Wedding Challenge!

My CreateCrochet team had a a challenge going on to create something for a wedding or wedding inspired. Here is my creation... A white shawl with multi colored blue fun fur trim. it makes a great thick scarf too.

There is no prize in these challenges they are simply to keep us in a creative state of mind and to have fun.

~Relay For Life!!!

The CreateCrochet Team's latest charity project is to support the Relay for Life program.
Members of the team are making Chemo Caps and other goodies that will be sold at a booth at the Relay for Life at Kingman High School in Kingman Arizona the weekend of June 5-6, 2010.
This project is sponsored by our own team member CreationsbyM2, who will be organizing the booth as well as walking in the Relay.
All proceeds earned in the sale will go to the Relay for Life Foundation.
Here are some of the wonderful items that will be for sale:

This great hat is made by http://www.sewstacy.etsy.com/

This great hat is made by http://www.stitchesbyjulie.etsy.com/

These great hats are made by http://www.charlottelaughs.etsy.com/

~Updates & Info~

for starters I have two treasury easts...

Sunshine Treasury!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bd7b6c2b8988eefea07c65b/sunshine

patchwork treasury!http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bd57c3aeeb78eefc1c28e36/patchwork-pleasures

And an update on the relay for Life charity are CreateCrochet team is doing...

this is just one of the Amazing hats that http://www.bigalhats.etsy.com/ donated

I will be showing off more hats & other items shortly. and for more info on RFL check out our team blog @ http://createcrochet.blogspot.com

~Relay For Life~

CreateCrochet team on Etsy http://creatcrochet.blogspot.com/ Is dong a Charity event for Relay for life. We are making Hats,headbands, etc, etc to donate and be sold at a booth at the rfl in Az. what doesnt sell will be doanted to hospitals and children & adults who could use the pick me up!

Here are just a few items I have created to donate so far...

Late Nights & Lack of Sleep

Anyone else have this problem?

Anywho, Thought I better write another blog post. It has been awhile. I havent done to much since the last post, although it is getting pretty warm outside, suppose to be in the 80's this weekend.

I have made a bunch of Rad Rope scarf's for my shop & my sister. Also been making some dish cloths & paper. Stiil have no wedding venue, but I do have more supplies for teh wedding so atleast I am getting somewhere. Tomorrow is my day off so I will be cleaning,Crocheting & hopefully enjoying the sunshine & maybe even a trip to the goodwill. My mother is going to make some crochet Rag Rugs for her house, so we need some old bedsheets.

Oh Yes! I cant forget to tell you that Are CreateCrochet team on Etsy is doing another Charity event. about a year ago we did Scarves for Operation Gratitude, this time we are doing Hats & things for Relay for Life. Our own http://www.creationsbym2.etsy.com/ is doing the walk in Arizona and has a booth there where she will sell our creations and teh proceeds to go to cancer reasearch, we may also list some hats & things to buy on etsy and Donate(Ex. you buy a purple hat and we send it to a lil girl/boy who could use it and teh money goes to reasearch.

HhhMMmmm

Trying to think of something to write about. I now have a great Sale section in my Etsy shop for those of you who love a sale! http://www.jdfootloose.etsy.com/

Got a new cupcake scarf made lastnight, just waiting to photograph it. I have also started a pink & brown scarf using two yarns at one time.

Trying to get some wedding planning done. Its hard when your fiance wants to be difficult about where you get married...MEN!!

Southern Storms!

Storm of 2010! I loved it! I want more Snow! As most of you know by now I am a yankee, originally from Maine, living in North Carolina. So it was a nice surprise when we got all this Snow! ♥ These are just some of the amazing shots I got. If you want to see more they are on my Flickr

http://www.flickr.comjdfootloose1

With all this Snow,I have been working on great Crochet items For spring. I have a few New Rad Rope scarfs...

Updates & Ramblings

Wow 2010 already, Happy New Year to Everyone. I just cant seem to get things rolling this year. I am slacking in my blog writing. Although I have been pretty productive in the Crochet dept. I have made two scarves for myself and an earwarmer for my shop etc....

