Shout Out to Fireflies and Jellybeans

Hi Friends,
I want to give a shout out to Fireflies and Jellybeans who featured me and my Blessings Journal on their Sunday Spotlight.
If you haven't been to Fireflies and Jellybeans, it is a MUST SEE blog full of great creative ideas.

Thank you Fawnda for putting my blog in your spotlight!
Blessings,
Nancy

Where I've Been On the www. this Week

Dear Friends,

I wanted to share with you where you can find me on the web this past week.
The first is on the live Facebook chat with Inspired at Home.
In case you missed the chat of inspiring crafters, you may listen to it archived HERE.
I'm about 1 hour into the chat.

Second, I've been featured on One Pretty Thing. The Round-up I'm in is HERE. Have you been to this site? It is amazing. It's like the perfect magazine that comes to you daily, but it's free and it doesn't create clutter! I subscribe to it through my google reader. Rachel, who runs this site follows over 4,000 blogs. Yep, you heard me right, over 4,000. She brings to us the best of the best in the world of crafting and home decor. (Does that mean I'm one of the best?) Rachel has round-ups of all things crafty where she lists 8 to 20 items in each round-up. Not only that, she puts up several round-ups a day! Let me just list off a few....Christmas Round-up, Twilight Round-up, Daily DIY Round-up, Crafty Reading Round-up, Holiday Prep Round-up, Kids Craft Round-up, Jewelry Making Round-up, Hand Made Gift Guide Round-up and on and on. What a thrill to find I was on her Daily DIY Round-up.

This is so cool. I feel like I, my blog, is moving up in the world and getting noticed. Thank you to all of you!!! Now, if only Martha Stewart would contact me. I would so ♥love♥ to be on her show with her or even featured in her magazine. DO YOU HEAR THAT MARTHA STEWART TV PRODUCERS AND MARTHA STEWART MAGAZINE EDITORS!!!! Maybe if I say Martha Stewart a few more times it will move me up to the top of the Martha Stewart search engines where they can find me. ;-) Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart....

With hugs and blessings to you all,
Nancy

Inspired at Home Live Facebook Chat

Begins in about 5 minutes. See you there!
Nancy

Reminder Inspired at Home LIVE Tomorrow

You're Invited!

Inspired at Home LIVE!
Spotlight on Creativity
*Live webcam event on Facebook*

Monday November 16, 2009
10 am Eastern
Hosted by Tiffany Windsor

Live interviews. Live demos.
Live Q&A.

See you Monday morning on Facebook!
(10 am Eastern, 9 am Central, 8 am Mountain, 7 am Pacific)


Join Tiffany and her guests:

Maria Nerius
Arnold Grummer Papermaking

Ana Araujo
When Creativity Knocks

Heidi Borchers
Aleene's Vintage Crafting

Fran Valera
Little Windows
Brilliant Photo Jewelry

Alyson Dias
iLovetoCreate

Nancy Jacobs (That's Me)
Basketmaster's Weavings

Brenda Pinnick
Brenda Pinnick Color U


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Inspired at Home LIVE is a unique, fun new way for the creative community within Facebook to connect, share and chat LIVE on webcam from anywhere in the world! It's about sharing ideas for a creative and inspired life. We share up-to-the-moment information, ideas and news in the craft and creative world. From product information to designer tips, new project ideas, creative news and more, this is the place to gather and share creativity - LIVE!

Inspired at Home and Facebook and a Favor Please

Do you know about Aleene's Tacky Glue? It's been on the market some time now and it is some good glue.

Do you remember the television show Aleene's Creative Living? I think it was on around the time I was in college or shortly thereafter. Aleene would have her daughter's Candace, Heidi and Tiffany on the show. I used to watch every episode.


Photo from Inspired at Home

Tiffany Windsor, Aleene's daughter, has a website and a podcast called Inspired at Home.

Tiffany has contacted me and wants me to be on a LIVE Facebook show to speak about my design process with dying the reed that I did HERE and basket weaving.

Here is the favor I'm asking of you. I have been reluctant to start a Facebook account, I don't have a MySpace account. Other than blogging, I'm not on social websites. Well....I did open a Facebook account and would like to invite you to be my FRIEND. Please. I don't want to do this live chat and not have any friends! When you are on Facebook you can search for me through my e-mail address. It is basketmaster_nancy@yahoo.com I'll be your friend too.

The live chat is Nov. 16th at 10:00 ET. You can read more about it at Inspired at Home. I will be using my webcam and there will be other craft designers on the show as well. Save the date!

A little about the Inspired at Home podcast. You can subscribe to it through iTunes. I enjoy listening to it each week and it comes out on Sundays. Oh, you can also listen to it live on your computer, but I download it and listen to it later in the week. It is a 90 minute show. Tiffany has her sisters Candace and Heidi on the show as well as her mother Aleene. It has been interesting to listen to Aleene speak about her history in the crafting world. She also has other regulars and one or two guests each week. The talk about crafts, herbal living, crafting and decorating trends among other things. It is a fun 90 minute show.
So save the date and please be my Facebook Friend.

Have a wonderful weekend and one quick update with Emily. The MRI came back just fine. Praise God for that! Emily is still in pain though and she has had extensive blood work done this week that we are waiting on the results. She will be seeing a rheumatologist in the near future. We continue to appreciate your good thoughts and prayers with this while we figure out what is going on.

Hugs and blessings to you all,

Nancy

Party Favor Basket Pattern, FaveCrafts Feature, and getting ready for Christmas

Photo from Figi's Gifts in Good Taste

Dear Friends,

I've been blogging over at FaveCrafts and you can read about it HERE.

With all the great colors of reed I created from using the tie-dye kit, I made some sweet little party favor baskets. I have the pattern to one of them available for you to copy over at FaveCrafts. You can link to it HERE.

Did you know, it is only 52 days until Christmas. Time is ticking away. Have you been making your list and checking it twice? Have you been thinking about what you will be making in the way of crafts? What will you be cooking? Kind of makes your head spin doesn't it? Coming up over the next two months, my blog will have some inspiring and creative baskets and crafts that you can do before Christmas. Just looking at the photo above makes me inspired to get out my recipe books and start planning. If you don't care to cook and are looking for some unique gifts, pop over to Figi's Gifts in Good Taste and you will find your holiday cooking just got a whole lot easier. They have some wonderful food.
Start planning now what baskets you will be weaving for those on your list and what you will be putting in those baskets. Keep your eyes open for things you will be needing that are on sale now. Do you need more reed or handles. Again, think about that now before your supply runs out. What are you doing now to get ready for the holidays? I'm starting my notebook with my lists!
Have a wonderful day.
Nancy

I Was Featured on FaveCrafts!!!

Dear Friends,
I am so thrilled today as I have been featured on FaveCrafts! They have published one of my basket patterns HERE. Also, they wrote a very nice blog post about me HERE. This is really exciting for me as it is my first publication feature!

Be sure to visit FaveCrafts and get your free basket weaving pattern. While you're there, take look around their site. They have some amazing crafters and tutorials on almost every craft imaginable. I was their first basket weaving tutorial!
I've got to be careful because I'm getting a seriously big head here.
Thanks for letting me brag and share my enthusiasm with all of you and a huge THANK YOU to FaveCrafts.

Happy Weaving,
Nancy