Wednesday Item Challenge - 1022SeaShellAve

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks

Out for summer
Out till fall
We might not come back at all

~Alice Cooper

Hip Hip Hooray for Graduation Day and a huge thank you to the thousands of teachers who get us there!

This weeks winning treasury for the Saturday Theme Treasury Challenge is "Love~!" by 1022SeaShellAve! Congratulations! Such a beautiful and thoughtful treasury and may I add, A+ for it being 94% CN teammies! Oh look at me laying some math knowledge down! Hahahaha! (disclaimer: my percentage could very well be wrong....I have a fine arts degree after all! Math is not my strong suit!)



This screen shot is a live, clickable version of 1022SeaShellAve's "Love~!" Treasury. You can click on any of the images above to be taken to each individual shop! Click here to be taken to the actual treasury.

This week we'll be featuring 1022SeaShellAve's beautiful Conch shell (301). The inspiration to choose this piece to feature came straight from today's Etsy trending tags, "dreamy", "fun", "romantic", "summer", "outdoors".....

The Rules:

You must include at least 8 Curation Nation team members - use the sidebar on the blog for a list of team shops.

1. Please follow our blog.
2. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of your treasury. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
3. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury.
4. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
5. Tag the treasury "etsyteam" 
6. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" 
7. If you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury
8. Include the featured item Conch Shell (301) in the first three rows of your treasury.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday May, 18.
10. Have fun!

Wednesday Item Treasury Challenges feature one item from a shop - the item must be included in your treasury. The featured Wednesday item is picked from the winning shop of the Saturday challenge. If the winner doesn't have a shop on Etsy, they will get to pick an item of their choice! Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all. These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members.

Talkin' Tuesday - Meet Stephanie from LaCocoRouge!

Click here to visit her Va-Va-Voom hat shop!

Here are 9 Fierce Facts about Stephanie 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 to test your sleuthing skills!  The fictional statement about Stephanie will be posted next Tuesday when I feature the next CN Teammie. See below for the false fact about last week's featured teammie, Anna.

1.  I have lived in seven different countries and traveled extensively all over the globe - but was not a military brat!

2.  I love archery, throwing knives and opening beer bottles with a lighter.  I also enjoy playing poker and have earned the moniker Summer Wildcard.

3.  One of my favourite moments in life was in the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula.  While snorkeling with my high school Oceanography class on a class trip there was a section of coral you had to swim over for hundreds of feet.  Once my friend and I hit the wall, which was a drop off of maybe 60 feet - for as far as the eye could see was blue, blue ocean and hundreds of pink jellyfish.  They were not dangerous and we swam amongst them.

4.  I like to play with fire!  One of my hobbies is performing as a fire dancer, vaudevillian and side-show artist.  My favourite act was dreamed up by my friend Wil where I fire hula-hoop on top of him or Charlie, wearing heels and balancing on a double stack of a bed of nails which they are squished between...tricky!

5.  When I lived in Australia our school had a program called Extreme Adventures!  We traveled to Antarctica for a week to study penguins.  My favourite penguin was Louie because he liked to play fetch and a loose version of soccer which was really passing the ball back and forth.

6.  I learned to ride horses by the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza.  I also learned how to fall off horses.

7.  I have swum in the waters at the Costa del Sol in El Salvador, sunk my toes into a black volcanic sand beach and picked up fossilized sea shells by the dozens in the Rub al Khali in Saudi Arabia.

8.  I broke my face once while skateboarding on concrete in winter.  I landed the trick unexpectedly and slipped, my face hit the concrete first and the rest of me after.  I could touch my cheekbone and feel pieces of it moving around, I had a black eye and my teeth were loose for a while.

9.  I work for a Tibetan monastery and program tours for the monks to share and preserve their culture through art, music and dance.

10.  My most precious treasure was my black and white kitty named Spaz.  His favourite pastime was chewing bamboo (panda in disguise), he liked to wag his tail (he really was a dog), and when he passed away from cancer a few of my dearest friends built a viking bonfire sent away for him and hosted a party in the backyard.

*******Last week's false fact about Anna from CreatureCollars was this one: #3: I grew up an only child; however I always thought it’d be fun to have lots of brothers and sisters!  Actually Anna is one of 6 kids. 

Saturday Theme Treasury Challenge - School's Out!

The Royal from CN teammie's shop, funflash

It's time to start thinking about how you will say, "Congratulations!" to the graduate and "Thank you!" to teachers.  From small tokens of appreciation to grand gestures of gratitude, handmade & vintage shopping is a fabulous way to do it. 

This Saturday's Treasury theme challenge is taken from Etsy's May Merchandinsing Desk - May Planning.   Click here to read the full blog list.

