The One Woman Extravaganza - The Fab Miss B

Well there you go! The featured Etsyblogger of the month is none other than the The Fab Miss B! She is all about the Vintage FLARE! Check out a few of her unique items!

Nov 20th Etsyblogger Blog Carnival

Most countries around the world have a day set aside to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. Here in the US, it's Thanksgiving. What do you celebrate wherever you live and how do you celebrate?

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays! The entire family gets together either at my place or my brothers and we all cook, play cards and just laugh about old times! My sister is stationed in Germany and one of my brother's is in Maryland so it is definitely a treat when all of us can come together! Now we all have kids and I am the grandma so our kids enjoy laughing at all of our old stories too!

Happy Holidays!

MadebyMelissa Oct Featured Etsyblogger

Congrats to this month's Featured EtsyBlogger MadeByMelissa! I hear she has been a supporter of the EtsyBlogger team since it started! What a great supporter! Check out a few of her hand crafted Jewelry pieces!

The Eyes are the mirror of the soul

I love the eyes! They are generally the first thing (along with the smile) that draws me to a person. They say the eyes are the mirror of the soul. Look at these eyes and tell me what these eyes say to you! Here are my thoughts:

#1 - Their eyes look a little tired but seem focused and persistent
#2 - hmm..I see a little worry and anxiety but strength.
#3 - Deep, passionate, soft yet intense

Hotdiggity Dog Carnival

July is National Hot Dog month! write about anything related to hot dogs.

Never heard of such a thing but hey fun to post images about! Nothing like hotdog visuals! LOL!

Featured Etsyblogger MiesMama

MiesMama - An Etsyblogger team mate that is all about felted goodness! Check out her featured items below, blog and flickr photos!

Church Bulletin BLOOPERS

They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS ) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:

1. The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
2. The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
3. Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
4. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smileat someone who is hard to love. Say "Hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.
5. Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
6. Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
7. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
8. Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need allthe help they can get.
9. Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 inthe church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
10. A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
11. At the evening service tonight, the e sermon topic will be "WhatIs Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
12. Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
13. Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
14. Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
    
15. The church will host an evening of fine dining, superentertainment and gracious hostility.
16. Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
17. The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
18. This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
19. Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. is done.
20. The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday
21. Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Pleaseuse the back door.
22. The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
23. Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First PresbyterianChurch. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
24. The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours."

Summer Etsybloggers Blog Carnival

Tell us your top five favorite things about summer! (And tell us why, of course!)

My top five favorite things about summer are:

1. Every other year 4 of us divas go on vacation together. This year we are going to Montego Bay. A couple of years ago we went to Aruba! I LOVED it!

2. Spending time with my grand daughter! She is getting so big!

3. Going to the Zoo! I love nature and animals! It makes me feel close to God!



4. Thunderstorms!

5. No school traffic! YIPPEE! HOORAY!

What is YOUR Etsy Shop value?

Want to get a feel for the value of what your Etsy shop is selling? The total value of your shop? number of items for sale? average, median and most common value of items listed and a little more? Then go to EtsyHacks! Yeah I know the site name is a little scary but boy is it a useful tool!

Here are my results Quite Useful!!

Featured Etsyblogger - Lazytcrochet

LazyTCrochet is one of the coolest and most hip Etsy Artist around!I love her work! Funky and Fun! Take a look!

How Fights Get Started

One year I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery lot as a Christmas gift.

The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied,

"Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"

And that's how the fight started.

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My wife walked into the den & asked "What's on the TV?"

I replied "Dust"
And that's how the fight started.

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My wife was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.

She was not happy with what she saw and said, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.
I really need you to pay me a compliment.

I replied, 'Your eyesight's very near perfect.'
And that's how the fight started.

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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.

She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 200 in about 3 seconds.

I bought her a scale.

And that's how the fight started.

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I asked my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?'

It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.

'Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!' she said..

So I suggested, 'How about the kitchen?'
And that's how the fight started.

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My wife and I are watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed.

I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to make love?'

'No,' she answered.

I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'

She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying 'Yes.'

So I said, 'Then I'd like to phone a friend.'
And that's how the fight started.

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I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95.

Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95.

I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream.

And that's how the fight started.

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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.

'I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.'

He said, 'Aren't you worried about the mad cow?'

'Nah, she can order for herself.'

AND THAT'S HOW FIGHTS GET STARTED!!

Free Beads! OH MY GOODNESS!

Thanks RoseworksJewelry for telling me about Parrots contest! Look at the great beads she is giving away! What is more is there are MORE I just picked a couple of pics! The contest ends tomorrow so enter quick!

Wordless Wednesday

Fabulous Blog award

Aww my BFF Tecia gave me this "Your Blog is Fabulous" award! I am so tickled by the fact that she has become an expert blogger! LOL!

Anyway, Lets get to the rules of the Award.

list 5 of your LEAST favorite things. Yes that is a switch! After you do go pick 3 people to share this lovely award with!

