November Advertising Opportunity

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Was your October as busy as mine was? Wow, where did the month go? Where did the year go? Christmas is less than ten weeks away. That’s T.E.N. weeks!! Geeez Louize……I better get going and start figuring out who’s going to be on my Santa’s list. Before I know it, it’ll be December and I’ll be rushing…again! But I already know you are on my list because I have a [...]

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Holiday Advertising Special

For a limited time… I’m having a Three Month Holiday Advertising Special!! Until end of December,  it will be… $30 …to be a sponsor on my blog. You can post a 125×125 like this  on the left side bar. That’s right, just $30 for the rest of the year. Go to this page for more information or you can click this button below to purchase an ad. Know someone who [...]

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Clearance Sale on EcoKaren

I am having a clearance sale on all items in my Etsy shop to make room for a new line of products in 2010. I am trying to streamline the shop into a more cohesive structure – a business plan that has been on the back burner since the summer – better late than never, right? So take advantage and buy them before they are gone. So buy a green [...]

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Nashville Wraps Community

My article about Fair Trade was featured on this lovely website called Nashville Wraps Community. I am so honored. Thank you Nashville Wraps Community!

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Eco Friendly Handmade Cyber Monday

Is it really Cyber Monday today? I love it. Isn’t it quiet? No crowds.  Plenty of parking spaces. No check out lines. I can shop in my jammies with a cup  of hot brimming coffee. This is great! So let’s see what great eco friendly finds there are on Etsy. Recycled denim birds on Christmas tree would be awesome. Repurposed Bird Ornament by copabananas Perfect gift for a hostess or [...]

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Eco Friendly Handmade Christmas

Here are some handmade Christmas goodies. Merry Christmas all winter long… Cool presents for your birds! This will start some creative conversations at your holiday party, heh? Who wouldn’t like your present if you wrap them in these? And finally, a placemat and a utensil case in one. Don’t use disposable plastic utensils. Be real and carry real ones. I think I am getting closer to being done with my [...]

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Buy Eco friendly Handmade

Continuing with some great Eco Friendly Handmade finds on Etsy today… You can never have enough pillows and these are made with bamboo fabric too! Just looking at these arm warmers keep my arms and wrists warm. Pretty flowers too. OK, I’m biased on these but the lavender smells so great and did you know that lavender is great for stress relief? This conflict free diamond ring makes me want [...]

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Green Ecokaren Magnets

Short little post today….. I’ve been trying different promotional items to include when I ship to buyers. It’s my way of introducing my other items in the shop and also a way to say “Thank You” for their purchase. I’d send one of these…an organic makeup remover. or one of these…a bird’s nest magnet made from non-recyclable plastic bottle caps. Yes, did you know that the plastic bottle caps are [...]

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Brag Your Green Blog

For the next few days, I will be tweaking the rooms (‘pages’ -  for those of you who haven’t kept up with my analogies) here and will be adding some new features as well. So bear with me while I hang more pictures on the wall and continue to do some last minute touch ups. I don’t know when I’ll ever be done but it’s an evolving venture, this blogging [...]

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Going Green Eco-Party

I normally don’t promote teams that I don’t belong to but this fabulous team is having a “Going Green Eco Party Week” How can I not mention them? I know some members in the team and they are fabulous artists. Starting tomorrow, July 21st to July 27th, the authority on Twitter for all things handmade will be offering a summer feast of cool eco-friendly tips, suggestions, awesome handcrafted genius and [...]

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Team Trashion’s HUGE SALE

BIGGEST SALE EVER! I am a new member of a great team called Etsy Trashion Team. The team’s motto is: We create art, jewelry, fashion and objects for the home, made from materials that were leftover, discarded, or found and sell them on Etsy. Trashion is all about bringing out the beauty in unconventional objects and materials. For us recycling is an art and an ideal. The Trashion philosophy encompasses [...]

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Voting starts on my quilted furoshiki

Remember my quilted furoshiki wrap and the tutorial? Well, it’s in a contest at Instructable.com and I need your vote. It’ll only take a minute. You have to become a member first in order to vote. The site has amazing instructions to make anything you can imagine – mostly eco-friendly and DIY projects you’d love. Go check out the site. And vote for my wrap. I really really need a [...]

