Wedding Gift Boxes - Black With Gold Leaf

12 hand made, hand built gift boxes for your Valentine's Day group party. Made from 12 x 12 inch scrap booking black card stock, embossed vintage 1940's 18 carat gold leaf and full size hand cut insert bottoms shapes.

This is a eco-friendly design and the construction is so simple. Each box measures 4 x 4 x 2" and 6" corner to corner each has been meticulously folded, scored and center point glued with a shape to complete a ready made hand built box. The boxes are empty inside. But ready for your fine creative treasure's. Conveniently each box is left "un-marked" by ecovintagevegan, allowing you to take claim for these little gifted wonders...and fill them with your own hand made candies or jewels.

This American style of folding paper, yields from the turn of the century, where lady folk congregated to make and reproduce these little boxes from post cards and birthday cards.

Certainly easy enough for everyone to assemble, but why? when I have done the work for you.

These Valentine's Day party boxes will be individually wrapped in tissue paper for delivery to your door.
Parcel Post with insurance and delivery confirmation.

NOTE:
Gold leaf is set with a eco friendly homemade glue. Gold leaf obtained in 1995 when I helped clean out a fourth generation lapidary rock shop.. .Just pure gold!

Time Square 2011 - Party Boxes

12 hand made, hand built gift boxes for your treasure's, craft's or gifts. Made from 12 x 12 inch scrap booking card stock and hand cut center shapes. Lights, flashes, spot lights and all the drama of New Years Eve 2011, matching tops and bottoms. Perfect for your New Year Eve party, filled with treats that celebrate a fresh new year.

This is a eco-friendly design and the construction is so simple. Each box measures 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" x 2" and 6" corner to corner each has been meticulously folded, scored and center point glued with a shape to complete a ready made hand built box. The boxes are empty inside. But ready for your fine creative treasure's. Conveniently each box is left "un-marked" by ecovintagevegan, allowing you to take claim for these little gifted wonders...and fill them with your own hand made candies or jewels.

This American style of folding paper, yields from the turn of the century, where lady folk congregated to make and reproduce these little boxes from post cards and birthday cards.

Certainly easy enough for everyone to assemble, but why? when I have done the work for you.

Etsy shopper will receive all 12 large boxes for the listed price. These are not a retail prefabricated box pattern.

Sent Priority Mail, and/or Parcel Post with insurance and delivery confirmation.

Natural Landscape - Tiger Iron - Pendant

In this listing, from my own lapidary shop, one fabulous thick Tiger Iron pendant, finished simply and crudely, but wrapped securely in 12 carat 20 gauge round gold wire.

Laid out nicely to show the natural landscape of the stone family of Tiger Eye and hematite. The pendant is completed with 2mm brown rubber strap and a vintage wooden button clasp, with a neck length of 16.5 inches.

The Tiger Iron weighs 100 grams, measures 3 1/8 inches wide, 2 1/4 inches tall and 5/8 inch thick. This isn't a wimpy stone. But hey! Your neck haul around tens pounds of head every day, what's another ounce or two?

"Tiger Iron can help one to become practical and of discrete mind, as well as more grounded. It can eliminate the “blues” and can bring brightness and optimism to the user. It also assists in providing insight to those issues which induce internal mental battles, delivering one from the “horns of dilemma” and the conflicts associated with willful pride. It further prompts the admiration for the pure and beautiful, allowing ones life, and ones passion for life, to open and to blossom.” Reference guide: Melody – Love Is In The Earth

The pendant will arrive in a handmade gift box, sent Parcel Post or First Class or if funds allow Priority Mail.

Vintage Glass And Ceramic Shards - Pendant - Vegan Friendly

From the second born etsy shop of crudeco....ecovintagevegan.

In this listing one drop shard pendant. Five glass/pottery shards wrapped in 20 gauge sterling silver round wire, completed with 2mm sky blue rubber cord, four lamp work beads made from recycled Idaho Prairie Glass and a vintage plastic and cloth button clasp. Button is buttoned on the left to allow the shards and glass to lay as designed against the chest.

From left to right viewing:
aqua porcelain canning lid shard, dark green ceramic Roseville shard, white ceramic plate shard(center), vintage rosette plate shard, and another aqua porcelain canning lid shard. Neck length 16". Shards measures in at 1 1/8" up to the center shard at 2", descending smaller as the shards go back.

