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I will be telling you a little of my life, my love of beads, various crafts, and the teams and groups I belong to. You will be able to share in my accomplishments and my failures. Such a wonderful way to become old friends.

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God Bless Texas

Posted By GrandmaMarilyn on March 14, 2010

I belong to the Etsy Texas Crafters Team (etc) on Etsy.  One of my fellow members, Cheryl of Cheryl’s Purple Cow curated a treasury, God Bless Texas in which she featured my Patriotic Turtles Bracelet (end of first row).  Other members of my ETC team featured in this treasury are berrybluecreations, jackrabbitflats, Corkycrafts, elephantdreams, wiseimpressions, Brendaswhite, cherylspurplecow, owlsay, scrabbles, EDCCollective, and HandPaintedPetals.

2010-3-14 God Bless Texas

If you take a little romp around the Cheryl’s Purple Cow shop you will find that she is really into Awareness jewelry.  Most of her treasuries are normally on different types of awarenesses.  I will show you a couple of examples here but your really need to go check out her shop and see what she has to offer.

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The reason that I picked these two items is that purple also represents Pancreatic Cancer Awareness.  My mother died in April 2001 of Pancreatic Cancer.  She had one year with us after she was diagnosed.  I was able to be there at the end for her thanks to Hospice, for which I am glad as it helped in the grieving process.  My bothers, who were not able to be there at the end, took a long time in their grieving process.  I would highly recommend Hospice when an illness like cancer cannot be cured.

Other members of our ETC team create beautiful awareness items for sale.  Please check out these shops also.

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Lobelia Bidelia Blog Post

Posted By GrandmaMarilyn on March 13, 2010

All of my Etsy shops have been featured in the Lobelia Bidelia Blog.  This is all part of the JET team social networking.  I featured Fuchsia Bloom Studio in my blog post on Thursday.  Thank you for the blog post, Rebecca.  I forgot to put in that I was your mentor when you joined the JETs.

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To see more about our JET team members and the goodies they have in their shops, you can go to the JET Blog and see the wonderful posts that Bob of jewelry24seven wrote about the members of the JET team.

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Spring Is Here

Posted By GrandmaMarilyn on March 12, 2010

I received a convo letting me know that my Green Cube Necklace was featured in a treasury called Spring Is Here curated by momgen.  This treasury features some of my friends in my JET team:  ErikaPriceOriginals, ArtMadeByTammy, CrystalImpressions, AllThatGlitters1, capitalcitycrafts, and silvercanyons.

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I went to peruse momgen’s lovely shop and found a selection of mulberry paper that would fit this treasury beautifully.   You receive 20 beautiful pieces of 6×6 Mulberry Paper in Orange, Yellow, Blue, Purple, and Pink.

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Social Networking

Posted By GrandmaMarilyn on March 11, 2010

This week, my Jewelry on Etsy Team (JET) team will be starting a round of social networking for those JET shops that want to participate.  In conjunction with this event, I will be blogging every Thursday about one of team mates until the event is over.

The first shop on my agenda is fuchsiabloomstudio, owned by Rebecca.  She loves to work with gemstone beads, pearls, sterling silver, and, occasionally, copper.  In her shop, you will find bracelets, hair accessories, earrings (metalworked, beaded), necklaces (pearl & stone, metalworked, vingtage style, beaded), jewelry sets, and bridal jewelry.  I love her jewelry as it is dainty and feminine.  Just click on these links and the pictures in the blog to go check out her work

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Rebecca has a second shop on Etsy, Lobelia Bidelia, where she sells supplies for beading.  If you need beading supplies, hop on by her shop and check it out.

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Would like to catch up on what is going on with Fuchsia Bloom Studio?  Rebecca has a wonderful Blog where she will help you keep up on the comings and goings of her shops and jewelrymaking.

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I found some features on her shop for you to check out.

Jet of Day – FuchsiaBloomStudio

Jet Blog Writeup – FuchsiaBloomStudio  

HJM Art Gallery Blog

WhoHub

Laundry Blog

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Fuchsia Bloom Studio is in the following directories:

HotFrog

Vision IQ Directory

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Her social networking links are listed below.   Go by and follow her to keep up with her shop.

Twitter

Facebook Fan Page

StumbleUpon

Flickr

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Delicious

Stylehive

Squidoo

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To see more about our JET team members and the goodies they have in their shops, you can go to the JET Blog and see the wonderful posts that Bob of jewelry24seven wrote about the members of the JET team.

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EARTH to Etsy

Posted By GrandmaMarilyn on March 7, 2010

I got an email today letting me know that my Green and Gold Woven Bracelet was include in a treasury called EARTH to Etsy curated by Pam of cooljewelrydesign.  Other JET members in this treasury are AdroitJewelers, Glitzglitter, CocosGreenhouse, and mcrdesigns.

This treasury is open until Tuesday, March 9th, at 6:15 p.m. (EST).  So you have plenty of time to click on the picture below to be swept away to the real treasury where you can click each picture and leave a comment. 

3 7 2010 EARTH to Etsy

Looking through Pam’s shop, cooljewelrydesign, I found this lovely pair of earrings in my favorite gemstone and color…..amethyst purple. 

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