heather's bracketology facebook group!

March Madness...t minus 1 day and 22 hours and counting...

FINALLY, the day is almost here! It's almost time to fill out those brackets! If you are looking for a light hearted-trash talking group to join and have fun with, feel free to join mine on facebook!

http://apps.facebook.com/cbssports/groups/group/166690

game on!

I'm about to hit a milestone!

I am so thankful to all of my customers!
After being out of commission for 5 days last week & having to get caught up, I realized that I am about to hit a huge milestone in my store! Currently, I am 12 sales away from hitting 4000 and it is about to be my etsy-versary!
So, from 3.13.09-3.16.09, I am offering FREE SHIPPING on all items purchased in my etsy store, heatherknitz! In addition, the person who purchases item 4000, will also receive this set of eclectic sewing buttons:
They are 1 1/8" buttons!
Enjoy~Heather

Etsy Blogger of the Month: DesignByNora

Congratulations to DesignByNora, Etsy Blogger of the Month!
Hello, My name is Nora and I live in Los Angeles, CA. I just graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Art, concentrating on Graphic Design. Besides my love for graphic design, I love making cards, jewelry, playing around with polymer clay, reading and geeking around on the computer.
Check out her etsy shop today!

The Eclectic Artisans Team: Meet A Member

The Eclectic Artisans Team: Meet A Member

Carried Away: The Etsy Bag Makers Team: THE BIG BAG OF LUCK GIVEAWAY

Carried Away: The Etsy Bag Makers Team: THE BIG BAG OF LUCK GIVEAWAY

We all scream for ICE CREAM treasury!

My ice cream~sherbet colors~ hair clips were featured in this fabulous ice cream treasury! Who doesn't love ice cream?

How'd they do that? A treasury celebrating DIY!

One of my knit and felt patterns was included in this fabulous treasury!
yeah, for diy!

The rag wreath tutorial is here by popular demand!

I have received so many emails about this...
"Heather, can you please make a tutorial on how to make the wreaths?"
Well...it is finally here!

The DIY rag wreath tutorial

14 page pdf document
color photos
step by step directions
also includes....photo album, complete materials list and where to buy list
cost $9.50
Once payment is received, it will be emailed in the form of an attachment

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Coming soon....shhhhh!

The complete tutorial and rag wreath kit

Happy creating!

I found myself in 2 treasuries this morning!

BLOG GIVEAWAY: DIY Magnets in honor of National Craft Month!

March is National Craft Month...to celebrate, I'm offering my DIY magnet tutorial!

c o m p l e t e - t u t o r i a l
Do it yourself!

♥t u t o r i a l
A TUTORIAL listing will come via digital delivery (in the form of email attachment)
With this TUTORIAL, You'll learn how to make...
Magnets

This tutorial will tell you...
-how to make button magnets
-will show you step by step using written descriptions as well as pictures
-suggestions for choosing fabrics, etc...
-what supplies you need
-where you can buy supplies at great prices!

*Includes step by step instructions with tons of REAL color photos with TEXT that help illustrate this quick, easy & fun process*

The Tutorial is in the form of PDF and will be emailed to the buyer's email address within 24 hours of purchase.


♥You can do many things with them....
SELL THEM AT CRAFT SHOWS, give them away as gifts, sell them, use them as promotional items, or keep them and wear them yourself! The possibilities are ENDLESS! This kit plus tutorial is a great way to get your feet wet!

*I will be choosing 4 different winners for this contest!*
*The 4 winners will also be able to choose one additional diy button tutorial!*

The rules...Here’s how to enter (there are so many ways):

• Leave a comment to this post to be entered once.YOU MUST do this at least to be entered!
  
• To receive a second entry in the drawing, leave a second comment sharing what type of tutorial I have that is your favorite or suggest a new one!
• To be entered a third time, post this giveaway on your blog or homepage, and/or link back to it-- *please* be sure to mention this in your comment.
• To receive a fourth entry Tweet about the Giveaway on Twitter (and Tweet us that you did or tell us you did in another comment)
  
• For a fifth entry mention this on your Facebook page
• For a sixth entry *follow this blog*

This tutorial is a pdf file and will come via email attachment!
The winner will be chosen using random.org!
Anyone in the world may enter for this giveaway as it is an electronic version!

Enter the contest by Friday, March 13, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. e.s.t!
Good Luck!

Crock Pot Cooking...In the pot today is New England Roast Dinner

New England Roast Dinner

3-4 lb chuck roast

Put potatoes (4 large baking potatoes) and carrots (1 bag baby carrots) in the bottom of your crock pot. cut meat into 2 or 3 pieces and put on top of the veggies. Salt/pepper the meat.

Put in onion or dry mined onion for flavor.

Pour in 46 oz. tomato juice

Crock on low for 8 hours.

Enjoy!

I found myself in a treasury today again!

