Wednesday Item Challenge - FunFlash from FunRetro

First of all I want to say thank you to everyone for being so patient with me the last few weeks. Things have been busy here with family and I've let the Wednesday treasury posts slip by. Hugs to you all and thanks again for being so fabulous!

Now for this weeks winner!

I can't believe that Easter is almost upon us. It feels like we just finished putting away everything from Christmas and Valentines day! Man time goes by fast. Today's winning treasury goes to FunFlash a shop run by FunRetro!! 

Congratulations to you Natalie!!

Easter Sunday by FunFlash on Etsy

Taken from the Etsy finds from today: The New Black, we will focus her vintage Kodak Instamatic 304 Camera!

Vintage Kodak Instamatic 304 Camera by FunFlash on Etsy

Have fun everyone!!!

The Rules:

1. Include at least 8 Curation Nation team members.
2. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
3. Tag the treasury "etsyteam".
4. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury. 
5. Tag the treasury "KodakCamera"
6. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury.
7. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of the treasury - this helps others find the challenge and enter.
8. Please follow our blog.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday, April 6th. 


Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all! These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members. Remember to try to include team mates you haven't used before.  These challenges are meant to build your treasury making skills, promote the team and make Etsy connections. 

Talkin' Tuesday - Meet Lauren from FlashForward!

Lauren & her "nephew" from FlashForward! Click here to visit her fab-o shop here!

Here are 9 Fierce Facts about Lauren and one line is completely fictional.  Get involved by guessing which one of the 10 items listed below is the impostor. Put your comments below and Lauren may be around on Twitter so you can poke at her for some hints!  The fictional statement about Lauren will be posted next Tuesday when I feature the next CN Teammie. See below for the false fact about last week's featured teammie, Shelley.

1.  I graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, TN.  I studied Music Business there and loved it!
2.  I love the Harry Potter series, so much so that I took a course on it in London and went all over England and Scotland to filming locations and places connected with JK Rowling.
3.  I play violin and guitar and am in a band called The Restoration (http://therestoration.net/ and http://facebook.com/therestoration).
4.  I love living in South Carolina because I'm a short drive from both the mountains and beaches.  I get the best of both worlds!
5.  I have 2 sweet cats, 3 fish, and am an aunt to my brother's adorable boxer.
6.  When I lived in Los Angeles, I once waited for an elevator with Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Clive Owen.
7.  One of my favorite photography subjects was baby loggerhead sea turtles hatching and crawling to the ocean.
8.  I was born on Christmas Eve.  My family has always been great about keeping the holidays separate.  Absolutely no Christmas wrapping paper allowed for birthday presents!
9.  My favorite tv shows include The Twilight Zone (the original, of course!), Gilmore Girls, Freaks & Geeks, Arrested Development, and Lost.
10.  I love working in my yard.  I especially like to grow basil, lavender, tomatoes, and any and all flower.

Hello, lovely Curation Nation teammates!  I'm Lauren Garner and I run Flash Forward Photography.  I was so honored when I was invited to join this wonderful team last summer (has it really been that long?) and I'm so grateful to be a part of such a wonderful group of talented and creative people!  I look forward to continuing to get to know each of you better and I can't wait to put your fantastic items in my treasuries and see what marvelous treasuries you create!  Cheers!

*******Last week's false fact about Shelley from EvenAndy was this one: #8: I played the flute in my high school marching band.

Saturday Theme Treasury Challenge - Easter!

Chocolate Easter Bunny Goats Milk Soaps from CN teammie's shop bovinebubbles

Whether your Easter will be filled with hollow chocolate bunnies, a new hat for church service or a family dinner at grandma's house the sweet taste of Spring is upon us!  

This Saturday's Treasury theme challenge is taken from Etsy's Finds email - Easter Preview.  Here's the link to the look that Etsy specifically promoted:   Easter Preview


There is always a photo used to express the theme but this item does not have to be included in your treasury.The Rules:

1. Include at least 8 Curation Nation team members.
2. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
3. Tag the treasury "etsyteam".
4. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury.
5. Tag the treasury "easter" 6. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury - your treasury will not be judged unless you have posted it below in the comments.
7. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of the treasury - this helps others find the challenge and enter.
8. Please follow our blog.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday, March 30. 

Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all! These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members. Remember to try to include team mates you haven't used before.  These challenges are meant to build your treasury making skills, promote the team and make Etsy connections.  If you deal in vintage it's a great time to promote your vintage goods by making the old new again!

Saturday Theme Treasury Challenge - European Etsians

Earrings from CN Teammie's shop rachellucie

Curation Nation will be joining Etsy in showcasing European Etsians for this week's Saturday Treasury Challenge.  Etsy's Storque blog titled: Globally Yours: Euro Week 2011 runs from March 21 through March 27, 2011.  Etsy will be celebrating the European art and artists of Etsy with special home pages full of products from throughout Europe, emails, events, information for doing business globally, and much more.  Here's the full article: http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/globally-yours-euro-week-2011-12466/

There is always a photo used to express the theme but this item does not have to be included in your treasury. 

The Rules:

1. Include at least 8 Curation Nation team members.  Include as many European Etsians as you can but you must include at least 1 Curation Nation European Etsian in your treasury.  Below you'll find a list of Curation Nation European Etsians.
2. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
3. Tag the treasury "etsyteam".
4. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury. 
5. Tag the treasury "etsyeuro" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using #etsyeuro
6. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury - your treasury will not be judged unless you have posted it below in the comments.
7. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of the treasury - this helps others find the challenge and enter.
8. Please follow our blog.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday, March 23. 

Curation Nation European Etsians:
1. happyment
2. haremroyal
3. loveandknit
4. magnesina
5. rachellucie

Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all! These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members. Remember to try to include team mates you haven't used before.  These challenges are meant to build your treasury making skills, promote the team and make Etsy connections.  

Talkin' Tuesday - - Meet Shelley from EvenAndy!

Shelley from EvenAndy!

Here are 9 Fierce Facts about Shelley and one line is completely fictional.  Get involved by guessing which one of the 10 items listed below is the impostor. Put your comments below and Shelley may be around on Twitter so you can poke at her for some hints!  The fictional statement about Shelley will be posted next Tuesday when I feature the next CN Teammie. See below for the false fact about last week's featured teammie, Kelly.

1.  I used to be a chemist in a laboratory in California.
2.  I love reality television (most of it), especially The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Orange County, and Atlanta.
3.  I am a sports fanatic (especially football) and I love the Pittsburgh Steelers.
4.  I am married to an Art Director who makes commercials and attended college at a rival school.
5.  I have 2 children and we found out the sex ahead of time for one and not the other.
6.  My husband wanted to name my oldest son Leo, Cassius, or Bruin and he was vetoed.
7.  My mom loved Captain and Tennille and so my middle name is Tennille.
8. I played the flute in my high school marching band.
9.  I have a younger sister and an older brother.  We call my brother Jude because my mom loved the 'Hey Jude' song by the Beatles.
10.  I love dogs but I am terrified of cats (the claws scare me).

*******Last week's false fact about Kelly from Cookstah was this one: #3: I live in Colorado and I have climbed all of the Colorado 14ers (14,000 feet peaks). I did most of them before I turned 30. I have a teeshirt that is really ugly with the names of all the 14ers and I have them all checked off. I wear it all the time because I love to brag about it. Kelly lives in Colorado but didn't climb all of those peaks.  She's a sneaky Pete that Kelly!

Saturday Theme Treasury Challenge - Jungle Jane!

This 'tough' lil lion was made by Belinda, & can be found in CN Teammie's shop SeventhSphere

I always admired Tarzan's wife, Jane.  She got to live in a tree house, hang out with all of those exciting jungle animals and although Tarzan had pretty poor eating habits, he had those abs which could erase any wrong doings of his uncivilized behavior. Bonka, bonka, wow, wow!

This Saturday's Treasury theme challenge is taken from Etsy's Finds email - Welcome to the Jungle.  Here's the link to the look that Etsy specifically promoted:   Etsy's Finds Email, "Welcome to the Jungle"

There is always a photo used to express the theme but this item does not have to be included in your treasury.

