Oh My Heavens

Everyone is having fun give aways on their blogs!! I just found a lovely new blog Sunshine & Carosels! & it just so happens she is hosting a BEAUTIFUL give away check it out friends; here

And don't forget to enter my fall give away, dears!

I'll be back later with another "real" post! xoxo

Becky's Best

The wonderful and massively talented Becky, from Strumpets Crumpets Arts & Crafts is having a FALL GIVEAWAY! There will be two winners! One winner will LUCKILY receive a hand crocheted blanket by Becks herself, and the second winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to her etsy shop!! Can we say AMAZING! I am crossing my fingers for this one!

we interrupt your program....

to bring you a very special announcement!

from the makers of heatherlymade & nataliexmarie:

WE'RE HAVING A GIVE-A-WAY!!

that's right friends! After our craft show bust 

we just had to get our stuff out there & into the hands of some eager cutesy-pie's!

If you guys don't know, nataliexmarie is my bestie!! 

but she also makes some really fantastic jewelry! 

From her love of owls, she has created a whole line

of loving owl ear rings, and let me tell ya, they're a HOOT! 

Not only does she used her beloved owls

as inspiration, but nature influences 

are also found in her crafty goodness.

Using leaves, flowers & birds nataliexmarie's ear rings

are the perfect match for any and all occasions.

Just the other day I was wearing

a very coveted pair of owl ear rings.

The ear rings featured a little owl 

perched on a branch.

He was adorned with black and green beads.

He dangled ever so perfectly & several 

envious looks were thrown my way!!!

As for heatherlymade... well, 

it's just a little something 

I refused to give up.

And by that I mean that I'm a self-taught crocheter. 

Yep, I grabbed up a book at wal*mart 

(:| closest thing to a craft store within 60 miles..bummer.)

& began the journey that took nearly 3 months to even figure out what a double crochet stitch was. (Seriously, it was hideous.)

I tried to give it up. A lot.

Crochet was a mystery to which I couldn't

help but solve & I honestly couldn't rest until I figured it out.

But, now I love crocheting. I don't know if it's because

of all the pretty yarn colors,

or the fact that crochet has purpose,

but I like the way crocheting makes me feel.

I feel like I'm actually making 

something useful. Whether it's dish cloths, coasters or scarves

I know that what I'm making will be used

& that's really important to me.

Besides, it is really fun to have handmade things &

with crochet you can make so much!!!

ok, enough rambling!!!

on with the GIVEAWAY

so... here's what we got!

from nataliexmarie:

one pair of teal & yellow button earrings; 

one pair of  teal & yellow lovey owl earrings; 

from heatherlymade:

a set of 4 cotton crochet coasters in dusty teal & chocolate 

a barista cozy in mustardy yellow!!

don't you want to be ever so stylish in these cute little guys?!

I am already a huge fan of buttons!! I actually have 2 pairs of these little gems & I wear them often! Button earrings are so great, especially when I don't feel like wearing a heavy pair of earrains all day. They are cute & different & just make me all giddy inside!!

so... here's what you gotta do!

(each task counts as one entry & leave a comment for EACH otherwise it won't be counted!

please include your name && e-mail address!!)

-follow nataliexmarie & heatherxdawn on twitter

-tweet about this give away 

-comment on what your favorite item in the give away is & WHY.

-follow natalie & I on blogspot 

(for extra points encourage natalie to become a frequent blogger ;) srsly. 2 extra points.)

-blog about this give away

-visit our etsy shops & tell us what you like or would like to see :

www.nataliexmaire.etsy.com

www.heatherlymade.etsy.com

GIVE-A-WAY CLOSES ON OCTOBER 15, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. EST.

The winner will be chosen via random.org & posted.

Also, the winner will receive an e-mail from me and have 48 hours to respond!

There are 7 other contestants who will be added at the close of the give-a-way. These contestants are the only people who registered at our table at the craft show this past week. Our small response is the reason we've extended the give-a-way to our internet pals.

:)

so... SIGN ON UP!!!! 

&goodluck to EVERYONE!! :))))

EDITED SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 1:54 a.m.

(see red text for edited portions of this post. sorry for the scatter brain..)

crafty business

Hello, lovelies! I made it to and from my weekend trip safely! In the midst of all the rain & flooding here in the atl., I'm surprised it wasn't worse when I came through on Saturday. Anyways, I have tons to tell you about and a few pictures to show you and even a SURPRISE!! Yes, a surprise & trust me you will want to tell all your friends! ;)our set up on day one @ the emporium. no one wanted to take a peek at what we had going on.. so we moved things around a bit at the end of the day. 

