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"

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 ;))

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

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!

New Stuff!

I recently purchased some really pretty Murano glass lampwork beads, and I've started making some one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces with them. Here are the ones I've listed today...

Blue & Green Lampwork Glass Pendant

Silver Foil in Ice Cube Drop Earrings

Green Lampwork & Crystal Glass Earrings

You can click on the pictures to go to their listings, or find them and more one-of-a-kind handcrafted jewelry in my shop at:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/capecodjewel

Thanks for looking! :)
Linda :)

Musings of Snowflakes

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…” 
~ Francis Bacon, Sr

I just finished reading a lovely posting by a fellow EtsyTwitter Team member Foxy G.
It has some thoughtful quotes along with photos and links to some awesome ETTeam handmade
items inspired by the beautiful and unique snowflake.

You can read the whole post here.

I found a few more ETT snowflake offerings I'd like to share...

Dusty Snow Resin Earrings by beadworkbyamanda

Pitch Black Winter Ring by seedtobead

Snowflake Cowl by knittingguru

WINTER WHITE with Mini Colored Snowflakes Paper Origami Ornament by SalonDArte

And finally, here's one of my own handmade pendants made using a photographic image of a real snowflake,
printed on photo paper, encased in resin and embellished with glitter and then hung from a handcrafted ribbon necklace.

click the pic to go to listing

Weird and Wonderful

While doing a little window shopping through the land of Etsy, I came across some items that I would classify as "weird". I thought, why not do a weekly blog posting featuring a couple of weird things, balanced by a couple of "wonderful" finds. I hope you enjoy my picks. :)

First, here's something I found particularly weird. This print of a photograph shows a female adorned with a real octopus! I can only imagine how that felt, and my thought is, it didn't feel good. I wonder if they had to photo-chop the goose bumps off of her. Euwwwwwww!

Here's something wonderful... I love this original work of art, and here, it is applied to a framed tile. (you can also  purchase a full-sized print) I find this piece both haunting and beautiful.

 Now, this piece is definitely weird, but also cute as heck. ;) I'll let it speak (or smell) for itself...

 

Finally, this piece is a little odd, but it is oh so wonderful! I want to jump into this piece and frolic along with the wonderful creatures within. It's so fun. :)

 

I hope you've enjoyed my first W&W post. Please visit the artists (the pictures are linked) and come back next week for some new choices. :)