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Jewelry designer Karin Collins is once again participating in “Every BODY Is Beautiful”. This Online Fundraising Auction event is sponsored by the National Eating Disorders Association. It will run from November 1st through December 2nd, 2007 and will be hosted by music star Sara Evans. And I’m sure you are ready for some early holiday shopping for handmade items.

There’s is an assortment of fashionable items up for sale, including jewelry, clothing, tote bags, spa packages, beauty products, autographed collectibles, vacations, music, books, art including a trip to Tokyo for a week, a manicure in Beverly Hills, yoga classes in Seattle, an iPod Nano, an autograph/clothing package from singer Carrie Underwood, a customized guitar signed by Bo Diddley, a Disney Snow White animation cel, a weekend in Malibu, tickets to the Regis & Kelly show, and much much more….

Of course, we are very interested in Karin Collins SpoonFed Art handmade spoon pendants. She has donated three of her SpoonFed Art spoon pendants to the NEDA fundraising project, including an exclusive NEDA-commissioned one-of-a-kind necklace featuring the NEDA logo.

So check it out at National Eating Disorders Association

And for all of you who are members of the shopping networking site StyleHive, you can help spread the word there as well! You can bookmark the NEDA auction on StyleHive

And you will also want to check out Karin Collins’ latest SpoonFed Art work at www.SpoonFedArt.com!

If you are familiar with Karin’s wearable art spoon necklaces - you know that they are made from actual spoons! And are very popular around the globe. I think it interesting that Karin originally started making them as a very personal art-oriented therapy to overcome a serious eating disorder she’d been battling for almost 20 years. Her jewelry is also interesting to me in that she uses an everyday object and refashions it to such an element of beauty.

Read Karin’s inspiring story:
profile of Karin on Yahoo! Health.

SpoonFed Art article from the LA Weekly:

What are you wearing tonight for Halloween? If you are like me, it’s always a last minute thing and I’m up to midnight trying to whip something up the night before, but not these Etsy participants. Check out our post about the Etsy Halloween Costume Contest on Stylehive

We had a chance to highlight some eco-friendly alternatives to the plastic pumpkin on Stylehive. Check out our slideshow on the Hive.

We are very excited to be featured on Stylehive. As part of our Stylehive posts we will continue to blog about indie designers and artists. Check out these green Halloween Trick-or-Treat bags, handmade totes, and DIY projects, many of which are made by indies.

Take a peek at our Halloween Jewelry slideshow on Stylehive. DIYthing found some of the best of what’s being offered by indie artists. You are sure to find just the right handmade piece to howl about this Halloween. And you may find one of your pieces highlighted. Take a look.

Title: Etsy :: Coco Shears Choker (dyed coconut) - vancouver - etsy - festive Stylehive BM 243648 Tags: Description: Amber’s profile on her new Etsy site tells us so much about her. She is originally from Ontario, and then she “beaded her way west”. After attending Vancouver Community College Jewellery Art & Design program in 2003 she started selling her work throughout the city in various boutiques. Although Designs by Amber jewelery can now be found across Canada and in the States, she initially traveled coast to coast looking for original boutiques to represent her work. It seems that Amber, her husband Shawn and the “beloved pup Milo”, have recently moved to Galiano Island and opened up their very own boutique called “Sweet Somethings Gallery”. We love this choker that is made with brown glass chech beads & dyed coconut shell, it was featured this morning on Etsy’s home page. more

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Well if you can’t get to Galiano Island anytime soon to visit Amber’s shop “Sweet Somethings”, you’re in luck because Amber has set up an Etsy shop ” Designs by Amber.”