Stuff… for People

❉ THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! ❉

CONGRATS AMANDA (cats99)!!!!

So for all the people out there that are sticking to their New Year’s diet resolution, and for those that aren’t (um… yeah…), here’s the perfect giveaway.  This month I’m giving away a tiny hamburger or cheeseburger necklace!  You choose either cheese or no cheese – perfect for anyone that’s lactose intolerant.  It can also be a veggie burger or turkey burger too.  Zero calories, organic and 100% local ingredients, well, at least if you live in the southern California area.  I personally think that these look just like an In N’ Out Burger just minus the animal-style toppings.  These little burger charms were hand-formed by Roscata (that’s me!) in my little house in Long Beach, California.  The bun has been expertly “toasted” and layered with crisp lettuce and juicy red ripe tomatoes and you get to choose between cheese or healthy.

❉ THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! ❉

To enter the giveaway see the rules below and note that you must do #1 as your first entry.  Also, please leave a separate comment for each entry.  This contest is open to anyone around the world and has free shipping!  Thanks!!!

1.) Your first entry is mandatory.  Visit my store Roscata – Stuff for People and leave a comment on this blog telling me which is your favorite item.  Feel free to choose more than one and visit Roscata’s sold items too.

2.) Follow Roscata on Twitter (username is Roscatastuff) and tweet the following: @roscatastuff Handmade Hamburger Necklace Giveaway from Roscata on Etsy!!! http://roscata.com/blog/?p=944.  When done, come back and leave a separate comment with a link to the tweet and your Twitter username for an additional entry.

3.) Become a contact with Roscata on Flickr to get an additional entry.  Just visit Roscata’s Flickr page and add Roscata as a contact.  Also feel free to comment on any of her pictures in her photostream.  Come back here and leave a comment with your Flickr ID for an additional entry.  If you’re already a contact, THANKS! and leave a comment with your Flickr ID.

4.) Join Roscata’s blog via Google Friend Connect (see right-hand column and click “Follow”) and leave your username in a comment for one additional entry.

5.) Lastly, make a purchase from Roscata’s shop and earn five (5) additional entries for EACH item purchased!  Come back here when done and leave five additional comments for each item purchased.  Be sure to include your Etsy username and item(s) purchased in the comment.

Until Later!  ®oscata

All entrants to this giveaway will be given instant membership in The Stuff Club, Roscata’s once-a-month mailing list where you’ll be the first to know of her monthly giveaways and super-special sales such as her spring and winter Buy One Get One Half Off with Free Shipping Sale (perfect for Mother’s Day and Holiday shopping)!  Your e-mail will remain protected, never spammed, and your privacy is thoroughly respected. If you would not want to be part of The Stuff Club just reply back to any e-mail with the subject line “Unsubscribe.”

Handmade magnets, my latest creation!  I’ll be taking pictures of these in the next week and listing them on my Etsy shop soon.   I’ve been making magnets for a while now.  I have magnets of single food items like hamburgers, cupcakes, eggs and bacon, doughnuts, and even a pickle.  I also have a few multi-colored mushroom magnets.

I recently purchased some really tiny porcelain plates and just couldn’t resist putting together teeny tiny meals so of course, I had to make these guys into magnets.  They’re adorable!  Cheeseburger plate, eggs and bacon plate, pancakes and bacon plate, cream cheese danish with fruit plate, and the best… sushi on real Japanese sushi style plates!

Until later! ®oscata

“Health food makes me sick.”

Calvin Trillin (1935- )

Thanks everyone!!!! The giveaway contest is now over and (through Random.org) the winner is….

TANYA!!!!

Thanks everyone and I’ll add your e-mail addresses to the Stuff Club so you can be notified of the next giveaway.  I promise it’ll be something totally cute!

I’ve been wanting to do a giveaway for such a long time.  It’s actually been over a year since I opened up my shop and have enjoyed all the friends I’ve made through Flickr, Etsy, and local craft/artisan shows in So Cal (yay for Handmade District!).  I’ve also had the good fortune to be the recipient of several giveaways and thought I’d have to do the same to keep up the good karma.  So what is up for grabs is a cute tiny lemon meringue pie slice with a slice of lemon and whipped cream on a necklace with a tiny fork charm.

Just in case you’re not a huge lemon meringue fan, you can choose either a strawberry cream pie, key lime pie, or pumpkin pie with whipped cream charm. Bon appetit!

So here are the rules…

Be sure to include your e-mail address, website or blog link so if you win, I’ll be able to contact you!

1.)  Visit my shop (www.roscata.com) and leave a comment on this post with your favorite item – feel free to peruse my listed items and my sold items!  This will get you one entry.

2.) For an additional entry, give me an idea of a food or dish that would be adorable in miniature form as a piece of jewelry (links to pictures are welcome too).

3.) Blog about my giveaway (be sure to link to my shop and to this giveaway post!) and leave a separate comment with the link.  This will get you five entries.

4.) Tweet and/or Facebook with a link to the giveaway.  Only one Tweet or Facebook entry per person please and if you do both – that’s two entries!  Come back to my blog and leave a comment with the link so it can be verified.  Leave a separate comment for the Twitter and Facebook.

5.) Follow this blog and leave another comment letting me know you did so for one entry.

6.) Make a purchase of $10 or more from my shop and receive 10 entries!  Be sure to let me know you made a purchase in either a separate comment or in an Etsy conversation.

The giveaway ends at 12:00 pm Pacific time on August 3, 2009.

All entrants will be added to the Stuff Club (Roscata’s mailing list) to be notified of other Roscata giveaways!  E-mail addresses will be kept private and only used to send notifications of sales and giveaways at Roscata’s Shop – Stuff for People.

