Etsy Trashion team is doing a sale and giveaway this week – stop by their shop on Etsy for a full list of the stores and discounts that they offer, and get more details over on the team blog.

What is trashion?

Trashion, formed from the words trash + fashion, is taking found objects that normally get thrown away or recycled and transforming them into objects d’art, some functional, some simply decorative. My own trashion materials include synthetic fragrances I don’t use in my main fragrnace line and decoupage. Other people do even more interesting things using anything from computer parts to yogurt lids. It really and truly puts the “repurpose” and “reuse” in that whole “reuse” “reduce” and “recycle” motto.

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See that smiling couple there? That’s me and my long-time guy, Mike. We’re getting married this December in a Las Vegas chapel wedding. There will NOT, I assure you, be Elvis, Spock, or a drivethrough. Mike was quite insistent.

While weddings are not my favorite events in the world because I think love is the sort of thing best declared in private, I’m excited about being married to the person you see here in the picture because he’s a great guy who understands the entire story with me and still wants to stick around.

I’m saving up for this dress from Igigi:

And here’s the engagement ring:

I’ve tried to keep it simple, but only because people keep requesting this info, here are some basics:

We have a wedding registry on Amazon, and along with that we’ve opened up a SmartyPig account to sock back money to fly our nearest and dearest to Las Vegas to see the wedding, and to pay for a wedding reception at an as yet undetermined location in Minnesota. We’re doing this the debt-free way, which means that things are pared down and as simple as we can make them. Absolutely nothing from our wedding is going on a credit card – why start a marriage in debt?

SmartyPig is a sort of social banking system that helps you save for large and small goals:

If you’d like to contribute either through SmartyPig or through our wedding registry, we do appreciate it, and we offer it here because so many people seem to really want this. And while the only wedding I will ever feel comfortable with is an elopement, I truly am happy to be marrying the man in the picture – and I’m happy to share this news with all of you!

This also has relevance to my beloved clients:
I will be shutting down for the month of December, and I am undecided as to when I will be reopening – possibly in January, but it depends on what’s going on in my life at that time. This means that if you have Christmas shopping plans based on my shop, you probably should contact me early; I’ll be doing order fulfillment until the last week of November. I am working on some ways to compensate for my holiday absence that you will see in the next weeks and months; bear with me – there’s a lot going on!

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I snagged a treasury yesterday and thought it worth sharing with you – this is an amalgam of a few of my favorite artists on Etsy. It reflects energy, effort and color, great things to experience in summer!

For those of you wondering what on earth to do with a treasury once you get one, I offer you these posts for review:
What to do when you get or are in a treasury
So I’m included in a treasury – now what?
Great, I scored a treasury, now what?

And please, give my treasury picks folks some lovin’!

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