Win win. Storage cubes win and a prize win.

This morning it felt like I had two wins. We managed to put together my flat pack storage cubes successfully. First win. Then my etsy Down Under Street Team award prize from Nicole arrived in the post. Second win!

Sock monkeys! lostsockshome: it's a new etsy shop!

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Olympic rings button bracelets. Should I list them in my etsy or madeit shop?

Researching the sequence of the colours lead me a merry dance, especially when I read so many differing views on the internet about the colours representing continents or countries. Note that the designer never said or wrote anything about the colours linking to continents or countries. The 5 rings appeared after the first games where athletes represented every continent, and are interlocked to represent the idea that the Olympics are universal bringing together athletes from the entire world. 

French educator and sportsman Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games in 1896, and after the 1912 games he designed the flag of the Olympics.  Every national flag in the world contains at least one of the colours of the rings, which are (left to right) blue, yellow, black, green and red, on a white background. He designed the flag in 1913-1914 after he saw a similar design on an artefact from Greece. 

The flag was to be used for the 1916 games but those games did not occur due to the war, so it was first used at the 1920 Antwerp games in Belgium. After the 1920 games the flag could not be found, and a new one was made for the 1924 games.

For those who want to link the 5 colours to 5 continents, maybe it goes like this (or maybe it doesn't.)
Africa - black
Americas - red
Asia - yellow
Oceania - green
Europe - blue
(Antarctica white)

George Clooney was on TV so it wasn't hard to keep fiddling with buttons, and I completed these five bracelets as the movie ended. Should I list them in my etsy or madeit shop?

Front page worthy!

Sometimes I make a treasury that is worthy of appearing on etsy's front page. But none have made it....yet!
Lead on by Liz on Etsy:

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Vintage buttons upcycled.

These beautiful blue buttons from France were found in a little country shop that was closing down. I'm so lucky to have good friends who have an eye for a great button find! The bracelet is now listed for sale in hundredsofbuttons' etsy shop.

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Hot pink, black and aqua

Hot pink, black and aqua wedding colours!

Cherry pipping

Isn't this the best little tool? When we were kids we used to take all the stones out of cherries when we were bottling! Can you imagine the stained fingers?