Treasury Tuesday: Bright & Happy Things

After a bit of a summer hiatus, Treasury Tuesday is back!
And what better way to come back than with an Etsy Treasury full of bright, summery, happy things!  You can't look at this treasury and not smile!

Bright & Happy Things by KiraArts
featuring TheKnottyOwlShop and ChristineAndCoDesign

Be sure you click on the other links to see more treasuries! (I can't picture them all so you have to click on them to see!  If you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Impossible Things featuring PeachesProducts
• Praia featuring PeachesProducts
• Beige Light Brown Ecru featuring KiraArts
• Owl In The Moonlight featuring KiraArts
• Alternative Readings featuring SewIndieShop
• I Adore Kitchen Decor featuring SewIndieShop
• Modern Vintage featuring SewIndieShop

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

Treasury Tuesday: Sunny Grey

We've had a nice mix of sunny and rainy/cloudy weather this past week (and we are SO thankful for the rain!), so this "Sunny Grey" treasury, featuring HeatherVitticore's owl pillow, seems oh-so-appropriate!

Sunny Grey featuring HeatherVitticore


Be sure you click on the other links to see more treasuries! (I can't picture them all so you have to click on them to see!  If you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Going For The Gold With Team USA and EtsyKids Team featuring MFcrafts
• A is For... featuring PeachesProducts
• Bad Trash featuring OldFamiliarWay

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Recent Favorites August 2012 by KiraArts featuring kaseyAjohnson & Papersaurus

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

August 2012 Team Challenge Winner!

Congratulations to RNEST's Team Challenge winner for 
August's "Comic Books & Superheroes" theme...

FrancescaDeCaire with her "Ladybug Girl" Inspired Glass Wine Stopper !

Thanks to everyone who voted!

Be sure to check back on September 6th for our next Monthly Team Challenge!

(September's theme will be "Geeks Have More Fun"!)

August Team Challenge: Comic Books & Superheroes

Welcome to RNEST's August Team Challenge! The theme for this month was 
"Comic Books & Superheroes"

Earlier this month, we asked our RNEST members to get creative and make items representing an interpretation of the theme...and now YOU, our loyal blog readers, get to pick the winner!  Here's the list of our contestants!

Glass Wine Stopper - Ladybug by FrancescaDeCaire
(Inspired by "Ladybug Girl")

The Scoobies - 5x7 Art Print by OldFamiliarWay
(Inspired by "Buffy The Vampire Slayer")

Hulkie The Smiley Guy by MozyLazyFactory
(Inspired by "The Hulk"/"The Avengers")

Stuffed Hulkie Bear by MozyLazyFactory
(Inspired by "The Hulk"/"The Avengers")

Macaroon Shape Superman Pattern Coin Purse by MozyLazyFactory
(Inspired by "Superman")

Macaroon Shape Avengers Coin Purse (Hulk & Captain America) by MozyLazyFactory
(Inspired by "The Avengers")

Tiger Doll by KiraArts
(Inspired by "Calvin & Hobbes")

Cast your vote for your favorite on the poll in the upper, right corner of the blog! 

(Deadline to vote is by midnight on Wednesday, August 8th)

July 2012 Team Challenge Winner!

Congratulations to RNEST's Team Challenge winner for July ...

k5art, with her "Miniature Garden Mini Terrarium"!

Thanks to everyone who voted!

Be sure to check back on August 2nd for our next Monthly Team Challenge!

(August's theme will be "Comic Books & Superheroes"!)

Treasury Tuesday: Some Summer Color

Beat the heat by diving into this summery treasury focusing on the happy bright colors of the season!

Some Summer Color by KiraArts, featuring FrecklesAndFrizz

Be sure you click on the other links to see more treasuries! (I can't picture them all so you have to click on them to see!  If you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Yellow and Grey featuring HeatherVitticore
• Owl Be There For You featuring PeachesProducts
• A Little Game Of Cat And Mouse featuring MFcrafts
• Patriotic Colors featuring MFcrafts
• More Tea, Vicar? featuring TheStitchingStudio

Curated by RNEST Members:

• So Sweet by LoveAndWhiskers

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

July Team Challenge: The Great Outdoors

Welcome to RNEST's May Team Challenge! The theme for this month was 
"The Great Outdoors"

Summer...the season we seem to enjoy the "Great Outdoors" the most! Picnics, cookouts, campouts, hiking, gardening...all that fun stuff we do outside!  Earlier this month, we asked our RNEST members to get creative and make items representing an interpretation of the theme...and now YOU, our loyal blog readers, get to pick the winner!  Here's the list of our contestants!