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 "etsyteamtreasury" - if you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury.
4.  Tag the treasury "teacher gifts" or "graduation gifts", whichever one is appropriate.
5  Tag the treasury "may trends". 
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. Your shop could be chosen as the winner to be featured on our Wednesday Item Treasury Challenge. 
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, May 11. 
10. Saturday Treasury Challenges are the only challenges that get judged.

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 - CraftedbyLindy

Hey everyone, Vanessa, here from BailyBelle Creations, it's time for me to take over the Wednesday posts. I want to thank Lindy for being so fabulous this past month. 

Her posts were/are wonderful to read! 

Our Saturday Challenge was all about weddings. I have to tell you this was a hard one to decided, the treasuries were all so beautiful. Many of them so soft and luxurious they made me want to go back in time and redo my wedding! I ended up choosing Lindy's treasury Beeeee-autiful Wedding! I love how this treasury is set up. Combining elements with soft and hard features along with pops of red and yellow made a very unique feeling treasury. 

Congratulations Lindy!

Beeeee-autiful Wedding by CraftedbyLindy

This week we will feature Lindy's Celebrate Bunting Card. Today is Cinco de Mayo and this card fits right in. Whether you celebrate today or are celebrating something in the near future (birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day...etc) this card will help to inspire some awesome treasuries! 

Celebrate Bunting Card by CraftedbyLindy

Have fun everyone!! 

Can't wait to see what you curate!

The Rules: 

You must include at least 8 Curation Nation team members - use the sidebar on the blog for a list of team shops.

1. Please follow our blog.
2. Put a link to this blog post in the comments of your treasury. This helps other people find the challenge and enter.
3. Post a comment here on the blog with a link to your treasury.
4. Tag the treasury "curationnation"
5. Tag the treasury "etsyteam" 
6. Tag the treasury "etsyteamtreasury" 
7. If you tweet, tweet your treasury using the hashtag #EtsyTeamTreasury
8. Include the featured item Celebrate Bunting Card in the first three rows of your treasury.
9. DUE DATE: Wednesday May, 11.
10. Have fun!

Wednesday Item Treasury Challenges feature one item from a shop - the item must be included in your treasury. The featured Wednesday item is picked from the winning shop of the Saturday challenge. If the winner doesn't have a shop on Etsy, they will get to pick an item of their choice! Everyone is invited to play - these challenges are open to all. These challenges are also voluntary - never mandatory for team members.

Talkin' Tuesday - Meet Anna from CreatureCollars!

Click here to visit her 'pet shop'!

Here are 9 Fierce Facts about Anna 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 to test your sleuthing skills!  The fictional statement about Anna will be posted next Tuesday when I feature the next CN Teammie. See below for the false fact about last week's featured teammie, Stacey.

1.  I’m originally from Missouri; however I’ve lived in Florida for over 20 years, except for a period of time when I lived in Madrid, Spain.

2.  I have a master’s in public administration and previously worked as an HR administrator for the state attorney's office. I’ve also worked as a state social worker and I was a bartender for five years. I’ve almost completed a veterinary nursing degree as well. Last year I got to intern at a veterinary hospital where I was able to observe (and participate a little) in surgeries. It was amazing! I’ve been happily self-employed since 2007.

3.  I grew up an only child; however I always thought it’d be fun to have lots of brothers and sisters!

4.  For a brief time when I was very young we had an outhouse instead of indoor plumbing on our farm in Missouri. My parents also ran a food co-op, grew all of our food and kept bees.

5.  My family moved to Madrid, Spain when I was in high school. I went to an International school in Madrid and I was able to travel around Europe during the years my family was there. I even backpacked alone once from Germany to Spain, stopping in France and Belgium on the way. Kinda crazy now that I look back, but I was 19 at the time and, of course, invincible!

6.  I love to horseback ride and work with horses! I’ve been western riding for years. I’ve also worked as a volunteer with a therapeutic horse riding program and a wild horse rescue center. Sadly though, I’ve never owned my own horse.

7.  I think Creature Collars was founded when I was about 7 years old. I loved to make leashes, collars, harnesses and reins for all my toy horses and stuffed animals. I even made a harness and leash for my pet hamster so I could walk him around the house!

8.  I have a huge sweet tooth! I don’t go a day without eating a little sweet treat of some kind. Although I’m trying to break that habit!

9.  I’ve always had animals in my house. I think a house feels a little empty without a pet. I have 6 cats and 2 dogs, all shelter rescues or adopted strays. My newest family member, little “Hobo” is singing me a song in the photo above. He’s also the model for some of my shop photos. My other dog, “Beany”, is almost 18 years old!

10. I’m part of a group of seven girls who have been close friends for almost 25 years. We all met in middle school and still get together often. It’s an amazing experience to go through all of life’s ups and downs with these gals!

*******Last week's false fact about Stacey from CreaShines was this one: #6: She said she doesn't need to have Jean Claude Van Damme's babies.  HOWEVER, she would LOVE to meet him but just to maybe make out for a bit and have him whisper sweet French nothings into her ear.