Treasury Tuesday: Blue Skies and Sunshine

We usually think of all Red, Orange, and Yellow when it comes to fall colors, but I think this treasury (featuring GoldhawkPottery), with its muted blue and yellow color scheme, is perfect for those sunny, blue sky fall days. It just makes me want to jump into a pile of yellow leaves!

Blue Skies and Sunshine featuring GoldhawkPottery

Be sure you click on the links below and go see more treasuries that feature some of our other awesome RNEST members! (if you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• A Halloween Wedding featuring LoveAnd Whiskers
• Cuddle Me Panda featuring PeachesProducts
• Shades of Gray featuring HeatherVitticore

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Bread by SoftShellCrafts

* If you make or find a treasury that features an RNEST member, or if you are an RNEST Member who makes a treasury, post the link on the wall at RNEST's Facebook Page. Your treasury could be featured on the next Treasury Tuesday!

Make-it Mondays: Pets of Etsy

Finally...one of you has a dog! Thank you Susan, of sculptresslink, for sharing our latest studio creature, Smokey. Susan adopted Smokey from the the Humane Society while she lived in Arizona, procuring her Masters degree in Art Education. She is a worldy assistant who has traveled with her studio boss from Arizona, to Arkansas and now to Rochester, New York. Check her out!

At sixteen, this pooch is still working it, as a model for Susan's creations. In this case, a cupcake barrette.

Sitting expectantly, in the hopes that some polymer clay will drop from Susan's hands and onto the floor. (She thinks it's food.)

Thank the craft lords that the cat spell has been broken! Keep your pets coming, by sending images and a lil' story to buenahelena@hotmail.com.

September Team Challenge: Vampires

Welcome to RNEST's September Team challenge: Vampires. Check out RNEST's fierce competitors for this challenge!

Cast your vote for your favorite on the poll in the

upper, right corner of the blog!

Bat Focal Bead
by FrancescaDeCaire

Mixed Media Vampire Pendant
by Sculptress Link

Dracula Rubber Stamp Hand Carved
by Jackbear Stamps



Cast your vote for your favorite on

the upper right of the sidebar! 

Congratulations to #74 (hofken) for winning Designs By Missrie's giveaway!

Treasury Tuesday:Autumn in Rochester

Enjoy more thoughts of fall brought on by all the items in this treasury, featuring an all-RNEST cast!

Autumn In Rochester by SoftShellCrafts

Be sure you click on the links below and go see more treasuries that feature some of our other awesome RNEST members! (if you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Pale Yellow featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Orange and Black Halloween Fabulousness featuring MFcrafts
• Noir et Blanc featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Something Borrowed, Something Blue featuring LoveAnd Whiskers
• Ahhhh! Not so Real Monsters! featuring KiraArts
• Some Owls Are Purple featuring PeachesProducts
• Hedgehogs, Why Don't They Just Share The Hedge? featuring PeachesProducts
• I Love Crochet! featuring KarenSwimmer
• Halloween With A Touch Of Geekery featuring KarenSwimmer
• We Gather To Honor Thanksgiving featuring KarenSwimmer
• Just A Little Bit Of Quirk featuring HeatherVitticore
• Cozying Up featuring HeatherVitticore
• We Live Around The Tree featuring HeatherVitticore
• FALL in Love With Nature featuring HeatherVitticore
• We Don't All Live In A Yellow Submarine! featuring HeatherVitticore

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Itching For Halloween by PeachesProducts

* If you make or find a treasury that features an RNEST member, or if you are an RNEST Member who makes a treasury, post the link on the wall at RNEST's Facebook Page. Your treasury could be featured on the next Treasury Tuesday!

Wednesday Wellspring: Designs by Missrie

Congratulations to #95 (JC) for winning The Quilted House's giveaway.

Bubbling up from the well this week, a touch of elegance by the talented Missrie!
Today, one lucky winner will receive a pair of Blue Green Faceted Clover Earrings.

