Gift guide for the classy man

Treasury made by Sofie for the Homespunsociety team.  Check out the unique and fun items she found!  I loooooove the bow tie and the WOOD ties!  If you're looking for something different click away little bird click away and find more treasures hidden behind each of these pictures!  Thanks for looking, and clicking and buying.  

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!



   

Hot to trot

That's the name of the treasury I made for the 1 in 16 Homespunsociety team on Etsy.  If you like red hot items and some purple ones these are made for you! 

Sleeping on my back, another hat and one more book

I'm soooooo tired of sleeping on my back with this darn sling on.  I find myself laying almost completely flat on my back although I start the night with still being propped up on two pillows and another one underneath my left arm to keep it in place.  The sling makes it so my arm sticks up in the air due to the metal thing it rests on and which is attached to my waist.  Went to my follow up appointment and yeahhhhh only two more weeks wearing this darn sling!  Then physical therapy can start which part of me is looking forward too but I know it's going to be painful so not looking forward to that part of this ordeal.  In the meantime I can type and do some things like sewing and knitting but only a few rows at a time although I must say I've moved up to about 10 rows.  Doc was impressed by the range of motion I have in the shoulder he did surgery on so that was good to hear.  Only thing that really bugs me is that when I do move my shoulder like when I take the sling off for my passive exercises or to get dressed I can actually feel (not as in touching it with my hand) but more mentally I guess is the way to describe it, where the anchors are located in my shoulder joint.  Kinda weird, but that's where it hurts the most when I move my shoulder.  That's the spot where he reattached the labrum and I realize that needs to heal and hopefully that feeling will go away by then.  Anyway, I just can't wait to start stretching that arm out and hopefully down the road without any pain doing just that.  

Alright, enough about my shoulder ... on to fun things ... I just sewed together this cute little red hat I made and crocheted the white pom poms.  Doesn't it look cute!  I started making a smaller version of this one since it doesn't take much effort to knit these and my arm is getting better I hope to get this one done for the December 2nd Christmas market I will attend.  More about that in a different post since I don't have all the details for it yet.  I'll be out of my sling by then!!!  Yeahhhhh!!!  I figure I will take it along tho because I know I'll be stretching and reaching for things across the table when I'm at the market.  Thank God my 16 yr old is going along with me to set up and help me, I really wouldn't be able to do this without her at this point.  

https://www.etsy.com/listing/115132717/knitted-red-and-white-toddler-hat-santa

 

 

 

Then I also just listed another one of my knitting books.  I have way too many books on hand and need to make room for other books!  Sounds like the perfect excuse to buy some more.  These books are in excellent condition and could even be purchased to give as a gift to somebody who loves knitting obviously!  They are listed in my BitsOfFiber shop on Etsy.  The Minnow Knits book by Jil Eaton has the cutest most unique outfits I've seen in a long time.  Wish I had more time to knit when my daughter was little.  Here is the link to this one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/115126079/minnow-knits-uncommon-clothes-to-knit?ref=v1_other_2

Newborn pixie hat and booties set and knitting books for sale

Just listed these two books and the baby hat and booties set.  It looks so darn cute on the doll I use as a model for my pictures!  Anyway, the books I'm selling because I just don't knit sweaters and bigger items then hats, booties and scarves anymore.  I have plenty of books in my library and I desperately need to get rid of some ... so I have room to buy some other books of course!  hehe  The books are in excellent condition, they would make a wonderful gift for that knitter in the family or friend who likes to knit.  They are listed in my BitsOfFiber shop but I will put the links by the photos in this post so it's easy to get to.  If you have any questions about the books please feel free to shoot me an e-mail.

Here is the link for this hat and booties set:

 http://www.etsy.com/listing/115053376/newborn-knitted-elf-hat-and-booties

Here is the link to The Ultimate Knitter's Guide book I'm selling:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/115030626/the-ultimate-knitters-guide-by-kate?

 Here is the link to Glorious Knits book I'm selling:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/115035042/glorious-knits-by-kaffe-fassett-a-used

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.