Undiscovered Series Part 17 - Meet Bitsandbots

"Ted is a little cranky. Watch out or he'll steal your eggs". - taken from the description. Ok i couldnt say it any better if i tried! Ted, well Ted just looks mischevious! When i was on Pounce and came across BitsandBots, i just cracked up seeing Ted! lol He looks like he can get into all kinds of trouble, doesnt he? What if you dont have time for Ted? Well then definitly watch out for Dudley!! Because apparently, "He'll burn your house down!" lol BitsandBots descriptions just crack me up! Giving each bot their own name and own personality! How fun! And, dont worry, there are some sweeter ones, like Morie, who is just waiting to give you his heart!

Undiscovered Series Part 16 - Meet Washifolie

So i admit, i love love just about anything japanese! So, when i pounced on Washifolie and found these cool origami button brooches, i just fell in love with them! She takes what could be ordinary simple button pins, and covers them in beautiful yuzen washi paper and adorns the top with this amazing origami flower creating this gorgeous brooch! She has many to choose from! but i loved these rich colors! She also has some beautiful pendants and jewelry sets also made from washi paper. I use to make origami when i was younger, this makes me want to give it another try again! Beautiful!

Undiscovered Series Part 15 - Meet TheCreativeCrown

Ok, i truly think i can say that the crowns in TheCreativeCrown's shop are truly one of a kind and a piece of art in themself! They are rustic, yet simple and beautiful all in one. I love this one above, called Gwen. The flower is such a stunning color, and i love how natural it all looks! She has many other crowns and head pieces, perfect for autumn weddings, festivals, fairs, or as she puts it "a day of cleaning or heading out to the store let the world know YOU ARE the QueeN....!!!" . I mean, who doesnt want their own crown!

Undiscovered Series Part 14 - Meet Bearlyart

Ok, so i couldn't just post one picture here, so i had to post a few lol There were just too many of these cool hand panted clocks to only feature one! i mean honestly you take a look, could you only choose one? So as Part 13 of our Undiscovered Series, please meet Bearlyart! But, here's the really cool thing! She not only hand paints these clocks, but she uses old records to make them! Now thats eco-fantastic! She has such a variet, but honestly i kind of like the wildlife ones!

Be sure to check back tomorrow, see what else i Pounce on!!

Undiscovered Series Part 13 - Meet Robinsart

Robinsart for some reason gives me the feeling i am looking at monet or van gogh, or one of the masterpieces. She has that same kind of feel and look that i just love! Pouncing on her was a true treat! I mean who doesnt love art! Especially as beautifully done art, as Robinsart! This one, call Retreat, is the perfect name for it. Wouldnt you love to find a little piece of solice there? I know I would! Robinsart has many wonderful other landscapes, but also some more almost modern pieces like this one called Secret Garden. I just love the deep colors! Be sure to stop by and check her out! :)

Undiscovered Series Part 12 - Meet AMDcustomdesign

Ready for another installment of Undiscovered? Well meet AMDcustomdesign! I pounced on their shop just now, and found this beautiful hand painted tshirt. This woman silhouette in black with with silver petals both at the bottom and the base of the neckline is just stunning yet very simple. She has a few others that are just as wonderful too, some in tanks too. But then i discovered, she not only makes these beautifully painted shirts, but also just gorgeous jewelry too! Definitly worth checking out! You might just find some new favorites too!

Undiscovered Series Part 11 - Meet brookberrys

So i took the weekend off from our Undiscovered Series to bring you some funky items and some awesome buttons! But we are back today with Brookberrys!! They make these totally cool wall panels, that are like pieces of art, yet they light up at night! How fun is that!!! I just loved this polka dotted one above! But they have many others to choose from! I hope you check them out! Totally worth it!

Don't you just love Pounce!

Come Back tomorrow for Part 12!!

Buttons!!!!!

There are a few things that i just love and can never have enough of when it comes to crafting! Of course being a knitter, first would come yarn. No matter how much i already have, i still want more! The types and colors are endless!

