Congrats to littlebugjewelry!

Congrats to littlebugjewelry for a gorgeous and bright team front page!

ShawnaCameron has the team on the Front Page!

Congrats to ShawnaCameron for taking the team to the front page right now!!!

Thank you RavensWhimzy!

What a lovely front page by RavensWhimzy! Congrats all!

Congrats to thewildplum!

Congrats to thewildplum on a front page team treasury from early yesterday morning!

Wednesday Treasury Challenge: VirtueBathandBeauty

Treasury Challenge: The challenge is to use an item or theme to make a treasury. Wednesday Challenges feature an item and Saturday challenges feature a theme. The challenge helps you get better at making treasuries. After we narrow it down we open voting to everyone. The Prize? You get advertising on our little curation nation blog!

WEDNESDAYS CHALLENGE ITEM:
The Citrus Contentment Bath Bomb by VirtueBathandBeauty


I like the idea of being green and green living. I also have liked the color green a lot lately too.

Are you ready for the Challenge?

The Rules:

1. Use at least 8 Curation Nation members. The list is on the right of this blog so you can click over and have a look around. They can be in any slot on the treasury.
2. Include the Citrus Contentment Bath Bomb anywhere in the treasury.
   
3. Follow our blog (please)
   
4. Put "Treasury Challenge" somewhere in the title of your treasury.
5. Link back to this post. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
   
6. Post a comment here with the link to your treasury.
7. Please make a treasury in Treasury East.
8. Tag the treasury "curation nation"
9. Tag the treasury "CNCHALLENGE"
10. TAG THE ITEM "Green"

If a friend refers you- please mention who in your entry- then they will also get the prize. Curation Nation Members- try to include your teammates? Not a team member? You can still win. I hope everyone I know enters. Several times. and I hope that the treasuries make the front page. Just a tip: Don't include yourself. You won't win. Follow the guidelines Etsy sets out for making treasuries.

You have until Saturday and good luck!

better late than never...

BeadFrenz had a FP treasury, but Craftcult was down during that time and didn't get the FP's from that time posted until a short time ago.  Congrats to everyone!

ZWZZY: VOTE

Time to Vote for Favorites. I asked WoodenNickelsJewelry to suggest some finalists we could all vote on. There were quite a few so I decided to post links instead of the pictures themselves. There were So many WONDERFUL entries- I am really impressed with what people come up with.
I have to mention that LuxuryJewelry made a treasury for the challenge that was on the front page. That is pretty much an automatic win- But we still want to vote. Sorry LuxuryJewelry- you can't win the same thing twice.

Here are the options for the vote in alphabetical order:
A Little Light Music at a Somewhat Saucy Soiree from SpareBedroom Studio
An Etsy Sunset from Metroline6
Aquamarine and Dusty Pink from MorningBlossom
Bubble Gum Pink from Shelleanne
Chic In Pink from Blushie
I heart HOT Pink & Hearts from TwillyPop
Pretty, frilly, girly, Zwzzy! from jvdarcy
Something Wonderful from Shelleanne

who do you like?

Which Zwzzy Treasury do you Like?
	A Little Light Music at a Somewhat Saucy Soiree from SpareBedroom Studio
	An Etsy Sunset from Metroline6
	Aquamarine and Dusty Pink from MorningBlossom
	Bubble Gum Pink from Shelleanne
	Chic In Pink from Blushie
	I heart HOT Pink and Hearts from TwillyPop
	Pretty, frilly, girly, Zwzzy! from jvdarcy
	Something Wonderful from Shelleanne
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GlitzGlitter takes the team to the front page!

Congratulations to everyone featured in GlitzGlitter's beautiful front page treasury this morning!

Congratulations BrokenHallelujah!

One of our team mates, Brandy, from Broken Hallelujah just got married last month! What an exciting time for her.  Let's all give her a big Congratulations!!

Beautiful. (and I love your dress!)

So, let's get to know Brandy a little more now.

Angie: "Who inspired you to be an Etsian?"

Brandy: "No on in particular. I was first inspired to join Etsy after hearing so much about it on the Craftster.org message boards several years ago. I decided to take the leap and open up my own shop as a way to help pay for my new obsession with crochet."

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Angie: "What is your favorite thing about Etsy?"