Red and Blue Cotton Napkin Set For Two by MFcrafts

Cowboy Journal Tote by Turtlefly

Retro Gardener Hair Bow by OldFamiliarWay

Miniature Garden Mini Terrarium by k5art

Cast your vote for your favorite on the poll in the upper, right corner of the blog! 

(Deadline to vote is by midnight on Wednesday, July 11th)

June 2012 Team Challenge Winner!

Congratulations to RNEST's Team Challenge winner for June ...

KiraArts, with her "Vaguely Steampunk Nubbin"!

Thanks to everyone who voted!

Be sure to check back on July 5th for our next Monthly Team Challenge!

(July's theme will be "The Great Outdoors")

June Team Challenge: Trends That Drive Me Crazy!

Welcome to RNEST's May Team Challenge! The theme for this month was 
"Trends That Drive Me Crazy!"

You know the ones...we all have seen a certain trends that seem like they are EVERYWHERE on Etsy or the blogospere and it just drives you crazy!  (but there is a reason trends are popular!...because people like them!)  Earlier this month, we asked our RNEST members to get creative and make items representing an interpretation of the theme...and now YOU, our loyal blog readers, get to pick the winner!  Here's the list of our contestants!

Original Fabric Square Owl by HeatherVitticore

Feather Earrings by OldFamiliarWay

Bacon Earrings by OldFamiliarWay

Daddy Rabbit by MoyalazyFactory

Vaguely Steampunk Nubbin by KiraArts

Cast your vote for your favorite on the poll in the upper, right corner of the blog! 

(Deadline to vote is by midnight on June 13th)

Treasury Tuesday: Let's Go Camping!

As the weather gets warmer, we start thinking of a favorite summer pastime...camping!  (even though it's not technically summer yet!) Check out all these items that reminds us of spending time in the great outdoors!

Lets Go Camping! by Jackbear, featuring FrecklesAndFrizz

Be sure you click on the other links to see more treasuries! (I can't picture them all so you have to click on them to see!  If you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Bees featuring PeachesProducts
• Pinup Kitchen featuring LoveAndWhiskers

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Blue and Gold Recent Favorites by KiraArts, featuring OldFamiliarWay

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Grey Poupon? 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Our Love is On Fire

"Our Love is On Fire"? Our RNEST members are on fire! We were in SO many treasuries this week! And SO many good ones! Once again, I was having a hard time picking the pictured one! My August criteria of featuring color treasuries reigned me in and narrowed it down a little....but not much! I ultimately picked Our Love Is On Fire (featuring Buenahelena's matchstick painting) because the firey color scheme was just so gorgeously vibrant.

Our Love Is on Fire... featuring Buenahelena

There are still a bunch of beautiful treasuries! Be sure to click through the links to see them, and leave a comment telling us your favorite!

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Crazy For Stripes! featuring Buenahelena
• Our Love Is on Fire... featuring Buenahelena
• Etsy's Rainbow of Color featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Blue & Lemon Country Kitchen featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Something To Talk About featuring GoldhawkPottery
• Vacation Time Is Coming To An End featuring aDifferentView
• Ray Bradbury - Author Birthday - Aug. 22, 1920 featuring aDifferentView
• Bring Me To Life Of Halloween Night featuring aDifferentView
• Summer Tomatoes featuring KarenSwimmer
• Just Plain Awesome featuring KarenSwimmer
• A Striking Duo featuring MFcrafts
• Grey With A Hint Of Sun featuring MFcrafts
• Fall Crazy Style! featuring MFcrafts
• Jack and Jill Went Treasure Hunting featuring MFvintage
• Lumiere featuring MFvintage
• Layers of Sarah featuring SarahGOrtiz

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• MayDay Preview by BeadworkByAmanda, featuring Buenahelena, TurtleFly, InMyHeadStudios, FuzzyBunny, JiBabu, The StitchingStudio, and 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Shades of Ocean Blue

This week's pictured treasury features a piece from GoldhawkPottery. Doesn't looking at this treasury make you want to take one last trip to the beach before summer s over?

Shades of Ocean Blue 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:

• Smell The Autumn featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Oh For The Love Of Analogue! featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Seeing Spots featuring InMyHeadStudios
• I Think You Are Going To Dig This featuring JiBabu
• Into The Woods featuring JiBabu
• Back To School featuring KarenSwimmer
• SUNFLOWER! featuring KarenSwimmer
• Sunflowers featuring KarenSwimmer
• Oh Baby Baby Baby Oh featuring KarenSwimmer
• Darling It's Better Down Where It's Wetter featuring KarenSwimmer

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Dreamy Sunday by LoveAndWhiskers
• Winds of Change by KarenSwimmer

* 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Peculiar Plum

Once again, it's been a hard week to decide which treasury to picture. There are so many good ones RNESTers made and/or were featured in this week. But seeing as our Team Challenge for the month of August has a theme of "Trending Colors", I'm going to stick with color-themed treasuries to feature this month! Here is a lovely one featuring TheQuiltedHouse!

