Silver & Red Mega Holiday Giveaway

There's a great big give-away, just in time for the holidays, hosted by the lovely rikrak on the the rikrak studio blog. Prizes include my Radiolarians lino block print. You should check it out! Because she's such a sweetie, participants like me can enter to win prize packs without any of their products, so I'm going to enter. You should too!

More Handmade Goodies: The TCET Christmas Promo

Check out the Trans-Canada Etsy Team blog for details! For every $10 you spend in any participating shop, such as things from secret minouette places, within these 12 days, gets you one ballot to the draw, for all this loot.
****1 bonus ballet can be earned by posting a "Letter to Santa" in our team blog's comments section; or blog your letter to Santa and mention this promo (please come back and leave your blog link here). This letter must contain you favorite item from each of 3 different participating stores: minouette, Trans-Canada Etsy Team shop, Chichi, La Paperie, inkyspider, kootsac, lotus paperie, mythicalmatters, tangente, pixel8ed,enthral, loopy4ewe, fiveforty, OffTheHooks, PrairiePeasant, PrairieThreads, RJcharms, rikrak, MyHandboundBooks, cleanbright, StringMeAlong, Intuibead, seaglassdesigns, WildWomanJewelry, & paisleybaby.

You can see my block printed butterfly pin in black ink on red silk up front.

Also, I've put all winter-themed block prints, including Vixen in the Snow, Winter Walrus and The Cottonwood Trail on sale for the next month.

Garlic and spice

I've made another "Natural History" ornament. I had no plants (only fungi), but now I have a garlic bulb - which serves double duty as my entry to the Trans-Canada Etsy Team challenge for November: SPICE. I think of the textured cream fabric on the reverse as echoing the lines in garlic paper. Part of me wants to print this block on paper I make from hand with garlic skins, but more of me would like to preserve my sanity. I've made enough paper by hand to know what a monumental task that would be. Despite its papery texture, garlic skins are low on fibres, and brittle.

The Trans-Canada Etsy Team has a great give-away planned... I'll let you know when it begins. My fellow TCET member, the charming rikrak does a lot of give-aways on her blog. Soon there will be one involving a secret thing from a minouette place. Follow her blog or watch for a mention here. I'll let you know when there is a chance at free minouette loot.

The second interview for the Toronto Etsy Street Team will be with me. Check the blog tomorrow to find out what I had to say. I find this interview process interesting - like a means to learn something about myself.