Brandy: "I love the amazing creativity of Etsy. Pretty much anything you want (and some things you don't) you can find on Etsy. It's so great. Plus it's full of amazingly creative people. I have made so many great friends here. If I ever have to leave Etsy I will miss it terribly."

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Angie: "What is your favorite thing in your shop?"

Brandy: "Right now my favorite thing in my shop are my summer melon mary jane slippers.
I love the bright summer colors & the cool freshness of the combination of green & orange."
I agree, I do love these colors! 

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Angie: "Is there anything else you feel everyone should know about you?"

Brandy: "I guess it would be that I opened & have run my Etsy shop as a full time college student. Now I am entering graduate school as a master's student & hope I will be able to keep my shop open. It was tough & I never had the time I wanted to dedicate to the shop, but I still made it work and I'm proud of being my own business owner while working to achieve my academic goals of becoming a Ph.D. in marine biology."

Wow.  That's really amazing, Brandy! If only we all had that sort of dedication.  You've done an amazing job with your etsy shop and I wish you all the best of luck with your graduate program.

I have to show a picture now of my favorite item in your shop! I love the flowers on this set.

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Brandy has all sorts of great accessories for women.  She's even got something for the people like me that already know how to crochet! I wouldn't necessarily buy a finished crochet piece from someone else, but crochet patterns are always an option in Brandy's shop!

I hope you've enjoyed getting to know your Brandy!

Congratulations virtuebathandbeauty!

Congratulations virtuebathandbeauty and all of the teammates featured last night on the front page. I love this team!

Treasury Challenge: Green

Treasury Challenge: The challenge is to use an item or theme to make a treasury. Wednesday Challenges feature an item and Saturday challenges feature a theme. The challenge helps you get better at making treasuries. After we narrow it down we open voting to everyone. The Prize? You get advertising on our little curation nation blog!

SATURDAYS CHALLENGE: GREEN


I like the idea of being green and green living. I also have liked the color green a lot lately too.

Are you ready for the Challenge?

The Rules:

1. Use at least 8 Curation Nation members. The list is on the right of this blog so you can click over and have a look around. They can be in any slot on the treasury.
   
2. Follow our blog (please)
   
3. Put "Treasury Challenge" somewhere in the title of your treasury.
4. Link back to this post. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
   
5. Post a comment here with the link to your treasury.
6. Please make a treasury in Treasury East.
7. Tag the treasury "curation nation"
8. Tag the treasury "CNCHALLENGE"
9. TAG THE ITEM "Green"

If a friend refers you- please mention who in your entry- then they will also get the prize. Curation Nation Members- try to include your teammates? Not a team member? You can still win. I hope everyone I know enters. Several times. and I hope that the treasuries make the front page. Just a tip: Don't include yourself. You won't win. Follow the guidelines Etsy sets out for making treasuries.

You have until Saturday and good luck!

From the FP to the TV: rctees

As small business owners, we'll take what features we can get.  The main goal of this team is to promote each other by making FP-worthy treasuries.  We get extra excited when our team members are featured in the storque.  A couple of us have been (or are going to be) featured in magazines.  But can anyone say that we've had our work featured on TV?  Before long, one of us will be saying so.

Toni at rctees was contacted by Jess Ward, a member of the production staff for the Animal Planet and member of the Etsy community since 2009, about the Abby Cat tee.  She was looking for unique cat shirts on Etsy for the host of a new Animal Planet series Must Love Cats. 

At first, Toni was a little skeptical.  This is completely understandable whenever someone contacts you asking for samples in order to be featured.  (I immediately went through a phase of doubt when Vogue Knitting contacted me.)  But she did exactly what she needed to do, which was research who was contacting her and find information to back up that their request was legitimate.  She eventually had a real time phone conversation with Jess and knew it was all real.

So she sent shirts, merely hoping the host would choose to wear them.  In June, she received a message from Jess telling her that John (the host) wore the Abby Cat shirt and wanted to know if there were MORE colors because he liked the design so much!  So Toni gladly sent another color. 

NJ Wheelock, one of the artists that John interviewed while wearing the Abby Cat tee, contacted Toni just a few days ago with photos from the shoot. John also contacted her to let her know that some of the photos from the shoot were up on the Must Love Cats facebook page.  The episode that the Abby Cat tee was featured on was filmed in Catskill, NY, and features the Catskill Cats.