The Rules:

1. Include at least 8 Curation Nation team members.
2. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
3. Tag the treasury "etsyteam".
4. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury. 
5. Tag the treasury "jungle"
6. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury - your treasury will not be judged unless you have posted it below in the comments.
7. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of the treasury - this helps others find the challenge and enter.
8. Please follow our blog.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday, March 16. 

Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all! These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members. Remember to try to include team mates you haven't used before.  These challenges are meant to build your treasury making skills, promote the team and make Etsy connections.  
If you deal in vintage it's a great time to promote your vintage goods by making the old new again!

Wednesday Item Challenge - WoodenNickles

We're so happy to have Yvonne back with us! This week she made a beautiful treasury titled, When China & Pearls Meet Metal & Rust, that just made my eyes smile! I love the use of color and texture here. Awesomesause! Congrats Yvonne, you are this weeks winner! Here is a screen shot...

This week we will use her Right Bracket Letter Press Necklace for our Wednesday Challenge! Today's Etsy Finds email was all about words...using them for searches and item tags. Congrats Yvonne!

Remember to have fun teamies!

The Rules:

1. Include at least 8 Curation Nation team members.
2. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
3. Tag the treasury "etsyteam".
4. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury. 
5. Tag the treasury "letterpress"
6. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury - your treasury will not be judged unless you have posted it below in the comments.
7. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of the treasury - this helps others find the challenge and enter.
8. Please follow our blog.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday, March 16th. 


Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all! These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members. Remember to try to include team mates you haven't used before.  These challenges are meant to build your treasury making skills, promote the team and make Etsy connections. 

Talkin' Tuesday - - Meet Kelly!

Kelly and her ADORABLE boys from Cookstah

Here are 9 Fierce Facts about Kelly and one line is completely fictional.  Get involved by guessing which one of the 10 items listed below is the impostor. Put your comments below and Kelly may be around on Twitter so you can poke at her for some hints!  The fictional statement about Kelly will be posted next Tuesday when I feature the next CN Teammie. See below for the false fact about last week's featured teammie, Kristi.

1. I am a history teacher for my real job. Most people I meet think I teach art (because of Etsy) or Kindergarten (I think because of how I dress... lots of rainbow colors.) 

2. I am married to a philosophy professor who writes books. He actually encouraged me to go part time teaching so that I could do art... thank goodness I married another flaky artist who believes in it!
3. I live in Colorado and I have climbed all of the Colorado 14ers (14,000 feet peaks). I did most of them before I turned 30. I have a teeshirt that is really ugly with the names of all the 14ers and I have them all checked off. I wear it all the time because I love to brag about it. 

4. We have two sons named after saints: Augustine and Becket. We are uber nerds.

5. We don't have a TV... and it makes me so happy. I am actually a TV addict and I think if I had one again I would never get any art done. 

6. I LOVE NPR... especially This American Life. When my sons were little and so constantly needy I would put on a podcast from NPR while I walked them in the stroller or nursed or change my millionth diaper. I think NPR saved my life.
7. My best friend lives in my town and is an awesome Etsy artist too! Her name is Betony and she is graysparrow on Etsy.  We do craft shows together and are usually the only "fine arts" artists there, which is really fun. We often do live painting while we sell art. 

8. I hate olives. That is it. I like everything but I hate olives. Strangely I love olive oil and the color olive green. Also, what are pimentos all about? 

9. When we were in college my husband was in a ska band. I basically stalked him until he liked me back. I was a super pathetic groupie.

10. I love coffee. I wish I loved normal coffee, but I love $5 lattes and I drink one every day. I often wonder how much thinner I might be if I hadn't consumed so much milk over that last 10 years. I don't wonder for long though, I never consider giving up lattes. 

