Third Saturday Giveaway

Saturday... Giveaway #3 10/30 - 11/13
CLOSED


Hello everyone! This is your last chance to get your entries in to take part in this adorable giveaway! Submit your entries below after reading more about what to do :) The winner will be announced tomorrow in my Sunday Coffee and Cake Post!



The Prize...






Woohoo! Here's to my THIRD giveaway that will end on NOVEMBER 13, and here is another handmade item from my store babamoon.etsy.com. I will custom make it to your liking in terms of size, color etc :) Note that this giveaway is for the HAT ONLY.






This hat is adorable and light to wear for your baby and has a large attached layered flower on the side!

It is crocheted with 100% acrylic yarn. If you dont wish for my to use this yarn then you can always tell me a color you'd prefer or a combination! You can check out my store to see lots of items using acrylics yarns or others!



HOW TO ENTER

The best way to maximise your chances of winning is to take advantage of the opportunity to submit multiple entries! Read on to see how this can be done.

This giveaway is international and will run from today until the 30th of this month. That's 2 weeks for your chance to enter! When the giveaway closes I will announce the winner in my Sunday Coffee and Cake post on the 31st of October.


Each entry will be counted in my BLOG COMMENTS so you will need to submit each entry there to qualify also leave me an email or some form of contact so i can get hold of the winner easily! Just following these steps. Remember you don't have to do them all, but you have a greater chance of winning if you do!

• 1 Entry - Visit Babamoon.etsy.com and tell me which of my baby items you love best in a comment beneath this post
• 1 Entry - Visit moonangelnay.etsy.com and tell me which of my prints you like the best in a comment beneath this post
• 1 Entry - FOLLOW THIS BLOG, and tell me in a comment that you have. If you have followed me before then still mention it in a comment!
  
• 1 Entry - Tweet about this giveaway making sure you include @moonangelnay in the tweet so I can verify your entry AND tell me in a comment beneath this post so I know you've entered! (Only once please)
  
• 1 Entry - Follow me on Twitter and tell me in a comment below
• 1 Entry - Share this giveaway on Facebook and tell me in a comment with the link to your facebook page
  
• 1 Entry - Like me on Facebook and tell me you have here in the comments.

• 2 Entry's - SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG - Do tell me in a comment
  

• 3 Entry's - Grab my Saturday Giveaway button from the sidebar, and put it in a blog post or your own blog side bar and post the link in my comments below!

• 5 Entry's - BUY SOMETHING FROM EITHER OF MY STORES - Tell me you have in the message to seller on Etsy and in a comment here so I know who's who!

Good Luck!

Love Nay x

Yarn Fetish

Sunday - Coffee and Cake
weekly musings, articles and mostly babble...


Yarn Fetish I think I need to be chained down or something when it comes to buying my weekly groceries. There just happens to be a HUGE Hobbycraft store on my way to my local Sainsburys and since my first trip there and the discovery of the 2 AILSES of yarn, I have been ahem... hooked hohoho!!!! (pun totally inteded lol). I have the excuse at least that I can buy yarn for work in my new store, and each piece that I now have is designated to new ideas that I have swimming through my brain... but I seem to find myself in there weekly and my supply is growing faster than my little hands can create LOL! But it's nice that I have a passion at least for something besides photography. I feel a little more intergrated into the crafting scene since opening my new shop BabaMoon even though I have been knitting and crocheting now for about 5 years. The realisation of that has made me wonder why i didn't separate my original photography store from my textile stuff to begin with, as my original store actually had both going on in there, including leather goods! But I'm glad for the exclusivity of my time being given to my photography as without that I wouldn't be planning my business outside of Etsy so soon!

Now I have found that I'm not so pushed (or more like pulled!) to find the time to create, I have nice flow going in all aspects of my day including the start of homeschooling my little boy. My next challenge will be a new dynamic to my "professional" life as my Fiancé will take over the keeping of the house and children on his days off whilst I start self employment outdoors... as some of you know I'm hoping to get a portraiture business going soon. Only on his days off mind you... I don't know if I could cope with his dishwashing more than a few times a week... it's atrocious LOL! So in all this yarn wallowing and flowing ideas, I am enjoying what seems like a great early success for my new store. I have managed to secure at least a sale a week since listing items now, and finding that the more i renew items and list new ones, I have been getting more enquiries for custom orders and have already completed a few for some parent's babies around the world! I am loving it, I find it so rewarding being able to make clothes for my kids and it's really nice to be able to expand on that a little and do the same for others :) It'd be lovely if i found myself making a sale a day for Babamoon! And I'm confident that sometime there will be that opportunity given :)

Recent Altered Photography And Baby Accessories
Posted to moonangelnay.etsy.com and babamoon.etsy.com...

Lust 5x7 Inch Fine Art Photo

Solar Skies 8x12 or 8x10 Inch Fine Art Photo

Cold Heart 5x7 Inch Fine Art Photo

Newborn Baby 0-3m Knitted Vanilla and Pink Sun Disk Roll Brim Hat

Newborn Baby 3-6m Red and Charcoal Big Flower Chunky Newsboy Cap Hat

Baby 3-6m Crochet Black Spooky Pointy Shell Lace Little Witch Hat

That's it for now. Have a great weekend all!


moonangelnay x

Folk Festival

Sunday - Coffee and Cake
weekly musings, articles and mostly babble...