I finally got around to typing some sort of bio/explanation for heatherlymade. It is very strange how I HAVE to be away from home to have some sort of creative edge to come up with witty little sayings.. but I finally birthed some cute little words. I'll probably change my about me info to this.. so you will see it soon. (if you want a quick peek, just zoom in on that thang! ;)

this is a little quickie i hooked up the day before the show. I used some lion brand thick-n-quick I've had since last Christmas & I have to say that this scarf is so soft and squishy that I really hoped it didn't sell. And well, it didn't. :D (but thats really another story & I'll talk about it a little later...)
we had a sign up sheet for a GIVEAWAY! and only a few people signed up! SO.... GUESS WHAT!?!? We're going to EXTEND our little give away to our ONLINE friends.. seeing as how we had to use some "fake" names to get out list going (no-one wanted to be the first to sign up.. you know how people are sometimes. ;)) SO.. go to the BOTTOM of this post for details!!!!!!
Natalie displayed her crafty business cards in this cute tea cup!
some crafy business of natalie's. can i just say that if you  like owls, leaves or birds, you will LOVE her earrings. very soon she will post some more things to her etsy & you guys should really show her some love. her debut wasn't as amazing as she had hoped for & her earrings are way to cute & amazing to go unnoticed and whatnot. check out her etsy- www.nataliexmarie.etsy.com

my little leafy necklaces were a BUST. can YOU BELIEVE THAT!? I so thought they would be the hit of the day, but it seems that they were not. What did sell was my little happy dishcloths!!! Can you believe that?! I had a customer come by and she touched and felt and picked them up & asked me to hold them for her. She purchased all of my dishcloths (plus the 3 more I made the first night to put out for the next day), a set of flowered coasters, my little hippie head band, the three chains headband & some flower appliques. I was so happy that she was there at the show. she sent over her friend who also bought some flower appliques. she was a fellow crocheter so i had to share some tiny secrets with her about where to find some awesome patterns. so. I had two customers. Natalie had one customer besides me & her friend Mandy. Her customer was a little girl probably about 12 or 13. Her and a little friend came up and were so grown-up about picking out some earrings. They loved all of natalie's pairs and had a very grown up discussion on how to purchase a pair. It was funny to listen to.

Well, all around it was an adventure and a lesson to learn about the art of selling things. First lesson learned, you have to sell in a market where your things are what people want. Where we were was the wrong market place for our things. Second, your display is WHO you are as a seller and WHAT you want someone to see you as... so make a lasting impression. Third, sitting back and watching reactions is the best way to find out what your work is like. I really felt like I was an okay crocheter... after this weekend I feel like I am really great at it. I received so many compliments on how nice my work was & how beautiful things were. I was very pleased with that. And the last bit of information I learned was this, craft shows are BORING to be at all day... at least we had a few good things to occupy our time with, like the man beside us who was selling his homemade bidet...yea, little toilet squirter... (and let me tell ya he sold a BUNCH of them.. a little creepy) and the man across from us who was just to LARGE to understand what was going on exactly and the AWFUL music they played (it was like being in a crappy elevator with crappy piano music all day.

Needless to say, I had fun, I sold somethings and I learned somethings. Keep checking my etsy from time to time... I will slowly be adding some new products left over from the sale. I have tons of things I made and didn't add!!

ok, what you're all waiting for- A GIVE-A-WAY:

Natalie and I put together a little give way with some nice little things from her and some nice little things from me. SO... I will be taking some pictures & posting some cute words here in the next few days & you'll have to tell everyone & after a few days we will announce the winner after a random drawing. so, stay tuned for that!!!!

thank you all for reading my insanely long post.. im off to bed. i hope i can fall asleep with this pounding headache i have!

<3heather

beautiful cloth diapers

I've been contemplating using cloth diapers for awhile now. Even when I first found out I was preggo I wanted to use them, but everyone kinda talked me out of it. Honestly, they probably won't do well in this household because I'm a lazy bug & I'd forget to put them in the wash. Ha, reguardless, I still want to try them out & formulate my own opinion.

That my dear friends is why I am entering this give away on tout-est-des-roses.

Sara Sophia has reviewed EsBaby, a hand made diapering company. They have some really great & cute cloth diapers & even some re-useable washcloths (not like the kind you're thinking.. like we bathe with all hard and what not. too hard for doodles tush!)

Check out her site http://www.esbaby.net/shop/ 

happiness came in the mail

I told the Fed Ex man to come on in today & this is what he brought:
My very own HOTSLING! Courtesy of SaraSophia's blog & give-a-way! I have to say I sqwee'd like a little girl! So far we've used it twice today & I can't wait to go out and about to use it for real. I think it will be a while before I breast feed in it... it's kinda confusing to me. But Doodle is already too big for the cradle position. That little bug is growing so fast and faster. She makes me smile though. She's just so beautiful. :)

Doodle became okay with the sling after a few butt rubs and head scratches. At first she screamed & screamed some more. We had a little bit of a hard time getting her in there. I joked with Robin saying Hotslings should make you take a class before you can buy one of these because they're so tricky... but I need to practice & then I'll get better at it!