Tuesday Treasury - Nature is Inspiring

I absolutely love being outside. The colours, shapes, textures, and sounds; there's nothing more inspiring than nature (well maybe love). The only that keeps me going is nature. Whether it's a long walk through the park, or just sitting out back in the garden, the peacefulness and the beauty of nature always inspires me and motivates me.

'Nature is Inspiring' by nbnemeth

Wild Daisy-Nature Photo... RebeccaKier $25	Love in Nature Letters ... lailakujala $18	Bird vase, two mini bir... catherinereece $16	Butterfly Art Key Hook,... NaturesHeavenl... $27
Nature green fern woodl... PenumbraImages $60	Made in nature...Scrabb... ScrabbleBabble $6.95	Eucalyptus Leaves Paint... Splodgepodge $15	Soviet Water-Lily natur... Design360Degre... $5.8
Green leaf earrings - N... BeautySpot $22.5	Echo Friendly Custom Ma... Covercraft $22.5	The Mini Tree of Life A... sageANDindie $46	La Nature...Greens and ... Textilemonster $17
Jewelry box, handpainte... Nicclectic $24	Japanese Calligraphy, H... OnTheWallByYok... $22	EMBROIDERED Wrap yours... misty1718 $12	tree wall decals childr... JwheStore $79

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This Past Week

A Quick Update:

Life has gotten busy for me the past few days.

WORK:

Thanks to the fundraisers that the PCF Team on Etsy put together for my family and I, I had plenty of orders to mail out!

I would love to be able to work strictly from home, but I need more money so I've been looking for a job. Looking for a job has proven to be extremely difficult. I can’t even tell you how many jobs I have applied to over the past few months. Every day I send out any where between 1 and 5 resumes. And now I have finally started getting job interviews! Only 2 so far, but if I don’t get either one of these jobs at least I know that it’s finally hiring season again!

SCHOOL:

Even applying for college funding hasn’t been easy. I know that getting funding is definitely a lot easier than working to pay back student loans, but I had the impression that all I would do is send in some paperwork and it would be done. Apparently not. I have to send in a lot of paperwork, and it’s been taking up a lot of my time over the past few days. Now I have to make a trip up to their office (maybe even a few more later on). I am really happy that I get funding though! A free education?! Who wouldn’t be!

STRESS:

This whole mortgage thing has me stressed, too. Still don’t know what is going on for sure yet, seeing as they haven’t called us back.

HAPPY:

On a positive note, I’ve been drawing and painting again. I have even started a new blog called Amity Arts & Crafts, but it isn’t up and running quite yet.

Nick and I have been going on a lot of walks/hikes, too. I think at this point we’ve been on about half the trails in Cambridge. We like to bring our sketchbooks and cameras with us. The one day we sketched the river. I’ve always enjoyed drawing, but I‘ve never been very good at sketching. I‘m a perfectionist when it comes to drawing, so sketching a rough picture of a landscape was difficult. It‘s been a good experience though. 

If you're stressed out, grab a pencil and sketch book and go for a walk in the woods. I highly recommend it. 

How’s your life been going?

Thanks,
Cole

Save Our House and Enter to Win!

Raising Money

A few weeks ago my mom and I sat down together to try and come up with ways to get enough money together to  save our home. You can read my mom's full story here. 

We chose to set up a fundraiser page on GoFundMe and even though it was extremely difficult to do, we both wrote a blog post about our situation. Afterwards, Kim from 2JustBYou contacted me with a fabulous idea; set up an Etsy Treasury that people can enter to win.  

The first Treasury winner was Sandra over at Sandra's Card Shop. Then she went ahead and asked all of the donors of the prizes to donate the value of the prize and postage to my family and I instead! Can you believe how generous and kind she is? Thank you Sandra. :)

The outcome of that fundraiser was incredible! Many people purchased items from my shops, and donated money directly to our GoFundMe page. 

And then luckily my mom was able to get our mortgage deadline extended so Maya and Kim decided to start another Fundraiser Treasury to help donate more money, and the outcome has been amazing!

The Results

As of right now we have raised $548 on our GoFundMe page, and sold 8 items between our two shops. 

Then something else happened that just blew me away! An anonymous donor has offered to match every donations dollar to dollar up to $1000! 

When I stop to think about all of the support, donations, generosity and kindness that others have given us I honestly start to cry. I never expected this to happen, and I can not even begin to express the amount of gratitude I feel. All of the thank you's in the world don't feel like enough. 

If you can, I would love if you could support all of the shops that have donated items! Please take the time to check out their shops and promote them because seriously, they are all so awesome.

Right  now, my mom is getting all of the money and information together to see if we have made it. We won't have the final yes or no for a few days yet, but I think we're going to be okay thanks to everyone involved. When we do find out, I will let everyone know!    

Another Chance to Win

The rules are simple:

Win 25 Entries for buying from either of my two Etsy Shops:

• Little Shop of Treasures 
• Amity Arts and Crafts

All proceeds are going towards Save Our Home fund. Message me your trans # with the amount spent.

 

Earn 25 entries for donating just $5, AND an additional 10  entries for each $5 increments for the cause at:

• http://www.gofundme.com/saveourhouse. 

When donating please leave a comment with your Etsy username (if you have one), and your transaction number so we can make sure you get your entries.

Now, today is the last day to enter to win this treasury:

'WIN this FUNDRAISING treasury!' by bkinspired

Red Swarovski Crystal H... justByou $12	Crystal 16ss Enhanced ... RhinestonesEtc $6.5	On Sale Pink and Yello... HairFlair11 $7.65	Reserved - Blue and Red... SusieBDesigns $25
Reserved listing - Blac... Lollydollops $25	Reserved for Team Treas... TexasLils $18	On Sale Fingerless Glov... CherubsGarden $11	Reserved for PCF Fund R... THEODORADESIGN... $25
reserved Pink Squared d... hbjewelrydesig... $14	Harris Tweed change pur... LifeCovers $12.5	RESERVED for PCF Team T... WendysWonders1... $25	Mustache Card Hand embr... SandrasCardSho... $5.5
RESERVED for Fundraiser... jayciMay $16	Reserved-burlap flowers... darlyndax $24	RESERVED 4x6 Picture Fr... bkinspired $10	Reserved--crochet '... karenhannaross... $10

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Thanks, 

 

Tuesday Treasury - Purple/Yellow Mother's Day Gift Ideas

'Purple/Yellow Mother's Day ' by shemonster31

SALE: Paper Flower Bouq... FlightyFleurs $28.08	Harris Tweed pencil cas... LifeCovers $28	ocean, beach, nature, p... davedillphotog... $30	Post stud earrings purp... Rotdaris $9
Felted Wool Slippers Pu... WoolWalkerShop $69	Multistrand Glass Pearl... VeniciaCreatio... $36.75	Heart Kraft Envelopes S... justByou $4	SALE: Place card Set of... newnanc $6
Print of Original Water... JessBuhmanArt $10	Nesting Bowls - Set of... BlueSkyPottery... $145	HOME cushion in yellow ... Littleclouds $30	50 Edible Butterflies i... incrEDIBLEtopp... $24
Violet & Bergamot Soap ... SummerfieldSoa... $6	4 Vanilla Lavender Soy ... SerendipityCan... $2.95	Mother's Day / Spri... BeachBlues $18	Silk Scarf, Purple and ... KMSilks $30

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