Earth Love

I won the knit1treble2 challenge for my last treasury. Yay! That means my new organic crochet cup sleeves are featured as the inspiration for the latest treasury challenge. How exciting. This is my treasury for the challenge, even though I can't win twice in a row, it's such a great way to explore Etsy that I just had to make one. Enjoy!

'Earth Love' by SunshineMakings

...organic, recycled, reused, bamboo, reusable...

Everything included in this treasury is good for the earth in some way.

Organic Crochet Cup Sle... SunshineMaking... $14	Custom Chair Socks, Tab... KnitsForLife $25	Twisted Infinity Scarf:... tayloreowen $32	ORGANIC Falkland fibre... YummyYarnsUK $9.99
Quintessential Green & ... lostyarnloft $82	Orange delight - rag cr... MammaEarthCrea... $29	Hemp Crochet Hat, Slouc... MomohanaKobo $30	3 organic cotton hand k... bySarahBeth $40
Organic cotton yarn six... NicsGifts $11.8	100% Recycled Bracelet-... Beccascrochet1... $5	Upcycled/Recycled Gray ... simplyhappycre... $12	Infant/Baby/Toddler/ Ba... StitchinMom19 $12
Textured Yarn Natural B... RaggedRobyn $5.74	Pink Flambé flower bro... BabanCat $9.5	Facial Scrubbies Exfoli... Kookooed $2.25	Big felted wool bowl - ... theYarnKitchen $230

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

Organic & Recycled Cup Sleeves

I've just added three new listing to my Etsy shop, Sunshine Makings. The first are these gorgeous organic coffee cup sleeves. 

They're made of soft organic cotton and will replace the wasted cardboard sleeves. There are two styles: the one above and the green cup sleeve below...

...if you take a look at the shop, you can see the five different color choices for the coffee cup sleeves.

Lastly, I have one more coffee cup sleeve. Do you recognize this yarn from the mug cozy? Yep. It's the same recycled denim cotton yarn. It makes a really sturdy and stylish recycled cup sleeve, too!

I hope you've enjoyed this peek into my shop and that you'll stop by Sunshine Makings soon to take a look at the other beautiful items it offers.

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I'm linking up to some of these fabulous parties...the ones that allow shops ;-)

Guy Crochet Beanie (chemo cap)

You may have seen last week's works in progress...this isn't them, but it's related to the wip 4: lap robe. It's a hat for my friend's husband who recently started chemotherapy. What a great beanie (he thinks so, too! Yay!)...and it's free! I found it here on Ravelry. I used Sublime Extra Fine Merino Wool...so soft and lovely and warm. I have always had the hardest time finding crochet hat patterns for guys that I really like. This is the first one that I've made in which I've really loved the end result. It was also very calming to make because there aren't any tricky stitches or very much counting involved. It was easy to make while I watched my favorite shows at night and is definitely a keeper. 

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I'm linking up to these fabulous parties!

Justice

This is a moving video on a topic that is close to my heart. I have recently become involved with International Justice Mission UK, a human rights organisation that seeks to bring an end to slavery, human trafficking, and oppression. The only way for these terrible things to end is for people to support the cause that can end it. The End It movement is asking people to disappear for a day on social media (tomorrow, February 27th)  to honour and remember the 27 million people who have disappeared in slavery. I'm doing it...will you?

From today on, I am also going to donate 20% of Sunshine Makings Etsy sales to IJM, so if you don't want to disappear from social media for a day, you can always support justice through shopping. :-) ...or donate directly to IJM.