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Custom Coolness from Persephone’s Awakening
Oooo…what a fabulous dose of spring from Persephone’s Awakening! I just love the happy go lucky feeling these fantastic crocheted flowers will bring to any outfit!!
Says Jen, from Persephone’s Awakening:
“I am a tree-hugger to the extreme. Any time I can save or salvage ‘things’ to use in creative projects, I do it. That’s why I like the crocheted items that I make; I hardly ever buy new yarn, because most of it is upcycled from other projects. It may be an ugly sweater or placemat that I found at the thrift store, the ends from someone else’s project, or a blanket that I made when I was first learning to crochet and is no longer useful in blanket form. These pieces come together to form new accessories that make your outfits a wee bit more special.”
Love, love, love them!!!
- Single Row Scarf: Welcome in the colder days with a warm, colourful crocheted scarf. This is made with various reclaimed and new yarns from my stash, patiently crocheted using a size 4 hook. Each flower has been blocked. A total of 24 flowers, this scarf is designed to wrap at the throat for warmth and lay flat beneath your jacket or coat.
- Design Your Own: Do you like scarves but don’t want the same as every other Dick, Jane and Harry? If this is the case for you, you might consider designing your own colour combination for a custom-made flower scarf!
- Custom Soiled Flower Brooch: These brooches or pins are made from reclaimed yarn from my stash. Most are made from ends and bits that I’ve saved from ending up in the trash (people just don’t appreciate the last bit of yarn!) thus I am unable to identify what type of yarn, although most are acrylic.
Record Everything with My Handbound Books
I really believe that our ideas, out schedules, our our thoughts and our dreams are all so important, and they deserve to be recorded somewhere special. At My Handbound Books you’ll find a gorgeous selection of weekly planners, blank journals and nifty notebooks to give your work the importance it deserves.
- 2010 Weekly Planner: Handbound Weekly Planner for 2010! This weekly planner has a wrap-around leather cover and is bound using a braided stitch, visible on the spine.This book contains:
* a 2010 calendar with a 2-page spread for each week
* other standard pages for personal info, phone numbers, addresses, important dates, 2011 at a glance, etc.
* a set of pocket pages at the back
* 60 creamy blank pages (half lined, and half unlined)The cover is distressed brown cowhide leather. There is a leather strap to wrap around the book that tucks under itself to keep everything neat and tidy.
- Small Leather Notebook, you pick the colour: These small leather notebooks are perfect for your pocket or your purse. They are just 5″ x 3¼” (12.5cm x 8cm) and they have 64 pages (that’s when you count both sides of each sheet). The paper is a really nice Mohawk Superfine cream paper with torn edges.This listing is for one notebook. You can pick the colour you want.
As shown in the first photograph, your choices are:
Cranberry
Butterscotch
Chocolate
AsparagusEach notebook has a wrap-around leather cover with a linen twine string to wrap around the notebook keeping it neat when you’re not using it.
- Steampunk Mini Journal: Very small, mini journal, steampunk style. All of my steampunk journals are entirely one of a kind. This particular book incorporates a tiny skeleton key and a chain. The cover is black cowhide leather.This small journal is just 2¾” x 2″ (7cm x 5.5cm) and has 192 pages of beige speckled paper, stained black around the edges.
The pages are handbound using a longstitch and link stitch binding technique, sewn with linen thread that is visible on the spine.
RockStar Sponsor: Trans-Canada Etsy Team
Let me introduce you to The Trans Canada Etsy Team…your number one source for Canadian Fabulous-ness on Etsy! I have never seen a bunch of folks who work so tirelessly promoting a group of Etsiers than this one.
Let me start by telling you a bit about their Team Canada Etsy store:
A beautiful shop featuring products from some of the awesome members of the team. It’s here you can also find these awesome goodie bags:
These are excellent selections of goodies donated by members and sold at an awesome price!
If the store weren’t enough, The Trans Canada Etsy Team also keeps it’s own team blog, which I just love:
It features information & profiles on team members, special promotions & sales, and their new Monthly Challenge: Each month, a challenge is issued and team members will submit a handmade entry that relates to the theme in some way. When the challenge closes, everyone will have an opportunity to vote for the entry that they think best represents the theme.
The theme this month is Autumn, and voting will begin on September 25, so come by then and vote for your favorite handmade, Canadian autumn creation!
Besides their shop and their store, you can follow the Trans-Canada Etsy Team on Twitter, to keep up to date with all their fabulous goings on!
www.twitter.com/transcanadaetsy
So go check ‘em out!
A great big thank you to the Trans-Canada Etsy Team for being our Rockstar Sponsor for the month of September. You support is so very appreciated!
Custom Coolness from Purpose Design
Lovin’ these custom spice kits from Purpose Design!
Try something new and create your own collection of spices!
This handsome kraft tube with flush fitting end caps holds 15 magnetic glass top containers each measuring 2 inches (53 mm) in diameter.
Each container weighs between 1 to 1.5 ounces (30-45 g).
You can store these on any magnetic surface.The tube measures 16 inches (41 cm) long and 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) in diameter. The containers are labeled on the side and are individually sealed for safe shipping.
You just have to check out the Purpose Design site to see all the fabulous spices you have to choose from! What a spectacular gift for housewarmings and weddings!