Fabrics come in to a close second i must say. I never really bought nor "collected" fabrics til recently and started making more bags and clutches. But now i just cant get enough! Stripes, Solids, Polka dots, flowers, mod, retro, vintage, Japanese, just fabric! And, love love love Amy Butler. But then again, who doesn't!

But! my new found favorite is Buttons!!! Love Buttons! Old ones, new ones, big ones, small ones, bright ones, shiny ones, vintage ones, just buttons! What i am most amazed at though, are the handmade buttons! i never, til etsy, even knew about handmade buttons! And of course the talent on etsy is just endless!

One shop i came across recently, ButtonBliss, has just gorgeous handcrafted buttons that just make you drool! Here are some of my favs from her shop; including this Purple Button, is just gorgeous, made out of porcelain

Moving on to another total favorite, someone who handpresses her own czech glass buttons, Crazycakes. Simply beautiful buttons! From her Dragonfly Buttons (my personal fav) to these beautiful lime green czech glass buttons. But check out her shop, she has so many more than just these two, that are all equally if not more stunning!

Creamrose is another etsy shop i just love! She makes the most adorable and cute fabric covered buttons! These ever so adorable Japanese covered buttons are one of my favs of hers. How can you not smile when looking at these cute cute buttons! Can't you just imagine all the different ways you can use them? on cute bags, or to accessorize a little girls dress or shirt? She has so
many like these and so many others in her shop, too cute to pass up!

Of course i could not do a blog about buttons without some kind of tribute to vintage, since vintage buttons really are my true favorite! I think it's my favorite because they are big, chunky, funky shaped, and soooo different from any buttons commercially made today! VintageNecessities has this awesome lot of Vintage buttons that just about shows how great old buttons really are! Such an vast variety! The colors are so rich and the variety so grand! I would love to own them all!

There are truly so many i would love to share here with you all! But i am going to try and narrow it down a bit, that way you can have the pleasure of searching on etsy yourself to see what goodies you come across!

Undiscovered Series Part 10 - Meet Charmingbears

Meet "Micki"! Isn't He cute? I found him through Pounce, for my Undiscovered Series tonight, and just fell in love with this little guy! Beautifully handcrafted, Charmingbear, makes all her bears with love care and attention, you can just tell by all the detail! And i just love the needlefelted flower accents added to his little belly! Oh and don't forget about the cute little ladybug sitting on his paw!!

She has several other just as adorable furry bear friends in her etsy shop, so please be sure to check them out!!

Funky Funky Funky Funky

Bringing a little funky your way this weekend!!

A bunch of us on this thread got to talking one day, and we all were kind of feeling anything but inspired to make things. Then Donna (aka Artbydonnarose) challenged us all to make something funky! Something out of our realm, something different, odd, wierd, but still very cool! But we only had 3 days to make our items. Well, i tell ya, what transpired from this seemingly harmless challenge - i dont think any of us could have anticipated! We created some 21 items between i think the 7 of us, in just 3 days! Ended up doing a contest, to have the lovely etsy forum peeps decide exactly who was the funkiest!! And we all bow down to the queen of funk herself - Sarahinflorida, who truly is one funky gal!! lol

Filled with the funky vibe, i give you in all our funkiness, our funky funky items! lol

Starting with the Queen herself and the winning
funkiest of all funky items:
Now for the rest of the entries!

Sarah's Funky Hat!

Sarahs Funky Pez Art


Sarah's Funky Bracelet

Liquidsabre's Funky Necklace

Liquidsabre's Funky Earrings



Liquidsabre's Funky Flower Earrings



Liquidsabre's Funky Heart Necklace

Arybydonnarose's Funky Painting #1

Artbydonnarose's Funky Painting #2

Bellacosaart's Funky Pendant


Bellacosaart's Funky Poppy Painting

Bellacosaart's Funky Painting

Bellacosaart's Funky Buffalo

Bellacosaart's Funky Iris

Paratu's Funky Ring

Sunraven0's Funky ACEO
TrinketsTreasure's Funky Pin



Missknits' Funky Choker


Missknits' Funky Button Cuff


Missknits' Funky PomPom Cuff

There were a couple of items not shown above because they were put into edit for one reason. but this is the gist of it! So who would you have voted for???

