Fun find Friday: Designs by Vanessa

Isn't that a gorgeous necklace? It's from this month's featured EtsyBlogger, DesignsbyVanessa. I've been coveting this necklace since I first saw it a while back. She also has a delightful blog (and is the type to comment back when you comment, which I always appreciate).

Fun-find Friday: Star-shaped Scrapbook

This month's featured EtsyBlogger is Memoriesforlifesb's, and I found this 3-d scrapbook in her etsy shop to be especially cute, so I thought I'd share. It seems like the perfect way to display those holiday-related photos that are so much fun to look at over the winter but that seem kind of out of place laying around in the summertime, right?

If you're looking for a new active blog to visit, or to pick up scrapbooking ideas, you might want to check out her blog too.

Fun Find Friday: Miesmama's fern clutch

Miesmama is this month's featured EtsyBlogger, and she also happens to be the maker of an adorable clutch I spotted a while back and fell in love with. This is it here--cute, right?

She also has a really lovely blog filled with great pictures of handmade stuff and other fun things.

Another fun etsy find: Create a Thought

Isn't this orange journal fun? It was one of the items that really caught my eye in CreateAThought's shop on etsy (she's this month's featured etsyblogger, and she has all kinds of nifty pins, journals, and other fun goodies--plus a blog).

I also love that she refers to her stuff as "Naughty Secretary Jewlery" and has this quote in her shop announcement: "There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. ~William Makepeace Thackeray" As a writer, and writing instructor, I have to appreciate anyone who agrees with Thackeray about that :)

Roseworks makes me want to bead

I have no idea how to bead and (if I'm being totally honest with myself) probably will never learn--there are too many skills on my to-learn-list as it is. But when I see gorgeous necklaces like this one by Roseworks it makes me wish I could cram an extra hour or two into the day--or, alternately, win the lotto. (Of course, everything makes me wish I could win the lotto, including waking up and going to sleep, so I guess that isn't saying anything new ;)

Anyway (don't you dare call me distractable--it's merely, um, mental multi-tasking. Yeah. That's it), Roseworks has two cool etsy shops (RoseworksJewelry and kstreasures) plus a blog where she's been running a really useful series on all the different online venues where one can sell their handmade stuff--if you haven't visited that already and you're a craftisan, I strongly suggest checking it out.