Don’t forget to enter The Lovely Teaspoon’s giveaway and read her fantastic interview all hosted by Lovely Little Deer.  My LA friend Spiderbot’s giving away $25 worth of her amazing recycled recession-proof garb on her blog!  Last but not least, you must visit the Sweeter Than Me blog and enter the Urban Legend (also Leaves of Glass) giveaway for some fantastic jewelery!

GOOD LUCK!!!!

Until later! ®oscata

I went on a Sculpey bender and just worked and worked all weekend.  My wrists and fingers are a bit sore and I might have a case of “Sculpey-elbow” developing, but it was so worth it.  In between going out for dinner and eating yummy meals (I didn’t have to cook this weekend – YAY!) I made a ton of stuff:  pendants, rings, magnets, and I’ll be taking pictures all this week.  Here is one of my new cocktail rings and my ice cream fruit parfait pill boxes (or tooth fairy boxes).  These are already listed in my shop.

Until later! ®oscata

“Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.”

Woody Allen (1935- )

I only got to vend at two other Los Angeles Derby Dolls bouts and this will be my last one <sniff… sniff…>.  They were a ton of fun to attend and the people that go to the bouts are really awesome.  Today I am finally going to list a ton of stuff (UGH!) that I created for Patchwork on my Etsy shop and have just sitting around the house.  There are a ton of really cute sundae parfait ice cream necklaces that are totally cute!  I posted pretty much everything on my Flickr page including my jellybean charm bracelet and earrings, banana strawberry sundae necklace, citrus parfait necklace, green tea icecream with mochi Japanese parfait, sushi cell phone charm, doughnut shoppe purse charm, my fun chocolate fudge ice cream popsicle keychains (or purse charms), and tons of other stuff!

LA Derby Dolls Sirens vs. Tough Cookies

at the Doll Factory

1910 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Google Map of Location

Until later! ®oscata

“Ice cream is exquisite.  What a pity it isn’t illegal.”

-Voltaire (1694-1778)

Patchwork is over and I am so tired! But it’s back to work today and this weekend photographing all the stuff that I created for the show and didn’t get to list in my Etsy shop yet.  The show was great and I had a ton of sales and wonderful people come to visit my little booth.  I even got to use my tiny fridge and stove that I bought (thanks PeachyChicBoutique and bunnypig !!!!) and tons of compliments on them!  By the way… disregard the ol’ crappy Ford Probe on the right, that’s NOT part of my display!  Yeah, that wooden hand sculpture on top of the rice box is giving the bird!  I love that thing!

Until later! ®oscata

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from lack of imagination.”

-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

So I’m doing another craft fair that I’m really excited about. It’s an event through Handmade District (thanks Kayte of Lucky Find Designs!!!) at To Die For Clothing in Costa Mesa, CA.  The best part is that there are only a small number of vendors and hopefully there will be tons of people that want to buy my little stuff!   There is $1 fee to cover the cost of printing and posting flyers around.  The event is sponsored by Handmade District, To Die For, KidRobot and tons of others!  This one will be fun and have some amazing stuff!

The Swap
Saturday, June 13th from 10am to 3pm

To Die for Clothing
1032 West 18th Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627

Google Map of Location

I’m so excited!  I get to go to Patchwork in Santa Ana!  I’ve been working like crazy to get enough stuff together and have a lot of awesome inventory for the show.   I’ve been making some really cute fudge covered ice cream treats (remember Dove Bars?) with gooey fudge dripping down over ice cream on a stick!  I also added cute crystal embellishments to make them ultra-girly!  I’ll take pictures tonight and post them later.

Patchwork Indie Arts and Crafts Festival

Sunday May 17th, 11am until 5pm

2202 North Main Street, Santa Ana CA 92708

Until later!

®oscata

“A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.”

-Roald Dahl (1916-1990), (Willie Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

To celebrate Easter, I’ll post my most Easter-y creations.  A totally handmade Carrot Cake polymer clay charm on a necklace with a tiny silver fork charm!  I was craving carrot cake so on a whim, I just whipped this little fella up.  Also, I included tiny speckled light blue robin egg earrings (they’re about a quarter of an inch tall)!

I don’t know when I’ll get to make more of these charms or anything else for that matter!  I’m in the middle of a few custom orders, out in the field this week for desert riparian (river) bird surveys, and preparing for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls Vendor Village.  The derby is really fun and except for the fact that Jay drinks most of my earnings in Tecate and eats them in pizza and hot dog on a stick… I do pretty well there.

Until later!

®oscata

“Vegetables are a must on a diet.  I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

-Jim Davis (1915-1981)

I finished these about a week ago, but finally took some pictures!  I was preparing for the Silverlake Art, Craft and Vintage Market and was also listing a bunch of new stuff on my Etsy store.  I didn’t make the crazy pink Sno Ball cakes and that will be later (possibly this weekend…).  I did, however, make yellowy vanilla and chocolate Zingers with the authentic “plasticky” icing that you can peel off and use as a replacement for wallpaper adhesive.  I also had to make some Twinkies with toasted bottoms and the three spots on the bottom where they inject the creamy white filling stuff!

I absolutely have to mention a fellow Etsean that sells the absolute most awesome-est cards!  They’re kind of Terry Gilliam-esque – remember the intros to Monty Python’s Flying Circus?  These way-too-funny cards are by Frantic Meerkat.  This is my favorite card, I just haven’t found the right person to send it to!

Until later!

®oscata

“I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.”

-Tammy Faye Bakker (1942-2007)