Weekly Challenge

Hello lovelies!

It's time to announce our Weekly Challenge winner!
This week's theme was "dreamy"

Our winner is Elizabeth from Foret
with her Shimmery Pastel Gemstone Choker Necklace
with Rainbow Moonstone, Amethyst and Aquamarine.

Congratulations
and Happy Birthday
Elizabeth!

A big thank you to
Angie from Cherry and Violet
Jill from Antiqueish
Erica from Mazzy Jewelry Designs
Kristin from loveartworks
who also participated last week.

You can check out their fabulous entries on our Weekly Challenge page.

Elizabeth's choice for this week's theme:
"aging gracefully"

To participate in the fun:
1) Start creating!
2) List the item in your Etsy shop.
3) Contact me with a link to your entry by next Monday (August 3oth) 12 midnight EST.

**I just want to remind all of our teammates
who sell vintage or supplies that you can enter too!**

I will post all of the lovely entries on our Weekly Challenge page as they come in. The new winner will be posted here next Wednesday. The winner then gets to choose the following week's theme, and of course, it's winner!

Happy creating!
xo, Jen

Treasury Tags

Are you tagging your treasuries?

You have up to 18 tags that you can include in your treasury and should try to use as many as you can. Why? Because Etsy Admin and potential customers search on words and phrases to find your treasury.

What words should you use for your tags? If you are on a team, for instance TeamEPE, and have made a treasury full of its members, you should tag with teamepe. The search is not case sensitive. Or, if you are participating in a challenge treasury you should use the designated challenge term. If you pay attention to Etsy's monthly marketing report and your treasury is designed appropriately you should include some of the words from their suggestions. Make sure you include colors as well and some emotion words.

Pay attention to the Etsy finds and the phrases that are included at the bottom. If you click on one of those phrases it brings you to an entire list of treasuries that include those phrases. And, yes, you can go back into your treasury to edit tags and include one of those phrases. But, remember when you include a string of words or a phrase the customer/admin would have to search on it exactly. For instance the phrase, "falling into autumn." That exact search term would have to be the search term. Or, if you use a string of words, "blue box fall," not many people are going to put that string in the search box, so you are going to lose the potential of your treasury being found. They may search on the word "box," but your treasury isn't going to appear because it's within a string of words. Hope that makes sense!

Have you become addicted to making treasuries? I think they are all getting more and more beautiful and sophisticated!

Our Joy-ous Treasury Challenge Winners!

And the Winners are...

After 94 Votes on our 9 Finalists, here are our Amazing, Joy-ous 3!

These Beauties will be judging our next Challenge...and for good reason!

First up with her Lovely, Dreamy treasury,

TrickyFox

with

"Joy and Pain, Like Sunshine and Rain."

Next, with her Beautiful, Earthy treasury,

GinnyHuber

with

"S-pectations of Joy."

Last, but certainly not least with her Soft, Dainty treasury,

KneeDeepOriginals

with

"Tickled Pink and Jumpin for Joy!"

Huge, Joy-ous Thank you's

to everyone who participated in making such beautiful treasuries and for voting!

Such amazing support from a truly incredible team!

Keep watch for our next Treasury Challenge theme coming soon!!

Member Interview

 

Hi there! Please tell us about yourself.

I’m Dawn, of LaTouchables, from the sunny Rhine Valley in Southern Germany. I’ve been living in Germany for twenty years now, but my roots are basically American midwest with some northern and southern thrown in. 

A summer storm is approaching our town.

Five minutes away by bike, I'm in the country.

I thought long before I chose the name, ‘LaTouchables’. I wanted something with a foreign yet familiar sound. It’s also a play on words. Most importantly, it’s easy to remember, easy to say, and conveys a hand-made sensibility. 

My beloved Pfaff machine

My niece, who models for me, she's the face of LaTouchables.

My studio

How did you learn about Etsy Project Embrace?

A lot of the friends I’d been making on Etsy were drawn into Etsy Project Embrace around the time of it’s development. I was also interested—first of all because cancer is not a foreign word to me—many of my friends and family members have dealt with it. I like the idea of ‘empowerment through involvement’—community involvement ends isolation. And this kind of medieval mind-set that still sneaks up on us in the 21st century (barricade the door, worry your beads)—well, that has to be discarded like a ball and chain.

