Long absence from the blog, but not from creating

I may have taken a long absence from the TAMM creation blog, but I have not taken an absence from creating items for the TAMM creation line or creating things for friends and family and myself, developing new ideas and concepts and trying new things. It is just hard to try to balance it all, between family and life and health, I have not focused on me and the blogging in a long time. After a rewarding lunch with a good friend the other day, talking about a number of things, and what makes me the happiest, I have a renewed spirit and desire to focus more on the blogging again and getting back to writing more. To that end, I decided to start today with the apology for being away for so long, but to let you know what that means is that I have a whole bunch of pictures to upload and tell you about. The Etsy store to update, now have a Facebook page and a store page on there and a new CafePress shop, which is wonderful and I can't wait to tell you all about that one! Welcome back to my world!

Etsy Treasury

Last week, or was it the week before, I just happened to be on Etsy at the right time and got my very first treasury. Well, I was surfing through there on my lunch hour today and you know what, I scored another treasury!!

IN Crowd Team Flood Relief Treasury

I am excited, as you problably can tell, and I think it's great. I think the treasuries are neat ways to find things, but also to get to know other artisians better, because once you put someone in your treasury, they tend to thank you and it strikes up a conversation. Part of my favorite thing about Etsy, getting to know the other people!!

So visit and let me know what you think!!

Handknitted Kitchen Set

Been working hard lately, and I am adding some more things to the "a TAMM creation" line. Some of this is in prep for the Fall Festivals that will be coming up and I am thinking of doing the one in Ellettsville again this year, and possibly the one in Stinesville too.

This is a kitchen set. It is a hand-knitted dishcolth and a hand-knitted sponge.
The dishcloth measures 8 inches by 7 inches. The sponges is a double thickness and measures 6 inches across by 3 3/4 inches high.

Both are hand-knitted with a cotton crochet thread, so they are completely machine washable, you can even bleach them, but the colors will fade with bleaching. They will last longer than the store bought sponges, and are more enviormentaly friendly. This one in particular is made with the blue to yellow to purple verigated cotton thread.

Priced at $4.00 for the set, and that includes shipping in the US, for shipping to Canada, please add 50 cents. I am willing to ship worldwide, but the cost for that would be the exact cost of shipping, nothing more, just ask.

Can be custom made in other colors, see other posts about the colors of yarns in my stash for custom orders.

Can be found at my store site: http://www.atammcreation.etsy.com

INCrowdTeam - Fund Raiser

I am part of a "street Team" on etsy, the handmade site that hosts my store front, and as a street team, we have partnered with the church of one of the street team members to do a fund raiser for the recent IN flooding.

Here is the press release and a list of the shops that are participating, hope all the links work.


The INCrowd is partnering with Grace Lutheran Church in Columbus, IN to assist those affected by flooding in Indiana.
Each participating shop will generously donate a minimum of 10% of their sales for the month of July.

Grace Lutheran Church is assisting flood victims by setting up temporary shelters and donating food and clothing items to those in need. "At the moment everyone has been helped and are in temporary housing - they closed the shelter over the weekend. We will continue to take donations for quite awhile; the next phase is to help people rebuild and many did not have insurance and FEMA is not covering everything" states Carrie, Etsy shop owner of TimeandSand, who is also the director of the Care and Outreach Program at the church."Our membership is spread across the state of Indiana. Any part of our state that is affected by disasters - natural or otherwise - needs our support. These are our neighbors, our friends, and our families." says Kim, Etsy shop owner of ThePeachMartini.

Here are the participating shops:
newmoondesign.etsy.com
ambersjewelry.etsy.com
bluescarabbeads.etsy.com
myword.etsy.com
thepeachmartini.etsy.com
timeandsand.etsy.com
zacszoaps.etsy.com
hannahbags.etsy.com
dragoncat.etsy.com
atammcreation.etsy.com
madrinphotography.etsy.com
laktjohnson.etsy.com
afairtrade.etsy.com
designsbyabbi.etsy.com
abbi11883.etsy.com
belladio.etsy.com
shopbub.etsy.com
spiceoflifedesigns.etsy.com
corkyandspencer.etsy.com
nilochlainn.etsy.com
schwa.etsy.com
recoverandlive.etsy.com
bagsandmorebypam.etsy.com
mamabethbling.etsy.com
crescentwench.esty.com
bytheway.etsy.com
samandsha.etsy.com
texturedturtle.etsy.com
SalvagedBeauty.etsy.com
alteredartist.etsy.com
dragonflydreams10.etsy.com

Please check out these awesome shops and help support Hoosier communities affected by the flooding!

Handknitted Fancy Fur Scarf

As you can see, I have been working hard and have a new item to add to the "a TAMM creation" line.

This is a wonderfully soft, Fancy Fur scarf. The yarn I used was made by lion Brand, and was called Fancy Fur. This particular one is black, with kernels of purple, blue, navy and turquiose throughout.

