Reduce, Reuse,Recycle

Glass jars and bottles have so many new upcycled uses. Save your glass to create beautiful new items. There are thousands of products out there that come in reusable glass jars.* Pasta sauce jars* condiments* pickles* olives* canning jars* wine* beer* water any other jars or bottles we buy from grocery store can be re-used.Recycling glass is wonderful for the environment. We save resources and

New online retailer opens for mompreneurs

New online retailer opens for mompreneursWhat a great new idea for start ups!!!

Toledo Art Treasury

NBCU and Etsy partner... Contest starts today!

NBCU, Etsy partnerEffort part of 'Green Is Universal' pushBy Sam ThielmanFor its "Green Is Universal" initiative, NBCUniversal is partnering with online handcrafted goods retailer Etsy to sponsor a recycled handmade goods contest, starting today, as a run-up to the conglom's Earth Week. For the competish, christened "Art of Reuse," do-it-yourselfers are tasked with creating new products from

New Glass Product... Green Glass and the Lady bug

This Bird feeder is created out of a beautiful hand cut, green glass and hand cut red and black glass for the lady bug.It has yellow glass accents running through the piece. It sits on a 16" fabricated wrought iron stand. The glass it self is 6" in diameter and 4.5" deep.

Crystal Phan's Jewelry from Etsy featured in the News

Congratulations to yet another Etsy seller in the News! Great article inWilkes Barre Times....Paper Heroes Crystals  ETSY SHOP: Crystal Phan's jewelry

The Baltimore Sun features Kristen Christy from Little Acorn Products

Congratulations to Kristen Christy from Little Acorn Products on Etsy. She was featured in The Baltimore sun!Check her shop out her Birdhouses are beautiful. Great decor for children s rooms.

NEW! Glass Gifts

Both Projects from last week are finished! This is the Bird Feeder!Bird feeder With wrought Iron StandBlue Fish Hanging from fishing pole.Suncatcher!Fused Glass Fish close-up

ABC news/GMA features another Etsy Shop...harvest Moon By Hand

 CHRISTINA CARON March 17, 2011The Leprechaun TrapLeprechauns, those mischievous elves of Irish folklore, are notoriously hard to catch. But as legend goes there's a handsome monetary reward if you manage to capture one. Ann Rinkenberger, mother to Olivia, 8, and Sophia, 10, said her daughters have been making "leprechaun traps" for the past five years. But there's just one problem. "

Great news article in Las Vegas Review Journal ...Artist from Etsy

Enlarge Clos By Xazmin GarzaLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALPosted: Mar. 17, 2011 | 2:04 a.m. Updated: Mar. 17, 2011 | 7:27 a.m. When you go to a concert for a singer who once used a meat locker for her closet, the dress code is anything goes. It's not

From Auction bytes:Etsy owner changing analytics

Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 2498 - March 14, 2011 - ISSN 1539-5065          | Founder Says Etsy Is Working on Analytics, Product Attributes   By Ina Steiner March 14, 2011 Reading AuctionBytes: Founder Says Etsy Is

Are you an artist or Craftsman? Handmade or hand assembled?

Is your work considered handmade or not? Are you an Artist or craftsman?Hello everyone Im Jenny Reinhart.Basically I need a break from the social networking!I wanted to write an article addressing what seems to be two highly controversial topics among artists and craftsman on Etsy.1) Are you an artist or a crafter/craftsman?2) Is your product considered handmade or hand assembled and is there a

Etsy Founder...Rob Kalin

Etsy Founder Rob Kalin Addresses User Concerns   By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com February 28, 2011 Reading AuctionBytes: Etsy Founder Rob Kalin Addresses User Concerns Etsy founder Rob Kalin has been keeping a low profile, but he resurfaced on discussion boards late last week to respond to

Fox News Salt Lake City...Etsy Experiment

 

Creativity

"Live life simply and creatively."

Treasuries

My glass was just added to 3 new Treasuries today. Here is one. The other two are on my Treasuries page. Take a look the items listed in them are beautiful.

Sun Catcher

 These are the blue glass fish that I have cut by hand. Prior to being placed in the kiln. I also fused fish hooks in them.This is how they look after being baked in the kiln. I Love these little fish! I will be hanging them by fishing line.

Finally Friday! Keeping up

Ill be posting my fused glass photos over the weekend but I needed a day to catch up with things. I will be giving some attention to my Etsy teams and making some treasuries, working on my shop, websites.Creating handmade items has been a very rewarding experience for me. Almost therapeutic. I enjoy taking that piece of glass and creating wonderful glass gifts through fusing, painting, and

Wake n Bake Wednesday

Today is a great day. Wake n Bake Wednesday is all about being up early baking homemade cinnamon rolls for the family and spending the rest of the day baking in my kiln. When days start out perfect like that, they are wonderful. However today did not start out like that. I overslept, so the family gets the refrigerated Cinnamon rolls and I didn't even start up the kiln yet. So in order to

Tuesdays Temptation

 Tuesdays temptation for me is:I'm tempted to put off:  paper work, taxes,and chores. Yuck!and I'm tempted to hang out in my workshop all day creating new glass.Of course I know better. Wednesdays are my day in the workshop to create all I want. So for today ill struggle and get through all of the grown up stuff I cant stand  (I think its called responsibilities) and the whole time Ill be looking