Blog Party Sunday -- Show Us Your Handmades

Welcome to our Blog Party Sunday. What are you making this year?  We would love to have you show us what you have for sale for the coming holidays.

You are allowed to add 3 links to your shops.

The rules are simple:
1. Follow our blog
2. Handmade items only.
3. You may list up to 3 items.
4. Family friendly items only.

The success of this link party depends on the participants so spread the word to your friends, visit the shops,  post about it on your  blog, in a forum or on your favorite social networking site, grab the button and put it on your blog or website.
Just click on the Add Your Link button below and add your items.
And if you would like to add a link to the party you can grab this button below.

a href="http://www.byyourhands.com" target="_blank"img src="http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy110/ByYourHands/blogparty.jpg"

Today's Featured Shop -- The Barn Hollow

Today's featured shop is The Barn Hollow.    You will find adorable handmade dolls and critters here along with epatterns.

Bunny Make-Do

Americana Cat

American Prim Pig

Snowman Head

Be sure and visit Kim's shop to see all her handmade items.    http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBarnHollow

Thursday Giveaway Link Party --- Add Your Giveaway

Our weekly giveaway link opportunity is a way for you to share your giveaways with our readers.

This is a continuing link party and giveaways are removed as they end.   Please don't forget to add the end date of your giveaway to the name of your giveaway.

The rules are easy:

You must be a follower of our blog.

Add our logo to your blog sidebar.  This is very easy to do.   Save our logo below to your computer,  select add gadget in your blog settings,  choose add picture and select our logo from  your computer and then link it to http://www.byyourhands.com



When you enter the title of your giveaway, please add the end date of your giveaway. 

Be sure the url is the direct link to your giveaway blog post. Make sure you are linking directly to your giveaway.

Family friendly giveaways only.

Handmade Spotlight - For The Sunflower Lover

We could all use a little sunshine and this etsy treasury really spreads it around.

Yellow Birdhouse with Red Do... mulberrylanefo... $32.00	Beautiful Mustard Yellow Pom... Stitchcrafts $18.00	Baby Chicks Easter Chick Dol... Handofbelapeck $18.50
PURE Lemongrass Face and Bod... crowsnestprimi... $9.50	The Heather - 18 x 18 Cream ... cottageruffles $45.00	Printable Seed Packet - Vint... ewenmeprintabl... $2.00
Easter Egg Decoration NancysWorkshop $12.50	Sunflowers sign mamasinsanity $12.95	Primitive Mammy Bumblebee-Re... Rabbithollowpr... $28.95
YELLOW DAISIES HAND STITCHED... FancifulStitch... $7.00	Primitive Daffodils Flowers ... VintageKeepsak... $10.00	Bad Hair Day Betty Primitive... NoJumbledDucks $29.00
Sheep and Clover Plate SFPAF... MapleStreetSho... $8.00	Sunny Cottage Garden Bird Ta... misseskwittys $5.00	Crochet Washcloth - Sunshine... tinsandtreasur... $4.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Tuesday Tutorial - Crafting For Easter

Today, I'd like to share a few projects that will be great for Easter.

The first one is is for carrots, carved out of tree branches. These are soo cute. They also have instructions for other vegetables on this blog as well. Instructions can be found at www.duofiberworks.com

How about a wreath? This one is simply gorgeous and instructions can be found at thecsiproject.com

This bunny is made from a repurposed scarf. I love it! Find the instructions at www.larkcrafts.com

Here a chick, there a chick, everywhere a chick chick. You can have chicks everywhere too with this tutorial form www.myrtleandeunice.com

Enjoy your week and happy crafting!
Deena Davis
www.byyourhands.blogspot.com