The scarf is 42 inches in length and 4 inches in width, which makes it a nice length that both adults and children can wear. Both my daughter and I tried it on last night and like the length on me, wouldn't get into anything, hit about mid-chest, and on my daughter it hung longer and just looked so nice.

As you can see, although this is not the greatest model picture, we had someone else that just had to get into the picture too, but it looks great.

I have limited amounts of this yarn right now, unless I can find more somewhere, but it seems this confettie type of Fancy Fur is not being carried where I shop, so unless I find it online and at a good price, I am limited to the TWO scarves i have listed on Etsy.com

The scarf is listed at $14.00 with FREE SHIPPING in the US, only $1.00 ships it to Canada. Time involved in making this, just over three hours.

I have some more of the yarn, but it is in the process of becoming a matching purse! I have had this idea for a knitted purse for a long time now, and I loved this yarn, so I decided to go for it and make the matching purse. Not sure how long it will be before it comes out, as there is no pattern for this purse, it is all in my head, but I am looking forward to it coming out!

Thanks for checking out what I have to offer!

Newest additions to the TAMM line

We have offically entered the "Barbie" Phase of life here in our house, and in honor of that, and more importantly by request of my daughter (and model), Maeve, I have added to the TAMM line.


This is a hand-knitted bedroom set for a Barbie house.
It consists of a hand-knitted double Barbie blanket. What is a double blanket, well, it is a blanket that will cover two Barbies nicely. As my daughter got FIVE Barbies for her birthday and only one bed, she requested that they get to sleep together, so a Double Barbie Blanket. Also in the set is a double barbie pillow, hand-knitted and stuffed for maxium comfort.
This set it done is a very pretty light blue, white and lavender verigated yarn.

As a bonus for my daughter, and since there wasn't much yarn left, I made this cute little hand-knitted halter dress for the Barbie. It is done in the same verigated yarn.
I am going to be adding these to the "a TAMM creation" line for sale, and I have a number of yarns to do these with at home, so if you have a Barbie girl in your house that needs dressing, let me know and I can make up your favorite colors.

The other idea that has come to my head involves this cute little halter dress, it was really easy to make, and I didn't have a pattern, but I am thinking with a really soft, lightweight cotton, I could make this into a top for my daughters! Now it would take little time to make it, but I think I am going to try it!

So tell me what you think? Do you like them? Oh....all Barbie accessories will be on sale with FREE shipping.
Would you buy a hand-knitted halter top for your daughter?

Listed on EBay

So, I broke down and even listed some Valentine's Beaded Socks on Ebay the other day.


The reason I say, broke down, is because they almost never sale on there. There is some lady who is listing her's for $0.99. How, I pay more than that for the socks alone! Now granted that hers have way, way fewer beads and not as much ruffle as mine, but still. If you see that and then see mine, listed at material costs only of $3.19, which are you going to buy?
These are the Valentine's Beaded Socks that I listed and below are the links to the auctions. There is one for each of the Children's Sizes....so one auction for a pair of socks in extra small, one in small, one in medium, and one in large. I didn't list the adult size.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150209335788&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150209336853&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150209337288&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150209337503&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling






Check them out and let me know what you think!!!

New Handknitted Scarf - Hot Pink

Well, I got another new scarf done the other day. Finally got my little model to work for me last night and got pictures and then I listed it on the Etsy storefront.

http://atammcreation.etsy.com/



This is a wonderful hot pink color, with flecks of all kinds of other colors interwoven in the yarn, they don't stick out, but from a distance, I really notice the colors in the pattern of the scarf. The hot pink yarn is almost like an angora, in fact I had someone ask if it was while I was working on the scarf, it's not, the yarn is actually 100% nylon.

The yarn is called Moda Vee, and the color was called Vixen. I picked up the yarn on clearance awhile back, wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, but I did this wonderful scarf. This is all the yarn like that I have. There was a little left over, not much, but I will be finishing up some acccessories to match the scarf out of this yarn soon. In fact, two completely new items....an ipod case and an eyeglasses case. They are both almost done, and will have pictures soon!

a TAMM creation at Etsy.com

I think I mentioned before that I found a new place to list the "a TAMM creation" line.

http://www.etsy.com/

It's all handcrafted items, with some supplies, but most of the people on there are selling their own handcrafted items!

http://www.deby0.etsy.com/ has some supplies, and I ordered some new yarn from her the other day. It came in on friday and I can't wait to turn it into something wild!!

http://www.southernnight.etsy.com/ handcrafts her own soaps and tarts. She has Brad's favorite scent for me to wear, Plumeria, so I ordered some wax tarts and goats milk soap from her!! I am so excited about those!! Can't wait till they get here, it should be nice!!

http://www.justaddcharm.etsy.com/ has some hair items, and I ordered some hairclips with fabric covered buttons on them for the girls. Something a little different than what I do, and yet I think the girls will love them.

These are just a few of the places that I have bought from on there, and so I wanted to share. I think I will try to add more information about etsy and where i am buying for you all since I think it is important, and great when we buy handmade! Let's help the little guy(gal) out and buy handmade instead of from the big box store!