It is so hard to believe that the Countdown to Christmas 2013 is at week 11! Only one more Countdown collection left for this blazing fast year of 2013! This week, there were a whopping 123 shares, a wide variety of: jewelry and jewelry supplies; fused glass; antique postcards and vintage items; ornaments; handmade cupcake toppers and gift tags; lampwork beads; quilted, knitted, crocheted and sewn beauties; handmade cards; vinyl decals; wine glass markers; keepsakes; handmade soap and many other items shared. There is something here in the Countdown for each and every person on your Christmas gift list, even a hard to buy for auntie or uncle! A thousand ( and more) thanks to Julie and Blu of BlueMorningExpressions for planning and hosting the Countdown collection!
Shop owners of ArtFire, Zibbet, Etsy, SupaDupa, a stand alone website and the like are welcome to share up to three gift items between Friday night at 12:01 a.m. and Monday morning at 12:01 a.m. Then a new collection of gift items will begin again the next Friday. This will continue until the second week in December. The items shared need to be G-rated.
If you share items, you MUST promote the collection and EACH item on at least one social network site, preferably Wanelo or Pinterest where the items can be easily seen and then saved again. It's only fair to promote each of the participants who have promoted you!
In addition to saving each item from the countdown collection to Pinterest and Wanelo, I decided to share one item from each of the ArtFire artists who participated. Since we had so many participate again this week, I know I'll run up against the ArtFire blog length limit so the Countdown blog has been divided into two parts. Part 2 can be found here: Countdown, Part 2. Here are the items for Part 1:
Personalized "Special Delivery" airplane gift / favor tags handmade by Nat of adorebynat
Wine glass markers for coffee lovers with "Cafe au Lait" seed beads by Mary Beth of TheTwistedRedhead
Hand crocheted dark heather rose and black fedora-style hat by Cathy of CraftingMemories
Little girls multicolored flowers adjustable charm bracelet by Connie of Thesingingbeader
Santa softie ornament / gift card / money holder in green or red with gold handmade by Donna of SewAmazin
Large enameled blue butterfly pendant necklace with foil lined glass beads by Anna of CraftsofthePast
Handmade recycled wine bottle trivet with embossed butterfly pattern by Kellie of ResetarGlassArt
Tibetan blue turquoise rondelle nuggets and sterling bead necklace by Diane of DianesDangles
Extra large Santa Christmas pot holder with cute saying handmade by Sue of QuiltTops
Sparkling rhinestone teardrop Indian applique in 11 colors by folkstrokesupplies
Pale olive green and silver large hole lampwork bracelet charm handmade by Charlotte of Covergirlbeads
Handsome hanging snowman dish towel with hand knit topper and ties by Sharon of HollyKnitterCreations
Handmade red, white and green Christmas card, blank inside, by LilBitOLove
Grey background Victorian style cameo necklace by Julie, Nicole and Linda of jnldesigns
Running horses petroglyph pendant necklace with turquoise and shell heishe by Catherine of ShadowDogDesigns
I hope you have enjoyed this sampling of some of the handmade and vintage gift items that can be found in the Countdown to Christmas collection hosted by Julie and Blu of BlueMorningExpressions. To see all the items in the collection, please click here: Countdown to Christmas 2013, Week 11. I hope that at least one, maybe more, items piqued your interest and made its way to your shopping list.
What will the last week bring? MORE handmade and vintage beauties! I, for one, am looking forward to it!
If you are so inclined, please make my day and leave a comment (: Also any promotion will be greatly appreciated by everyone featured in this post. Thank you!
My contact information:
Artfire studio: ShadowDogDesigns
Blog: ShadowDogDesigns' Blog
Facebook: ShadowDogDesigns - Jewelry
Twitter: ShadowDogDesign
Pinterest: Shadow Dog Designs
Wanelo: ShadowDog
SocialBliss: Catherine Waterhouse
Rebelmouse: ShadowDogDesigns
Google+: Catherine W
Zibbet: ShadowDogDesigns
SupaDupa: Shadow Dog Designs
Flickr: Shadow Dog Designs' Photostream