The Owl Heart Spotlight

The Owl Heart is next up in our business spotlight series!

I love this cute shop.  It's a little smorgasbord of earrings, hair pins, pacifier clips, and necklaces.  All handmade by the owner, Jess Mayo, who resides in Vermont with her hubby and two cats!

Jess has participated in our January sampler boxes, here at Out Of The Box Sampler, and will also be joining us for the upcoming February and March boxes!

Take a look at a few favorites from her Etsy shop:

You'll also find The Owl Heart on Facebook and Twitter.  Jess would love to have you follow her around on social media!  

Be sure to check out this shop on Etsy and make her your favorite.

Take a peek...

For those of you that have never purchased a box from Out of the Box Sampler, I thought I'd give you a peek into my box from November. It arrives in a priority postal box, that you open to find this....
How sweet is that lil hand made card? Each box is different. Some months they are pink or black... you never know what to expect, and they always have a bow and lil extra on top.

The anticipation builds as you open the box and see the paper filler protecting your samples for this month. You will also find a paper with the discounts that the contributors are giving that month. From free shipping to a percentage off, there are always money saving offers! Not to mention there are always giveaways!... make sure you see the previous post on this blog on how to win!

You pull off the paper, andddddddddd oh! You just cant wait to dive in! Doesn't it look fun? What can be in there! What have they sent this month????

Can you believe all the goodies my box held? There are earrings, lotions, soaps, tarts, carpet freshener, candles, cake toppers... all kinds of fun things! The box also smells AMAZING! Many of the sponsors dont give sample size items, they give full size! Just one box will keep you happy as a clam until next months box!

Make sure that you are on the newsletter list, so you will know of when the December box goes on sale. Look at how much fun I had with November! Dont you wanna have that kind of fun too????

Join us!

You will not be disappointed!!!!

Upcycled, Recycled and ready !

Do you have some odds and ends lying about and just cant think of what to do with them? Are you one of those people that cant get rid of anything???? I think the following artists are just like you! They came up with some pretty creative ways to turn their junk into treasures that anyone would want!


Rag Rug
This 8 foot rug is made out of old sheets! Take a peek at this wonderful throw rug from Raggedy Anns http://www.etsy.com/listing/51572271/eight-foot-oval-hand-crocheted-rag-rug

Blue Mason Jar Light

Not only does Boots N Guts make lights out of old mason jars, they also make them out of old Tupperware! You gotta see it to believe it! http://www.etsy.com/listing/54507711/upcycled-recycled-quart-size-art-blue

Earrings

You wont even believe what My Aunt Debbie is using for her jewelry! Washing machine hose, vacuum parts... anything and everything is up for grabs!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/39212110/trash-to-treasures-recycled-earrings

Good and Fruity Belt Buckle

I will have to shop here for my 15 year old! She would love this belt buckle made from an old candy box!Funky Egg Art has several choices.... http://www.etsy.com/listing/26830576/good-and-fruity-candy-box-upcycled-belt


One of a kind bag

Third Stone Studios has combined old jeans and ties for a one of a kind handbag!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/20433222/hip-recycled-jeans-purse-with-necktie

Jewels By Jazzy Giveaway

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.  THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED.  YOU'LL FIND THE WINNERS HERE

http://outoftheboxsampler.blogspot.com/2010/05/winners-of-our-giveaways.html

I was so excited when I ran across this shoppe about a month ago.  Jewels By Jazzy has some of the best, quality made jewelry available to adorn yourself with!  Their newest venture includes Grungeboard Bracelets.

So I'm sure your asking, "what is grungeboard?"  To directly quote their website, "Grungeboard is made from recycled, compressed paper based products. It's a 'Green' product.  Super thin in thickness, lightweight and flexible. It feels and smells a little like leather - but it's grungeboard!"  

Janis, the owner and creator of these beautiful products, was so sweet to send me one for myself.  It absolutely gorgeous and I just love it!

Jewels By Jazzy was also gracious enough to send in 25 grungeboard bracelets for the May sampler boxes at Out Of The Box Sampler!  There are still a few boxes left here that have these bracelets in them!  