What are your favorite creations in your shop?
I fall in love with everything at the time of making, but I could say, I like The Pharoah necklace, The Desert Scorpion bracelet, Northern Shores necklace, Plum Tart bracelet—stop me! 

The Pharoah

The Desert Scorpion

Northern Shores

Plum Tart

Oh, Japanese Intrigue and The Shibori cuff.

Japanese Intrigue

Shibori

What is your favorite possession, and why do you cherish it?

Difficult—I’d say my memory—and that comes from the way I grew up learning to remember, as opposed to mindlessly watching television (our tv was often on the blink or just never on), so I was encouraged to read, to remember poems, to learn music by heart, and to entertain myself.

A defining moment in my life was living in Morocco.

What do you collect?

I try not to collect anything. I do have a most excellent collection of 2nd-rate novels—because the good ones I pass on…

Some good books I held onto :-D

Oh—I collect slips of paper with hand-written messages from my loved ones—help!

Do you have a blog?
Yes: http://latouchablesbagsandthings.blogspot.com

Where would you like to be and what do you hope to be doing ten years from now?

On earth, healthy, hopeful, active, the usual culprits…

My big passion is walking.

Finds 'n' Fancies

blue willow

Tea-dyed Basket by ALottaJazz, My Cup of Tea by yennnie
Blue Floral Tea Towel by emilyhogarth, Felicity Cake Bunting by KikiLaRu

Willow Headband by acpetrille
Willow Recycled Cup Brooch by MeOldChina

Surprise photo by magnesina, Blue Linen Party Frock from VintageFrocksOfFancy
Like Tea by tabidesigns, Vintage Blue Willow Tea Set from suesuegonzalas

Weekly Challenge

Hello lovelies!

It's time to announce our Weekly Challenge winner!
This week's theme was "playing in fall leaves"

Our winner is Jean from 3squares
with her Peruvian Blue necklace.

Congratulations Jean!

A big thank you to
Katie from BlackStar
Carmela from Beggar's Tomb Pottery
Rebecca from Knee Deep Originals
Erica from Mazzy Jewelry Designs
Suz from Simply Suzula
Jill from Moonlight Beadworks
who also participated last week.

You can check out their fabulous entries on our Weekly Challenge page.

Jean's choice for this week's theme:
"dreamy"

To participate in the fun:
1) Start creating!
2) List the item in your Etsy shop.
3) Contact me with a link to your entry by next Monday (August 23rd) 12 midnight EST.

**I just want to remind all of our teammates
who sell vintage or supplies that you can enter too!**

I will post all of the lovely entries on our Weekly Challenge page as they come in. The new winner will be posted here next Wednesday. The winner then gets to choose the following week's theme, and of course, it's winner!

Happy creating!
xo, Jen

Vote for the Most En-Joy-able Project Embrace Treasury!

For our second challenge, we all used the word "Joy" as the theme of our treasuries.

Besides being part of an amazing team, what brings joy to you? Prizes!

Three of our shops have graciously given prizes for the winner which means we will have three, count em' three winners!

Those lucky folks will get the privilege of judging our next challenge.

Our judges this week:

Rose- JaneElizabeths

Mollie-RoughMagicCreations

Erica- MazzyJewelryDesigns

Thank you to everyone who participated. Let the voting begin!

Joyful Confetti

The Joy Luck Club

The Joy of Fall

Joy and Pain, Like Sunshine and Rain

GALA: Oooooooooooodles of JOY!

Tickled Pink and Jumpin' for JOY!

"a thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Keats)

S-pectations of Joy

Autumn Joy

Which did you enJOY the most?
	.....Joyful confetti......... by Jealousydesign
	The Joy Luck Club by Monarchdancer
	The Joy of Fall by Kathleencavalaro
	Joy and pain, like sunshine and rain by TrickyFox
	GALA: Oooooooodles of JOY! by loveartworks
	Tickled Pink and Jumpin' for JOY! by KneeDeepOriginals
	"a thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Keats) by Inthewineroom
	S-pectations of joy by ginnyhuber
	Autumn joy by blackstar
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