Hi team-awesome! My name is Kelly Cook. I have had the best time being a part of Curation Nation. I love the idea of doing art in community and I love this team. It has certainly brought me tons of exposure and sales, but best of all lots of support and ideas and love. I live in Colorado and I create art out of broken and worthless things. I started drawing on vintage paper as a lark (ran out of journal paper) and it kind of became my "thing). I make almost everything out of things that are headed for the land fill. This is partly because I am a green hippy (I live in Colorado after all) and because I am cheap! Thanks for reading my fun facts and being a great team!

xoxox

Kel

*******Last week's false fact about Kristi from kristimcmurry was this one: #5 is not true.... I love green veggies, especially Broccoli and English Peas! My own personal comment: Can't you just see that face across the dinner table from you telling you that she wasn't going to eat her veggies?  Ohhhh man, I could!

Saturday Theme Treasury Challenge - March Into Spring!

Amazing photography from CN Teammie Shawna's shop Shawna Cameron Photography 

Three weeks ago many of us mid-westerners had feet of snow on the ground!  Right now outside of my living room window my lawn is itching for me to put my flower beds in and tumble seeds in my garden.  Hang on my mid-westerner friends, Spring is on its way!


This Saturday's Treasury theme challenge is taken from Etsy's March Merchandising Desk - Into Spring.  Specifically Etsy promoted these ideas:  "March brings the spring equinox and a lighter outlook with it. Think in terms of how you can market towards and contribute to seasonal activities like spring cleaning, spring fashion, spring break, spring planting, a fresh outlook, rejuvenation and splashes of light, bright color."  If you deal in vintage it's a great time to promote your vintage goods by making the old new again! 


There is always a photo used to express the theme but this item does not have to be included in your treasury.


The Rules:

1. Include at least 8 Curation Nation team members.
2. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
3. Tag the treasury "etsyteam".
4. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury. 
5. Tag the treasury "Into Spring"
6. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury - your treasury will not be judged unless you have posted it below in the comments.
7. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of the treasury - this helps others find the challenge and enter.
8. Please follow our blog.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday, March 9. 


Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all! These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members. Remember to try to include team mates you haven't used before.  These challenges are meant to build your treasury making skills, promote the team and make Etsy connections.  

Toni at RCTees Does the Stray Cat Strut on the Animal Planet!

Be sure to turn your t.v. on to see Toni's T-shirt being worn by the host of of “Must Love Cats,” from the Animal Planet.  Her shirt, shown above on the host, has her 5-year-old Abby cat on it.  The show airs TOMORROW, Saturday, March 5th at 7 p.m. EST.

Toni's local newspaper interviewed her and although she was a tad misquoted in some areas, take a minute to read the article here!  You can also see a photo of the superstar herself - - Abby, the sweet tawny tabby cat!

Also take a peek at her FB linkwhere you'll see even more pics! 
Congratulations Toni!!! We are so happy to be sharing in the excitement with you!

Talkin' Tuesday - - Meet Kristi

Kristi from kristimcmurry

Here are 9 Fierce Facts about Kristi and one line is completely fictional.  Get involved by guessing which one of the 10 items listed below is the impostor. Put your comments below and Kristi may be around on Twitter so you can poke at her for some hints!  The fictional statement about Kristi will be posted next Tuesday when I feature the next CN Teammie. See below for the false fact about last week's featured teammie, Lindy.

1. I work at the university that I graduated from.
2. I have a 7 year old sister whom I love more than ANYTHING.
3. The first gift my boyfriend ever gave me was a bottle of Ralph Lauren Romance.
4. I think long and hard about small purchases like blue jeans, but I'm very spontaneous when it comes to expensive investments (yeah it SHOULD be the other way around).
5. I love green veggies, especially Broccoli and English Peas!
6. I collect milk glass and cameras.
7. I don't shop at Walmart or Forever 21.
8. cold+wind+rain is a combination that turns me into a real monster (hate it).
9. My church meets in my living room.
10. The best nap I've ever taken was at a place called Bellows in Hawaii.

*******Last week's false fact about Lindy from CraftedByLindy was this one: #5 is not true.... Lindy was born in Calgary but she wasn't raised there. She didn't move there until 9 years ago with her husband. She was born in Calgary but her parents lived about 20 minutes away but there was no hospital in Black Diamond for her mom to birth her so they had to come to Calgary to have her.  That's our Lindy, causin' trouble right from the get go!