Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Wednesday's Treasury Slot

Hello all and welcome to Wednesday's Treasury Slot.

Thank you Caroline for your post yesterday introducing yourself as the new Blog Co-Ordinator.

There was some discussion in the last week or so on the rules of this slot so for clarification please read Sue's link here.

Also just a reminder check out Clare from PetalAvenue's post on Monday for a very exciting swap challenge.

So without further a do as there are so many to get through here are the fantastic calibre of team treasuries.  Please keep the team alive by participating and hearting and sharing posts and treasuries, thank you!

The Perfect Irish Spring by Craftydiva82

Love is Everywhere by Mouflon

Fabulous February by ByAmor



Blue Monday by HazelDonnelly

Pink Aqua by FioreJewelry
In Every Winters Heart lies a quivering spring by PurlsofColour

With love from Ireland a first treasury from BeadbashIreland - well done!


Paradise by JKWJewelry

Spring Wedding by PuffinPatchwork

Nautical but Nice by CherryblossomTattoo

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Hello

Hi everyone. My name is Caroline Kelly from Cari Design and I am the new Etsy Ireland Blog Co-ordinator!! (I am liking the sound of my new 'title'!!) And here I am so you all know who you are in touch with.
I am relatively new to the wonderful world of blogging so please bear with me if there are any (hopefully small) errors! I am keen and eager to get going so if any of you would like to contribute an article to the Etsy Ireland Blog please contact me through my Etsy shop Cari Design. Please let me know the topic of the piece, a good time for me to post it for you and an email address in your message. I promise to try and keep things interesting from my end and hopefully you all out there will have some really fascinating and crafty news items for me! That is it for my first post. Looking forward to hearing from lots of you soon. Thanks for reading! Caroline Cari Design

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Etsy Ireland Craft Exchange

Hello all, Clare here from Petal Avenue to introduce the Etsy Ireland Craft Exchange. This is a "pay it forward" kind of project, in which you give a free handmade gift and receive one in return. Anyone from the Etsy Ireland team can take part and you can give whatever manner of gift you wish, so long as it is handmade.

So here are the rules:
  • Sign up using the form below by Monday 6th February
  • I will pair you with another member of them team and send you an email with your partner's details by Wednesday 8th February
  • Create your gift and post it by Wednesday 29th February (ooh leap year!)
  • When you receive your gift, take some photos! I will arrange a post where we can share all the pictures
A few tips to help you get started:
  • If you enjoy making a variety of crafty items, choose something light for the gift to save money on postage
  • The gift you give does not have to be overly expensive, as we all know, a handmade gift is more special
  • Why not send an email to your partner to introduce yourself?
By pressing submit on this form you are committing to creating a handmade gift and posting it to your assigned partner. You will receive a crafty gift in return.
Note: the gift you receive may not necessarily be from the same person you have given your gift to.

If you have any questions you can email me at petalavenue@gmail.com or contact me through my blog or etsy shop.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Getting To Know You #1

"Getting to know you" is a way for us all to get to know better other Etsy teams and their work through cross team treasuries. I hope to post one each Friday.

As Australia Day was this week, I have picked the Australian Wandarrah team which gathers Australian Etsy sellers and buyers. The treasury is called "It is summer somewhere" because in Australia summer is here (a very warm one I'm told) and here in Ireland we are not even sure we will have one this year :)

Look at all the nice things both teams make:


Have a nice week-end and see you next week. In the meantime if you have any suggestion regarding the team or theme we should feature, please let me know.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

This is part of what goes into the info I send out to new members. It will need an update once all the question marked things are sorted...

THE OFFICIAL TEAM BLOG:-
http://www.etsyireland.blogspot.com/

The blog acts as the shop window and the notice board for the team so it’s wise to check in on a regular basis for all the latest happenings.

The blog team are working really hard to create an interesting weekly structure and its already attracting lots of overseas visitors too.

The main blog items are written and uploaded by Caroline Kelly (CariDesign). We welcome all sorts of articles so if you have any, or write any new posts that you think might be interesting to other members of the team, please forward them to Caroline via her shop link. (Here it is again : CariDesign ).

The blog also carries weekly features, I have listed them below, with the people responsible for them :-

Mondays : Crafty Digest - Co-ordinator to be confirmed
Tuesdays: New Members – Ellen (Spiralgoddess)
Wednesdays: Team Treasuries – Fiona (Patchworkdelights)
Fridays: Getting To Know You - Raphaele (LaCreatureandYou)

Saturday: Tea and a Chat with – Felicia (Scrapzville)
Sunday: Eyes Open Ireland – Ellen (Spiralgoddess)

OTHER THINGS WE DO ON THE BLOG :-

Etsy Ireland /Meets Another Team/Treasury/Getting To Know You :
– Raphaele (LaCreatureandYou)

This treasury involves items from our team and another team. The aim is to promote our team to new people, and people from the other team to our members.

Etsy Ireland Craft Exchange :
- Clare (Petalavenue)

Clare organises swaps between team members. If you would like to participate please contact her direct.

Being active in the team both on the discussion pages on Etsy, and on the blog will really keep your exposure up, so please do get involved

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On the blog you'll also find a cool 'Etsy Ireland' button to grab for your own blog (if you have one) and a choice of Etsy Ireland business cards if you’d like to print them.

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MORE USEFUL LINKS

Official Etsy Ireland Team Page – Everyone can post here: -
www.etsy.com/teams/5054/crafty-ireland-team

For a bit of banter, advice and team news (Etsy just launched this new format, and if you choose to join our team I’ll send you an invite.)

