swaddling Blanket Set by July 4th, Carrie will monogram the blanket or burp cloth FREE when FEST members use the code GOTEAMFEST in the comments.

HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win by visiting Carrie at either or both of her Shops HappyLittleMonkey or MonkeySeeMonkeyDo or any of the FEST Team members listed in the Member Section. Find your favorite item, share it with us and tell us why you love it. Remember to add your email address so we can contact you if you are the Winner! Winner picked on 07/04/11. Simple and Easy!


About the Artist:
Carrie is a stay-at-home mommy of two little ones and loves the opportunity to create great things! Her product inspiration comes from her kids, and then she create things that Moms will love too.
Carrie learned how to sew as a little girl, along-side her mother who gave Carrie her very own machine at a very young age!




http://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyLittleMonkey?ref=pr_shop_more


http://www.etsy.com/shop/MonkeySeeMonkeyDoHLM?ref=pr_shop_more

A little new and whats keeping me so busy!

SO, I've been working on some new things. I love bright colors and I love making fish so I've been making some brightly colored fish.......and beads too :) But other things have been keeping me busy too. We started a garden since moving to a new house with a huge yard! I've always wanted chickens too so we got 3. Yea, not too many and actually today i'm going to go get a few more babies. The three we started with were chicks when we got them and now they are huge. They follow me around and our 2yo daughter and almost 2yo grand daughter enjoy petting them. I usually find them in their pen! LOL We don't know wether they are roosters or hens yet but hopefully all three will be hens. I'm sure my neighbors would appreciate them being all hens too! LOL

SO some pictures to share!
Beau the fish, Sabrinas cousin. He is a colorful fish, trying to attract the ladies. Quite handsome I think!

There are two others in my Etsy Shop, shelly and sabrina (beaus cousin)

These beads I LOVE, colorful, fun, bright!! My kind of beads......I hope you like them too! There are several different sets in my Etsy Shop too!

A pic of my garden, it doesn't look very big but it is and I've cleared out alot more space. Now I have alot planted and we are really enjoying the fresh veggies! Just wish I had a tiller because by hand is SOOOO hard!!

Lastly, our baby chicks. We got them April 19 and they are huge already. Here they are sleeping in their food dish, so cute!

I hope you are having a great summer and thanks for stopping by!!
Till next time,
Sue aka glassymom

Art to Heart, an Artfire Collection featuring my copper pendant!

Art to Heart

Curated By: juliannesofca...

ArtFire.com

Craft Supplies

How cute is this!

Fishbonesilver, what a great name and a great shop! A fellow Fest Team member on Etsy, I love so many things in her shop!!
Just in time for spring, I noticed this cute little bunny! He is adorable!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/41695120/a-cute-bunny-rabbit

Go take a peek at her shop, you will find some really beautiful jewelry there!!

later,
sue aka glassymom

I just LOVE chocolate and this is such a yummy treasury!

Calorie Free Chocolate!

Curated By: dentedhalo

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Unique Gifts

A Beautiful Collection on Artfire

My Periwinkle Swirl Disk pair was included in this beautiful treasury. I love the colors AND the items!! (specially the scarf!)

Spring, Spring oh where are you?

Curated By: EntwinedVines

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Handmade Jewelry

The making of a ring!

A pretty little silver ring with a pretty pink stone. It didn't start out that way, infact it started out as a glass rod, piece of silver wire and bezel cup. Looking like this........

The glass rod was cut into a small piece and with a whole bunch of others it went in to the kiln to slump. After a whole night in the kiln it came out looking quite different from the rod. Its a very dark almost maroon looking color. I then cleaned it and set aside. The wire was the most fun, hammering all the frustrations of the day into it. I love that part!! LOL After hammering, I sanded a bit of what would be the inside, its easier then doing it after its round. I shaped it, hammered on it more, shaped it more, filed the ends to get a good match. Then I soldered it together with silver solder. Once together I gave it a light sanding again...still need to do more as you can see in the picture but I was just so excited to show it! Its actually the second one I've made but the first one was with a twisted wire and I didn't get to do any hammering, also the cab was made different. The first cab was made in the torch and then put into the kiln while this one was made from a cutting off a rod and then slumped in the kiln, same ending result tho.

Heres a picture of the one with the twisted wire and the torch made cab just as comparison

I really like the start to finish made from scratch feeling! Its like making a cake or pie from scratch......a good feeling when your done. Even better when the person your making it for really loves it. Sure hope my daughter loves it, she hasn't seen it as of yet....but maybe she'll read this and see its finished! LOL As for the other one, well as soon as I get around to it I'm going to list it in my Etsy shop. If its something you'd like me to get right on then drop me an email and tell me to get right on it!! LOL
SO, what do you think? Please tell...........
Sue

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