Peculiar Plum featuring TheQuiltedHouse

Keep those treasuries coming! As hard as it is to choose when there's a lot of great treasuries, I enjoy seeing a wide selection and the different themes people come up with! And, of course, I enjoy seeing the wonderful handmade items as well! As always, be sure you click on the links below and go see the other treasuries that feature some of our other awesome RNEST members! (if you don't, you're missing out!)

Featuring RNEST Members:

• On the Brink Of Autumn featuring Buenahelena
• Pur-py featuring KarenSwimmer
• Looks So Cool featuring TheStitchingStudio
• Beautiful Beaded Jewelry featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Turquoise, A Lovely Shade of Blue featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Labyrinth Boutique featuring aDifferentView
• Back to the future - Timeless Travel - N°1 featuring aDifferentView
• Fantasy and Legends featuring aDifferentView
• Getting Lost In The Labyrinth featuring aDifferentView
• A Labyrinth You Won't Want To Escape From featuring aDifferentView
• Night Terrors featuring aDifferentView
• The Labyrinth Is A Jewel Box featuring aDifferentView
• Hung On The Walls Of The Labyrinth featuring aDifferentView

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Dreams of Fall by TheQuiltedHouse featuring InMyHeadStudios, SunshyneSilverwear, PeachesProducts, FuzzyBunny, and KarenSwimmer
• RNEST Under The Pink by Missrie featuring an all-RNEST cast!

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Through the Portal by KiraArts
• Urban Farm Girl by KarenSwimmer

* 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Teal & Chocolate

So many awesome treasuries this week! It was so hard to pick just one to feature! I ultimately chose BeadworkByAmanda's beautiful Teal and Chocolate color treasury, since I am a sucker for teal/turquoise...especially when it's paired with a chocolate brown. Somehow, I am in the mood for some brownies with teal frosting now. ;)

Teal and Chocolate by BeadworkByAmanda

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:

• Little Boys and Girls Go To School featuring sarahgortiz
• Phoney Fantasy featuring sarahgortiz
• Vintage Back To School featuring MFvintage
• Pigtails and Marching Band featuring MFvintage
• Our House is a Very, Very Fine House featuring MFvintage
• A touch of gothic...red and black for fall featuring MFvintage
• Vintage Treasures for $10 or less featuring MFvintage
• Darling creations all ready for Christmas in July!! featuring MFcrafts
• Cover Up by the Homefront Team featuring MFcrafts
• Pistachio and Copper featuring KarenSwimmer
• Back To School (already?) featuring KarenSwimmer
• Please Feed The Ducks featuring KarenSwimmer
• Yarning For You featuring KarenSwimmer
• Are You Ready For Some Football? featuring KarenSwimmer

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Grey Skies by JiBabu, featuring Buenahelena, PeachesProducts, and SunshyneSilverwear

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Teal and Chocolate by BeadworkByAmanda
• Fusion by BeadworkByAmanda
• Bubbles by BeadworkByAmanda
• For the Boys! Happy Birthday, Declan! by MFCrafts
• Dog Days of Summer - Vintage Style by MFvintage
• Baby It's Cold Outside by MFvintage
• Into The Wild 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Summer Delight

Hello treasury lovers! I hope you're all finding ways to stay cool in the summer heat! I'm loving the colors in this summery treasury featuring Buenahelena! It's summery, yet cool... like a hot summer's day offset with a cool breeze...

Summer Delight featuring Buenahelena

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:

• Cooler In The Shade featuring aDifferentView
• The Softer Side of Christmas in July featuring Missrie
• Repurposed featuring Buenahelena
• Summer Delight featuring Buenahelena
• In The Bag! featuring KarenSwimmer
• Trust the Mustache featuring KarenSwimmer
• Hang On Little Tomato! featuring KarenSwimmer
• Black and White and Red All Over featuring sarahgortiz
• A Colorful Christmas In July featuring sarahgortiz
• Last Chance Etsymom Christmas in July Sale! featuring sarahgortiz
• I Love Brown featuring JiBabu
• All things vintage, upcycled, recycled, re-purposed and made to look that way! featuring JiBabu
• Monday madness sales: Home decor featuring JiBabu

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Green With Envy by Missrie 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Matchbook Minis!

One of the great summer night pastimes is having a campfire. And what do you need to start that fire?...matches! (okay, you could use a lighter, but bear with me here!) And what do you do with those matchbooks when you've used all the matches?...recycle them into cute little crafty things! This week, our own vintage vixen, Buenahelena, has been featured in a treasury focusing on matchbooks!

