And the winner is............

Congratulations to bastillebleu! You are the winner of my PCAGOE scavenger hunt!

You will receive your choice of my Guardian Angel pendant with necklace.

Thanks to all who entered, I had a total of 25 entries in my contest. I appreciate your entries and all of the wonderful and kind comments on my shop.

There are plans for another contest like this to be run in the future...stay tuned to my blog here for more details or visit the PCAGOE page.

Thanks again and Happy Holidays!

Join the party! PCAGOE Holiday Scavenger Hunt

The Polymer Clay Artists Guild of etsy is hosting a Holiday Scavenger hunt.

To participate, simply go to my etsy shop and look for this hidden image somewhere in my products.

Once you’ve found the correct image, copy the url and convo me, pasting the url into the message and click send. This will enter your name into the drawing.

You must be a member of etsy. (pcagoe members excluded)

I will take entries until Midnight December 21st. I will announce the winner on my blog, Monday, December 22, using a random number generator to choose a lucky number from all the entries.

The lucky winner will receive their choice of my Guardian Angel Pendant Necklace.

Check out these shops also participating in the PCAGOE Holiday Scavenger Hunt:
Divadea
Tejae'sArt
SCDiva
PCDiva
OrganicOdysseys
VAharoni

Lynn's Little Creations

MarciaPalmer

Juliespace

Angeli

See more details here: http://www.pcagoe.com/ (will be updated soon)

Feel free to enter for each shop, but if you win in one shop you're not elgible to win in another. (sorry, trying to keep it fair for all participants.)

Good luck!

Black Friday Sale in My Shop!

Hope all our American friends had a Happy Thanksgiving yesterday and that you are not too full of turkey today!

In honour of Black Friday...I am having a SALE in my Etsy shop! FREE SHIPPING on all items until December 1st!!!

This includes all packages including international ones!

Please stop by and check us out!

Happy shopping everyone!

I would like to share another of my hobbies!!!

I do love to craft but haven't shared another of my hobbies with all of you.

Do you want to guess what it is?

You guessed it...soapmaking! These beauties are a few of my own from scratch soaps.

I have been soapmaking for...hmmm...lets see....at least five years now! And I haven't bought one of those icky store bought soaps since then! Let me tell you, our skin is very thankful for that! There is nothing compared to handmade soap! If you haven't tried it...maybe you should!

Well that first picture was just a teaser so here are a few soapy goodies! The blue is a Bay Rum scent and the other is what I call Orange Glow, a very nice bright orange scent. I do make others too but these are just a few to show for now.

I do not sell these (yet! maybe I will list on etsy if I get enough interest) but just wanted to share some of my other hobbies with all of you readers out there!

Have a great day!

37 days until Christmas!

I was looking at my calendar today and realized that is is just over a month until Christmas! 37 Days to be exact!

Yikes, if you are like me, you haven't even really started shopping yet. But seeing the 37 makes me a little nervous! I think I will start shopping very soon...maybe I will start today even!

I want to try to shop online as much as possible and buy handmade too for my gift recipients. So I will be surfing Etsy, that is for sure!

If you haven't already visited, I have my own Etsy shop and I think it is filled with lots of great gift ideas!

Here are a couple examples I think would make any gift giver and recipient happy.

First is this desk calendar for 2009. It features my own photographs and is the perfect size to display on your desk. When it is all cold and snowy here, I will look at my calendar and dream of summer!

I also have these fantastic Christmas ornaments too! They are wire wrapped and each is unique! I think they look great hanging on a tree or even in a window as a suncatcher!

Etsy has lots to offer. I am sure you can find something for everyone on your list there! What have you found on etsy?

Happy shopping!

Happy Halloween!

Boo! Its Halloween today!

My little ones are so excited today as I am sure all the kiddos out there are! I remember the excitement as a child too. I still look forward to seeing all the costumes of the kids too.

My daughter and I carved this pumpkin last night. I think he turned out kinda cool. She drew his face and I carved it out. I think she is pretty good for a 4 year old! Here he is:

Happy halloween everyone! Hope everyone has a SAFE and fun evening!

Wonderful fall comfort foods!

It has been a little chilly lately. It always seems that when fall comes I want to make comfort foods. Tonight is spagetti with meatballs featuring homemade tomato sauce from my own garden tomatoes. And the onions used are from my garden too. I can't wait!

I thought I would share the tomato sauce recipe as it is a real winner and it is even very tasty used as a pizza sauce! I have even added it to a beshamel sauce and used it in baked macaroni and cheese. This recipe is a real winner!

Here it is:

2 c. finely chopped onions

1/3 cup olive oil

8 c. tomatoes (peeled and seeded...put through blender if you want...I used my food processor)

2 cans tomato paste

2 tbsp. oregano

2 tsp basil

2 tbsp. sugar

1 tbsp. salt

1/2 tsp. pepper

2 tbsp. finely chopped garlic

Start by cooking the onions in the olive oil until soft and translucent. Add the garlic and cook for about one minute. Stir in remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil and simmer for one hour. I cooked mine a little longer because I like a thicker sauce. Season more if preferred. You may can this sauce or it can be frozen.

Here is a photo of my sauce.....