---Shop News--- HAT!

InJoyTreasures

You know the old idiom~ "Wear Many Hats" ~?  Well, this is certainly true when one runs a small business that is a one woman show. I am my own Girl Friday as well as Chief Cook and Bottle Washer...ENOUGH with the idiom lexicon!  I have exciting news!  I made my first sale to Tasmania!!! It just fills me with delight that a hat of mine is heading around the world!  

I love hats!  This one is from one of my favorite Hat makers, Filson.  I would have liked to keep this hat but it is a bit small for my large head that is covered with thick hair.  I do have my own Filson hat and, of course, I have a story!

As I mentioned I have a head that is on the large size which makes hat hunting more of a challenge.  If you follow this blog you know I spend a lot of time outdoors so hats are a must.  For gardening I wanted a large brimmed hat, so about 10 years ago I began searching for a summer hat beyond the traditional ball cap.  Finally, at LL Beans I found this beauty!

 It was a bit pricy for our budget but, it fit perfectly and I fell in love with it!  Well, my DH, immediately, after getting home had hat envy.  It was a while before we could return to Beans (before internet shopping!) by the time we could, Beans had stopped carrying this hat.  Some years later we came across an online seller and purchase a hat for my DH + a back up hat...or the Hat for "good".  When the new hats arrived my DH tried to trick me and trade the new hat for my worn-in hat.  No dice!  His hat is now happily broke-in!

DH hat with a sealskin belt his Mom used to wear on canoe trips when he was a boy!

Extra Hat...I did wear it to some of the boyo's soccer games

I am glad to have the spare but not ready to use it yet.  I keep patching up my old pal.  Last year I added a piece of leather in order to keep the top intact.

                                  
                              

This hat is great for all kinds of weather.  Spray it with bug dope and it keeps the critters away!  Rain or sleet or dead of night this by far my most favorite hat I have ever worn.

Even though this beauty is headed to the land down under have no fear that my noggin will be warmed by my other two favs...

Hand knitted hat by my sweet pal, Jenny!  I love the ring on the tassel for holding or hooking it up to dry.  Plus, it is such a pretty hat!

And when the Polar Vortex hits I am ready with this hat, handmade by me!  I upcycled an old wool coat. It sports big warm ear flaps...and at the end of the ties are handspun angora pom-poms from my bunny buddies of the past...dyed pink...!

So do you have a favorite hat? Or hats?  I would love to hear about them!

---Shop News--- & Etsy MaineTeam Cash Mob

Seems like if I can wrap wire around it I will!  I have 2 new creation categories at InJoyGatherings Shop ~~ Garlands & Globs.  I'll start with the globs.  I found a big bag of green, sky blue, cobalt blue, & clear glass globby things at the thrift shop....they are very pretty and here is what I did with them....

 https://www.etsy.com/listing/167518046/blue-christmas-glass-copper-ornament-buy?ref=shop_home_active

 https://www.etsy.com/listing/167651108/green-christmas-glass-copper-ornament?ref=shop_home_active

 https://www.etsy.com/listing/167655940/cobalt-blue-christmas-glass-copper?ref=shop_home_active

https://www.etsy.com/listing/167656394/clear-glass-christmas-glass-copper?ref=shop_home_active

This just a sampling...there are more in the shop and more to be listed...these are listed with the same Tendril offer of buy 3 get one vintage Marble Tendril FREE...this offer lasts until I lose all my marbles! ;)

Ok Garlands....I was rummaging at old hardware sort of salvage place and found a bunch of interesting copper colored steel sash chain.  Well, when I see a copper color I want to get wrapping.  The Tendril Garland has been Invented!

Beach Stones

 https://www.etsy.com/listing/167667054/beach-stone-copper-garland-6-ft-vintage?ref=shop_home_active

Tiny Green Marbles

https://www.etsy.com/listing/167670649/green-glass-copper-garland-6-feet-long?ref=listing-shop-header-3

Sea Glass 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/167676703/green-white-beach-sea-glass-copper?ref=listing-shop-header-1

and Clear Marbles

https://www.etsy.com/listing/167665080/clear-glass-copper-garland-6-feet-long?ref=listing-shop-header-2

If I only had more time.......but it is back to puppet making now...oh...still FUN!