And be sure to be on the look out, there is rumor we may do a halloween themed one!

Undiscovered Series Part 9 - Meet Jungae

Pounce Pounce Pounce and look what i just discovered! This amazing journal by Jungae is almost beyond words and is hard to imagine it hasn't been scooped up yet by someone!! This journal is coptic bound and appears to be covered with a beautiful mango Thai paper and accented with a stamp art. I love the bead accents on the spine, and the text blocks that are sewn on to the sheer ribbon tapes. You also must check out her other journals, as they are each truly works of art! Come back for Part 10 of our Undiscovered Series! See who i Pounce upon next!!

Undiscovered Series Part 8 - Meet Slobot

Take me to your leader! lol isnt that what you think of when you see this little guy? He's called a Slobot and he's a martian farmer robot! I dont think i could do justice to describing these little guys, so this is straight form the listing: "Funny thing about Mars, lots of little worker bee slobots running around doing all the hard work... turns out the latest crew to arrive are FRUIT FARMERS! there are four that we have seen so far, all of them sporting coats of paint that correspond to their fruit specialties. this one is green, and he is a lime farmer. His special abilities include direct, mental correspondence with lime trees and the ability to talk a tree into producing fruit, no matter what kind of attitude it has."

Ah! i want a slobot now too! in fact i want the whole crew!!

Undiscovered Series Part 7 - Meet Katemdot

Ah, so here i was Pouncing along, and looky what i found! Another undiscovered beauty! This cute yellow strapless seersucker dress, made by katemdot i just adore!

What i think i really love about Katemdot's dresses, is that she "turns discarded fabric and clothing items into modern, wearable looks." They have that modern yet vintage feel to them. Now if i only had the body to wear them! lol

Undiscovered Series Part 6 - Hartlaub

I love this cuff! Hartlaub makes some of the coolest cuffs i think i have ever seen! She uses vintage fabric scraps, buttons and hand woven material to create her one of a kind cuffs! As Hartlaub puts it, "They are a fashion hug for your eco-friendly, non-leather wearin’ wrist!" How can you not love that! She has so many awesome cuffs, besides the one above, i could never choose just one!

Ok Friends, off to Pounce some more!! Come back tomorrow for Part 7 of our Undiscovered Series!

Undiscovered Series Part 5 - Meet Kaylamick

Are you all enjoying all these undiscovered treasures as much as i am? I sure hope so! Despite Pounce constantly freezing on me, i still enjoy seeing what new finds i can come across!

So today i bring to you Kaylamick! She combines her love for pottery with jewelry and each piece is fused with glass to create these very cool ceramic pendants. I just loved this ceramic tree pendant. It's very earthy and natural feeling. But the cool thing is, apparently the tree is actually carved into the pendant itself!

Undiscovered Series Part 4 - Meet PinkPotsCo

Ok i just love these Cups!! Called Four Seasons Tea Cups, as we can see each depicts one of the four seasons! There is something also kind of vintage about these cups that makes me love them even more!

Again, it was while Pouncing around, i came across PinkPotsCo's shop and saw these lovelies! I also just adored her Dragon Teapot!

Undiscovered Series Part 3 - Sparkflight

So i hope you have been enjoying this Undiscovered Series so far! Welcome to Part 3! Ok now how cool is this! Called Coffee Man ( rightfully so as we can see!) made by Sparkflight, is this not the neatest thing ever!

Coffee Man is an original life-sized human wire sculpture! Quoted from the description: "Need some quiet company with your morning coffee? This barefoot guy in jeans and a t-shirt is the silent type, but will bring a smile to your face." And truly when i discovered him through Pounce, he did make me smile! I had never seen anything quite like this!

