Countdown to Christmas 2014 - Week 7

Week 7 of the Countdown to Christmas, graciously hosted by Julie and Blu of BlueMorningExpressions, has come and gone so very quickly.  And the Christmas clock ticking the relentless minutes until Christmas shows up on our doorsteps:  51 days, 12 hours and 56 minutes from when I posted this.  MANY wonderful handmade and vintage items were shared in this week's countdown, a grand total of 66 beauties.  A wide variety of jewelry again dominated the shares in the Countdown , but there are also knitted and crocheted items, greeting cards, gift tags, a dog toy, wooden ornaments, vintage postcards and greeting cards, wine glass markers, dog bandanas and zipper cases, lampwork beads and cross stitch patterns.  Remember to BUY HANDMADE when you do your Christmas shopping this year!

Woodland nature animal tags for birthdays or baby showers handmade by Nat of adorebynat

Shop owners from ArtFire, Zibbet, SupaDupa, Etsy, stand alone websites and the like are welcome to share up to three gift items between Friday at noon (12:00 p.m.) and Monday morning at 12:01 a.m.  Then a new Countdown to Christmas collection will begin again the next Friday, same time, same place.  This will continue until the second week of December.  The items shared need to be G-rated.

The rules for participating in the Countdown are easy:  if you share items on the Countdown, you MUST promote the collection and EACH item on at least one social network site, preferably Pinterest and/or Wanelo where the items can be easily found and saved again.  It's only fair to promote the artists who promote you!

In addition to saving each item for the Countdown collection to my Pinterest board and Wanelo collection, I decided to share my favorite item from each of the ArtFire artists who participated.  Fabulous for backlinks (and we all want and need those!).  Here are the rest of my picks for Week 7: 

Linked, etched silver coins and black onyx necklace handmade by Connie of Thesingingbeader

Fall shaded orange flower meadow oval crocheted doily handmade by Ruth of RSSDesignsInFiber

"Siam" red and "emerald" green Swarovski crystal Christmas earrings handmade by Catherine of ShadowDogDesigns