December 2011 Team Challenge Winner!

Congratulations to RNEST's December Team challenge winner...

Francesca DeCaire, with her "Happiness is a Cupcake Lampwork Pendant"!

Happiness is a Cupcake Lampwork Pendant, New Style
by FrancescaDeCaire

Thanks to everyone who voted!

Be sure to check back on January 25th for our next Team Challenge! (the theme will be "New Beginnings"!)

Treasury Tuesday: Advice For 2012

2012 is coming in just a few days!  Here is a treasury of items with positive, inspiring words for the new year!

Advice for 2012 by k5art, featuring BMeg, InMyHeadStudios, and k5art

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 Merry Berry Holiday featuring SoftShellCrafts
• Orange and Lime From Another Time featuring Buenahelena
• Something To Smile About featuring k5art
• Let's Talk Chai featuring k5art
• Fat Love featuring OldFamiliarWay

* 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!

December Team Challenge: Culinary Trends & Sweet Treats

Welcome to RNEST's December Team challenge!

The theme for this month was "Culinary Trends and Sweet Treats"!

The theme was chosen from the trends listed on December's Etsy Merchandising Desk.

Earlier this month, we asked our RNEST members to get creative and make items representing the theme...and now YOU, our loyal blog readers, get to pick the winner!

Cast your vote for your favorite on the poll in the

upper, right corner of the blog!

Scrabble Tile Charm - Cupcakes by k5art

Chocolate Creme Pie Earrings by SculptressLink

SMBS Cupcake Chocolate Pumpkin Pin by SculptressLink

Cold Hors d'oeuvres : Recipe Book by SoftShellCrafts

American Cheese Fondue: Recipe Books by SoftShellCrafts

Happiness is a Cupcake Lampwork Pendant, New Style by FrancescaDeCaire

Gingerbread Men Charm With Coral Earrings by Missrie

Cupcake Nubbin by KiraArts

Cast your vote for your favorite on the upper right of the sidebar!  
The poll will close at midnight on Wednesday, December 28th, and the winner will be announced!

Congratulations to #4 (Sarah O) for winning the cards from Heather Vitticore!

Treasury Tuesday: Yetis and RNEST Cuties

Featuring RNEST Members:

Yeti, Big Foot, Sasquatch, Abominable Snowman Gift Guide featuring FlyRabbitPress

• Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String featuring HeatherVitticore
• Woodland Friends featuring HeatherVitticore
• I Love Goldfish! featuring HeatherVitticore
• Delightful Greetings featuring HeatherVitticore
• Hibernation featuring HeatherVitticore
• A Peak into Santa's Workshop5! A Santa's Elves Team Treasury featuring PeachesProducts
• All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds featuring PeachesPicures
• chickpea winter - jewelry, clothes, and accessories featuring OldFamilliarWay
• Happy Mid Century Modern in 2012...The Tiki Lounge is Open featuring Buenahelena

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

SQUEE!! - RNEST Cuties featuring an all-RNEST cast!

• Rainbow Colored Items featuring PoetCharms, BeadworkByAmanda, & KiraArts

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Something Sweet by SunshyneSilverwear
• Dreaming of a White Christmas by TatteredPearls
• Pick Me! by TatteredPearls
• Paper or Plastic?...Canvas Please! by KiraArts

* 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: Heather Vitticore

Congratulations to #29 (Bee W Bedard) for winning Missrie's earrings.

Bubbling up from the well this week, a lovely collection from Heather Vitticore!

Today, one lucky winner will receive their choice of 5 small greeting cards! Each greeting card is a print of my original india ink illustration. The illustration is printed on a standard 3.5"X5" high quality 80lb white Strathmore watercolor paper card with a deckled edge. They are blank inside, with HeatherVitticore.etsy.com printed on the back, and come with a matching envelope. Your cards will be placed in plastic sleeves for safe travels. Check out the shop for several different illustrations to choose from! If you're the winner, Heather will contact you about which 5 cards you would like.


And now for the rules (This giveaway is open to the US & Canada residents only.):

MANDATORY ENTRY #1: Go to Heather Vitticore, 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" Heather Vitticore 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, December 20th and will be announced in the next Wednesday Wellspring.

Treasury Tuesday: Creatures & Christmas

Sorry I missed Treasury Tuesday last week. I was feeling a bit under the weather. To make up for it, I'm featuring 2 treasuries this week! Both treasuries both feature and are curated by RNEST members.

Black Red and White Christmas

by k5art, featuring Buenahelena, Missrie, aDifferentView, SunshyneSilverwear, PoetCharms, & KiraArts

RNEST Creatures

by SoftShellCrafts, featuring an all-RNEST cast!

