Valentines Day the Cruelty Free Way! Vegan Craft Sample Bags

Valentines Day doesnt have to mean tons of processed sugars and dairy, it can mean compassion and love!  This Valentine's Day you can order a Vegan Craft Sample bag for your love, and know that it is all vegan and all compassion!
Vegan Craft Samples receive samples of handmade items from Etsy shops around the world, puts them into reusable hand stenciled tote bags and sells them.  Everything in these bags is vegan and cruelty free and 100% profits from each bag goes to a different sanctuary each time.  Valentine's Day 2010 sample bag profits go to Pigs Peace Sanctuary
The bags come in 3 different sizes now, they used to only offer the regular sized bags, but now they offer small and large bags as well!

Small bags come with 8-10 samples and are $15

Regular bags come with 17-20 samples and are $25

 

Large bags come with 23-25 samples and are $35 

The next round of bags after our Valentine's Day bags are our Earth Day bags, we are always looking for new handmade shops to contribute samples.  When you contribute samples you promote a compassionate lifestyle, raise money for animals, and promote your craft!  Please sign up under "get in the bag" on our website!

Some of my favorite from CNY Etsy Team

Blue Cupcake Potholders Originals By Lauren

Husky Paper Cut Silhouette My Serenity Way

Turquoise Dichroic Fused Glass Pendant Minty Fresh Fusions

Touch Me Ladybug EcoLeeko

If you are looking for more items from the Cny Etsy team just search cnyetsyteam (written just like that as all one word) on Etsy.com

Mid September Update!

Hi everyone!

I've updated the blog with our more recent additions to the group (look to the right under "MEMBERS") as well as added a few blogs. If I missed anything or if there is link trouble, just send me an email at luckalilly@yahoo.com.

If you would like to see some CNY photos from the August Clinton Arts and Music Festival, visit this post on team member Heather's Blog:

http://holisticallyheather.blogspot.com/2009/08/clinton-arts-and-music-festival-in.html

Happy Fall!!

Caroline

A Treasury of CNY Etsy Products

Hello!

Today I would like to share some wonderful items lovingly handcrafted, by some of the talented artisans of the CNY Etsy Team.

Enjoy!






Sterling Silver Rectangular Pendant








Farewell summer sweets.








Medium Foundation mineral makeup set








Handcrafted Duratemp Wood Butterfly House


Feel free to peruse these shops and ask questions if needed. They will all be more than happy to help you out!

Feature Friday: Minty Fresh Fusions

The Feature Friday series is back after a short hiatus! This week's featured artist is Jen from Minty Fresh Fusions. She is quite the experienced Etsian, and has owned a total of 7 shops!! She is celebrating two years of selling on Etsy this month! Right now she is focusing on fused glass, and she makes stunning work. Check out her interview for more!


First and foremost, what is it that you make/sell?

I make fused glass jewelry and housewares.


What do you most enjoy about your craft?

I think the thing I enjoy most is opening the kiln. There's a pretty commonly repeated phrase about it being like opening presents at Xmas, and it's so true. That and getting to know some of my customers and hearing they're happy, especially when working with people's custom fused photograph pieces.



How has your experience on Etsy been?

My experience on Etsy has been wonderful, I joined 2 years ago in July and started selling 2 years ago this month.



What would you like to see from the CNY Etsy Group in the future?

I think I'd like to see the group get together more informally, a few people for coffee of whatever comes up, but then again my 2 year old always keeps me from participating in much, so I don't know if I'd make it to do much. I had fun at the 4th of July show and look forward to more team shows, definitely!

Check out Jen's shop here:

Minty Fresh Fusions

4th of July Sale at Porter Studios Gallery

I've finally gotten around to posting the pictures from the 4th of July sale at Porter Studios Gallery! The sale went really well; Jane was so generous to give us this opportunity!

Tangbaby's booth

My Serenity Way's Booth

Luckalilly Ceramics' Booth

Ecoleeko's Booth

Beaded Bird's Booth

Zosio's Booth

Sorry we don't have pictures of everyone's booths, but if anybody has any more you can send them to me and I'll post them here!!

Feature Friday: MGW Photography

For this installment of the Feature Friday series of posts, I interviewed Michael from MGW Photography.  He is located in Binghamton and takes awesome photos which he sells on Etsy as a hobby.  I believe he is the only photographer on our team (sorry if I am mistaken and overlooked someone!).  My mother was a photographer, so I've always had an interest in the medium and great respect for people who can conceive and execute a great photo.  One of Michael's photos was recently selected to be printed in the Sony World Photography Awards Book for 2009 out of a pool of over 70,000 photographs! Pretty impressive.  Read the interview to find out about more about Michael and his work:

First and foremost, what is it that you make/sell?
Fine Art Photography.

What do you most enjoy about your craft?
That no matter how much you know there is always more to learn. When I am not learning I get bored so photography has given me a opportunity to continue to learn.

How has your experience on Etsy been?
Etsy has been a great boost for my confidence. People had told me that they liked my photography when I first started taking picture but it wasnt until others started buying my stuff on etsy that I really started believing it. I now have an exhibit coming up in either Oct or Nov during Binghamtons First Friday Art Walk.

What would you like to see from the CNY Etsy Group in the future?
I would love to see the team grow and become more active. I am trying to spread the word the best I can when I meet people on etsy that live in the CNY area.

I had a really hard time choosing which photos to showcase for this feature, so make sure you check out MGW Photography's Etsy shop for more, as well as Michael's blog!!