Matchbook Minis! featuring Buenahelena

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:

• Amazing Finds on our Road Trip featuring Buenahelena
• *\0/* featuring Buenahelena
• Earthy featuring JiBabu
• Christmas in July! Buy! Buy! Buy! featuring JiBabu
• Etsy Mom Christmas in July featuring JiBabu
• Miscellaneous featuring JiBabu
• It's Christmas in July but Still Hot and Sunny! featuring sarahgortiz
• Colorful July featuring sarahgortiz
• Christmas in July featuring sarahgortiz
• Peace, Love, and Music featuring KarenSwimmer
• Killer Tomatoes featuring KarenSwimmer
• First of the Season Tomatoes featuring KarenSwimmer
• You Can't Beat The Motion Beneath The Ocean featuring KarenSwimmer
• Food, Glorious Food! featuring KarenSwimmer

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Birthday Celebration by BeadworkByAmanda
• If 10 Million Fireflies 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Think Pink!

Pink. Not being a super girly-girl, I used to be quite adverse to pink. But the color has grown on me in more recent years. Here's a lovely rosy-hued treasury featuring a piece from aDifferentView.

Think Pink!!! featuring aDifferentView

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:

• Somewhere Over The Rainbow featuring KarenSwimmer
• Give A HOOT!!! featuring KarenSwimmer
• Baby on Board featuring KarenSwimmer
• The Grass Is Always Greener... featuring aDifferentView
• Nature Turns To Beauty featuring aDifferentView
• Island Treasures and Pleasures featuring Missrie
• A Cup of Tea featuring GoldhawkPottery
• "It's 10pm... Do You Know Where YOUR Children Are?" featuring sarahgortiz
• Luftballons featuring MervAndDolores

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Splash In The Tide Pool by KarenSwimmer

* 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Independance

I really enjoyed this creative take on a treasury theme celebrating Independence Day by our own SunshyneSilverwear. Hope you all had a happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th!

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:

• Emotions Are Natural featuring KiraArts
• Somewhere Over The Rainbow featuring KiraArts
• Rainbow featuring KiraArts
• Love Comes In Many Colors featuring KarenSwimmer and KiraArts
• Baby on Board featuring KarenSwimmer
• A Trip To The Farmer's Market featuring KarenSwimmer
• Orange............ featuring KarenSwimmer

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Blue Sky and Lemonade by Sunshynesilverwear
• Staycation by KarenSwimmer

* 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Hello 30!

One of our members, HeatherVitticore (who is also behind the shop MervAndDolores), made this lovely treasury celebrating and embracing saying goodbye to her 20's and turning 30 this past week! (I'm right behind you Heather! I just turned 29 this past week!) It features RNESTers, PeachesProducts and LoveAndWhiskers...

Goodbye 20's, Nice To Meet You 30! by HeatherVitticore

There were lots of delightfully summery treasuries our members were featured in this week. I wish I could have featured them all! Please be sure you click on the links below to check them out! (if you don't, you're missing out!) And you can favorite treasuries now too! So if you like a treasury, be sure to "favorite" it!

Featuring RNEST Members:

• Loving Those Colors Again featuring InMyHeadStudios
• Summer Is Around featuring Missrie
• Sunset City featuring aDifferentView
• Earth Friendly Finds from the Forget-Me-Not Daily Discovery Team! featuring aDifferentView
• Sunflower For Summer! featuring KarenSwimmer
• Sweet Red Berries featuring KarenSwimmer
• Tie Dye Fantasy featuring KarenSwimmer
• 100 Treasuries in 1 Day! Our Tomato Treasury - Treasury No. 61 featuring KarenSwimmer

* 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!

Treasury Tuesday: Strawberries!

It's the first day of summer!!! Yay!!! Go celebrate by heading to your local berry patch and picking some plump, juicy, yummy strawberries!

(By the way...I think KarenSwimmer needs some kind of award for being RNEST's most featured artist in Etsy Treasuries!)

Strawberries featuring KarenSwimmer

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:

• It looks like a good ol' fashion cookout! But It doesn't taste like one featuring KarenSwimmer
• Red Hot Summer featuring KarenSwimmer
• Hungry For More featuring KarenSwimmer
• Summer Hats For Women featuring KarenSwimmer
• An Aunt To Be Needs Etsy Indeed featuring KarenSwimmer
• Good Enough To Eat featuring KarenSwimmer
• I Spend My Summer On The Beach featuring KarenSwimmer
• Ambient Mood Travels featuring Missrie

Curated by RNEST Members:

• The Mad Man With A Box 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!