I got a few Knitting loom for Christmas I am teaching myself how to make hats, I figure I'll give the first few to my family to test out and see howI do then maybe I will add them to my shop. I would really like to start working with sea Glass more this year. and maybe even get into the Resin jewelry I have been talking about for Two years. and I want to learn to Felt too! Oh yeah and my Mother bought me a New Sewing machine for Christmas! :D Oh yeah and I have to be in a wedding this year, and Plan my Own...I guess 2010 is going to be a busy year!

Ok now to promote a little. I am on the CreateCrochet team and the Nctriangle team, If you Crochet or sell crochet related items check out the crochet team its a great bunch of people and we have so much fun.

If you live in or around the Nc Triangle and are looking for a great team, this is a great team to join, It is a very eclectic team we make a little bit of everything.

I am also members of Christiecottage BNS thread and pleasurearts BNS thread in the promotions section on etsy. They are just like teams very friendly and supportive and you can promote your shops too! Oh and just to a Nod to my Home state, the EtsyMaine team also has some awesome shops!

A Christmas Miracle

I got engaged back in November, a week after my 5th anniversary. and then last sunday while watching his nieces christmas play I lost the engagement ring...And didint know it.

I know I had it at her play (A cinderella Christmas) then we cam home ate dinner and went to watch her younger sisters sing at there chuch where they were having there play. well when they said closing prayer I bowed my head and noticed my ring was gone. I thought oh great just what I need!

So we left and hunted around my vehicle and around the house. My fiances mother told them at the church to keep an eye out for it. Then the next day she called to see if i had found it. I hadnt.

So she went to the Stone center (where the play was held) and hunted around in the room where we were. never found it. So she gave them her number and said if by chance someone finds it please call me.

well no call.....Then on Wednesday on our way home from Winston-Salem Hospital (future Sil has to go once a month) We got a call from my fiances other sister. They had found the ring at the stone center!

wal-lah, yipee, awesome! Ms.Janet the kind lady that found my ring, Told me I was very lucky and should play the lottery. :P Because they had just had two confrences in that same room w/ 400 + people in each conference and no one ever saw the ring. She found it when she hit with a dust mop, while cleaning up. Isnt it a Miracle!? So now the Ring is safely back on my finger where it belongs! ♥

Happy Holidays!

Ok Followers please forgive me from my blogging absence. I have a few ramblings to let you know about. a few pictures to show from thanksgiving etc.

I will Start with my Etsy Shop http://www.jdfootloose.etsy.com/ My Record Bowls are Bogo (buy one get one free) and theres still time to ship for Christmas.

I have also added a few new Scarves, I have been in a crocheting mood here latley. I still have more to add!

I had a great Thanksgiving. My grandfather came down, on his wat to florida for the winter. It was so great to see him. He got to see his great grandson for the first time. (My brothers Son)

We have our Christmas tree put up and will hopefully be putting up Christmas lights on the house today.

~SALE~SALE~SALE~

My CreateCrochet team and I are having a great sale this weekend. Nov 13-15, You can check it out on our team blog http://createcrochet.blogspot.com/ or Search crochet10percent on Etsy.

I have already reduced the prices of my items on sale... http://www.jdfootloose.etsy.com/

~Happy Veterans Day~

Happy Veterans day to all those Men & Women who have served and are serving!

It is a rainy cold boring day here. I am trying to get a few scarf sets done, but I keep ending up on the computer :P

I cant believe Thanksgiving is two weeks from tomorrow, and Christmas is a month after that. Although I do have a head start on my Christmas shopping this year.

~Brag Day!

Ok it is time once again for me to Brag a little bit about some Etsy Friends and let in on a little bit about them and there shops.