We are all proud of Toni and are quite anxious to see her shirt on TV!  Toni says about the experience, "I’m still in the 'pinch me' stage, and my emotions are just all over the place.  This is one of the most exciting things that’s ever happened to me and my husband, Mark. It’s one of those surreal experiences that lets you know that what you’re doing is so worth while."

The Abby Cat tee is set to make its debut on Episode #6 of Must Love Cats series that starts airing in January 2011 on Animal Planet.

Be sure to "like" RCTees on facebook and check out the entire Abby Cat line in her shop.  You can also follow her on twitter for more updates!

Winner: KellyLynnDesigns

KellyLynnDesigns got over 90 votes and won the carnival challenge- good work!

Winning is awesome: Plucking Pendants

Congratulations Plucking Pendants- you won the GlitzGlitter challenge
and you were on the front page. Beautiful work.

Zwzzy Treasury Challenge on the Front Page!

Congratulations to LuxuryJewelry and everyone featured on the front page right now because of the Zwzzy Treasury Challenge! You are awesome!

Treasury Challenge: FactorygirlAshli

This week's Wednesday Item is this beautiful necklace from Factorygirlashli. She does so much for our team and I love her little notes. So when I was randomly clicking on a shop from the team I did it only semi randomly.
You have one week to make as many treasuries as possible with this little key! Good luck.

The Rules:

1. Use at least 8 Curation Nation members. The list is on the right of this blog so you can click over and have a look around. They can be in any slot on the treasury.
   
2. Follow our blog (please)
   
3. Put "Treasury Challenge" somewhere in the title of your treasury.
4. Link back to this post. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
   
5. Post a comment here with the link to your treasury.
6. Please make a treasury in Treasury East.
7. Tag the treasury curation nation
8. Tag the treasury "CNCHALLENGE"
9. If the item sells include another item from the seller's shop
10. make lots of treasuries if you want!
    

If a friend refers you- please mention who in your entry- then they will also get the prize. Curation Nation Members- try to include your teammates? Not a team member? You can still win. I hope everyone I know enters. Several times. and I hope that the treasuries make the front page. Just a tip: Don't include yourself or your treasury is disqualified. Follow the guidelines Etsy sets out for making treasuries.

You have until Saturday and good luck!

Saturday Challenge: Outdoor Summer

So the Saturday Challenge never got posted- how could I forget this? Today we will see two challenges.

Treasury Challenge: The challenge is to use an item or theme to make a treasury. Wednesday Challenges feature an item and Saturday challenges feature a theme. The challenge helps you get better at making treasuries. After we narrow it down we open voting to everyone. The Prize? You get advertising on our little curation nation blog!

SATURDAYS CHALLENGE: Outdoor Summer

I got this idea from the etsy merchandising trends from July. "Alfresco Living and Home: Industrial vintage and reproduction furniture, decor, and interiors. Think farmhouse, countryside, the French flea market and galvanized metal, as well as market baskets and totes, bikes and bike imagery, picnics and flea market finds, and components to create "the outdoor room."

there are so many different ways to interpret this- good luck!

Are you ready for the Challenge?

The Rules:

1. Use at least 8 Curation Nation members. The list is on the right of this blog so you can click over and have a look around. They can be in any slot on the treasury.
   
2. Follow our blog (please)
   
3. Put "Treasury Challenge" somewhere in the title of your treasury.
4. Link back to this post. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
   
5. Post a comment here with the link to your treasury.
6. Please make a treasury in Treasury East.
7. Tag the treasury curation nation
8. Tag the treasury "CNCHALLENGE"
9. TAG THE ITEM OUTDOOR SUMMER

you guys are awesome.

If a friend refers you- please mention who in your entry- then they will also get the prize. Curation Nation Members- try to include your teammates? Not a team member? You can still win. I hope everyone I know enters. Several times. and I hope that the treasuries make the front page. Just a tip: Don't include yourself. You won't win. Follow the guidelines Etsy sets out for making treasuries.

You have until Saturday and good luck!

Congratulations clairandjanae!

claireandjanae took the team to the frontpage with this fabulous take on nautical. Congratulations everyone!

