2nd Annual Yart Sale June 10th - 14th * Sponsored by Team ESST

The “2nd Annual Yart Sale” will be held from Wednesday June 10th-Sunday June 14th, 2009. This year the “2nd Annual Yart Sale” will be sponsored by the Etsy Supply Street Team (Team ESST). Although not an official Etsy event, it is Etsy supported as evidenced by the Storque article. A “Yart Sale” is an artistic spin on the traditional Yard Sale: Art + Yard Sale = “Yart Sale”. There are many art museums, artists, and groups that have Yart sales annually to raise cash. All Etsy shops are invited to participate. Choose to participate in your Handmade Store, your Supply Store, or your Vintage Store. If you have more than one shop you can participate in all of them. To join the sale, simply post the following Yart Sale Announcement in the Shop Announcement section of your Etsy Shop and please include a short description of how you will be participating in the sale:“I am participating in the Yart Sale on Etsy sponsored by Team ESST”.Team ESST invites you to come, post, chat and shop on the “Official Yart Sale” thread in the Promotions Section of the Etsy forums. A new thread will be posted daily at 7:00 AM EDT beginning on Wednesday June 10th by the Etsy Supply Street Team with the forum title:“SECOND ANNUAL YART SALE sponsored by Team ESST – June 10th, 2009”

We have 4 shops on Etsy and all of them will be participating. Checkout our jewelry supply shop - CarDonCreativeDesign for you jewelry making needs, GramsVintageButtons for your collectable or crafting buttons, our CarDonsBitsandPieces shop for craft books, bits and pieces, and our LottieMaesVintage for your vintage passion!!

Short and Sweet!

I haven't blogged in a couple of weeks so, here is a short note on how things are going.

Mom and I have been busy with our 4 Etsy shops. But, more busy outside!! It is finally nice here in Central NY and we have been outside in the yard and planting in the gardens. Mom wants to have a big vegetable garden but, we just don't have the time to work in one with our shops needing tons of time too. So, we have decided to have a container garden. We have lots of big pots we are going to filled with dirt and then our veggie plants. I think we will have beans, peas, tomatoes, some cucumbers and try to grow peppers. Peppers take lots of time so, we need to find plants that mature in a short season. Oh yes, and we have a long window box planter for radishes :) And some baby carrots, too! Okay, it will be a bit more than what we had first planned but, my son Zac will have fun helping Mom and Gramma.

Hope you are enjoying your spring time weather!

Shopping Extravaganza X Four

Yup!! It's time for the Team ESST Shopping Extravaganza Weekend!! Best news yet, we have 4 etsy shops that will be participating in the weekend. Mom and I would love for you to drop by and check out our shops :)

CarDonCreativeDesigns offers interesting and unique as well as your basic jewelry making supplies.

Then we have GramsVintageButtons where we have vintage buttons and many crafting buttons for your button collection or crafting projects.


For your crafting bits and pieces we have a shop for that too!! CarDonsBitsandPieces what a creative name ;) You will find lace, trimmings, bag of bits and things, books and magazines and more.
Our LottieMaesVintage shop carries a wide variety of vintage items. We have vintage jewelry, pins, earrings, necklaces, and cuff links. We have found vintage linens, dishes, deco items, clothes and more.

For this Shopping Extravaganza Weekend we will be offering a 15% discount on orders over $25.00. We will combine orders in all of our shops. You can shop in all of our stores and if the total of the orders is over $25.00 we will refund 15% of the item total (not including shipping fees) to your PayPal account. Please note to seller that you have made purchases in our other shops.

May Team ESST sponsored Shopping Extravaganza Weekend - May 7th (Thursday) to 10th (Sunday). Happy Shopping!