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Salad for Breakfast’s Product Review, Interview, and a Giveaway.

Salad for Breakfast – just love that name – is a blog that reviews products, features interviews, and gives away cool stuff. Sarah, the blogger behind this very successful website, contacted me to do an interview a while ago. I was only glad to have her review my organic washcloth and give me an objective opinion. And she did a fabulous job. Please visit her blog, read the review, the [...]

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Trashion and Etsymoms

I recently joined two new teams: Trashion and Etsymoms. Trashion featured me in it’s blog and introduced me to the team in a very welcoming way. I think I’ll have a great experience with this team. The team members of Trashion are “Etsy sellers who focus on recycling and upcycling all kinds of discarded and found materials…. are creative artists and crafters who are dedicated to making trash into treasure!” [...]

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My First Front Page!

My Desert Moon Brooch made Etsy Front Page! My first time being on front page…..ever! Thanks for the treasury inkyspider and congratulations on making the front page.

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Cosa Verde’s Blog about Mother’s Day Dollar Sale

Today is my best day ever……… Cosa Verde mentioned my Mother’s Day Dollar Sale in its blog today. I’m so honored.

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Instructable Mother’s Day Contest Entry

My Instructable Mother’s Day contest entry makes the front featured page! I’m on the bottom left. Yay!

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PIF (Pay It Forward) for Mother’s Day

I posted last week about Mother’s Day Dollar Sale and PIF for moms. PIF means Pay It Forward – Etsian term for a listing an item at a steep discount. If you buy a PIF item, though, you have to list an item in your shop as PIF in return. As of today, there are over 1,400 items listed as PIF. I am tagging my PIF items as Mother’s Day [...]

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My first contest entry

I was in a weird, enthusiastic and optimistic mood this morning and entered a contest. Yeah, it was my first. I submitted my furoshiki tutorial to a website called Instructable. It is running a Mother’s Day contest and I thought the quilted furoshiki would be perfect for Mother’s Day. Wish me luck!

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Mother’s Day Dollar Sale

I was reading a post on Etsy forum and a mom didn’t want anything for Mother’s Day because of job loss. My heart sank! So just in case you are feeling this bad economy downturn, I decided to put some of my items on “Mother’s Day Dollar Sale” Here are some items that are on Dollar Sale until Mother’s Day or until they are all gone.

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Featured Earth Day Giveaway

A very nice fellow blogger named Country Girl City Life is giving away my last eco-friendly iPhone/iPod Cozy in celebration of Earth Day! Go check it out and may be you’ll win it or another eco-friendly items she’s featuring.

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Treasury

I am in a treasury called, “I want them all” by Kellyssima. It’s a beautiful collection of colors and my knitting needle case made it. This case is meant to be for round needles but actually, it can be used for anything. Go check out some beautiful items from talented eco team members. Thanks Kelly for including me.

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Blog Survey Giveaway

Take my survey. Please. Instead of me dishing out my thoughts here all the time, this is your chance to dish out your thoughts for a change. Oh, I read your comments and I really appreciate them but I thought I’d construct some questions I have of my own for you to think about. It’s not a long survey, just ten (10) questions. Don’t worry, your secrets are safe with [...]

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Paperless Networking is Eco-Friendly

I like the fact that I don’t have to use paper mailings to market my Etsy shop. I like the fact that I don’t have to use ink to print the mailings. I like the fact that I can post photos instead of processing films. I like the fact that I can reach so many people without spending money on stamps. I like the fact that I don’t have to [...]

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Fabulous Friday Eco-Friendly Products on April 10th

I will be featuring some fabulous eco-friendly products on Friday April 10th in celebration of Easter and Spring. If you would like to introduce your eco-friendly products, please leave me a comment here or via e-mail (click the button on the upper left corner on this page) or contact me via my ecogeneration shop. I will choose ten (10) out of all the entries and will intorduce them here. Here [...]

