There is a chill in the air ...

A treasury with 100% homespunsociety team members from Etsy.

Who doesn't like a bargain?  Especially when it's a cute bargain that touches the heart!   There is a heart for everybody this Christmas.  

It's a dark green Christmas this year!

Red coral beauty

Love the red coral!

Ice Cold

A treasury I made for Sofie's shop.  I love winter! 

A vanilla Christmas

Hmmm, I love the smell of vanilla ... and the color mixed with some nice red make it even more outstanding.  So check out all the goodies in this vanilla Christmas treasury I made!

Chocolate mirage?

Who doesn't like chocolate???  I'm sure there are some people that don't care for chocolate ... must say I haven't met too many of them.  Funny thing about chocolate ... I was born and raised in Belgium and moved to the US when I was 18.  When my parents used to come and visit me I always asked them to bring me back Belgium chocolate.  Usually the Cote d'or brand, my favorites are the ones filled with banana cream or the coconut filled bars.  Yummmm.  Back then you couldn't find these in the Bay Area where I used to live.  Now the grocery store where I work carries them so no need to have them shipped from Belgium anymore.  The funny thing is that when I went back to Belgium to visit my family they (usually my dad and my brother) asked me to bring back Hershey's chocolate, they thought that was the cat's miauw!  Everybody thought they were nuts bringing chocolate into the country that's famous for it's own chocolates????  But, they like it.  Just like my dad always liked the Miller Light when he came to visit even though Belgium has sooooooo many breweries and great beer!  Kinda silly isn't it.  Anyway, I was craving chocolate today so I couldn't resist making this treasury.  Enjoy the chocolate!  

Gift guide for our pets

We have a cat, a dog, a hamster, an angora bunny and 10 fish!  They all have a stocking ... except the fish.  They all get a present, my kid makes sure they all do so I thought I'd check out all the fun things on Etsy and put a treasury together for those of you that have pets and need some ideas on what to get for them.  

Horsin' around at Christmas

Made this treasury for my daughter Sofie who owns the MauveMoose shop and loooooves to ride horses!  At 16 she still loves stuffed animals and stuffed horses Mellisa n Doug 2105 43"W x 12"D x 35"H Horse Plush Stuffed Animal (Google Affiliate Ad) are on her Christmas list!  

But baby it's cold outside!

A blue and white snowy kind of treasury this morning. 

Not just an ordinary Monday!

I think this treasury will tell you what kind of Monday it is!!!

Black Friday on a budget $3 and less!

Let's face it these days we all need to watch what we spend so I figured I'd find some really cute affordable items on Etsy that all of us can afford!

Enjoy and shop, shop, shop!   As you can see it doesn't have to break your bank!

All I want is S N O W ... and a white kitten!

I don't think I need to explain ... I'm wishing for a snowy Christmas!

Every girl deserves a pink Christmas

I love a pink Christmas!  I've never actually done a pink Christmas but someday I will.  Just don't have enough pink decorations to make it work.  So I figured I make a treasury all about pink Christmassy stuff.  Enjoy!

Black and blue isn't always a bad thing!

I love black and blue together.  So therefore I made a treasury with all black lacy things and hints of blue while I needed a break away from the needle felting I've been doing.  I'm making some needled felted earrings for the Christmas markets I'll be at in December.  More about that in a different post since I'm not sure what time the market starts and ends.  So in the meantime enjoy checking out all the wonderful shops represented in this treasury! 

1 in 16 treasuries

One of the teams I belong to on Etsy does a 1 in 16 on Fridays to promote the items being sold in the 16 shops represented in the treasury.  A treasury consists of 16 different shops.  The Curator can not include her/his own shop, only the other 16.  I love making treasuries as you can probably tell from looking at my blog.  To me it's like painting a pretty picture and the challenge is making that picture as pretty as possible using only what you can find on Etsy.  Now in the 1 in 16 it becomes even more challenging because you have to pick an item from each of the shops on your list so the choices are a lot more limited compared to when you make a regular treasury which means you have a bejilion choices from all the shops on Etsy and that's a LOT of shops.  The whole thing about making treasuries is trying to get it on the Front Page of Etsy, which means the items listed in that treasury (and hopefully their entire shop) will benefit from getting lots and lots of views of people wanting to get a closer look at what the item (and the rest of the shop) is all about and buy it.  No we do not get paid for all the clicking and buying you and everybody else does by looking at these treasuries we hopefully just get somebody to purchase either the item(s) listed on the treasury or something else from our shop.  But clicking and viewing the items in our treasuries does make a treasury "hot" which means it's part of the magic calculation Etsy Admin uses to put a beautiful treasury on the front page.  So the more you click the better our chances to get noticed and onto the Front Page!   The treasury I made for the 1 in 16 this week is listed in the post below named "Hot to trot!".   Today I wanted to list all the treasuries that were made with an item listed in our MauveMoose shop so I bet ya there will be lots of mice floating around!  I will be adding more treasuries to this post as the day moves on and the treasuries we are in are posted.  Thanks for looking and feel free to click away it's very much appreciated!



   

Pretty soon Ginger will be here ...

I'm pretty sure you can figure out who Ginger might be?  Anyway, lots of cute and delicious gingerbread stuff in all of these shops.  Now I'm craving gingerbread!  They have these really delicious cake-like cookies in Belgium I remember eating years ago.  So, off I go trying to find one on the internet.  Enjoy the gingerbread items I'm sharing with you today.

Mint chocolate - yummmmmm

Who doesn't love chocolate!  My favorite is marsipan chocolate or mint chocolate, yummmmmm.  Anyway, that's what inspired me to make this treasury ... using the mint chocolate colors. 

Have a seat and some grey poupon

Another lovely treasury for the Etsy folks!   Enjoy!

Well rounded with a hint of sugar

... that's the title of my latest Etsy Treasury.  Click away and find more treasures in all the shops represented in this well "rounded" treasury.  And yummmmmm, those cookies look soooo good!