Our Flickr Group For Members Photos - www.flickr.com/groups/crafty-ireland

These photos also show up on the team blog.
Official Facebook Fan Page - www.facebook.com/etsyireland

To be one of our Facebook featured 'sellers of the day' please convo (co-ordinator to be confirmed) with a link to the item in your shop that you want featured, and all your relevant links, and she may pick you for a post on the fan page.

You don’t need a Facebook account to be featured. Please feel free to comment on the wall with any giveaways/competitions that you ever have going on, and add a positive review if you’ve ever had a positive experience dealing with one of the team.

Sue
Sue Graham from amazingbeads says -

Hi Everyone,

We are having a few changes within the team.

First I would like to thank all of those team members who have being doing sterling voluntarily work for us, but who now want to move on.

Second. We have new members to the Admin Team, and new activities too.

Here is the new set up:

Leader - Still me folks!


Second Leader - Still Purls folks!

Purls will helping me as ' The Other Leader'.

The team is getting larger and larger (nearly 500 now, which is fantastic, and more people joining daily), and there is more and more work to be done to keep it running smoothly, so Purls will be there in the background, giving help to us all, and covering for me when I can't do stuff (which is often).


Blog Co-ordinator - The Blog is now being run by Caroline Kelly (CariDesign).

Caroline is responsible for the blog and everything that goes onto it.

We will be looking for loads of articles from you all, so that Caroline doesn't do all the writing herself.

New Members - Ellen (Spiralgoddess)

Ellen will still be doing the New Members write ups.

Here I have to give Ellen, and all the new members I've neglected, my sincere apologies. It's been so busy with everything that I haven't been able to get this info to Ellen for ages.

I promise that I will start again from 1st February once all these things are up and running.

Team Treasuries - Fiona (Patchworkdelights)

Eyes Open Ireland - Ellen (Spiralgoddess)

The Team Treasuries is working really well, but you know what? We need to get more photo's to Ellen for Eyes Open Ireland. Lets get working on that!

Tea and a Chat With - Felicia (Scrapzville)

Felicia has taken this over, so give her loads of help please and volunteer to have a chat with her.

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There are some things that still have a question mark over them, as to the co-ordinators.
I am waiting for responses.

These are:

Crafty Digest
Facebook
Flickr
Pinterest - This is new, and we had someone to run it, but luckily for her, and sadly for us, she got a new job, and so will be too busy, so it's on hold just for the mo.

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Then we have got two new sections. These are:

1) Getting To Know You - Raphaele (LaCreatureandYou)

This is a treasury that Raphaele will be co-ordinating once a week, to be posted on the blog on a Friday.

It will involve items from our own team and another Etsy team.

It will be great to link with other people/teams, and get to know them, and their circles willl be showing our items to new people, and vice versa.

2) Etsy Ireland Craft Exchange :- Clare (Petalavenue)

This will be an exchange group co-ordinated by Clare. It will be between any of our own team members that wish to participate. Exchanges will be well matched etc. Don't worry. Clare has it sorted, and will post more about it very soon.

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Phew! A very long post.

I am going to post a brief, very brief, resume next, just so that you can all refer to it, when you need to contact someone.

You might want to copy and paste it to somewhere for easy reference.

Thank you again to everyone who has helped in the past, and a huge thank you, and even bigger welcome to all the new members of the Admin Team as of now.

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And - one more thing - there are two peole who you never get to hear about, but who are working solidly in the background, and they are:

Robert (Dr K Soap Company), who does the categories list
and Maggie (The Bowmakers), who does the blog web design

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Actually I'm going to do that resume in another post because otherwise it will all be too much.

Lets all get more involved right now.

Sue

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Eyes Open Ireland


Hello Crafty Team Members 
Ellen here from The Spiral Goddess
with a call to arms!!
Ask not what your team can do for you,
but what can you do for your team!!

EYES OPEN IRELAND NEEDS YOU!!!!

This is a monthly spot on the Team Blog
Featuring Team Members Photo's of places that inspire you or your favorite hide away.
Maybe pictures you caught of a sunrise or stormy day that you love.
A thing you spotted that inspired you to make something.
A place a million miles away or in your back garden
or simply moments in time captured forever....

Share them with us and tell why you love them and how they inspire you.
In return we will post links to your Etsy shop, Blog, Facebook, Twitter etc.
So come on team show us what ya got!!!

Rialto Bridge Venice

Here's one of my favourite places, Venice Italy.
We went there last leap year for a wedding.
4 years later I still look back on these pictures whenever I need a little pick me up :o)

St Marks Square

Having read a story about Venice as a little girl I fell in love with images of the gondola filled canal's.
The idea of Masked Balls and Magical Walkways fascinated me.

Rush Hour Venice Style :o)
How I wished I could go there....
Especially for Valentines Day
And eventually I did!!
 Venice did not disappoint
  Doorways to Secrets on Every Street
It was as Magical as I had imagined and for me it's all about The Magic :o)
I bought some blank mask's that would be worn to the famous masked ball's and took them home and tried to paint them....... lol!!
 Lets just say they looked better in my imagination.
But I never looked back I came home all inspired and started creating again
and now here I am with a little shop and writing for this blog.
♪♫♫♪ Just One Cornetto ♪♫♪♫
In the past the posts were all about Ireland
but we have members all over the globe and I think we would all enjoy seeing what International Irish Eyes are seeing all over the world :o)
So come on team start sending me your pics and your stories.
I'm starting this off again as a monthly piece but if there's enough interest it could go weekly.
As you can see from my pictures you don't have to be a fantastic photographer
just tell us why you love the pictures you love!!

Please contact me through my Etsy shop
Or send your Pics and stories to me at my email thespiralgoddess@gmail.com

Till Next Time