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March Madness GREEN and FREE treasury!

This treasury is by Eco Etsy Team member fashiongreentbags called March Madness FREE and GREEN. fashiongreentbags makes reusable bags with t-shirts. Very creative and fashionable. Thanks for including me in your wonderful collection. March Madness: FREE and GREEN is a free gift promotion with purchase by Eco Etsy Team members. I am giving away a facial cloth crocheted with organic yarn. My organic yarn is super-uber soft and very good [...]

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Birds Nest Magnets are nominated

The plastic bottle cap birds nest magnets are nominated by kimquinndotcom for the Eco Etsy Team’s blog. It’s always exciting when someone recognizes your work but these magnets are special to me because these magnets were one of the first items I started to sell when I opened my Etsy shop. Since then, I made soap dishes, picture frames, and abstract art pieces with them. These non-recyclable plastic bottle caps [...]

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Winter Blues….Not Any More! Treasury

My blue organic pouch made it into a treasury called “Winter Blues……not anymore” by PlanetPlayground. Aren’t the colors soothing? It expires on Friday so check it out! PlanetPlayground makes some great clothes for kids with vintage fabric and upcycled clothes. Very pretty.

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Treasury West – "this little piggy went to market" Contest

I am always thrilled when my item gets picked for a treasury. But this time, mine was selected by a mistake so I was thrilled even more….the humorous side of me, I guess. But here it is. Can you guess what the mistake was? If you can guess, I’ll send you the Birds Nest Magnets that are featured here. You’re going to have to check out the treasury in order [...]

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March Madness Eco Team Promotion

Can you believe it’s March already? Well, to celebrate March and to welcome Spring (although there’s a winter advisory warning here in the East Coast…), Team Eco Etsy is having a “March Madness” Freebies Promotion this month. There are more than forty eco friendly shops that are participating and you can get freebies when you purchase from them…including ecogeneration. I am giving an Organic Cotton Facial Cloth measuring 4″x4″ – [...]

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My First Etsy Treasury!

I finally figured how to snag a treasury this morning called “Bargain Hunters Wanted“! It’s about time – it only took me three months but “Woo Hoo”!!! I got so depressed about the economy and thought may be all of you are feeling it too. So just in case you need “retail therapy”, do it in style and in an eco friendly way by checking out these “SALE” items among [...]

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Blue is the New Green Treasury

You should check out these great blue organic creations by Eco Organic Team! They are awesome. Thanks to Herbanlifestyle, my blue organic washcloths were featured. Herbanlifestyle carries everything natural and organic for your body. Her essential oils and massage oils sound so soothing. Check out her shop. Also, check out the featured sellers on her treasury while it’s still there.

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I’ve been featured on GreenEarthJourney

This is a great week! Two features in one week! GreenEarthJourney is another green blog that I follow and love. She is a blogging maven with chock full of info on products, etsy sellers, websites, companies, and other ecological issues. It’s an honor to be featured with a full length interview!! Go check out her blog. She’s full of eco energy!

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Green Eco Services

Green Eco Services gave a little shout about my shop and Valentine’s Day gifts on her blog. The blog is filled with an incredible amount of practical green information. It lists Green Printers and Dry Cleaners, state by state, energy saving gadgets, cool companies that sell recycled surf and skateboards…. among other things. It’s one of my favorite green blogs. So, I was honored to have been mentioned on it.

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Featured in Love Birds Treasury

My red Birds Nest Magnets were featured in a treasury by Craftgasm called “The Love Birds of Team Eco Etsy” How appropriate with Valentine’s Day coming soon! Check it out! Craftgasm makes notebooks with recycled junk mail. How clever is that?

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Etsy Organic Team’s Treasury

Etsy Organic Team‘s new super administrator, Natural Star, snagged a treasury on Etsy and included one of my favorites – Organic Facial Pads. Yay! Just in case you don’t know what a treasury on Etsy is…it’s a collection of items that a fellow Etsian picks and gets to feature on the Treasury page. The feature lasts only for a few days. There’s a whole procedure involved and I still haven’t [...]

