Honey from the Bee Artisan Jewelry inspired by Nature and Travel: Dream a Little Dream with Me

What a super piece of jewelry, and the story behind it is fascinating...

Honey from the Bee Artisan Jewelry inspired by Nature and Travel: Dream a Little Dream with Me: "Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."   Marsha Norman, American Playright vintage buttons This...

by Earth Expressions: Handmade cluster earrings video tutorial

Check out this awesome video tutorial for making cluster earrings... it's beautiful, as well as a great DIY project!

by Earth Expressions: Handmade cluster earrings video tutorial: I just finished my very first video tutorial and I wanted to share it with you all :) This tutotial is based on my " Trio " earrings. I mad...

Flower Gardens abound...

Summer gardens are in bloom... enjoy these colorful flowery handmade offerings, designed and crafted by Etsy's Unique Women in Business Team.

To see these items with links to their listings, visit the Etsy Treasury titled,

"UWIBteam Flower Gardens"

Red White & Blue!

lol... I was gonna skip the UWIB blog hop this month, but I see I have been included on the list on the group blog...
Unique Women In Business

So, here goes...

Now,  head on over to see what the other UWIB gals have posted for this coming 4th of July/ Red White & Blue/ All American Celebration!

Rita Wetzel www.HandmadeBits4u.blogspot.com
Judy Woodley - www.WellspringCreations.blogspot.com
ME! Linda Stranger - www.capecodjewel.blogspot.com
Trudy Miller - www.MommaGoddessTreasures.blogspot.com
Wendy Kelly - www.blog.vintageday.com
Ann Rinkenberger - www.harvestmoonbyhand.blogspot.com
Miriam Nelken - www.goldcrestbags.blogspot.com
Robin Koehler - www.nestlingsbyrobin.blogspot.com
Cory Trusty - www.store.aquarianbath.com/index.php/blog
AudreyFetterhoff - www.AudreyGardenLady.blogspot.com
Janet Bocciardi - www.thehoneyfromthebee.blogspot.com
UWIB- www.uniquewomeninbusiness.blogspot.com
Karen Terry http://www./jmjcreations.blogspot.com

Nancy's Wild Wire Jewelry: "MJ" Earring Wires-Free Tutorial-New

As easy as one, two three...

Nancy's Wild Wire Jewelry: "MJ" Earring Wires-Free Tutorial-New: "The secret to this simple easy wear earring wire is the shape. Square across the top is comfortable, and they stay in! I have lost one ea..."

Celebrating Womenhood...

This is supposed to be a post about "celebrating womanhood"... from a person of the female persuasion who knows for a fact that we are the better sex, and "mankind" would never survive long without us... lol. So, every day is, "Celebrate Women Day" (in my silly mind, anyway), and what better way to celebrate than by joining in the monthly UWIB Blog Hop! Put back on those Easter Bunny feet, and hop  through this months participant's offerings... you might find something pretty, or useful or just gosh-darn-gotta-have!


Rita Wetzel                http://RitasCreativeNest.com
Audrey Fetterhoff     http://AudreyGardenLady.blogspot.com
Linda Stranger          http://capecodjewel.blogspot.com
Judy Woodley            http://WellspringCreations.blogspot.com
Janet Bocciardi         http://www.honeyfromthebee.com
Ann Rinkenberger   http://harvestmoonbyhand.blogspot.com
Celeste Bocchicchio-Chaudhri   http://ElephunksTrunk.blogspot.com
Wendy Kelly               http://blog.vintageday.com
Cory Trusty                 http://aquarianbath.blogspot.com
Karen Terry                http://jmjcreations.blogspot.com

I celebrate my womanhood every day, by doing those things I'm best at... nurturing my family, cooking like a demon and making pretty, feminine jewelry.

Do you celebrate? How do you celebrate? Do you even care? (yeah, that one is for the guys ;))

Somebody messed up...

Look what I found...

Art Bead Give Away

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Administrator

This is up for grabs again, the winner never claimed it or responded to my email. If you subscribe to the RSS feed you may think that you will be notified that way. Because I post the winner in the same post you will not be alerted to the winner when I post it. “Jes’say’in.”

Art Bead Give Away

This give away is worth over $400. All polymer clay art beads except for the paper resin flowers.

Click the pic or the link to see the whole post, and comment on Jeannie's blog for a chance to win this awesome batch of beads! 

Cape Cod in Springtime...

Here's some springtime goodness... a treasury of made on Cape Cod goodies, put together by "Where on Earth Tees".



Enjoy the day!
Linda :)

Spring... sigh...

"Spring" is the theme for the UWIB blog hop this month, but I'm having a tough time coming up with something to blog about.

It's hard to think about Spring when the morning shows frost on the grass and temps in the 30's... but the birdies are still singing up a storm, and the sun rises bright in a blue, blue sky. I know it's getting here... just in tiny steps.

These are NOT the birds who sing, but they're all over the place around here. ;)

Yes, it snowed the other day... snow does not obey the stop sign!