I love this Team

I am so excited the Curation Nation team was on the front page again.
I love this team. and etsy. My treasury was on the front page Sunday Night. I hope everyone got lots of sales. because you guys are the best.

The Front Page

So The treasury that inspired the Zwzzy challenge was on the front page! I was so excited when my sister told me. Just another CN challenge- this time from the ClaireandJanae shop!
I wanted to thank all the fantastic curation nation members who made it possible.

Congratulations TheVintageApartment

*for some reason Craftcult would not let me download the screenshot, so you get this cute little widget instead. Isn't it cute?*

Congrats to thevintageapartment for this beautiful front page treasury feature last night. You all rock!

Zwzzy takes the team to the Front!

Congratulations to Zwzzy and the featured team members on a very wonderful front page treasury inspired by, of all things, beans. Humble beginnings lead to soft pastel greatness! :D

Voting On a Carnival

The Carnival Challenge: Time To Get Your Ticket
Well the Carnival Treasury Challenge is over- and today one of those entries was featured on the front page- congratulations TheWildPlum. You rock.
Which of the Treasuries is your favorite? I narrowed it down to four and now you get to decide.

First is KellyLynnDesigns



Next is PeriodCorsets her shop actually has corsets, which I think is awesome.


Third is Seventh Sphere


And Lastly, the Front Page Treasury from TheWildPlum




Everyone did a beautiful job on their treasuries- Go Curation Nation! I love seeing the unique perspective people have- they really come up with such beautiful visions. I feel like I am getting better at making these treasuries from such great ideas.

Which Carnival Would You Visit?
	KellyLynnDesigns
	PeriodCorsets
	SeventhSphere
	TheWildPlum
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Vote for the GlitzGlitter winners

That beautiful necklace from GlitzGlitter was on the front page. Twice. I guess that actually means I've picked item from her shop that have gotten her featured on the front page four times now. But if you look at CraftCult GlitzGlitter has a pretty impressive front page record.
and it is no surprise- her photos are BEAUTIFUL.

To Sacredsuds and PluckingPendants: Congratulations on your front page treasuries- with the challenge- that is a super win.
Finally we will vote on which of the two we like best for the Ultimate Treasury winner. I can also send them a certificate in the mail for their greatness.
Your choices?
The Plucking Pendants Treasury:

and the SacredSuds option

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which Front Page Glitz Glitter Treasury do you Prefer

SacredSuds Plucking Pendants

Garden22DesignStudio takes the Nation to the Front!

I always thought this would be weird when I post for myself, but here it is! Yay congrats to, uh, Garden22DesignStudio and the teammates featured today! ;D

Congrats to thewildplum!

Congratulations to all of the team members featured in thewildplum 's awesome circus challenge treasury this afternoon!

Treasury Challenge: ZWZZY

Let's face it, she has a great shop and great photos. I'm glad Zwzzy is on the team.
So this week we are featuring her item in a million treasuries- curation nation style! Feature this lovely hat for a chance to win advertising on the curation nation blog and the distinguished title of winner.
it's awesome to win.

THE HAT IS HERE- feature it and hopefully we will all get on the front page.

The Rules:

1. Use at least 8 Curation Nation members. The list is on the right of this blog so you can click over and have a look around. They can be in any slot on the treasury.
   
2. Follow our blog (please)
   
3. Put "Treasury Challenge" somewhere in the title of your treasury.
4. Link back to this post. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
   
5. Post a comment here with the link to your treasury.
6. Please make a treasury in Treasury East.
7. Tag the treasury curation nation
8. Tag the treasury "CNCHALLENGE"
9. If the item sells include another item from the seller's shop
10. end of rules.
    

If a friend refers you- please mention who in your entry- then they will also get the prize. Curation Nation Members- try to include your teammates? Not a team member? You can still win. I hope everyone I know enters. Several times. and I hope that the treasuries make the front page. Just a tip: Don't include yourself. You won't win. Follow the guidelines Etsy sets out for making treasuries.

You have until Saturday and good luck!

the winner of the last challenge and voting will be up later tonight... how exciting!

Winner: JarosDesigns

and the winner of the "smile" challenge is... Jaros Designs! Congratulations. You are fabulous.

Smile from JarosDesigns

Our Fearless Leader Takes the Team to the FP!

