I Won the Vesties Treasury Challege!

The Vintage Etsy Society Team (AKA Vesties Team) does a contest/challenge every week for Etsy treasuries. You have to include at least six Vesties' items, one item from the winner of the past week's challenge, and follow the weekly challenge theme. I enter frequently, but for the first time, this week I won! The theme was "Refresh, renew, and revive."

Here is my winning treasury:

'Reconnect in 2012' by jillhannah

Write a letter, make a phone call, send a carrier pigeon! Just get in touch with old friends in 2012. ALL VESTIES!

Remington No.3 Manu... housewarming10... $350.00	Vintage Country Bel... VintageWolfy $145.00	Vintage US Mail Box Rustical $55.00	Vintage Metal Addre... SummerHolidayV... $10.50
Vintage Postmark St... LuccaBalesVint... $9.50	antique boston penc... littlepart $20.00	Antique nibs. Insta... MademoiselleCh... $24.95	Vintage Rolodex, Fi... ShopMichL $10.99
50% Off Mid Century... TheWishingWard... $17.50	Brass Letters Door ... VintageLancast... $36.00	Vintage rotary phon... clcort $32.00	SALE-Vintage Match ... ChestnutHillVi... $15.40
Vintage Ostrich Fea... TheeLetterQ $9.00	Vintage Tiny Addres... SitDownSetDown $6.00	Set of 20 rare anti... SimonEtCie $5.50	Vintage Post Office... CampyClassics $24.95

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

ShopMichL had been the previous week's winner and was therefor the one who selected my treasury. She said:

"I chose this winning treasury because not only is it gorgeous - not only is it 100% Vesties - but its creator's take on the theme of renew, refresh, revive really struck a chord in me. Long distance friendships and family relationshipsare sadly a big part of my life. I would love to live in the midst of EVERYONE I love, but nope - I'm way over here in a distant city. I miss them, all the time, a lot. This treasury is a reminder to reach out."

All the 46 entries I was up against can be seen here:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/tags/ttchallenge52

Now, for this week, I get to be in a gazillion treasuries! The rules for this week's contest (and a few of my photos) can be found on the Vesties blog here:

http://vintageetsysociety.blogspot.com/2012/01/treasury-challenge-53-week-of-january.html

It's only been two days and there are already 20 entries. I've been busting my butt to keep up with them all, commenting and posting them on my Facebook page and Twitter.

You can see all of the entries for this week, which each contain one item from my shop, here:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/tags/ttchallenge53

I don't know how I'm going to choose the "best" since there are so many amazing ones already! This is too much fun!

Yarn Ogling: A Weird&Twisted Contest

Fellow Etsy Promo Love team member Weird And Twisted (featured in at least one of my past treasuries and coveted in more than one of my past yarn cravings) is having a Third Etsiversary Giveaway Contest over at her blog! With a ball of yarn and a more-than-halfway-done project (fingerless gloves for the Boyfriend) actually touching my thigh at this very moment and being part of the three-year Etsy veteren club myself, I just had to participate in this fabulous contest. I'll get my very own skein of spun-just-for-me-yarn!

Images of Inspiration:

A bit of silliness staged on previously mentioned boyfriend's desk

Antrhopologie $198 a roll Crested Fireback wallpaper
Vintage ornate light switch plate (conveniently for sale in my shop right now...oh how subtle of me)

Carnival WINNER!

Congratulations to Wehaf Urchiken, winner of FOUR thank you cards with recycled wallpaper envelopes. Since there were arguably 22 valid entries, 22/5 is a little more than four, so one of her envelope/thank you cards is the 4 1/2" x 2 3/4" size bigger minis (makes more sense when you see the photo). Also, she said she liked paisley, and lucky for her, I've been very paisley lately, so it's a whole paisley collection! In fact, I love damask, but I'm waiting for paisley to show up as its sister everywhere pattern. It seems like I'm not the only one. Let's get a trend going here, people.

Didn't win? There's more in my shop, and I'm always happy to take custom orders for any number and any general paper request. I have palm trees, rocking chairs, and deer heads. Right now I'm just trying to get more general ones listed and umph my visibility, but maybe some weird hunting scenes would do that, too...


A little endnote here: there's something terribly anti-climactic about a random number generator. It takes less than a second and then that's it. It's the fairest way (you should see all the statistical analysis stuff about the way they did the Vietnam draft because of how they didn't properly mix the drum of numbers), but way less exciting than if I had lottery balls flying around a glass vat or a big sparkly light board or models holding briefcases.

EtsyGreetings Blog Carnival Giveaway Spectacular

Step right up and see the Amazing Flexible Giveaway!
It's EtsyGreetings Blog Carnival time!
I don't normally do blog giveaways (and by "normally" I mean "ever"), but this one's for the team and I'm making it special.
Leave your comment to win anywhere from two to 15 business card/gift card sized "thank you" cards with recycled wallpaper envelopes!
Here's how it works: Leave a comment on THIS blog post to enter. One entry per person. I will take the total number of entrants and divide it by FIVE to determine how many card/envelope sets go to the winner, so tell your friends to increase the prize! Total prize will not be less than two sets or more than 15.
If, in your comment, you tell me your favorite wallpaper envelope (one from my shop, the photo, or something general you hope for like "pink floral" or "red plaid") I will do my best to include it in your bundle should you win!
Then head on over to everybody else's carnival booths and see how much EtsyGreetings goodness you can fit into your life.
Contest open to all earth addresses. Yes, I will ship outside the US. No, I will not ship into space. Contest ends 11:59 Central Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 so I can RANDOMLY select a winner (random number generator is my friend) and post Friday. Entries insulting my mom will be counted. Entries that are blatant ads for other crap will not.

Can't wait to win 'em? Buy 'em!