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:

• Wonderful pieces from Rochester, NY featuring OldFamilliarWay & PeachesProducts
• Enchanting featuring HeatherVitticore
• Zoological featuring HeatherVitticore
• Rested and Ready featuring HeatherVitticore
• Watt Are You Talking About? featuring k5art
• 12 Days of Christmas featuring k5art
• The Geek In Me featuring k5art
• Gifts Under $30 featuring k5art
• For Kids 1-92 featuring MFcrafts
• From Russia With Love featuring MFvintage
• I Am the Walrus featuring SoftShellCrafts
• Christmas Cocktail Party featuring FlyRabbitPress
• Geschenke für Judith -1 featuring FlyRabbitpress
• Mad For Plaid. Red Plaid Is Rad featuring FrecklesAndFrizz
• Clean Burning Fun! featuring Buenahelena
• Cocktail Party featuring Buenahelena
• On The Fourth Day of Christmas featuring LoveAndWhiskers
• A Burst Of Light featuring FaerieTails
• FabUlOuS FaUx's to MuSt HaVe!...or just so cool! featuring PeachesProducts

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• I'll Have a Blue Christmas Without You featuring an all RNEST cast!
• Crazy Cat Lady by k5art, featuring Buenahelena, GocksFrocks, & FrancescaDeCaire
• We Are An Ocean by k5art featuring PeachesProducts, Missrie, SoftShellCrafts, Kurpisz, BMegDesigns
• Bluebird Holiday by k5art, featuring PinLady, SunshyneSilverwear, and MervAndDelores

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Sneak Attack! 11/28/2011 by k5art

I think one of our newest members, k5art, wins the prize this week for making the most treasuries! (the prize is extra "coolness points"!) ;)

* 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!

Creative Play Session Tonight!

Children are naturally creative. By the time we hit 18 though, half of that creativity and imagination has fizzled. Get your creative juices flowing tonight at our Creative Play Session. We'll experience a variety of brain exercises designed to get you past your current blocks. Plus there's fun snacks ;)

November 2011 Team Challenge Winner!

Congratulations to RNEST's November Team challenge winner...

Francesca DeCaire, with her "Fat Cat Mustache Style" bead!

Fat Cat Mustache Style

by FrancescaDeCaire

Thanks to everyone who voted!

Be sure to check back on December 22nd for our Team Challenge for December! (the theme will be "Culinary Trends & Sweet Treats"!)

Wednesday Wellspring: Missrie

Congratulations to # 17 (Allie) for winning the stocking from Woolhead Works.

Bubbling up from the well this week, an elegant design from Missrie!

Today, one lucky winner will receive a pair of antique style earrings. These earrings feature purple lucite flower beads, that have a rich plum color. Wrapped around the beads are antiqued bronze filigree cones, which give the pair a vintage look. The earrings are finished off with antique bronze kidney earwires. They are about 2" in length.

You can find Missrie locally Sunday December 11 at The Holiday Festival of Crafts and Gifts; Monroe County Fairgrounds / Minette Hall.


And now for the rules (This giveaway is open to the US & Canada residents only):

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. Follow Missrie on Twitter ( @MissrieDesigns )
4. 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, December 13th and will be announced in the next Wednesday Wellspring.

Craftmas Clothing Swap Tonight!

Don't forget!...

Need directions?...Check the Facebook Event!

This weekend was a whirlwind with the First Friday (and Saturday) Craftmas Show at the Hungerford, but it was a blast! We'll post a review with pictures soon!

RNEST Original Garbage Plate Extraordinaire!

We're so excited to announce a chance for our local fans to win a Rochester favorite: a Garbage Plate. This isn't just any garbage plate, though. It's a hand-crafted original created by RNEST artisans. You'll find needle-felted tater tots, hand-stamped macaroni salad, beaded hot sauce, a crocheted burger, a cuddly cute hotdog, and so much more, all resting on a quilted platter.

And how can you win this divine tribute to Rochester's most famous meal? Come to the Hungerford's Miracle on East Main Street this weekend and participate in our scavenger hunt. First, stop by RNEST's Craftmas Art Show to check out the finished product in all it's splendor, then visit the other artists throughout the Hungerford to find the scavenger items and earn your chance to own this masterpiece!

Hungerford Building,

1115 E. Main St., Rochester, NY

 Door 8

TWO DAYS!

Friday, December 2: 5PM - 9PM

Saturday, December 3: Noon - 4PM

Make sure to check out our other Hungerford events throughout December for some craftilicious fun!