In my travels and rock digging I often find and un-earth shards of depression glass, elixir bottles and ceramic shards. Often the ceramic shards come from Silver City, where a friend has property. The Idaho Prairie Glass and Amethyst glass is obtained all over the Western/Southern States, similar to its cousin "sea Glass" it also is trash glass. After stabilizing each piece is wrapped and made into eco friendly jewelry.

Drop pendant will be sent in a handmade gift box, shipped Priority Mail, First Class or parcel Post....in time for the holiday celebrations.

Frosty The Snow Man Gift Box Set

20 hand made, hand built gift boxes for your baby shower party. Made from 12 x 12 inch 120 pound test heavy card stock and die-cast complimentary stock shapes. Themed snow birds, snow flakes and snow men patterns with glittering and shades of icy blue. Strong, sturdy and chuck them across the room tight.

This is a eco-friendly design and the construction is so simple. Each box measures 4 x 4 x 2" and 6" corner to corner each has been meticulously folded, scored and center point glued with a shape to complete a ready made hand built box. The boxes are empty inside. But ready for your fine creative treasure's. Conveniently each box is left "un-marked" by ecovintagevegan, allowing you to take claim for these little gifted wonders...and fill them with your own hand made candies or jewels.

This American style of folding paper, yields from the turn of the century, where lady folk congregated to make and reproduce these little boxes from post cards and birthday cards.

Certainly easy enough for everyone to assemble, but why? when I have done the work for you.

Priority Mail and/or Parcel Post in the U.S. only.

With the elections looming near, shortly after making your wise selection clear....get to those homemade baked treat's and goodies to gift and share.

Coral Harvesting? Facts And Myth's - Etsy Take vs. crudeco

http://www.etsy.com/storque/craftivism/declaring-coral-too-precious-to-wear-10844/

Featured article from etsy's storque blog dated: October 15th, 2010.

Although facts remain that human's haven't been kind to world and oceans. But Miss Melanie Claire of Temple St. Clarie not only fell into a life of jewelry design but she's fallin' on her head. She fails to offer a balanced article for the etsy customer, seller and drive-by-blogger. Etsy's supported blog post is riddled with myth. It doesn't take into account ocean reef's that are used for business to support local communities, nor does it offer an explanation for the businesses who revive our ocean reef through educational endeavors and private foundations who assist in rebuilding our ocean reef's.

Etsy admin, staff and Juliet (writer and proof reader of "said" article) completely disregarded and disrespected the entire house of etsy. Sellers were left with a salty taste in their mouths.....and NO it wasn't that! The stab in our sells, our product representation and their own TOU's regarding etsy policies, which is not to refer, redirect or offer links to off site dealers, manufactures, wholesalers or artisan's who are not or who not have an etsy business listed on etsy.

Referring from my own facts of collecting coral:

Twice in the last 15 years I've stumbled onto lapidary men with rare Chinese Coral branch, once in 1995 and again at a rock club show in 2002. Each meeting I purchased all the coral they each had to sell. In each case their collection had come from estate sells where the collectors acquired their coral before the Great Barrier Law. My understanding of this red coral is that I am able to use it in jewelry and for collecting. I have had customers ask me about the "laws" regarding selling rare branch coral. And in each case, I refer to our rock club by-laws regarding collecting. If the coral was obtained and sold prior to the species act in 1970, then a collector can resale or create jewelry to resale.

Certainly this "coral" debacle between etsy and etsy sellers' that feature coral pieces in their shops will not see a reasonable conclusion anytime soon. Many threads have been closed, etsy admin seems to encourage suppression among their seller's and forum chats.Stifling an intelligent community of artisan's, crafter's and customer's will not go well.

Offering another point of view about our ocean's coral reef's.
http://www.ted.com/talks/enric_sala.html

Well, worth the viewing.
In the use of vintage and antique rare red coral branch, mine is from private collections obtained before 1970.

Rescued Miners - Chile's Success

From my previous post of the "human" effort to rescue the men from their under ground apartment, why now does the world "thank God"?

Why do people give human credit to a God? The almighty "Amen" and Praise The Lord? No one watch the event play out for the last few months? It was the collective endeavors of multiple countries who came together with one clear cause of action. That being a rescue of men trapped in the ground, men who were divided from their families and loved ones.

Why does the majority of our world seek to give credit to the almighty when in actuality human beings with human kindness made this extraordinary event come to be. Not God, Not Allah, Not Buddha...humans! Great wonderful caring, intellectual, independent thinkers of our day formed a collective group to rescue these men.

Please can we stop with congratulations to God for everything that goes right in our world.