Today I am Bragging about Kellie of http://www.artboxdesigns.etsy.com/

Here is a bit of info about me. First of all many people may not know is I met my husband Tom on the internet back in 1997. We dated long distance for 18 months and he moved to California where I lived and we married March 28 1998. We love to Cruise and just returned from a 2 week cruise in Europe. I Love fall in Las Vegas, we are planning a day trip to Zion Park next month to see all the wonderful fall colors.We have a house full of pets two cats and two dogs they are constantly entertaining us. I've got two daughters and one grandson and a granddaughter coming in Dec. Life is good to keep my life in harmony and balanced I chant daily I'm a buddhist and we believe a positive attitude creates positive results. It works!

For my creative side I've found I get bored quickly so I'm working on tons of things at once this drives my husband crazy. I love working with Hot Glass creating jewelry and Art pieces. This lead to creating other kinds of jewelry using natural stones, Swarvoski crystals and other mediums.Many years ago I worked with Leather and am going to get back to working with that as well. My first artistic love was drawing, prisma charcoal, pencil drawings and pen and ink. So I may be adding these to my eclectic site.

Work: I am a freelance graphic designer and I'm lucky enough to have a few ongoing clients that keep me quite busy.

Here are a few of her Favorites from her Etsy shop!

Here is My Favorite Item from her shop! I love Fall, and this is just Awesome!

Brag Day

Ok time to show off, I am showing off http://www.smurfette103.etsy.com/ today! She has a great little shop where she makes polymer clay items, Also she sells her mothers glass items! Smurfette is great to chat with in the forumsso friendly and fun and She is in Collegestudying to be an Anthropoligist. so buy from her and support a great cause, Education! :) This is Smurfettes favorite item from her shop!A cute hand bag necklace, It looks so real!!









This is my favorite item for today!








Also I would like to showoff one of Smurfs mothers glass Candle holders...

Attn. Pattern Makers!!

Hello, hope you all had a great weekend! I spent mine working, and getting out my fall and halloween stuff from the basement. I have a cute Pumpkin, made by my grandmother. I believe its crocheted... I would love to see if someone could make me a pattern simlar to it, I think the Pumpkin is as old as I am, its one of the only Craft items I have that my grandmother made and I would like to make more to go with it. It is on a Styrofoam ball...

It's My Birthday! :P

I am having a Birthday Bash sale FREE SHIPPING on any order of five(5) dollers or more...just put Birthday in the Notes to seller! refund through pay-pal!!! www.jdfootloose.etsy.com

My birthday is today, But We celebrated last night. I made a big pot of Chilli and my brother and his wife and son came over, my little sister and brother came too. we ate Chilli and goofed around. My boyfriend surprised me with a birthday cake he had his mom make.

I also got a great pair of boots from my Boyfriend!!

Here is agreat pic of my two brothers and Nephew, We all took turns puttin this goofy orange thing on our heads, I havent laughted that hard in a long time!

Projects...

Ok If you are on Etsy you have probobly heard me ramble on about my Berry Blast Scarf/Shawl.

Well, I am finall done with it. and I have Pictures to prove it! It started out as a Large Sweater, I pain stakingly took it apart, wound the yarn into a huge ball, then begin th journey of Crocheting

it.

I also added My Honey Mustard Scarf to my Etsy shop, It is a great piece for fall.......

Brag Day

Ok On occassion I like to Brag about other Etsians and Friends. So today I am going to Brag about Jackie, Of Christiecottage.etsy.com

She is one of the Nicest people you will ever meet. She is always willing to help out those in need, and chances are, she will be the first one to make a thread in the Etsy forums to try to get others to help too!

This is her favorite item from her shop....

This is one of my favorite items from her shop. It is a great organizational tool for those of us who bead, or use small objects.

Christiecottage.etsy.com has a great selection of items in her shop from bags, to wedding accessories, winter wear etc... Come Check it out!!

~Huge Sale~

~MIDWEEK MADNESS SALE~

My CreateCrochet team and I Jdfootloose.etsy.com are having a huge team sale! My sale is Free Shipping On all Crochet Items and Earrings! put Code CCT in note to sellers. Also check out all the great crochet artists participating for more great deals. You can get a list of shops at http://createcrochet.blogspot.com/