Coming Soon !! Team ESST May Shopping Extravaganza

The Etsy Supply Street Team - ESST - is proud to announce the "May - First Weekend Shopping Extravaganza".The May event will run from Thursday, May 7th - Sunday, May 10th, 2009. ALL ETSY SHOPS - HANDMADE, SUPPLIES AND VINTAGE - are invited to participate by placing an announcement in your shop and joining in with promoting on the "Official" Promotional thread in the Etsy Forums.This will be a “Shopping Event” similar to a Public Marketplace. There will not be a "Overall theme" since Etsy is a Global Marketplace hence, the seasons, cultures, holidays, etc. can vary quite a bit. Although not required, we do strongly encourage shops to have a feature, theme or sale as this can pique interest and help you to draw people to your shop. You do not have to participate for the whole weekend simply join in when you can on the Promo thread in the Etsy Forums. You can search for the official thread - “MAY FIRST WEEKEND SHOPPING EXTRAVAGANZA MAY 7TH-MAY 10TH”. Here is the Promo thread in the Etsy Forums: Will be posted once the Extravaganza has started!The only requirement is that you have a shop on Etsy and help promote by joining in and bumping the thread throughout the weekend. Talk about your shop and what you have to offer our shoppers. Those of you who blog or twitter can post and/or tweet about it and promote to people that are off Etsy to visit us. It will provide the Etsy community with publicity, making our shops more visible, and hopefully creating a monthly event shoppers will look forward to. If you have any questions please convo the Etsy Supply Street Team

Sale-Sale-Sale-Sale

OK, now that I have your attention! CarDon and Co. (all of our Etsy shops) will be Celebrating our 2nd Anniversary for CarDon Creative Design shop. Mom and I started our first shop on Etsy two years ago as of April 3rd.

Wow, those 2 years have flown by! In those 2 years we have switched from selling at home parties our finished jewelry and selling jewelry on Etsy to selling jewelry supplies and have opened 3 more shops. Yup, we have been busy girls.

We invite you to come and help us celebrate our anniversary! All of our shops will be apart of the sale. CarDonCreativeDesign our jewelry supply shop, GramsVintageButtons for vintage and crafting buttons, LottieMaesVintage has great vintage finds - dishes, linens, jewelry, clothes, and more. Our newest shop - CarDonsBitsandPieces carries...well, bits and pieces, great items for your altered art, mixed media and craft projects.

Now the good part the Sale!! We are giving 20% off any order over $10 (that doesn't include shipping - just the merchandise) and if your order is over $40 (not including the shipping - just the merchandise) we will give you the 20% discount and free shipping. We will return the savings to your PayPal account or you deduct it from your Money Order.

You can combine orders from all of our shops too! Just let us know in notes to seller that you have placed an order with another shop.

Sale dates are April 2nd to April 5th.

I was on Blockhead Radio!!

I was just on Blockhead Radio Live!! As Team ESST leader I was invited along with the whole team to be on the "Artisan Teams and Groups" talk show. It was so exciting!! Several team members were able to chat along with us as we talked about the team and what we were about.

I got to talk with teammates I have "know" for a long time but, now I got to talk with them!! Hi Jazzie, hi everyone :) Lily our host was great, she is also an Etsy shop owner, TulipsTreasureBox . We had lots of fun talking about our team and the terrific members we have. Also, we covered our teams variety of supplies and the great service we give to our customers!

Thanks Blockhead Radio for a great time and wonderful way to promote our team!!

MOSAIC's This Weeks Team Tease

Last year I got hooked on Mosaics! I saw all of the beautiful mosaic shop when I admitted the new team shops and thought I can do this. So, my first attempt went well. I did two trivets with supplies from team members. Here are my offerings :)



Team ESST has many wonderful mosaic supply shops and this week I will cover just a few of them. Not only are these supply shops they are Fabulous mosaic artist.

First shop pick this week is judysnow's Hand Cut Mosaic Tiles . You will find classic tiles, beautiful patterns, interesting bits and pieces, and Papa Honey's awesome wooden toys.



My next team mosaic shop pick is Mosaic Tiles Supply Mosaic Art CoCoMo Etsy. Cocomo supplies the tiles I used in my first project. Mom and I love tea pots and cups and Cocomo had the perfect tiles to use.



Another fantastic mosaic shop is Artful Mosaic Supplies. Here you will find marvelous handmade clay tiles and handmade MDF bases, I used them for my trivets as well as the grout from this shop!



I can't resist so, here are the rest of the Team ESST mosaic supply shops!

Another awesome shop for handpainted tiles, DooDles Mosaic Supplies and Handpainted Tiles.



And another terrific shop CMKSculptures2, which I featured last week :)




Then there is mosaictiledesigns for wonderful tiles!



Can't forget artsyhandpaints, check out her delightful handpainted tiles!!



And our newest team member glassshack, featuring glass shards, real cool :)



Thanks for looking and see you next week!