And todays Treasury.....MAINETEAM! CASH MOB next Friday November 8th 

SAVE 30% off in any of my shops that day only ~~~ coupon code cashmob13

https://www.etsy.com/treasury/MzQ0Mzg3MTh8MjcyMjY0MTMwNQ/eco-gifts-from-maine?ref=pr_treasury

---Shop News---

https://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjA0NzQ5MnwyNzIyMjI1NDUx/stones-bones?index=7&ref=pr_favetreasuries&atr_uid=

Well is was a bit of an exciting week on Etsy for me...one of my items made the front page.  It was random luck that I even saw it at all.  Wednesday night I was taking one last look at my email/facebook/etsy before signing off for the night.  Between signing in and out of my 4 shops I noticed my trees on the front page!  I was some excited!

Well what does that mean...156 hearts, 397 page views, & one custom order.

How does it happen (for non Etsians)?  Well, someone just like me on Etsy (in this case https://www.etsy.com/shop/ManyAMoonVintage THANKS!!!) makes a treasury and then some mysterious people back at Etsy HQ decide if a treasury is front page worthy...based on beauty and what is trending...and I imagine some random luck.

Random Luck got me to thinking about....GRAB BAGS!  I love Grab Bags.  When I was a kid, out west, my family road tripped a lot.  We stopped at many roadside attractions...you know the ones with the Jack-a-lopes and Snakepits!  They were filled with all manner of souvenirs including the grab bag bin.  I was and still am a very frugal person that does not tend to gamble.  But I have to admit the lure of the grab bag was irresistible to me.  Some were great, some were a bit skunky...but it never stopped me from buying one.  Guess I like a bit of mystery in life!

It just so happens https://www.etsy.com/shop/ManyAMoonVintage has a Mystery Vintage listing.  Which reminded me that I had been meaning to add a Grab Bag to my shop, injoytreasures.  So I did!  (I promise~~~NO Skunky Grab Bags from Shop!)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/158386808/vintage-grab-bag-7-dollars-free-usa?ref=shop_home_active

Then I got the idea to make an Etsy Grab Bag Treasury...will it make the front page? 

 Who knows?  

But you can find LOTS of Fun and Mysterious Deals on Etsy!

https://www.etsy.com/treasury/MzM1ODA4MTN8MjcyNDgxNDgxMg/grab-bag-fun

---Shop News---

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MzM1ODA4MTN8MjcyNDc4Mjg3OA/maine-gardens?ref=pr_treasury

 Well, my life has been mostly in my gardens these days.  So when I managed to get on my computer yesterday I made a treasury celebrating the garden!  All  items come from members of the Maine Team on Etsy ~ handmade in my wonderful home state of MAINE!

I do have my new stand-up computer station ready to rock-n-roll and it is doing my wrists wonders!  But I forgot to anticipate how tired I get after gardening all day...it is hard to list items while I am asleep on my feet.  So not working as late as I once was...which is a good thing...more needed sleep.  The stand up computer desk has not only been good for my body but my mind as well.  I am spending less time goofing around on the computer (I do have an iPad...so some goofing going on with it...but less overall)  I always want to get more done in a day than I do but, I am at peace with how thing end up flowing.

I am very happy in the gardens this year which maybe the results of last summers sabbatical.  I am enjoying the quiet and solitude I experience here.  I feel very in balance this year with the growing and goings.  Even the Japanese Beetles are not getting me down.  Enjoying the little pleasures of small garden wonders.  It is good to be alive with the growth of summer not to mention yummy too!

cute little cuke

"pond view garden" tomatoes trying to ripen

what I call the "big" garden

"south garden" full of garlic and potatoes! (duckingham palace & asparagus)

Before you know the winter winds will be blowing and there will be time for renewed focus on creating arts and crafts.  In the meantime I am going to relish this summer time to it's fullest.  

I do get some sit down time when beans need to be snapped!  

Life is Good ~~~ Wishing the same for you! <3

---Shop News---

Today is Pablo Neruda's Birthday!  I love his poetry!  

I was so happy to find all these wonderful items on Etsy that celebrate this great poets life!

www.etsy.com/treasury/happy-birthday-pablo

---SHOP NEWS--- 

Save 25% in all 4 of my SHOPS!  

Use coupon code INJOY25 at check out Expires 7-31-13

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings?ref=si_shop

Today's News will feature InJoyGatherings

As I mentioned in a past blog I am moving all my sea glass & tendrils to  InJoyGatherings.  I receive a fair amount of convos (<--that means emails in Etsian) about my buy 3 get one free offer on my "Tendril" Copper Wire Ornaments.  So here is a visual for those folks that a picture speaks a 1,000 words.