A big shout out to streetcat for including my hot pink/orange paisley buttons in her treasury!

Twitter: Reason #5436 to do it!

Why twitter? Access!

You have access to people that you would have never had before...not through traditional blogging, facebook and even emailing!

Today I had a question for ron paul...he was going to be on 1600 pennsylvania avenue and so I sent a tweet to David Shuster.

My question:

David Shuster's response:

easy peasy...in 140 characters or less!

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Now, on a twitter *side note*...look who started following me today from the State of Ohio--John Boehner ?

No, I am not a registered republican in the state...

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

All About Dr. Seuss

"OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
THERE IS FUN TO BE DONE! THERE ARE
POINTS TO BE SCORED. THERE ARE GAMES TO BE WON."
From: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as the beloved Dr. Seuss, was born in 1904 on Howard Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Ted's father, Theodor Robert, and grandfather were brewmasters in the city. His mother, Henrietta Seuss Geisel, often soothed her children to sleep by "chanting" rhymes remembered from her youth. Ted credited his mother with both his ability and desire to create the rhymes for which he became so well known.

Although the Geisels enjoyed great financial success for many years, the onset of World War I and Prohibition presented both financial and social challenges for the German immigrants. Nonetheless, the family persevered and again prospered, providing Ted and his sister, Marnie, with happy childhoods.

The influence of Ted's memories of Springfield can be seen throughout his work. Drawings of Horton the Elephant meandering along streams in the Jungle of Nool, for example, mirror the watercourses in Springfield's Forest Park from the period. The fanciful truck driven by Sylvester McMonkey McBean in The Sneetches could well be the Knox tractor that young Ted saw on the streets of Springfield. In addition to its name, Ted's first children's book, And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, is filled with Springfield imagery, including a look-alike of Mayor Fordis Parker on the reviewing stand, and police officers riding red motorcycles, the traditional color of Springfield's famed Indian Motocycles.

Ted left Springfield as a teenager to attend Dartmouth College, where he became editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Lantern, Dartmouth's humor magazine. Although his tenure as editor ended prematurely when Ted and his friends were caught throwing a drinking party, which was against the prohibition laws and school policy, he continued to contribute to the magazine, signing his work "Seuss." This is the first record of the "Seuss" pseudonym, which was both Ted's middle name and his mother's maiden name.

To please his father, who wanted him to be a college professor, Ted went on to Oxford University in England after graduation. However, his academic studies bored him, and he decided to tour Europe instead. Oxford did provide him the opportunity to meet a classmate, Helen Palmer, who not only became his first wife, but also a children's author and book editor.

After returning to the United States, Ted began to pursue a career as a cartoonist. The Saturday Evening Post and other publications published some of his early pieces, but the bulk of Ted's activity during his early career was devoted to creating advertising campaigns for Standard Oil, which he did for more than 15 years.

As World War II approached, Ted's focus shifted, and he began contributing weekly political cartoons to PM magazine, a liberal publication. Too old for the draft, but wanting to contribute to the war effort, Ted served with Frank Capra's Signal Corps (U.S. Army) making training movies. It was here that he was introduced to the art of animation and developed a series of animated training films featuring a trainee called Private Snafu.

While Ted was continuing to contribute to Life, Vanity Fair, Judge and other magazines, Viking Press offered him a contract to illustrate a collection of children's sayings called Boners. Although the book was not a commercial success, the illustrations received great reviews, providing Ted with his first "big break" into children's literature. Getting the first book that he both wrote and illustrated, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, published, however, required a great degree of persistence - it was rejected 27 times before being published by Vanguard Press.

The Cat in the Hat, perhaps the defining book of Ted's career, developed as part of a unique joint venture between Houghton Mifflin (Vanguard Press) and Random House. Houghton Mifflin asked Ted to write and illustrate a children's primer using only 225 "new-reader" vocabulary words. Because he was under contract to Random House, Random House obtained the trade publication rights, and Houghton Mifflin kept the school rights. With the release of The Cat in the Hat, Ted became the definitive children's book author and illustrator.

After Ted's first wife died in 1967, Ted married an old friend, Audrey Stone Geisel, who not only influenced his later books, but now guards his legacy as the president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises.

At the time of his death on September 24, 1991, Ted had written and illustrated 44 children's books, including such all-time favorites as Green Eggs and Ham, Oh, the Places You'll Go, Fox in Socks, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His books had been translated into more than 15 languages. Over 200 million copies had found their way into homes and hearts around the world.

Besides the books, his works have provided the source for eleven children's television specials, a Broadway musical and a feature-length motion picture. Other major motion pictures are on the way.

His honors included two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Source: http://www.catinthehat.org/history.htm

They even appreciate the birthday @ google!

Ode to Amelia Treasury...my buttons were included!

I had a fresh convo from jessleenes.etsy.com that she included my ballerina buttons set in her Ode to Amelia Treasury! What a way to start off Sunday morning!