Crafty Girly

Help Miss Violet Escape!

Without divulging any personal details, Miss Violet, aka Elli, of the famous Lime and Violet podcast, Happy Housewife Sundries, Oak River Township, and many more lovely yarny things really needs to escape her current living situation, and needs legal help to evacuate from her toxic marriage. As a way to thank her for being a wonderfully creative, inspiring, and fantastically interesting person, several of us have decided to donate some or all of our profits to her cause. This list will probably grow as the days progress, and I will try to keep it current with how long everyone is in for! Sand and Silk Designs – all profits until 9/30 at sandandsilk.artfire.com FiddleKnits – 100% of the $$ from any pattern purchased made 9/23/09 at my Rav Shop (FiddleKnits1984) or website (www.FiddleKnits.com) Liberty Yarns – 100% of profits until Friday 9/25 at www.libertysyarn.com Fuzzy Peach – www.thefuzzypeach.etsy.com This sock pattern These two patterns Spinners’ World – 1/2 of all sales made 9/23/09 And of course, there are a few excellent fragrances available at Oak River Township. I have Cowgirl and September Princess and they’re both wonderful! Additionally, for every $5 donated here will get you one raffle ticket for a skein of the highly coveted Wollmeise! Please, if you can give a little, or a lot, she could really use the help. Thank you all! (Originally posted at Sand and Silk Designs) UPDATE: Lawrence from Lawrenceknits.blogspot.com is having a Malabrigo raffle for $3!!! Also, there's a ChipIn Campaign.

Wollmeise for $5

Help out a knitter and enter the raffle Miss Violet is having. All you need to do is donate $5 and you can win 2 skeins of Wollmeise!

Shop of the Week: Joslin Jewels

Sheridan Joslin, of JoslinJewels.etsy.com, creates, in her words, “fine wire wrapped and gemstone jewelry”. But if you take one look at her shop you can see that it involves so much more than that. Just saying “fine wire wrapped and gemstone jewelry” about her shop is like saying the sculpture David was just sculpted out of plain old marble and is no big deal! Her work is intricate. Her work is simple. Her work is the kind of art that the artist makes the infinitely complex look like it took no effort at all to make and that, my friend, is the hallmark of a great artist.

“Whether simple or intricate, I meticulously craft each piece of jewelry I create. I use only fine metals and carefully selected gemstones. Each piece is original and most are one of a kind.”

The earrings pictured above have wonderful lines. I like how the shape of the ear wire comes down and makes the jewels look as if they are in a bowl. The wire wrapping appears flawless. These earrings would go with almost any outfit from daily casual to dressy business to elegant evening wear.

“I love gemstones as much as I love a good puzzle. Making intricate wire jewelry is like a challenging puzzle. It involves shaping and forging straight wire into intricate designs with no soldering -- only wrapped connections. “It's an art that dates back thousands of years, and many of the techniques used today are the same as those used in ancient times. With only a few simple tools and careful manipulation, a skilled jewelry artist can sculpt wire into beautiful works of wearable art.”

And that is exactly what Sheridan does with her work. Check out her shop and be amazed!

Follow her on Twitter @joslinjewels Blog: joslinjewels.blogspot.com Become her Fan on Facebook: facebook.com/JoslinJewels Second Etsy Shop: BijouxRomantique.etsy.com Second Facebook Fan Page: facebook.com/BijouxRomantique

Special Deal until 9/27/09: Buy one or more items over $25.00 and choose one item worth up to $25.00 for FREE! Simply enter "etsytwitter" and the name of the item you would like to receive for free in the Notes to Seller box during Etsy.com checkout.

Etsy Treasury

Check out the Treasury I'm in!  My yarn is the one on the top left, Summer Leaves, and I think that eiriene put in a lot of great looking yarn with this treasury.  Check out all these great yarns! I'm looking also to update the shop this weekend with two new handspun yarns that I worked on last weekend, and hopefully more that I've been working on lately.  We'll see how much time I have to get it all spun up and listed.  Watch the Etsy site or sign up for my newsletter to get the latest updates in your mailbox. ---------------- Now playing: Pati Yang - Soul For Me via FoxyTunes