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See below to learn how to get 20% off at www.OooohShiny.etsy.com and/or one million good karma points!


Devin and Julie are (a little more than) slightly obsessed with painting pottery at Color Me Mine. Their respective apartments are full with one-of-a-kind pieces (some better than others), but all created during afternoons of laughter and fun.

Every Color Me Mine is currently hosting a "Give a Dog a Bone" contest in which people vote on the best dog bowl by "liking" it on Facebook. Devin has an entry at the Norfolk, VA location (click on the picture below) and really really *really* wants to win (the winner receives a VIP pass to CMM, which includes all sorts of awesome stuff). And she's super competitive.


In order to vote, you need to "like" the actual Color Me Mine page first, then you can check out Devin's bowl and "like" it. Here's the incentive.......

........if you vote for Devin's bowl, you can receive 20% off your entire purchase at her Etsy shop! Just let her know you voted when checking out (leave your real name so she can verify it!) and she will refund the 20% through PayPal.

OR, you could just be a completely fantastic person and help a girl out and get one million good karma points.


ps. The bowl belongs to this dog ---->


....................................................................how can you resist such a face??


pps. You can "unlike" the Color Me Mine page after you've voted if you hate having tons of random pages on your profile. No worries.

I'm a muse......

I was chatting with the fabulous & talented Sara of Twillypop on Twitter this morning and she showed me something that absolutely made my day....

http://www.etsy.com/listing/52317724/the-devin-ribbon-bracelet

A bracelet! Named after MEEEEE!

And then I saw something else that added to the excitement....

http://www.etsy.com/listing/52318950/devin-ribbon-necklace

A necklace! Also named after MEEEEE!

Seriously.


I've thought Sara to be the bee's knees for awhile now (both in talent & personality), but this just cemented her place in my heart. And don't you just LOVE her description?

Devin is a romantic, classic, & feminine color combination......yet "she" remains hip and relevant..

♥  Je l'adore  ♥

And they're so perfectly ME. Gray and pink...dark and sparkly...
Sigh. What a great morning :)

Etsy... !? (yay?)

I closed my Etsy shop a few months ago because it had started to consume me and I was leaving very little time for anything else. Almost immediately after making my decision, I felt better - calmer, more relaxed. Since I've closed, I've been able to focus more on reading, cleaning, exercising...I feel as though I'm in a better place now and now that I've been through this once, I've been thinking more and more about reopening my Etsy store.

However - I'm going to need to constantly remind myself that Etsy is *not* (unfortunately) my job or as important as a lot of other things in my life, especially my health.

I also need to remind myself that HEY! Jules and I HAVE A BLOG and we need to update it more than once a month. The more we write, the more an actual theme of wtf this whole thing is about will appear and then we can work our way to being blog princesses. 

(Yeah, right.)

So - back to this whole Etsy thing. 

Even while I've been EtsyMIA, I've still been trying to create....but I feel as though I'm losing my jewelry-making-mojo and it drives me nuts. I'll sit on the floor for two hours and the end result will be half of a necklace. I have all sorts of ideas in my head but actually getting them out into the open is proving to be quite difficult.

So! I have some ideas of new things that I'll be adding to my shop. I think I want a more cohesive "c0llection," if you will - hopefully other people will like certain designs as much as I do. And then actually buy them. Because that's the end goal, right? Right.

me, me, me

Earlier this week, Marlorie of the lovely and talented itsastitch created a treasury that expressed herself through Etsy. A few others followed suit and I decided to join the cool kids, as evidenced here:

Creating this treasury was a lot more difficult that I originally anticipated. Actually, so is writing this blog post. I wanted to discuss what I think my collection says, and how I'm not sure if I'm happy with it - but since that's fairly consistent with how I feel about myself, I suppose it's fitting.

Since the words aren't actually flowing easily as I had hoped and I'm getting more and more frustrated as I sit here searching for them, I'm going to leave you with one more link. Ashli has collected the other treasuries in her blog post: A Treasured Year: Someone Life You. Check them out - they're lovely and inspiring.