Preview: Coming in January, the Return of the Black Heart Anti-Valentines Day Contest… Start your planning now!

The votes are in, and although I loved all our entrants, here are our top two vote getters in the Dabbled Upcycled Holiday Challenge.
1 – From She’s Crafty (shop here)
This cozy sweater bag… it even has pockets! What a great gift!
2 – From Chica & Jo: Make your Own Snowglobes! Such a fun little project with tons of possibilities! And a tutorial to make them yourself!
Since you can only win with one entry, third goes to Laurienrick’s adorable Corduroy Trees.

Congrats to the winners… !

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CONTEST OVER: WINNERS HERE!

The Holiday Contest entries are closed, and we have 10 lovely entries, consolidated here. Check ‘em out! I’ll pick a winner, and we’ll also have a people’s choice award, so vote for your favorites below.. (Grab a nifty robot santa contest button below, too!)

You can see more views of the entries in the Dabbled Flickr Pool, and be sure to click through the links below for more information about the item creation, and for tutorials on some.

1. Mini Snow Globes (more, and tutorial, here),
2. Christmas Trees for a Mantle,
3. Purse from Sweaters,
4. Snowmen: Tink and…

Wanna Enter? See the Rules here, and get those photos on Flickr! You have one more week!
In case you missed it, we also have the Quickie Holiday Card graphic contest — go enter!.

laurienrick enters several cool items! You can also find her etsy shop on the Shopping Links page!
Rows 1&2:
-a retro plaid crossover bag: “It began as a vintage wool dress that was all sewn together except for the hems around the skirt and sleeves – very Mary Tyler Moore. I appliqued some little flowers cut from a wool skirt over a few little moth bites, and it’s lined with…

It’s Thanksgiving for those of us in the US, I wish everyone has a safe and happy Turkey Day. This lovely Bacon Wrapped Turducken
<– is one of the many cool things at Superpunch’s Thanksgiving Round-up. Neat stuff – check it out!

So, taking a quick moment today to you guys how thankful I am for all of you, the Dabblers out there… I wouldn’t write this stuff if I didn’t have you to read it!
THANKS!

I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to create a shopping links page, that wouldn’t require too much fiddling with at this busy time of year!

Since everyone who has sent me links to their shops have been Etsy sellers, I’ve decided to try out doing it using the Etsy Mini feature. I’ve created a starter page with some of those who have sent me their shops. (Sellers, if you don’t like the items I picked, just email me)

Check it out here!

Wanna participate? Just put one of these nifty buttons on your site*, and send me the link to…

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More to check out – The Gift Guide from Artisan Beaders – Too much cool stuff to link it all on this page.

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