Handmade Wednesday *Week 29*

After a week of vacation Handmade Wednesday is BACK!!!

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Welcome to Week 29 of the Handmade Wednesday Store & Blog Hop hosted by Blue Eyed Blessings, Crocheted Little Things and Bébé Chat!

Are you trying to get your Crafty Blog and/or Store off the ground?

Looking for more followers for your crafty related blogs?

Looking for more people to “favorite” your store?

Are you looking for new hip and original crafty stores?

If you said yes, to any of the above questions, you’re in the right spot!

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This weeks CO-HOSTS

Each week we’ll spotlight one Etsy Blog & Etsy Site picked at random via Random.org to be included in the next week’s Wednesday Handmade Store & Blog Hop Linky!

{Blog}Bella the Bead Store

{Store} Simply Shop | 323 ETSY Store

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How will the LINKY work? Easy!

1) Enter your blog and/or store into the appropriate Linky below!

*BLOGS* = 1st set of Linky’s

*STORES* = 2nd set of Linky’s

*For the STORES link, please specify what type of store: ETSY:, ARTFIRE:, etc.!

2) Follow the Handmade Wednesday Hosts & Co-Hosts! Leave a comment letting us know you're stopping by from Handmade Wednesday, so we can follow you back!!

3) Visit & Follow the blog directly ahead of you in the linky! Leave them a comment too, telling them you stopped by!

4) Grab our Button and Linky Codes to share with all your Blogging, Etsy, Artifre, etc. with your friends!

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New addiction to the family....

.....and nope, I'm not pregnant if that is what you're thinking.
We just got a Betta fish: meet Bob

Isn't he adorable? He's be living on our kitchen counter next to the sink for about a month now.
I must admit, I thought my kids would kill him by feeding him too much or giving him an heart attack by tapping on the glass all the time, but I guess he likes that!

Now I want to crochet fishes!

Mice!

Had the honor to work on a custom order for something I've never done before: a MOUSE. A pink one at that! Honestly didn't know how it would come out and had fun picking up some new supplies to realize it and.....voila'!

My daughter Michelle seemed to particularly like it, so I let her browse through my yarn stash, pick up the colors, the eyes and the nose for her little friend....I present you Scurfy.

I guess she really loves it since I found this drawing made by her this morning

She drew herself in the middle in orange, the yellow tiger at her left is "Jaguar" a stuffed lion cub that she adopted when she was 3 and goes wherever she goes. Behind Jaguar, in red is her new hedgehog that I got from FerretLadyDesigns that she named "Spykee" and on her right in blue you can easily see her mouse.

Still wondering if I should offer mice in my shop. I have limited supply for now but I can sure make custom orders if anyone is interested :)

8 years wedding anniversary

8 years of marriage with hubby today.
We celebrated exchanging new wedding bands. Why? I'm going to tell you why.....

Hubby gained 50 pounds from the day we married 8 years ago and got to the point were his band was stopping the blood circulation to his finger, so he had to take it out. So for a while he wasn't wearing a ring at all, he was very bummed 'cause he really think is not ok for a married guy to go around without a ring.

I went to a jewelry place and ask about resizing, but they told me that since we bought the bands in Italy, the gold there and the gold here is different, so if they were to add gold to make the ring larger but keep the same width, we'll see a mark were the different metals join. We talked about just enlarging the ring, but that will make it thinner and it's not very thick to begin with....I don't want it to disappear!!!! My other choice was to buy a new ring, but hubby really liked the fact that our bands matched perfectly, so the only way to go was to buy new bands for both of us and that's what I did.

I ordered from OrienJewel on Artfire. She was quick, efficient and very helpful. I decided to go with titanium because is lightweight, cheap and very durable. I picked the simplest and cheapest design in the store, but there is a lot of styles to choose from.

I tied them up to a mini heart pillow with the date embroidered on it to look like digital numbers as hubby is a computer geek. After we exchanged the new bands, I used the pillow to store the old ones as a keep sake....you know, in case hubby gets thinner again lol