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Red, Green and White For Christmas! - Three for Thursday - December 3, 2020
Posted December 3, 2020
According to the ever ticking Christmas clock, there’s only 21 days until Christmas arrives. If you haven’t already started your holiday shopping, now’s definitely the time! To help you select gifts, I pulled together three handmade beauties from three artists in the christmas colors of red, green and white. These are gifts that are guaranteed to please. The handmade artists are: Linda of VictorianStyleTreasures; Charlotte of Covergirlbeads; and me, Catherine of Shadow Dog Designs. I hope you enjoy these selections and will visit the artists’ shops for more gift ideas. There will be something there for even the hardest to buy for Mom or aunt! Remember: SHOP SMALL and BUY HANDMADE!!!
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Unique Jewelry, Artisan Handmade - Three for Thursday
Posted January 3, 2019
Buy Handmade - Be One in a Million, Not One of Millions
I don’t know about you, but I HATE to buy jewelry that everyone else can buy. I don’t want to see a stranger three states over wearing a piece of jewelry that I might be wearing. That doesn’t happen, however, because I have almost always worn artisan handmade jewelry that is one of a kind, whether the earrings, bracelets or necklace are created by another artist or created by me. There is something so soul satisfying in that, knowing that I’m the only person in the universe wearing a particular design - unless an evil twin in an evil alternate universe is up to her evil copying of designs.
The three handmade artists that are features in this new “Three For Thursday” blog all make one of a kind jewelry designs: Mary of PrettyGonzo; Julie of Blue Morning Expressions; and me, Catherine of Shadow Dog Designs. I hope you enjoy this small sampling of the one of a kind jewelry designs that are in their shops. Please visit each shop for more eye catching and soul satisfying beauty. I hope you enjoy these selections:
Christmas Art
Posted December 22, 2018
More than usual this year, I have been drawn to Christmas / Yule art, especially those pieces with an Old World feeling and those with animals. It's even better when St. Nick or and angle has an animals with him/her! I have pinned quite a few Christmas beauties on a couple of my Pinterest boards. After browsing them, I decided to share a few with you. I’ve included the artist’s name and/or link - only fair. I hope you enjoy these and that they put you in an even more festive frame of mind. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY YULE!
Make It an Artisan Handmade Christmas - Week 4
Posted October 16, 2018
Wow! Where did week 4 of the Countdown to Christmas go? Fortunately, a wide variety of amazing artisan handmade items were left behind. According to the ever ticking Christmas clock, Christmas will be here in only 69 days!!! The Countdown is the perfect place to start your holiday shopping. A good motto to live by this Christmas gift buying season: Shop Early, Shop Often! And, above all, Shop Handmade!!!
Make It an Artisan Handmade Christmas - Week 3
Posted October 9, 2018
Week 3 of the Countdown to Christmas sped right on by . . . and a wide variety of lovely artisan handmade and vintage items have been left in its wake. According to the ever ticking Christmas clock, there is only 75 days until Christmas is here . . . once again. This is the perfect place to start your holiday shopping. Shop early, shop often!
Artisan Handmade Beauties - Three for Thursday
Posted August 16, 2018
My favorite reason to buy handmade is just that - it's handmade, which means quality, and a whole lot of love!
Cammi Higley
I love the quote above from Cammi about handmade . . . because it’s so TRUE! The artists featured in this week’s Three for Thursday blog definitely create quality products, all made with HUGE doses of love. The artists this week are Roxanne of watercolorsNmore who uses watercolors to convey the beauty of Florida; Sue of starspiritstudio who creates amazing rustic terra cotta findings and reclaimed tin earring dangles; and, Sharon of RavensBendFolkArt who paints one of a kind functional items with a whimsical folk art flair. If something catches your eye, please be sure to click on the photo or the link below the picture to be taken to the item for more photos and information. I hope you enjoy the unique artisan handmade items featured below. And remember: BUY HANDMADE!
All Creatures Great and Small - Artisan Handmade
Posted May 19, 2018
I’ll be the first to admit that I am an avid reader - always have been and, I imagine, always will be. It seems I have at least 3-4 books going at the same time and have a stack of books by the bed. One of my all time favorite books, one I have read time and time again, is James Herriot’s (real name, James Alfred Wight) All Creatures Great and Small. I loved that book the most, but also loved the other three in the series: All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful and The Lord God Made Them All (and the other numerous books he wrote). The books made me laugh and also made me cry as Herriot related his life as a country vet in the fictional town of Darrowby, Yorkshire. The people he encountered were funny and sometimes maddening, but it was the description of the animals that touched my heart. You could tell Herriot really, truly cared for the animals. By the way, I also thoroughly enjoyed the BBC series on TV . . . but the books were so much better.
Gift Ideas for a Handmade Mothers Day - Week 1
Posted March 13, 2018
Julie of Blue Morning Expressions is once again hosting the wildly popular Countdown to Mother's Day on her The Blu Print blog. Last year's Countdown to Mother's Day 2017 was a resounding success . . . so the 2018 version is up and running. Since Mother's Day will be here before you know it - about 10 weeks from now - this is the perfect time to start thinking about and buying a gift(s) for your Mom. Browse all the wonderful handmade shares for this week, visit the shops of the artists featured in this week's Countdown and buy your Mom a beauty that was handmade from the heart.
Happy Spring! Happy Easter!
Posted March 8, 2018
The celebration of the return of spring and Easter brings the promise that everything can begin again, of letting go of the old and embracing something new, of renewal of the self and of the earth, and of faith. Just think of everything associated with spring and Easter: promise, resurrection, birth, new love, romance, nesting birds, butterflies, daffodils, tulips, peach blossoms and so many other cheerful flowers.
Flora and Fauna - Wonderful Handmade Wednesday on Indiemade
Posted September 6, 2017
I have always admired Walter Cronkite on so many levels, but mostly as an intelligent and reliable newsman and as a vital, moral human being. Even though he died in 2009, I still remember his plain spoken grace in delivering the news, from moonwalks to war, assassinations to peace treaties and thusands of other topics. A favorite quote of his, made 2005 (but still oh so relevant today), is this one:
“I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things — flora, fauna, human and animal — that exist upon it. The governments of the world have tarried long enough, and the United States is scarcely without doubt the greatest culprit among them. We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.”