Folk Festival It's been a couple of years since I have really had a break without having to watch my kids, and yesterday my partner took them both for the day whilst I got to spend some time with a close friend enjoying a local Folk Festival. My goodness I needed it! And what a fab day I had too! I got to listen to some great music from the likes of Donovan, Spider John Koerner, Dan Walsh and Will Pound to name a few. I brought along a small picnic for myself and spent the day knitting and taking pictures whilst drinking a few beers.

Part of the way through the day they decided to throw giant balloons into the audience which was great fun! All the kids that were there literally jumped and dived there way through all the people to get a hand on one of the balloons to keep them flowing in the air. But unfortunately they popped on by one at different points, which drew large heavy sighs from us audience members lol! We enjoyed them too much I think lol!

But yes, it was great, and today I get to go again but this time with my children in tow which I think I'll enjoy more. I'll probably be made to get my son's face painted, and I know that he's going to look forward to the story telling pirates, the trampettes, tight rope walking for kids, and the hand powered fair ground :) And with my daughter more alert it'll bring a whole new dynamic to the day! This has been a great week so far. As well as this Festival, on Thursday I got to spend the day in a training seminar with Mark Cleghorn and his team from PhotoTraining4U. I found it to be an inspirational day and I am finally confident about where I want to be with my out of house photography business when I get it going. More on that next week :)

Recent Altered Photography Posted to moonangelnay.etsy.com Warmth...


That's it for now. Have a great weekend all!


moonangelnay x

Sunset

Monday Magic... Sunset!

simplystunning	flamingfishstudios	goodoboys
GirlWorm	solarhalo	RixEmporium
bluebirdphotography	unclemexico	GlasscapesCa
pinkdiamondstudios	SOMETHINGdebussy	knitandcurl

Introducing my 46th installment of my weekly feature Monday Magic, showing off some beautiful sunsets in various forms! These Etsy.com sellers all share something special... Fabulous work! Yet, somehow like many sellers on Etsy are wondering where all their admirers are! So this is where I feel it's time to showcase the undiscovered talent of Etsy, on Monday each week so they have a chance to shine like the best of Etsy do :)


All of the sellers names can be typed into the navigation bar on your browser followed with ".etsy.com" (dot etsy dot com) to take you to their stores. Otherwise click on an image to go directly to their listing!


I am now taking requests for next weeks Monday Magic Expo. If you would like to be a part of it, you are required to have 0-19 sales in your Etsy store, and the theme is 'Ocean' Contact me via convo @ http://moonangelnay.etsy.com to send in your requests, plus a link to your suitable item :)

Positive Steps

Sunday - Coffee and Cake
weekly musings, articles and mostly babble...


Positive Steps It has been lovely this week to see Babamoon on Etsy take off with it's first 3 sales! 2 of them were back to back aswell, with the one listing only been put up hours before! I'm really glad for the signs of progression already as it took a LOT longer for me to make my first sales in my photography store, and to be honest I have faith that Babamoon may over take it quite quickly as the demand is probably higher for baby knits over wall art. I am not thinking negatively about that when it comes to my digital artwork as I seem to have progression there in other ways. Like my shop hearts, web presense, style, and of course my blog. So that for me is an incentive to keep it running along in the foreground alongside my other store.

One thing I am now gearing myself up for is a training course with Top UK photographer Mark Cleghorn soon, on the topic of family portraiture which is the career I am hoping to have in the time my partner is at home from work. The course itself is supposed to talk a lot about the business side of things which is what I am hoping for mostly as I am not as savvy with how to conduct the business, insure myself etc yet when it comes to babies I can quite easily and confidently turn into squish mode, and I know my camera plus all the related do dally inside out. It'll be a fabulous opportunity to ask important questions to someone who is ahead of his game, and has countless awards behind him to back him up. VERY excited about it all. As hopefully when I return, my business plan may actually go past the title lol!!! Once I am insured and upgrade some of my older equipment so it's suitable to go mobile, I'll hopefully get things ready before my Craft show in December which is where I am hoping to begin widely advertising it offline. Should be good!

So what's new in store then? Well I have made a new hat in Babamoon... well there are 3 actually but I have only listed one lately which is the Reversible Pumpkin hat! Very cute. And in my photography store I have listed 2 brand new prints which I am very proud of. They are in the mosaic below :)

Recent Altered Photography Posted to moonangelnay.etsy.com Warmth...


That's it for now. Have a great weekend all!


moonangelnay x

Modern!

Monday Magic... Modern!

tessituraelica	BakersWoodshop	surfaceARTIFICE
PopCanvas	TheEndStudios	Evotiv
TheNakedSquirrel	joelmasouza	OryxandCrakeDesign
NansAlchemy	wearableabstractart	moonthroughfog

Introducing my 45th installment of my weekly feature Monday Magic, with the focus on handmade modern items! These Etsy.com sellers all share something special... Fabulous work! Yet, somehow like many sellers on Etsy are wondering where all their admirers are! So this is where I feel it's time to showcase the undiscovered talent of Etsy, on Monday each week so they have a chance to shine like the best of Etsy do :)


All of the sellers names can be typed into the navigation bar on your browser followed with ".etsy.com" (dot etsy dot com) to take you to their stores. Otherwise click on an image to go directly to their listing!


I am now taking requests for next weeks Monday Magic Expo. If you would like to be a part of it, you are required to have 0-19 sales in your Etsy store, and the theme is 'Sunset' Contact me via convo @ http://moonangelnay.etsy.com to send in your requests, plus a link to your suitable item :)