Well What Do Ya Know..

The EtsyFriends team is having a little treasure hunt with some awesome prizes.

Head on over to the blog for the hints and list of participating shops. Oh and the list of prizes. Over $15 worth of prizes... efpromotions

And The Winner Is........

OK so with the move, I sort of forgot about my contest for the yarn bag. I have drawn a winner though...

AND THE WINNER IS... Jen

Jen will be emailed for further info on her winnings.

Thank you everyone for entering and remember to watch my shop for bags using ALL of the ideas given here. I hope to make a bag that we can ALL use.

Need a Little Help Here...

I am asking for help from all of my friendly neighborhood knitters and crocheters. I am planning to make a sturdy bag for knitters/crocheters to take with them with all of their supplies in it. My dilemma is this, when I crochet, I take 3 maybe 4 things with me, yarn, scissors, tape measure and hook. What all do you take with you when you knit or crochet on the run? What would you want to see in a craft bag as far as pockets and such? Let me know and be entered in a drawing for your own bag. (Once I get it made of course) ;)

If you want to be entered in the drawing, make sure to include a way for me to contact you.

The drawing will run until 2/13/09


If you are unable to leave a comment feel free to send me a convo through etsy at http://MondrysYknotShop.etsy.com

And The Winner Is........

On the blog site Love EtsyFeedback, My team EtsyFriends had a contest. It was a challenge for the team members to create the ultimate look of friendship. I had posted my entry previously but this isn't about that. We asked average joes to come and tell us who's was THE best. Well I am sure that it was difficult for the person tallying the votes but a winner emerged...

Hildeguardslair WON. Her entry was from her shop CritterHabitat
1. My shop name is hildeguardslair.etsy.com

2. I signed onto etsy on Dec 26th of 2006

3. My Mom and I have always made things for the home, clothes, knitted and crochet afghans, and scarves, mittens or anything else we could think of. We had the hope of someday opening a craft shop. My Mom didn't live to see the dream come to a reality but this is the shop we always dreamed of haveing. I am so glad I found etsy.

4. My favorite thing about what I sell is taking a scrap of nothing and turning it into something. I am not explaining this well. I love making jewelry, I look at beads and I can picture how they will look when they are put together. I guess you could say the best thing I like about what I sell is the creative process, I love to make things. I love what I do and enjoy it.

5. This is the favorite thing in my Hildeguardslair shop.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15461649
I won the metal component in a trade game, then through a bnr I found the polymer clay beads and I was so excited, I love roses. It took 6 weeks for me to get the beads from the seller. There was a mix up with the mail and everything. I planned this piece in my head 9 different ways and this is what it turned out to be.

The favorite thing in my critterhabitat shop is my kitten. I love kittens and I have made so many of them. I made a little yellow kitten and that was my favorite kitten of all.

6. The only team I belong to is etsyfriends. I have checked out other teams but the friends team is it for me. The friendship, moral support and site help is the best.

7. I wish I could call promoting my shop fun. I was raised to believe if you promoted yourself you were bragging and that is a bad thing. I have to fight this everytime I list something for sale. I don't promote like I should, I do go into other threads and post my sales and my shop and let the shop speak for itself. I can talk about others peoples shops and really get it going, I wish I could feel better about doing it for my own shop.

8. I have 5 travel pillows from sygnetcreations, I bought them for the whole family, I have some wonderful lip gloss from sheltie19 and her dragons she does out of glass are to die for, I have a bunch of them. Happyathomehandmade makes the most wonderful beads, I have a lot of them. spiritedwoodland sent me the most wonderful little chair made for a fairy folk, my fire place is fantasy land with dragons, gnomes, and fairy folk, that chair just sets it off. I love my pocketpal from Mondrysyknotshop, I use it everyday. I could go on and on, I have a treasure trove of the most wonderful handcrafted items from etsy. Last year I had a handcrafted Christmas for my husbands family, every gift was from etsy.

9. My spare time is spent crafting, I call it my play time. I have to get my house work done before I can play then I craft most of the day. I am always makeing something, or planning on what I am going to make next. I do try to read a least 1 book a week, I love reading and I do some writing as well when I take a break from crafting but even that is play time.

10. I was kind of alone on etsy for a long time and it is hard to keep up the moral when views get low and no sales to speak of for a while, it is easy to just give up. I found etsy friends team and the support is so important and they are a great bunch of gals. It is so much fun when you see a post " I got a sale, wow," it is almost and good as getting one yourself you are so happy for them and they all feel the same way when it happens to you. It is like the sister hood of etsy. It is not all about etsy either, when there is a crisis in someones life they are only a convo away and they are there for you. The best way I can describe the friendship is with the old saying, "A true friend is there for you when they'd rather be somewhere else," that is the essence of the team.

Wednesday July 30 & Thursday July 31 with Billy McDollar

Wednesday was a lazy day. We went to JoAnn Fabrics and Walmart today. I saw some geese at Walmart. That was fun.


Thursday we went to Grand Haven for the Coast Guard Festival. That was a hoot. First Pete fell and sprained his ankle but he wouldn't let us leave. He said we came all this way to do this so we are gonna do it. He is one tuff cookie. I watched April go on some pretty scary rides and then she took me on the merry-go-round.



Then we went to see the Coast Guard ships.



There were three of them but we only went up on one of them. Can you believe how high up we were? Pete was sitting down on the corner by the water. Look close you can barely see him.



Then I got a BIG surprise, I got to get my picture taken with the CAPTAIN!!!! Holy crow man. Oh yea April was there too.



More to come.....

Tuesday with Billy

Well, we started out our day with plans of going North to the Shrine of the Pines But for some goofy reason they are closed on Tuesday's. It is a very cool place to go just don't go on Tuesday.

So we decided to back track just a little and we went to the Pere Marquette boat launch and see what we could see.

Billy was watching my oldest son Chris goof off in the water.

Chris talked him into getting in. OMG Chris don't drop him he can't swim!!!!!!
And Billy safely on the rocks.

Then we decided to visit my Grandmother in Baldwin. A long time ago the area that she lives in was called Arrowhead Village. I don't think they call it that anymore cause now all of the streets have names instead of numbers. Anyway this is at the private lake for Village Members Only. We did stop and see grandma too but no pictures.


Before we left Baldwin, MI we had to stop for the World's Best Ice Cream. Jones Ice cream parlor has been around for ever. Well since 1942 anyway. the stupid tree was in the way.

As we were heading back home we saw these awesome wood carvings. The first one is a 2 headed dragon and the other is a beaver. LOL the name of the company was Beaver Tree Services. That is some very impressive work. Well we got home and just relaxed for the rest of the evening.

Our First Day With Billy

On Our First Day With Billy We....
We went to the local McDonald's for some lunch and he played with April in the play room...

This first picture is on the way to McDonald's. The next two are in the Play Place.

Then we went to Meijer for gas ($3.49/gal for e-85) While Hubby Pete was pumping the gas April read to Billy from his journal. Then we went into the store to see my mom She is hiding by the Sushi sign she doesn't like her picture taken.

We then went back home April took Billy for a spin in her Jeep so she could show him the neighborhood.

Then she brought Billy back in the house and he helped me decide what we should do this week.