This is actually a hard time of the year for me... I'm prone to depression in the spring. I feel tired all the time, and I'm cold, and definitely lazy, so even though I have plenty of things I should be doing, or making, I'm eating and sleeping too much... is that what spring fever is?

I know it's not much, but I DID at least change my blog background to look more "springy". ;)

So, I know this is kind of rambling/blathering, but my fellow UWIB gals are a great bunch, and I'm gonna go and visit their blogs and see what they've come up with. :)

Have a look, they're all listed right here.

Rita Wetzel                http://RitasCreativeNest.com

Jenn Nolda                http://brynnsbeautifulbows.blogspot.com

Ann Rinkenberger http://harvestmoonbyhand.blogspot.com

Robin Koehler          http://www.nestlingsbyrobin.blogspot.com

Linda Reynolds        http://bellalindadesigns.net

Audrey Fetterhoff      http://AudreyGardenLady.blogspot.com

Birgitte Hendricks     http://SewDanish.blogspot.com

Wendy Kelly              http://blog.vintageday.com

Janet Bocciardi         http://www.honeyfromthebee.com

Linda Stranger          http://capecodjewel.blogspot.com

Karen Terry/McDuffie http://jmjcreations.blogspot.com

Judy Woodley           http://wellspringcreations.blogspot.com

Trudy Miller                http://mommagoddesstreasures.blogspot.com/

Cory Trusty                http://aquarianbath.blogspot.com

Nancy Pace               http://nancyswildwirejewelry.blogspot.com

Lois Stifel                   http://foxygknits.com

Jenn Brockman         http://alexshares.com

Also, here are the links to our blog and our ETSY Team

UWIB ETSY Team - http://www.etsy.com/teams/6263/unique-women-in-business-uwib

UWIB Blog - http://uniquewomeninbusiness.blogspot.com/  

Thanks for stoping by, and I'll come up with something better next month. ;)

Local Cape Cod Handmade Talent!

"Cape Cod Here I Come!" is the apt title of this gorgeous treasury...

This beautiful treasury was put together by Judith S. from Market 1

http://www.etsy.com/people/Market1

It's made up of members of the Team Cape Cod (tcape) on Etsy. We are a new team of Etsy sellers who call Cape Cod home, whether full time residents, visitors or one time residents.

Can't you just smell the ocean and feel those cool ocean breezes?

Take a moment to click to the treasury and leave some comments, and maybe purchase some local handmade goodies from these talented Cape Cod artisans. :)

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d8c912e86f68eef6fc60671/cape-cod-here-i-come

See who else has joined the team...
http://www.etsy.com/teams/8378/team-cape-cod

Thanks for reading!
Buy handmade!

Linda :)
http://capecodjewel.etsy.com
http://craftymakings.etsy.com
http://capecodjewel.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/capecodjewel
http://twitter.com/capecodjewel

Do you use copper in your designs?

The Rings & Things Design Challenge!
Rings & Things is running a design challenge!
They have some awesome new copper beads, and they'll be mailing out packages to 15 lucky folks who want to be a part of the design challenge.
I love copper, and I've entered the drawing...
fingers crossed! :)

Doin' up Something Green with the UWIB Blog Hop!

A bunch of the ladies over at UWIB - Unique Women in Business have put together their first monthly blog hop, and the theme for this month is "Something Green"... click through the list for some great posts!

Ann R. http://www.harvestmoonbyhand.blogspot.com/

Audrey F. http://www.audreygardenlady.blogspot.com/

Birgitte H. http://www.sewdanish.blogspot.com/

Cory T. http://www.aquarianbath.blogspot.com/ 

Jenn B. http://www.alexshares.com/

Karen Terry-McDuffie http://www.jmjcreations.blogspot.com/

Maria http://www.artbymsr.blogspot.com/ 

Nancy P. http://www.nancyswildwirejewelry.blogspot.com/ 

Rita W. http://www.ritascreativenest.com/ 

Robin K. http://www.nestlingsbyrobin.blogspot.com/ 

Robin P. http://www.pocketfullofcolors.blogspot.com/ 

Trudy M. http://www.mommagoddesstreasures.blogspot.com/ 

Wendy K. http://blog.vintageday.com/ 

Cory T. http://www.delicateadornments.blogspot.com/  

Judy Woodley - http://www.wellspringcreations.blogspot.com/
 

Linda Reynolds – http://www.bellalindadesigns.net/


and (unofficially) me...

Linda Stranger - http://www.capecodjewel.blogspot.com

Though I'm not officially a part of this month's hop (I didn't want to commit, and then find I didn't have the time to do the work), I'm happy to promote my fellow UWIB gals. :) So have a look at their blogs, and their "green" goodies.

While I'm at it, here are a couple of  greenies from my Etsy shop...

These adorable earrings feature re-purposed puzzle pieces

Not only is the color green part of these whimsical earrings, they ARE "green" by saving pieces from an incomplete puzzle that was headed for the trash...and they're so cute!

re-cycled vintage beads rings

Once again, "green" re-cycled beads, reclaimed from some broken vintage jewelry and refashioned into wire wrapped rings... more cuteness! ;)

Have a great day!