He apparently measures about 47 inches tall and is said to be that of a 5 foot 10 inch man! truly life sized!

Sparkflight also has many other very cool wire pieces! Including one of my other favorites of hers, the Red Cardinal, and this amazing one called Mother Nature.

Undiscovered Series Part 2 - LeTourDuMondeGallery

So yesterday i introduced Boris to you all. I thought how fun would it be to indroduce undiscovered shops for a while. So for the next, well i dont know how many blogs, i am going to feature nothing but new, undiscovered shops that have yet to make their first sale. Yesterday was just the first of many to come! So i hope you come along on my adventure as i find new and fabulous shops every day! I hope you find some new favorites too!

So, today, let me introduce you to LeTourDuMondeGallery! I came across her shop again in Pounce! I was immediatly taken back by this stunning red knitted halter top! I am not sure i have seen anything knitted like this before. But then i started browsing her shop, and all her pieces are beautiful! She truly knows her craft.

Her Shop has hats, shrugs, beautiful scarves and more! All so unique, stunning with a touch of glamour!

Undiscovered Series Part 1 - Meet Boris - err umm Rather Meet Sebold!

This is Boris! I came across this cute critter while wondering around in Pounce. He immediatly caught my eye! First off i love all things felt! its kind of my new craft i have been learning, so i have a tremendous amount of admiration for anyone who can create hand felted items. Boris is spectacular! He is a "Filzkin" as described in his listing. Created from natural merino wool dyed all in one piece. He is all wool, no stitches, no seams, no stuffing!

"Boris is a bouncing ball on legs. He jumps and bounces on his slipper feet or slides along at high speed. He’s a perpetual teenager, and a bit silly and annoying at times. He particularly irritates Mr McKarr." (as taken from his description)

Seboldoriginals makes all kinds of wonderful "Filzkin" creatures! All unique, original and truly adorable!

Getting Squirelly!

So i thought i would have a little fun with today's post, because well i just had to share this picture. I took it a couple of days ago. Its not the best picture, but i was too afraid if moved any closer i would scare the little guy away! lol

So the deal was i had just been outside and put out a ton of bird seed and squirrel food like i do almost every day. i had just sat down and looked out the window and this is what i see staring back at me! lol

I was a bit worried at first, he was sick or something, but then he would sit up for a minute and eat some food, then lay back down all sprawled out. I guess he was just chillin! He stayed up there for most of the afternoon too! Even the birds fluttering around , never seemed to disturb him! Too cute huh!

Til next time, little squirrely!

Just Had to Share!

So i just had to share with you all today something i received in the mail! As it turned out i participated in a kind of contest on Etsy. The deal was to submit new word ideas for her new line of scrabble pendants. Who would have thought she would like something i came up with! lol

So long story short, I won! Woohoo!! I got to choose any pendant i wanted as my prize. She had so many to choose from! I loved them all! Especially her very fun play on knitting words! But i decided to go with this cute DREAM one. Why, you may ask (and believe me, she did!) lol Well, because it fits me. I love blue, i wear a lot of blue, and my life has always been focused around my own personal dreams, and believing in them. I constantly strive to remember, my dreams can come true.

So be sure to check out Pendantsandmore for really cute and fun pendants!

Olympic Treasury

I don't know about anyone else, but i am getting excited about the upcoming summer Olympics starting on Friday! So i thought it would be fun to make a treasury themed just for this special event! I love watching the opening ceremony, gymnastic events, diving, swimming, well ok, i like almost all of it! I am amazed at the talent and skill these gymnasts have!

I was able to find some pretty cool Olympic themed items on Etsy too i think! There werent a lot, surprisingly, but the ones i did find, i thought were perfect for my Treasury.

I especially loved Imotimes Olympic Time Clock made out of a 1988 Olympic souvenier! How creative is that! Also, the Olympic Rings Necklace by CakesMix. So cute and fun! But all these items are worth checking out for all you Summer Games fans!

Feel free to comment, what sports will you be watching? which country are you rooting for?