Maine Team Fall Challenge

The Etsy Maine Team has challenged each other to create Fall inspired items for your shopping pleasure! Follow this thread: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5802823 as the Maine Team shows off their fabulous Fall wares. Maine Team artists will blog & chat about their inspired pieces along the way, so mark this thread and join us on our artistic journey into Fall!

To commemerate the event I have created a treasury of Maine Team Fall items as seen here:

Psst...all of the challenge items are tagged with "Mainefall" so you can easily search etsy for the complete list of items.

My New Passion

I'm now addicted to making these composition books! I have so many ideas and aspirations! Last night I made a Dr. Seuss Mini Composition Notebook and another full-sized notebook with Sesame Street covers which will be for sale tomorrow.

I strive for books made from 100% recycled paper and to decorate them with recycled paper as well. Here's a look at my two new notebooks:

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Last night I tried my hand at making a covered composition notebook. I enlisted the help of my husband, who does not like to involve himself with any of my craftiness, to help me with ensuring the paper lined up correctly and how to properly use the new glue I had purchased for this project. I am quite happy with how our finished notebook turned out. Witness the results for yourself:






The composition notebook is covered in pages recycled from a book published in 1962 entitled, "The Universe, Earth, and Man" by Hammond & Company. The back cover has a paragraph which reads,

"Man is fortunate indeed. The fact that he is physically feeble, an inhabitant of a thin crust of a minor planet of an inconsequential star in just one of the millions of galaxies in the universe, does not detract from this. He has been created with the ability to understand what he is and where he is in relation to the world in which he lives.
Man does not simply exist. He has the power to appreciate the great adventure of existence. He does not simply survive by rote or instict. He asks the why and how of things, looks into and under and behind them to find answers, and adapts his actions in accordance with them.
Man is not an amoeba floating aimlessly in the boundless sea of the universe. He is a matter which has combined into life-stuff to produce a being which has an awareness of this universe and an ever-increasing capacity to shape it to his needs."

Now that's deep. I'm feeling like this would be a great notebook for science class, or for anyone who tends to perform scientific studies or experiments, a star gazer, Jack Horkheimer, or an evil genious perhaps? I will be listing the item for sale tomorrow at Giggling Gnome.

Item of the Day

Raindrop Earrings hung from Sterling Silver earwires are the item of the day as they were chosen by a buyer to be in her treasury, and due to the fact that it's currently raining here.

Here's the Treasury the earrings were in, entitled 'Can't Stop The Rain Drop Blues':

I made a Treasury today as well, and here it is:

I'm Back, Baby!

I took the summer off to enjoy it fully while it lasted. Maine summers are so short. Now, I'm slowly getting back into the Etsy shops! Today I said Hello to all my friends on the Maine Team I relisted some expired items on Roxy Jewelry And I made a nice sale on Giggling Gnome! What a fantastic way to start back into Etsy!

As if that weren't great enough, I was also contacted by Divella Delights as she featured me on her blog today: http://dianneculbertson.blogspot.com/

Hooray!