Posts tagged ‘Guest’

Considering my baby girl’s due in early April, we’re looking for a couple guest bloggers to write posts and/or tutorials for a few weeks while I’m adjusting to life with two kids.  It’s an opportunity for you to gain blogging experience, exposure for your work, and to reach new readers.  Plus, it’d be a privilege for me & Devona to get to work with you as well!  If you’re interested, let me know a little about yourself and what you’d like to write about and email me at Colleen@clevernesting.com.

The binary Powers-That-Be have named Rachel the winner of Jennifer’s kiln fired buttons. Rachel says, “ooh, buttons of any kind are wonderful! I have a sweater/shawl that I am knitting for my MIL and need some big artistic and different buttons.” I’m sure her Mother-in-Law will love them.

I also wanted to thank Landen Road Designs for hosting this great give-away and sponsoring Clever Nesting for the past week. Please be sure to check out Jenn’s etsy. And if you’re ever shopping in the Hartville area stop by Tween Diva to see Jenn’s work in person.

Two inch buttons from Landen Road Designs

I am really excited to host this give away contest from Jennifer at Landen Road Designs, our sponsor for the past week. I’m exicted for two reasons. First of all, I am using this as an excuse to take the week off from writing tutorials. But most of all, who doesn’t love buttons? Unique button collections are kind of like the hallmark of a head-over-heels-crafter. I know that I’m addicted to them, I have 8 mason jars full, sorted by color. I plan to add some of Jenn’s to the collection soon.

Jenn handmade these two inch ceramic buttons from white clay. She stamped and glazed them before kiln firing them. Each button set is one of a kind, and would be awesome to use on accessories, clothing, and as jewelry.

In order to enter the give-away contest just leave a comment to this post. It would be great if you gave us some ideas for how you’d use the buttons if you won them. The comments will close at 11:30pm on friday, October 9th. We’ll let the Random Number Generator choose our winner. Good Luck!

The following is from Kim, who selected the winner from our contest which ran from Monday until last night:

First prize winner of a business card case in her color of choice is Jessica, who had quite a few unique suggestions for using my leather business card cases. I loved her ideas for using the case to create a healthy snack pack, holding almonds or some other such snack for the afternoon; to hold her Bible study verses (this spoke to me because my daughter insists on having one in which to hold her spelling words!); as a child’s play wallet or for baseball trading cards; and her really unique idea to use multiple colors of the cases to color code a mini recipe card collection in the kitchen!

A very close second prize winner of a leather ponytail holder is Rebecca, who also had quite a few creative suggestions of her own, such as a little personal emergency kit containing a package of oil-free blotters, band-aid(for blisters) and a mini-toothbrush for discreet on the town touch-ups, as a create your own notepad holder, by using it to hold a package of sticky notes and a mini pen to be tucked into your business bag, and finally as a Sunday running buddy to keep your house key, Starbucks card and Chapstick so you can quickly tuck them in your gym shorts.

I really appreciate the time everyone took in entering this contest, and in return I’d like to offer all of you a 15% discount on your next purchases from my shop, which you can redeem by identifying yourself and pasting the url from your contest entry in the notes to seller when you complete your purchase at www.unemployeddesigner.etsy.com.

Thanks guys, it was a lot of fun!

Prize color is subject to inventory

We are so excited to host another give-away contest here at the Nest. I want to enter (but that would be cheating) because the award is so awesome. Kim from Unemployed Designer, and our Sponsor for this week, has donated a Leather Business Card Case and a Leather Pony Tail Holder to our winner. Kim has also designed a bit of a challenge to go along with the contest so to enter read below. All of the entries should be made in our comments to this post, so be sure to leave you email address or URL so we can contact you if you are chosen as the winner. Good Luck! Read more »

It’s time again for our First Friday interview with a new Etsy shop owner. This month I’ve had the pleasure of talking with Kim, the artist and creator from Unemployed Designer on Etsy. She took some time out of her busy week to answer a few questions for us which I think you will really enjoy. Kim has professional fashion and design experience and is kind enough to pass on some of that wisdom to us (as in me) lay-creators.

Kim also has offered to host a contest here at the Nest, so be sure to check back on Monday. You can win a free handmade leather business card case, handmade by Kim.

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1) I read a little bit about you in your profile. It says that you are an apparel designer and a fashion illustrator. Do you find that you use those skills when designing items for your Etsy store even though you aren’t sewing clothing? Is there a reason that you don’t sew clothing items for your store?

I do find that I’m using some of the same skills that I use as an apparel designer and illustrator, not only in designing items for my shop, Read more »

Good morning, Nesters. I just wanted to point out that we have a new page called Nest Interactive. Most of our readers are already involved with Twitter and regularly reading, but we are always striving to make this place more accessible and Nest Interactive lists all the ways you can be more plugged in. As the Nest grows, you can expect to see the opportunities for involvement to grow with it.

Check that page out and keep your eye out for our guest bloggers. If you are interested in being a guest blogger, you should definitely check it out, we want to hear how you are living creatively and simply.

It was really fun working with Deborah, the owner of Whipstitch, while they sponsored our site this past week.  Deborah is a really cool business owner.  She gets so excited about teaching sewing skills and loves loves loves fabric.  I’m so excited for her new Whipstitch fabrics & sewing lounge in Atlanta.  It’ll be an amazing sewing community.

Deborah also kindly sent us an Invisible Zipper Tutorial to post.  Thank you Whipstitch!

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We want to give a big thank you to Jessica, last week’s Guest Blogger. Her posts were creative and inspiring, and she was a great joy to work with. If you’ve missed her posts you can find them here and here. I greatly recommend keeping up with Jessica, her family and her quilting on her personal blog Ocean of Creativity. Don’t forget to check out her etsy as well.

If you are interested in being a Guest Blogger on Clever Nesting please contact GuestBlogger@clevernesting.com and we’ll get right back to you.

I am the type of person that in the midst of a crisis needs to “do” something.  It is how I deal with my feelings of worry, angst and how I regain control of my mind, refocusing my energies to deal with the task at hand.

I pull weeds in my garden instead of pulling out my hair.  I clean and organize because clearing out clutter around me relieves stress.  I journal, the metaphoric brain dump onto paper, which helps me think clearer.  And…. I quilt, making tiny stitches and seams, which is my way of holding it all together.  I do it faithfully when things are peachy, and obsessively in the midst of a crisis.

So when we learned that my husband’s Mother had fallen very ill and was going to have open heart surgery, I knew I had to do something.  After talking to her to figure out what we needed to do, she preferred to have us to take care of her other son, who has Down Syndrome.  She told me that he became very worried at her appointments to the point of anxiety and it would do him good to visit his niece and nephew.  Further, because we have two little ones, we couldn’t really be present for the surgery.  The thought of us not being there for her surgery made me want to give her something handmade to snuggle with.
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