So Buy ANY 3 "TENDRIL" that are listed in my shop and receive a FREE marble tendril that is from my stash at home.  This will be an unlisted tendril that is of my choosing  and a marble tendril.  Any more questions PLEASE feel free to contact me...I am always happy to explain or just chat!  Buy 3 get on free is an on going offer but paired with the 25% off coupon it is even a better deal!!  I will be busy this week getting more "Tendrils" listed at the InJoyGatherings...so keep checking!

(while supplies last the same offer applies at www.injoyemporium.etsy.com)  

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So of course, I will close with a Pablo Neruda Poem!  The Sea in honor of my In Joy Gatherings

.....AND....

~~~~I AM at the BEACH TODAY~~~~at "the university of the waves"~~~~

The Sea

I need the sea because it teaches me, 
I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, 
if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, 
or only its harsh voice or its shining 
suggestion of fishes and ships. 
The fact is that until I fall asleep, 
in some magnetic way I move in 
the university of the waves.

It’s not simply the shells crunched 
as if some shivering planet 
were giving signs of its gradual death; 
no, I reconstruct the day out of a fragment, 
the stalactite from a sliver of salt, 
and the great god out of a spoonful.

What it taught me before, I keep. It’s air 
ceaseless wind, water and sand.

It seems a small thing for a young man, 
to have come here to live with his own fire; 
nevertheless, the pulse that rose 
and fell in its abyss, 
the cracking of the blue cold, 
the gradual wearing away of the star, 
the soft unfolding of the wave 
squandering snow with its foam, 
the quiet power out there, sure 
as a stone shrine in the depths, 
replaced my world in which were growing 
stubborn sorrow, gathering oblivion, 
and my life changed suddenly: 
as I became part of its pure movement.

- Pablo Neruda

---Shop News---

Today's Treasury is All Team Upcyclers!

All items are made from materials that were once something else...totally ECO!

---SHOP NEWS---

Ok!  I have all 4 shops up and running...I got an idea for a 5th shop but I am NOT allowing that to happen!  The trouble with IDEAS is they seem to spawn more ideas.  I am working on JUST enjoying some ideas and never letting them happen.  I have ENOUGH ~ U.F.O.s {unfinished objects}.  So to celebrate the GRAND they are OPEN I am offering a coupon code that is good in all 4 of my shops

INJOY25 will save you 25% off you order (NOT shipping) Expires July 31, 2013

Here are a few things from each shop

InJoyEmporium


https://www.etsy.com/listing/114843696/white-wedding-ornament-rumi-wall-hanging?ref=shop_home_active

I seem to have an obsession with small weavings and attaching  quotes!
I have done several special orders for folks with quotes of their choosing...love doing custom orders!


InJoyTreasures

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155027294/green-hens-rooster-wade-figurines-red?ref=shop_home_active

Destashing the Wade Figurines I found cleaning out my attic!

I have a new shop section in the Treasure Shop ~ 5 DOLLARS or less!

With the coupon code some real bargains!


https://www.etsy.com/listing/154283966/vintage-doll-lot-with-pink-crochet?ref=shop_home_active

Ok~~ a bit creepy...but they are out of my attic and different strokes for different folks.
I do admit to having some fun with the photography!


InJoyEcoCutie


http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NzUzMzAyMXwyNzIyMDM3MTY5/whimsies-for-play

Goldie was featured in this great treasury full of super nice kids toys!

InJoyGatherings



Finally~~ DIY Sea Glass Pendant Kit!

Use Coupon Code INJOY25 and save 25%  Active Now!

---Shop News--- Mini!

Just a quickie today folks~  I have been so busy with organizing 4 shops, gardening, Reiki Clients, and TODAY I leave in one hour for COLLEGE freshman Orientation!  I fell asleep last night...so the blog didn't get done then....

Anyways, My latest (and last shop...I think!?) is...tada!

 http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings?ref=si_shop

This shop is really taking the sea glass out of the Treasures shop and the tendrils out of the Emporium and putting them here in order to create more shop relevancy.  Next week I will be announcing a coupon code for the Month of July...so stay tuned!

Gotta Run with Runa and then head north to take the boyo and me on our next adventure!

Have a great Day!!!

This shop will give more excuses to go beachcombing!  

“My life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go.”

--Thoreau

 http://injoyemporium.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-zen-of-sea-glass-or-how-i-spent.html