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Happy Eco-Friendly Valentine’s Day!

Atelierofmine included my Red Napkin Rings on her Valentine’s Treasury. It’s so nice when a fellow Etsian recognizes your crafts. Check out her shop. She makes some amazing clutches. Looking at her selection in her treasury, she has a great sense of style, doesn’t she? Speaking of Valentine’s Day……check out TeamEcoEtsy’s blog for it’s selection of Eco-Friendly Valentine’s Day gifts. They are awesome. My ERA for the day was remembering [...]

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Birds’ Nest Magnets in Treasury!

My red Birds Nest Magnets are in the treasury! Anna and Erin from Warefoto put them in their treasury called “Eco Flock” – a great collection of all bird related items. Very cool! Thank You! My Environmentally Responsible Act for the day (I think, I’ll call it ERA for short); I made a breakfast sandwich for my son this morning and I was about to throw out a perfectly good [...]

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1001 Ideas for Creative Reuse Treasury

My organic blue gift tag was among the items featured in the Etsy Storque article about Garth Johnsons’ new book called 1001 Ideas for Creative Reuse. I was so shocked! This was the first time my item was featured by an Admin at Etsy. Basically, Garth Johnson from ExtremeCraft.com is choosing 1001 crafts that people made reusing upcycled materials to be featured in his new book. Check out the article. [...]

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I’m featured in greensprings0′s blog!

I’m featured in greensprings0’s (that’s number zero) blog! She wrote a lovely article about having a spa experience when you cleanse your face and she featured my washcloths. I love her suggestions. See how you can use my washcloths and her oils to get the soothing spa experience without spending a lot of money. I’m still in holiday mode. Aren’t you? I will post some great ideas after the New [...]

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Fantastic Trash Treasury

I think trash IS fantastic when we can upcycle them instead of throwing them out. Apparently, fashiongreentbag think so too because she included my Christmas Red Napkin Rings on her recent treasury called Fantastic Trash. Her shop has repurposed bags from t-shirts! How cool and original!

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Upcycled Etsy Treasury

I was featured in an treasury called “Upcycled Treasury” by TheOldOakTree. She included two of my items and I am so excited. She makes some great natural products that gets the stink out of garbage and laundry. I’m always grateful when a fellow Etsian features me in her/his treasury. Thanks Old Oak Tree (gotta love that name!)

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I’m a Featured Seller on Team Eco Etsy!

Check out the article on Team Eco Etsy’s blog If you can tell me what is my “favorite resource” from the article and answer in the comment section here, you’ll receive 20% off on any of my items. The offer expires on Friday December 19 – in time to receive before Christmas. Remember, shipping is FREE too. Hurry. Go check it out.

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Red Red Wine Treasury

Don’t you love seeing Red during the Holiday Season? I think the Chinese love Red – it is considered to be color of Prosperity and Good Luck. Well, I feel lucky today because my Holiday Red Napkin Rings is featured in a treasury named “Red Red Wine” on Etsy. Go check it out. It expires on Monday Dec. 8th. Thank you Moonbeads! Let’s see if I can remember how to [...]

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Earth Friendly Fabulous Treasury on Etsy!

I am on cloud nine today. I was featured in a Treasury on Etsy! Let me see if I can get the image on here….my first time doing this. Bear with me… Wow….I can’t believe it worked! I’m on the top row on the right. I’m doing the happy dance right now….. And, I sold a set of organic facial pads to a nice buyer in Finland. In FINLAND!!! I [...]

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I’m featured on Etsy Organic!

I’m so excited. I’m featured on Etsy Organic Team’s blog! Go check it out! Kinda cool, heh?

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Christmas Sale and Eco Tips on Gift Wrapping

Now that you had your Thanksgiving turkey and are thinking about Christmas, I just wanted to tell you that you don’t have to drive and waste gas to go shopping for gifts. You can do all your Christmas shopping on Etsy. It’s a great place to buy handmade goods, support artisans all over the world, and find some great deals. I am offering FREE SHIPPING until Christmas on all U.S. [...]

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