Bits & Pieces - another Cuddlies' update or two

Hello Everyone - Cy Bear taking over for a couple of posts, both of which are to do with our toys themselves.  Some are new to us in our shop at www.coldhamcuddlies.etsy.com and some are updates regarding our former friends, now nicknamed the Travelling Cuddlies.

In one of her last posts, Isobel mentioned that we’d been sent some lovely photographs of Gold Plush Bear Glove Puppet from his Forever Friend, JS a.k.a as Mesatron from Liberty Township, Ohio.  He has not started on his travels around the USA yet, but Gold Plush Bear and JS are obviously getting to know each other well.

Welcoming

Shocked

Contemplating

Frustrated!

Interested.

 It’s great to see the different expressions that can come from just three fingers operating a glove puppet, isn’t it?

Ed Ted and his new Bear Friends

Then,  we have some pictures of the Italian Mob - they’ve not reached Sequals, Italy, yet but are likely to be getting very soon.  Meanwhile, these pictures were taken by our friend, MrRE when he and they were staying in Essex, before Mr.RE had to leave them safely in the boot of the Jaguar, until he could  drive them from England to Italy.  He’s been very busy lately, but hopes to return to the UK and drive them all back to his home in Sequals soon.

Those that can are saying "Hi!"

We have some lovely pictures of my friend Panda Bear - now at home in Neosho, Missouri.  However, Isobel has yet to figure out how to transfer them from the Convo section on the www.coldhamcuddlies.etsy.com site to this blog site!  When she has, we'll include them!

Next post, in a few days’ time, will be about my five new friends in the ColdhamCuddlies shop, which Isobel has just listed in the last few days.

Meanwhile, that’s it for tonight.  Goodnight - sleep tight everyone!  Cy Bear.

BESTeam Feature Blog - First for March

The Boosting Etsy Shops Team's goal is to offer support
and promotion of one another's Etsy shops primarily through our
personal Blogs, and also through our Twitter Accounts and Facebook Fanpages.
Commitment to this common goal is what makes our team the BEST! 

Anyone connected with Etsy cannot help but notice that jewellery designers form a large part of the handmade world! That fact is amply reflected within the much smaller, but wonderful world of the BESTeam on Etsy. So, having been a privileged member of the team since January this year, believe it to be high time on my part for an acknowledgement of these creative designers’ shops.

This feature has common themes of silver - mostly of the sterling variety, semi-precious and gemstones, and the colours pink and mauve: so, here goes.

The first shop today - a fairly recent recruit to the Team - is owned by Julian Oribe, who fully admits that its down to AdrianaLauraMendez’s designs, which feature crochet silver and semi-precious stones in their necklaces, bracelets, earrings and pendants. Now as one who used to crochet with more traditional materials of wool and cottons, but gave up because of all the counting involved, I’m awed at this display of original craftsmanship. The Brazilian Amethyst pendant is a great representative of the Latin/American/French background of the artistic designer and is the mauve feature of this blog.

Brazillian Amethyst Pendant in a crocheted sterling silver surround

Visit their shop at www.etsy.com/shop/AdrianaLauraMendez to see more beautiful, wearable jewellery.


Next comes a worthy representative of another Continent - Africa - in the form of Delia Benn, and the products she displays in her shop DeeDeeDzyn. She, too, is a fairly recent recruit to the BESTeam and her jewellery is rooted in her African origins. Using gold lame thread, and pink stones, her Lariat in Shades of Pink, also uses crochet as the linking medium - but what a different outcome is achieved!

Lariat in shades of Pink

Why not visit www.etsy.com/shop/DeeDeeDzyn” and wallow in the lovely items on offer?

Then my final choice for this particular post is made by Cindy “with love” to quote from her Etsy profile. She too uses sterling silver as a material of choice, as well as pearls, semi-precious stones and Swarovski crystals in her lovely jewellery design.

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Cindy can be contacted at her shop - www.etsy.com.shop/ckSilver or at the following:
www.facebook.com/cksilver; www.twitter.com/cksilver; or go to her blog at www.cksilver1.blogspot.com to read all about her designs.

Though I'm not into buying jewellery for myself these days - I'm lucky enough to have sufficient for my current social requirements! - I've two daughters whom I could easily see enjoying visits to these featured shops and not leaving empty-handed either!

As part of my BESTeam commitment, throughout the coming months (provided they accept me as a full time member) I hope to  be posting short features of each of the fabulous shops and talented craftspersons representing the team.  What is BESTeam?  It's The Boosting Etsy Shops Team and our goal is to give support to each other and to help promote each others' Etsy shops through blogging, Facebook and other social networks.  If you are an Etsy shopowner and are interested in learning more about BESTeam, please visit the team page on Etsy or have a look at the BESTeam blog.