Treasury Tuesday: Patriotic

Memorial Day was yesterday, so this is day "late", but I thought it would be appropriate for this week's featured treasury to be a patriotic one.

Patriotic 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:

• A Touch Of Green featuring aDifferentView
• Shadowtime featuring aDifferentView
• Lemon Drop Martini featuring aDifferentView
• Romance Is All Around featuring MervandDelores
• Summer Day featuring MFcrafts
• Flora and Fauna featuring MFvintage

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Your Love Is Better Than Chocolate featuring Buenahelena, The QuiltedHouse, MereWare, KiraArts, GoldhawkPottery, KarenSwimmer, and FuzzyFunny

Curated by RNEST Members:

• Snap! by KiraArts
• Wishing For A Warm Breeze by KarenSwimmer
• My Wandering Mind 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!

Make-it Mondays:Post-It Notebooks

This week's tutorial comes from Kira Sinclair of KiraArts....well actually from her mom ;) These would make great gifts and perk up boring desk at work too. Enjoy!!!

From Kira:
At my request, my mom wrote the original blog tutorial for these cute little Post-It Notebooks that she makes. I've done a bit of editing, elaborating, and reformatting... but all the craft work shown in this post is all her! (I should get her to do a tutorial for one of her coffee cup cards/books).

Step 1:

First cut your base card stock 7 1/8 inches by 3 1/4 inches. (I used black...since a friend, who was destashing her scrapbooking supplies, gave me a lot of this thick, sturdy, black cardstock.) Crease at 3 1/2 and 3 6/8. (See picture above.)

Step 2:

Create Flowers or circles from punches or what ever design you want. You can even use rubber stamps, markers, geometric shapes, whatever you want! (This is the fun and creative part!)

Step 3:

Glue a 3 by 3 piece of paper on top of the black cardstock (I used lime green), then glue on your embellishment (I used green & yellow paper flowers).

Step 4 (Optional):

If you want your inside cover to be a pretty pattern or a different color from the base cardstock, you can glue some patterned/colored paper on the inside of the cardstock cover.

Step 5:

Finally, glue the spine of the 3 inch Post-It Note pad into the area where you creased for the folds. (OR, alternatively, you could glue the pad to the bottom of the inside of the booklet, but I recommend gluing the spine.)

And there you have it! A cute little Post-It Notebook to pretty up your regular old boring Post-Its! You can make lots of them with different designs. You can even personalize them. It's a quick and easy project and can be a great little handmade gift!

*A special thanks to my mom for humoring me and writing the original tutorial on her blog (even though she is insecure about her blogging capabilities!), and for providing most of the photos!*

May Team Challenge: Lilacs

In honor of Rochester's claim to fame as the lilac capital of the world, this month's challenge presents RNESTers' take on our city's favorite flower.

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



Serenity Hand Flowers by A Different View

Sanctuary by A Different View

Domino Pendant - Lilac by In My Head Studios

Deep Purple Circuit Cuff Links by Beadwork by Amanda

Lilac Beaded Earrings by Kelley's Beading

Lavender Hand Knit Afghan by MF Crafts

Cast your vote for your Lilac-inspired favorite on the upper right of the sidebar! 

Treasury Tuesday: Bird-Watching

With spring finally being in full bloom, the birds are back and twitter-tweeting away (well, y'know...not really with Twitter...bird don't use computers! Ha ha! ~ahem~) Anyway, after a trip to my grandmother's house, who is an avid bird lover and bird watcher, and watching the birds at the feeders outside her kitchen window, I was inspired to make this treasury highlighting some pretty bird-inspired work, which includes a feather hair comb from our own PeachesProducts. I know birds and bird themes are ubiquitous on Etsy (and everywhere else!) but they're just so pretty!

Bird-Watching featuring PeachesProducts

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:

• Snug As A Bug In A Rug! featuring KarenSwimmer
• Teal Babies featuring KarenSwimmer
• Grow Your Own featuring KarenSwimmer
• What A Pig Wants featuring KarenSwimmer
• Beautiful and Different Crocheting featuring KarenSwimmer
• Happy Sunday featuring KarenSwimmer
• Hey Boo Boo... featuring KarenSwimmer

Featuring and curated by RNEST Members:

• Summer Joys by KiraArts, featuring PeachesPictures
• I (heart) Buttons! by KiraArts featuring PeachesPictures and AlisonTyne

Curated by RNEST Members:

• I (heart) Wooden Toys! by KiraArts
• Spools! by KiraArts
• A Mile of Smiles by KarenSwimmer
• Warm by SoftShellCrafts
• Lemon Zest by GocksFrocks

* 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

You know how Etsy sellers love to write things in their descriptions like "made in a smoke free/ pet free home"? Well, some of us are proud to have pets who help us make things. And I say to hypoallergenicphile buyers "NO! I will not give up my little buddy(ies) for you!" Here are the first of pets who help us make things from the Rochester NY Etsy Street Team....

Miso feline assistant to Buenahelena


Cosmo, studio helper for PeachesProducts, claims the beginning of a felted Alice in Wonderland scene as primo napping real estate.

Then she runs of with an owl body blank

And finally settles in for a long nap on Peaches' fabric, because she didn't need that for stuffers...

Too cute! They may get in the way more than they actually help, but they are always there to remind us to take a break. If you would like your Etsy pet featured on the blog, contact Buenahelena@hotmail.com. We welcome all animals :)

Friday Fashion Fix

My daughter is always leaving her earrings and other jewelry in random places around her room...

This jewelry dish would be the perfect fix for this habit. Besides the fact that her favorite color is green, she would enjoy being able to see her earrings so beautifully displayed as well as any of her other favorite bobbles!

Love, love, love this simple and very clever solution to the jewelry dilemma in our house!

If you know a certain someone who needs some help finding her favorite bobbles, visit Goldhawk Pottery and gift this pretty little dish!

Wednesday Wellspring Winner

Congratulations to #6, Amber, for winning the gorgeous print from Sarah G. Ortiz Photography!!

Thanks to all who entered! Join us next Wednesday for our monthly team challenge: Lilacs!