This festive pair just might bring you a little luck! These beautiful faceted beads are green with a little touch of blue. The wire wrapped design looks like an upside down three leaf clover. These earring are about an inch and a half in length and finished off with silver plated wires.

You can next see Missrie's work in person at Loveapalooza festival, Saturday September 17. The festival is hosted by Lovin' Cup, and will take place at Park Point plaza. For more details, visit the Lovin' Cup website or Facebook event page.

And now for the rules (This giveaway is open to everyone):

MANDATORY ENTRY #1: Go to Missrie, heart the shop, and then leave a comment here telling me your favorite item.

MANDATORY ENTRY #2: Become a follower of this blog and leave a comment letting me know- or if you are already, leave a comment saying you're a loyal follower.

BONUS ENTRIES (leave a separate comment for each):
1. "Like" RNEST on Facebook.
2. "Like" Missrie on Facebook.3. Tweet and blog about this giveaway and leave a coment here with the link.

The winner will be chosen using the random number generator on Tuesday, September 20th and will be announced in the next Wednesday Wellspring.

Treasury Tuesday: It's Beginning To look A Lot Like Fall

Fall still isn't "officially" here yet, but we are looking forward to it and many of the RNESTers are gearing up for fall/harvest craft shows! And the subtle autumn colors in this treasury are making us look forward to fall even more!

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fall featuring MereWare and SarahGOrtiz

Be sure you click on the links below and go see MANY more treasuries that feature some of our other awesome RNEST members! (if you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Funky Skunky featuring PeachesProducts
• Can I Be A Kid A Bit Longer? featuring PeachesProducts
• Channeling featuring aDifferentView
• Take A Look featuring JiBabu
• Undiscovered featuring JiBabu
• Sapphires Are A Girl's Best Friend featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Pushing the Boundery Between Art and Craft featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Blue Sunday featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Ocean Breeze featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Making My Eyes Smile featuring SoftShellCrafts
• Sweet Favorites featuring SoftShellCrafts
• Thank You Treasury featuring HeatherVitticore
• Tuesday Favorites featuring HeatherVitticore
• Awe Nuts! featuring HeatherVitticore
• Squirrels! featuring HeatherVitticore
• Grey Hair featuring HeatherVitticore
• Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes featuring MFcrafts
• Warm Up With Etsy Kids! featuring MFcrafts
• It's Fuzzy Around Here featuring MFcrafts
• Mr. Green Jeans featuring MFcrafts
• A Touch of Turquoise featuring MFcrafts
• Pum-pum...Pumpkin! featuring MFcrafts

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Feather 'R nest with Etsy Birds by MFCrafts featuring an all RNEST cast!

* If you make or find a treasury that features an RNEST member, or if you are an RNEST Member who makes a treasury, post the link on the wall at RNEST's Facebook Page. Your treasury could be featured on the next Treasury Tuesday!

Make-it Mondays: Pets (or seriously just cats) of Etsy

Hello Team! I'm back again with more feline studio assistants. These two hooligans belong to Carisa of Love and Whiskers (how apt!), along with a slew of other camera shy creatures, including two Shih-tzus, two tortoises and three lizards. Carisa, if you can get the tortoises involved somehow, next time I would love to do an expose called Teenage Mutant Crafting Turtles. Enjoy!

Critiques are best given while sitting on the product.

Pausing to choose the best words of advice...

All Etsy work needs an overnight bodygaurd...even if he sleeps on the job.

Thanks you for sending in your kit-tay shots Carisa. Keep sending me your pets as well team, to buenahelena@hotmail.com. In the coming weeks I will be back with some tutorials so stay tuned! :)

Wednesday Wellspring : The Quilted House

Congratulations to #18 (jc) for winning Turtlefly's "The Molly Purse".

Bubbling up from the well this week, a touch of functional style from The Quilted House!


Today, one lucky winner will receive a choice of Gettin' Down to Business Card Wallet. Gettin' Down to Business Card Holders are perfect for carrying business cards or for when you want to jet out with just a little cash, ID, and credit card! Made with 100% quilt-quality cotton fabric in a variety of colors and patterns.


