Gift Ideas from Barbara's Crochet Studio

The following featured products are brought to you by: Barbara's Crochet Studio. The descriptions are copied from the owner's site. Please click on the title or the large image, to be taken to their site and to get additional information on the product of your choice.



Ice Crystal CROCHETED SCARF



12 floral motifs make this unique scarf.
It is crocheted from soft acrylic yarn; sage, bone and light country blue.
It is 84" long and 6.5" wide.
Please contact me with any questions. :)




Crocheted Choker and Bracelet Set
with Buttons - Spring Colors



Just on time to celebrate Spring!
This choker and bracelet set is crocheted with cotton crochet thread #10, ecru with green border.
It is embellished with colorful buttons - green, yellow and violet.
The choker is 12.5" long and 7/8" wide with 6.5" ties for perfect fit.
The bracelet is 7" long and 7/8" wide. It closes with loop and button.
More patterns and colors are coming soon.




mp3 player Cozy with Neck String



This little crocheted bag is great to keep your mp3 player in place while you are on the go.
It is made of soft acrylic yarn, blue pompadour (with shiny, white thread running throughout ).
It measures 2.5" x 4.5", has fold over flap with button closure and 35" long string.
I'll take custom orders for color or size to fit your electronics.



Special announcement for Etsy Shop Owners

Thank You to my Advertisers: 4/12-4/19

As of November 2009, I will no longer be with Entrecard, so in order to free-up valuable file space, I have removed the images and contents from this page. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. However, I invite you to stop by my main page and see if there is anything of interest to you...

Everyday Living

Heading to the Basement

I have been doing a lot of thinking over the past few weeks and I have decided to not approve any additional paid advertisements. Yes, I know that this is nothing new, as many EC users are doing the same thing, but I really wanted to give the new system a chance. This being the case, my site, which is consistently at the top of the Lifestyle category, will soon be relegated to the EC basement. Why am I doing this? Well, yesterday when I again looked at the stats of outgoing clicks to my advertisers, I noticed that they were, once again, painfully low. I feel that if you use your hard-earned credits to advertise on my site, you should get what your credits' worth. Since my advertising will still only get partial page views on other sites, this will not totally correct the problem of low-clicks, but it should help. I understand that many of the paid advertisements on my site come from Entrecard users and I want to say that, you are always welcome on my site, but from now on, you will need to buy your ad space using EC credits.

A way to help solve this problem would be to implement what many have already been discussing in the forums, and that would be a two-widget system. I realize that this would mean an additional widget on my site, but I feel it would solve the problem on many fronts.

• It would give the advertisers their own widget to cycle through, meaning they would have one less site to compete with, thus giving them more page views.


• The EC advertisers would have their customary advertising spot, just as it has always been.


• For those who do not wish to have any paid ads on their site, they just don't install the widget.


• For those, like me, who are currently not accepting paid ads, for the reason I have already stated, this would remove that reason and the advertisers would have new sites on which to advertise. More sites equals more page views.


• For those who would accept paid advertising on their site, that widget would need to conform to the current One-Scroll policy, while the traditional EC widget could be placed wherever the site owner wanted.


• With these measures in place, I feel that Entrcard would be able to solve a variety of it's current problems and also increase its advertiser base.

If this is ever implemented, I will be more than happy to accept paid advertising on my site. So, for now, I will let the paid advertisements run their course and I will let you know when my site is 100% EC credit advertising.