5 of my LEAST FAVORITE THINGS:

1. Rude People
2. No special someone to share the rest of my life with
3. that my BFF lives in Florida
4. being overweight
5. that I feel tired all the time

I am passing this award on to the below bloggers!

1. SavonShoppe - A newbie Etsyblogger team mate
2. Miesmama - Just a cool lady and a fellow etsyblogger team mate
3. Memoriesforlife - One of my favorite Etsyblogger chics
   

Etsybogger Team Treasury

Thanks Sassalynne for doing this lovely Treasury and a special thanks for featuring Unique Commodities PRICE BUSTER earrings!

3 in 1 Interchangeable necklace YOU CHOOSE TWO additional pendants

3 – in 1 Interchangeable necklace! YOU CHOOSE TWO additional pendants!

Versatility at its BEST! I am the kind of person who wants the biggest bang for my buck! More than that I still want OPTIONS at an economical price! And Hey with the economy where it is today, who can afford to spend a lot of money on accessories.

So here is a STEAL OF A DEAL! You get an Interchangeable necklace with two additional pendants for versatility! Hey that is THREE necklaces!

So here is what you Do:

1. Purchase your necklace and let me know the length you want your (3 x 1mm) black suede cord to be. (If you do not choose, I will send a 16 in necklace length to you) Also each necklace is finished with either a standard sized silver plated lobster clasp or silver plated eye and hook clasp.
2. pick TWO additional pendants that you would like to go with your necklace and let me know via email to uniquecommodities@yahoo.com what your choices are!
   
   
3. I ship necklace with two interchangeable pendants all for $28.95 (shipping included) within 5 business days!

A = Lucky Pendant

B = Bird on a Branch Pendant

C = Peace Pendant

D = Flower Pendant

E = Celebrate Life Pendant

F = Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit

G = Be Kind

You Tube Jewelry Video

My First Youtube video!

Etsyblogger Blog Carnival - Birthday Memory

1) Tell about your favorite birthday memory, gift or wish...

Birthdays for me are all about spending time with those I love and who have impacted my life. I don’t need a bunch of gifts or even a huge party. It is the time of sharing and laughing that I love most!

One of my more encouraging celebrations was at a restaurant with a ton of my friends. We had buffet lunch, laughed and talked, all of my friends (some tearfully) shared about me. I in turn shared with each person the impact they had on my life. It is because of the culmination of friendships that I am the woman that I am today! Those kind of birthday memories and gifts are simply priceless and irreplaceable!

Quote: Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Etsyblogger Blog Carnival - Fairy Tale

What is your favorite fairy tale? Any parallels to real life?

You know I really did not have an absolute favorite fairy tale but I love Cinderella's story. I loved that she was a young lady of noble character, a good spirit and a humble heart in spite of being

continually abused and mistreated by her Step mother and step sisters! She always kept her spirits up and I don't recall EVER hearing her complain about her circumstances. I always wondered where her slack father was though! Looks like Step mom ran the show and HIM! I loved that she got to go to the ball after all wearing a beautiful dress, gorgeous glass slippers and got to ride in that lovely carriage. I wanted those slippers by the way! LOL! In the end, good won over the mean spirited and cruel and she got her charming Prince. You can not ask for much more than that.

There are a number of parallel to real life one could make.

• Good in the long run prevails.
• Treat people like you want to be treated - Cinderella did
• Never give up! Good things come to those who persevere
• Never give up on your dreams no matter what the naysayers do or say!
• Love in spite of!
  
• See the good in all circumstances and know there is a light at the end of the tunnel
• Sing and dance a lot
• It is not where you start but where you finish and I would say Cinderella finished strong!!

A Little Photo Fun with Zionna and the Paparazzi

ok Paparazzi aka Grandma you can take my picture but I am NOT smiling!

ok Got my Pacifier and my shades - looking cool Grandma but I am still NOT smiling!



OK Grandma - I mean Paparazzi are you done taking photos yet?! I am growing tired of the flash!!

I am serious...See these eyes?!?

Ok I have had enough - NO MORE PICTURES Grandma!

Yes I take pictures ALL the time! Sometimes she runs from me when she sees me get my camera out! LOL

Wordless Wednesday

Create A Thought - Featured Etsy Blogger

Well what do you know! The Featured Etsyblogger for the month of May is CreateAThought! Hey I can see why! She captures our every day thoughts in a very unique way! Check out a few of her items below and don't forget to scope out
CreateAThought's Blog!

Preaching Baby!

Amazing! Funny!WOW and actually makes a lot more sense than some of the preachers I have heard..LOL!

The POWER of an image

When I looked at SparklyPark aka Splendid Little Stars blog with her gorgeous photos, I said WOW! Her photos are crisp, clear and stunningly beautiful. I so loved the photos I saw on her Happy May Day post that I felt compelled to go look at the items in her shop! There is truly power and draw in a well done image and photo! Take heed to her work and display! Well done and I can learn a thing or two form you SparklyPark.

What kind of photos/images draw you in?

Splendidly Gorgeous

Love Card Hand Colored and Hand Stamped

Thank you taglets by SparklyPark