Preview … April Showers Bring Spring Flowers

April Showers Bring Spring Flowers

Click on Image to go to this Etsy Treasury

Today was a relaxing Sunday with the time to do some window shopping on Etsy and create a treasury of items in lovely pinks and greens.  Everyone is waiting for springtime and the beautiful blooms it will bring. These lovely handmade items preview what is soon to come in nature.

The soft pink Spring Rose Rabbit is a favorite of ours!

Tomorrow we will be hopping from 7 to 10 am with an Etsy treasury blitz to raise visibility for shops based in Georgia, USA that are members of the Georgia Etsy team.   We will share some of our treasuries and links to others for anyone looking for handmade southern style.

Hello Again Sunshine!

Honey Bunny Rabbit Bangle BraceletYesterday brought torrential rains and flooding to parts of our area. Our puddles spread out to pondles.  As the sun is shining today, they are beginning to dry up.  Oh well, back to the drawing board, or in this case the jewelry supplies. I pulled out the sweetest 3D bunny rabbit charm in a  silver plated pewter and have the bunny bouncing quite happily now from a sunny honey colored bangle bracelet.

The glass seed beads I used in this piece are just such a lovely golden honey shade and glow with warmth even in low light. The larger round beads are also honey colored, but have a rainbow finish giving off soft glows of blue, peach, pink and green as the light reflects on them.  It reminds me of the colors you see as light hits pooled water.

I have fallen in love with memory wire bracelets since buying one from Cindylouwho2 on Etsy last year. They are so comfortable to wear. There are no clasps to fiddle around with to take the bracelets on and off. You wrap it around your wrist and unwrap to take it off.  Simple!  It holds its shape. Whatever your wrist size, the wire will expand or contract to fit.  If you want to give a bracelet gift, you don’t need to know wrist size.   

There was so much potential for versatility in design, using different sizes and types of beads, number of loops or adding charms or dangles.  I could see these bracelets in delicate feminine sparkly beads, pearls, big bold beads, with just a few loops or with lots of loops to create cuffs.  I could picture layering different ones together on the arm.  I was inspired to order some stainless steel memory wire in silver, gold and copper colors.   Did I say how much I love this wire?

There are several different styles of memory wire bracelets now available in the Rabbittude Etsy shop.

Bunny Now an Zen …

Japanese Crest

Inspiration: Mandarin Orange Flower Crest

Bunny Now and Zen Design

Bunspiration: Bunny Now and Zen Design

Looking back over the past ten years with Tigger has me thinking a lot of now and then.  Recently paging through a book of Japanese crests, one just looked so much like a couple of lop eared bunny rabbits that it inspired me to create a bunny rabbit crest.  Since I was thinking about then and now with Tigger and Shadow and I just really go for the bunny puns, the title for the design became Bunny Now and Zen

The design is now available on products in our CafePress Rabbittude Shop. Some handmade items with the design are in the planning stages for our Etsy shop. ~ Rebecca Pullin

Bunny Now and Zen Pajama Set

Tigger Turns 10!

Tigger Turns 10

Tigger getting into her food. This litter pan is completely filled with oat hay and being used as a food bin. You can see she enjoys her food now!

Sometime in early March 10 years ago, little Miss Tigger was born.  It is hard to believe that she has been with us for almost 10 years.   We brought her home in mid May when she was still a baby, just two and a half pounds of pure trouble looking for a place to happen.

Over the years Tigger has slowed down some.  Our anorexic model bunny retired a few years ago and has really put on some weight.  She now really enjoys her food instead of us begging her to eat something.  Now we can call her chubs.

An Etsy Treasury of Wee Rabbits

Wee Rabbits Treasury

Wee Rabbits Treasury

Be vewy, vewy quiet! This is a group of some of the smallest bunnies on Etsy.  All will fit in your hand.

The treasury includes items from some shops of the new Etsy Rabbits team. To check out or join the team, click here.

A Trio of Treasuries to Increase Visibility for the Etsy Createability Team

I Went to a Garden Party

I Went to a Garden Party

Be a Doll

Be a Doll

Chicks Talking

And So I Said and Then She Said ...

Earlier this month, I created a trio of treasuries featuring lots of members of the Etsy Createability Team as part of a treasury blitz weekend to increase visibility for team members’ shops and the team. The team is made up of shopkeepers who are disabled or caring for someone who is disabled.

The treasuries are still up on Etsy and can be viewed full size by clicking on each of the three treasury images here.  Once you have the treasury open, you can click on individual items to view them full size or explore the featured shops.

Have fun window shopping or buying some of these lovely handmade items!

Softly Whisper to Me … a Treasury

Softly Whisper to Me ...

Softly Whisper to Me ...

This is a treasury I created based things that are oh so soft … a lover’s touch, baby kisses, furry brushes against my leg, soft whispers in my ear …

Click on the picture to go to the treasury on Etsy.   Once you have the treasury open,  you can click on each of the items to view the full details or explore more items in these wonderful shops.

Enjoy!

Time for a Light Refreshing Lemon Punch, a Treasury

Time for a Light Refreshing Lemon Punch

Time for a Light Refreshing Lemon Punch


This treasury is made up of items by members of the Handmadeology team.  
The colors I found were so light, bright and refreshing, they made me think of lemonade or lemon punch with bright berries for garnish.
 

 

Enjoy the sunny colors on these wintry days!  Click on the image to go to the treasury on Etsy.

A Month of Treasuries: Leading Off with Cue the Rabbits… Enter Bouncing

Cue the Rabbits ... Enter Bouncing

Cue the Rabbits ... Enter Bouncing

February has been a month of creating Etsy treasuries.  I love to window shop and it is such fun to create a treasury of the great items I find to share with others.  This treasury includes items by Etsy Rabbits team members.

If you love rabbits and are registered on Etsy, consider joining the EtsyRabbits team.  Membership is open to both buyers and sellers. 

Click here to join the Etsy Rabbits Team:  http://www.etsy.com/teams/7580/etsy-rabbits

Rabbittude Interviewed

Rabbittude OfficeAs team captain for the new Etsy Rabbits Team, Rabbittude was profiled for the first in a series of interviews of the artists behind the team shops.

One of our trusted rabbit assistants monitored our office and computers while we participated in answering the questions for the interview. 

 Read the interview here:  http://etsyrabbits.blogspot.com/2011/02/etsy-rabbit-team-profiles-rabbittude.html

Anticipation …

Grand Opening Promo

Will You Bring Me Home?

We have one bunny left in the promo we started to celebrate every 10 sales leading up to 100 at the Rabbittude Etsy shop.  The big chocolate Russ bunny rabbit is hopping with anticipation to head out to a new home. 

We are at 97 sales and whoever is the 100th sale at the Rabbittude Etsy shop will also get our big brown bunny rabbit with the bunny slippers!