It's Giveaway Day! (Well, Giveaway Week!)

It's Giveaway Day, complete with a linkup over at the Sew, Mama, Sew blog, where you can enter to win hundreds of handmade items, just by visiting blogs! Superfun!
Today, I offer you three hand knit organic cotton baby hats that I sell in my etsy shop: Feathermar.

 You can enter to win three organic cotton, hand-knit baby hats in colors of your choice! All you have to do is leave a comment on this blog with your email address or another way to contact you!
These hats fit most newborn-3month olds. They are available in cream, blue, light blue, dusty pink, hot pink, shell pink, white, cream, tan, dark brown, Caribbean blue, pumpkin orange, aqua, marigold yellow, lemon yellow, grass green, green variegated, pine green, plum and aqua variegated (actually very pretty), and I can make stripes on many of these colors. They are super cute and make a wonderful present for babies and mamas and daddies alike! Organic cotton is grown without pesticides, which is important because cotton holds the pesticides long after manufacturing and washing, and then you are putting all those pesticides next to the baby's head!
I also resell vintage home items, like mid-century planters and owl banks (doesn't everyone do that?). I'd be happy if you visited my etsy shop Feathermar, but it isn't a requirement of this giveaway!
Have a great GIVEAWAY DAY, and go back to Sew Mama Sew and enter to win more more MORE! YAY!
Giveaway is open until 5/10 at midnight. I will email the winners the following day for their address! This is open to everyone, regardless of what continent you live on.

Just a Couple

I only went to garage sales in the afternoon on Saturday. Just a little bit...as I'm supposed to be prepping for my own and figuring out how to sell what I have. It's addicting though...thinking the most amazeballs things could be out there for me to find...

 This beautiful UPco planter

 A glass making book

This beautiful ballet dancer in an amazing frame. It's old, maybe forties, and I have no idea who the painter is. I want to keep it for myself, but it is so far from anything I own already. I mean, completely different. Maybe I'll have to paint a room around it.

And this wasn't from this weekend, but this is a selection of vintage wallpaper I found in someone's basement. I think it is awesome.

I feel like I always see posts where people got a jar of beads or buttons or something and they had something special in them and I NEVER see anything like that.
Except.
Except for YESTERDAY! I got a JAR OF WONDERS! A big giant jar of junk jewelry!

Magnificent!

Some Weiss earrings (singles, of course), some crazy bangles...they're all a little mushed or squished or have parts missing. But, I'm pretty sure I can make something amazing with some of them, and find some use for others. The best feeling was breaking it open when I got home and looking through it. BEST BEST BEST!

Did a lot of cleaning

and no thrifting. But I thriftily found some things I had forgotten about:

70s family

Very heavy nursery frame with field mice and balloons.

You me and ours bar set.

And, because the Easter bunny brought me some new craft punches (bless you, Martha Stewart), I made some nursery art for friends of ours who are having a baby. They have a gender-neutral woodsy themed nursery, and I liked the idea of making a very colorful tree.

I spent a lot of time cleaning and trying to get things sorted for the Mother of All One Day Yard Sales...hopefully coming this May to a yard near you...my yard...

awesome.

 

Have you heard of Recite? This site will turn any quote into an awesomely designed poster for you. FREE ART! YAHOO! I like it.

Two weeks at a time

This week and last, on Fridays, I have gone to Goodwill. This week, I took my sister, and we bought some clothes (I just got a shirt), and I also got this butterfly:

It's a little trinket dish, made in Japan, just the sort of thing I love to buy and sell! Last week, also at Goodwill, I had picked up a couple of Alice + Olivia dresses, which, if you don't know the label, they are super duper expensive. When I brought them home, I tried on the bubble party dress, and I thought it would look good, but it didn't, so I'm selling it on Ebay. I also found a Fiorello clutch, that had the tags still on it, but I gave it to my sister to use at a wedding, so I took the tags off and I'm selling it used on Ebay:

I also picked up these Brandani salt and pepper shakers that I thought were older, but upon further inspection, I realized they were fairly new. I may sell them on Ebay, they've never been used.

 

I also picked up this Baas vase, which I thought was pretty:

And I got this owl napkin holder, which I've had and sold a resin version of before:

 

This week, I've set a goal to list one thing per day, totalling 7 for the week. I'm behind in listing, I'm behind in cleaning, I'm behind in laundry...I'm ahead in unicorn sightings, and I heard a lot of dirty jokes this week, so that's something...

 

Stopping by the Thriftasaurus...



Happiest when making things...

I've been using picmonkey to create printables for the library. I made this little note for my bear, and I think it is adorable. It's in a very small format here...but I have it in a larger one if you'd like to print it out yourself...
Things at work are the pits right now. I try to remember the great parts of my job instead of dwelling on things I can't change. One of the great things is that I get to make stuff all the time. That's awesome. Even if sometimes it's just flyers.

Treasuries!

I will admit, I have not been working as hard at etsy stuff. I haven't been hustling, which is what you have to do. Maybe I've lost my mojo, or my love for it. I'm not sure...

I've been cleaning out the basement, and making bins for a one dollar, two dollar and three dollar table for my May yard sale. I think we're getting a little overwhelmed with things, and, if I'm not selling, then I can't be buying.

So for the next few weeks, until my May garage sale, I'll be hustling on Etsy and Ebay - to see if I can love it again, or I should try to get rid of as much as possible that I don't find to be REALLY beautiful or useful. I love planters, and tins, and always will find uses for them - it's just that I know other people will be so happy with them too!

I didn't buy anything this weekend, but I did buy things AFTER I posted last weekend.

This is a VERY dirty vase I found at the Only-Open-Sunday-store:

And this is after I cleaned it:

It does have some mottling, but I think it is big and Beautiful! It's a USA vase, and I think it's awesome.

 

I also got this footed planter - Kidney shaped Brush - for sale.

I also bought another planter (surprise) and a piece of California pottery for a buck! sweet!
In other news, my dogs:

fin.