And, Janis has also provided 2 of them for this giveaway!

But first, just a couple other facts about Jewels By Jazzy.  They also make earrings, necklaces and regular metal/stone bracelets too.  Their prices are extremely reasonable.  Check out a couple of my favorites that I found in her shoppe:

 

Aren't those just striking?  Love them!  So do you want to win a grungboard bracelet with a retail value of $15.00?  Well let me tell you how:

1 Entry if you join Jewels By Jazzy Facebook group

1 Entry (per method) if you follow Out Of The Box Sampler on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, follow the Out Of The Box Sampler's blog with Google Friend Connect (top left sidebar) or join our Forum.

1 Extra Entry (per giveaway entered) - Enter any (or all) of the giveaways running on Out Of The Box Sampler for the duration of this giveaway.

1 Extra Entry if you follow me on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway by copying and pasting the tweet below and leaving me the link. Tweet daily for an extra entry every day!

WIN a cool Grungeboard bracelet from Jewels By Jazzy http://www.outoftheboxsampler.blogspot.com/2010/05/jewels-by-jazzy-giveaway.html


1 Extra Entry if you subscribe to our new You Tube Channel

1 Extra Entry if you join our new Blog Frog Community

2 Extra Entries if you put my Out Of The Box Sampler button up on your blog (on left sidebar of blog). Please leave an address where it can be found.

3 Extra Entries if you blog about this giveaway linking back to Out Of The Box Sampler's blog. Please leave an address where it can be found.

Please leave a seperate comment for each entry

  Giveaway will end on May 19th at 11:59pm EST. Please be sure to leave an email address or make absolutely certain your email address is visible in your blogger profile, I have to have a way to contact the winners. Two winners will be chosen by random.org and announced here as well as emailed and will have 24 hours to contact me or respond to notification or a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is for U.S. residents only.


A special thank you to Janis of Jewels By Jazzy for providing these 2 grungeboard bracelets for this giveaway.  Any opinions in this post are my own and there was no compensation received for this giveaway.

Lovely items!

Aren't these earrings beautiful?

Queen of Clubs Earrings

I love these tags!

Captured Crow hang Tags (Pink)

I believe in this stuff... why? I do not know I do think there are people out there that can give us a little insight to some things!

Tarot Readings

SOO perfect and the cost is awesome!

Breakaway Scented Melts

All Things Candy Corn...

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED, WINNERS WERE PICKED USING RANDOM.ORG

CONGRATULATIONS TO

DOLLS123

and

BITTEN BY BOOKS

I love fall and especially candy corn. It's not that I actually have to eat them (although their delicious) but I just love the look of anything dealing with the candy corn colors.

I was thrilled when a box of 80 pairs of handmade adorably cute candy corn earrings arrived at my house late last month for the October Out Of The Box Samplers.They came in from Mommy's Moon
who had taken a ton of time to handsculpt them just for our Halloween themed boxes.

Be sure to stay tuned for an awesome giveaway you'll not want to miss below.

So I thought I'd share a few other goodies I found on one of my favorite shopping places, Etsy!

Holiday Candy Lane!


Momi Boutique!


Ellie Bellie Design!



Pink Fairy Sweets!


Friendly Brown!



Print Our Party!


Smokey Mountain Scents!

Aren't those items just adorable? Remember to run over to Etsy and find a few for yourself...

As promised, I have 2 items to give away from Mommy's Moon.

Two candy corn bracelets!!!

Here's how to enter...Leave a comment with any or all of the following...

Visit Mommys Moon's etsy shoppe then come back here and tell me an item you like

Follow this blog (you have to follow us thru your dashboard)

Follow me on Twitter

Become a fan on my Facebook Fan Page

Sign up for the Sampler Box Newsletter

Each of the above items will get you one entry into the drawing. Be sure to come back here and leave your comment as to what you've done to enter and also an email address so I can contact you if your the winner. If you already do any of the things mentioned, let me know, that will count too.

Drawing will be held Tuesday, October 13th.

Good Luck!