And as an exciting announcement, there will soon be a new baby in The Quilted House! The rest of the house is being purged, so why not the studio!?! Help make room for baby by checking out the new CLEARANCE SECTION! Hot pads, coasters, bowls, and more all at sharply reduced prices! PLUS, use coupon code MAKEROOM4BABY to get 20% throughout the shop - including clearance!!

And now for the rules (This giveaway is open to everyone):

MANDATORY ENTRY #1: Go to The Quilted House, heart the shop, and then leave a comment here telling me your favorite item.

MANDATORY ENTRY #2: Become a follower of this blog and leave a comment letting me know- or if you are already, leave a comment saying you're a loyal follower.

BONUS ENTRIES (leave a separate comment for each):

1. "Like" RNEST on Facebook.
2. "LikeThe Quilted House on Facebook3. Follow The Quilted House's artistic blog
4. Follow The Quilted House on Twitter
5. Tweet and blog about this giveaway and leave a coment here with the link.


The winner will be chosen using the random number generator on Tuesday, September 13, and will be announced in the next Wednesday Wellspring.

Treasury Tuesday: You Don't Have To Be Sonic

Summer is coming to its end. Fall isn't "officially" here yet, but the last couple days have been delightfully cooler. Not sure how to explain how this correlates, but cooler weather and fall makes me think of cuddly woodland creatures. maybe because you see them all around this time of year, making that last dash before hibernating. And the prince of woodland creatures lately?...the humble hedgehog. Not since the time that Sega reigned with a blue spikey critter named Sonic have hedgehogs been so popular! This week, our own HeatherVitticore has been featured in a hedgehog-themed treasury.

You Don't Have To Be Sonic

Be sure you click on the links below and go see more treasuries that feature some of our other awesome RNEST members! (if you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Sweet Bunnies! featuring HeatherVitticore
• Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit featuring HeatherVitticore
• Yogaween featuring HeatherVitticore
• They Also Call Me Owly Woods featuring KarenSwimmer
• Twisted...Under Sideways Down featuring KarenSwimmer
• An ALL ORANGE Sale featuring MFvintage
• Cheeese! featuring MFvintage
• Remembering Summer Sunshine featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Cocoa and Cream featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Remnants of a Dream featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Wonderfully Wicked featuring aDifferentView
• Felted Fall Fun featuring PeachesProducts
• Miles Away featuring Buenahelena

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Labor Day Blues by PeachesProducts, featuring TheQuiltedHouse and BeadworkByAmanda
• The End of Summer by FlyRabbitPress, featuring Buenahelena, TheQuiltedHouse, Interwingle, PeachesProducts, and Bmeg
• Home Is Where Your Heart Is by LoveNaturePhotos featuring an all-RNEST cast!

Curated by RNEST Members:

• For The Love of Poly(fil) by HeatherVitticore
• Orange and Black For Kids by MFcrafts

* If you make or find a treasury that features an RNEST member, or if you are an RNEST Member who makes a treasury, post the link on the wall at RNEST's Facebook Page. Your treasury could be featured on the next Treasury Tuesday!

Make-it Mondays: Early Fall's Pets of Etsy

It's getting to be that time of year when you really want a pet to keep you cozy in the studio! I know I didn't mind my cat hanging out on my lap on this chilly rainy day. I think we can pretty much confirm from this (and past) Pets of Etsy posts that we are, for the most part, a bunch of cat ladies ;) This week's creature feature, Caesar, belongs to Marie of Designs by Missrie. He is, according to Marie, " ... a curious young boy and really likes to oversee everything."

"Caesar reigns over the studio :)"

" I think these green beads would go great with those brown beads, Mom."

"All this supervising is hard work!!"

Thanks Marie and Caesar! If you would like your pet featured on the next Pets of Etsy send info and photos to Buenahelena at buenahelena@hotmail.com.