Congratulations to our fearless leader, Yvonne of WoodenNickelsJewelry for making a retro fab team treasury front page appearance!

Congratulations virturebathandbeauty!

Congratulations to virturebathandbeauty on a beautiful front page!!!

Congratulations OpenDoorStudio!

OpenDoorStudio took our team to the front page this morning with this gorgeous treasury. Congratulations!

PluckingPendants Takes the Team to the Front Page!

Another GlitzGlitter treasury challenge landed on the front page this evening thanks to PluckingPendants. Congratulations to all of the artists featured!

EllaBelleBoutique Blog Feature!

Hello team!  This week, we get to find out a little more about our last treasury challenge winner, EllaBelleBoutique.  Jessica won the Twilight Treasury Challenge with her beautiful Love is Eternal treasury.  Although she is not a Curation Nation member, she has had fun participating in our great challenges! Way to inspire other Etsians!

Anyway, let's get to know a little more about Jessica.

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Angie: Who inspired you to be an Etsian?

Jessica: All my life, I've been lucky to be surrounded by strong women who love to create beautiful things. Naturally, I've developed a love of creating as well. When a friend of mine told me about Etsy, I was basically in awe. A place where literally millions of handmade lovelies could be found? Yes, please! I couldn't wait to join.

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Angie: What is your favorite thing about Etsy?

Jessica: The friendships I've made and the interesting people I've met. There are so many amazing people out there with such diverse talents!

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Angie: What is your favorite thing in your shop?

Jessica: It's a toss-up between my Jane Austen items and my Avonlea items. I LOVE to read, so it's been really fun to create jewelry that embodies the thoughts and feelings I have while reading great literature.

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Angie: What is one thing you would like everyone to know about you?

Jessica: My most favorite things that I've created (but that aren't for sale in my shop) are my three sweet kiddos. They are my biggest fans. They fill my days with craziness, and they even let me make jewelry once in a while :)

Treasury Challenge Saturday: Carnival

opendoorstudio's carnival tickets

Treasury Challenge: The challenge is to use an item or theme to make a treasury. Wednesday Challenges feature an item and Saturday challenges feature a theme. The challenge helps you get better at making treasuries. After we narrow it down we open voting to everyone. The Prize? You get advertising on our little curation nation blog!

SATURDAYS CHALLENGE: Life is A Carnival
you can interpret that as the little carnival in your town with dinky roller coasters. Those are the only kind I like to ride, by the way. Also on my honeymoon I was in Venice over Carnival. It was actually an accident but a crazy spectacle of an accident. I liked it a little.

Are you ready for the Challenge?

The Rules:

1. Use at least 8 Curation Nation members. The list is on the right of this blog so you can click over and have a look around. They can be in any slot on the treasury.
   
2. Follow our blog (please)
   
3. Put "Treasury Challenge" somewhere in the title of your treasury.
4. Link back to this post. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
   
5. Post a comment here with the link to your treasury.
6. Please make a treasury in Treasury East.
7. Tag the treasury curation nation
8. Tag the treasury "CNCHALLENGE"
9. If the item sells include another item from the seller's shop
10. end of rules.
    

If a friend refers you- please mention who in your entry- then they will also get the prize. Curation Nation Members- try to include your teammates? Not a team member? You can still win. I hope everyone I know enters. Several times. and I hope that the treasuries make the front page. Just a tip: Don't include yourself. You won't win. Follow the guidelines Etsy sets out for making treasuries.

You have until Saturday and good luck!

Voting: What makes you Smile?

Please Vote for a Winner!

As our challenge featuring GlitzGlitter draws to a close it's time to vote on the Smile challenge. After getting suggestions from our fearless team leaders I narrowed it down to three options for everyone to vote on.

Smile from JarosDesigns

Shades of Orange Blue and white by TheVintageApartment

You are my Sunshine from VirtueBathandBeauty

Which Treasury Makes you Smile?
	Smile from JarosDesigns
	Shades of Orange Blue and White from The Vintage Apartment
	You are my Sunshine from VirtueBathandBeauty
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SimplyInvitingCards Overdue Congratulations!

Check out this beautiful team front page by SimplyInvitingCards from July 3rd. Congrats to all the team members featured!