This blog is dedicated to promoting and

fund driving for Team EFA members'

chosen animal charities.


Etsy for Animals (EFA) aka Artists Helping Animals,

is a team of independent artists, craftspeople,

vintage sellers and craft suppliers on Etsy.com

who are dedicated to providing charitable relief to animals

by donating a portion of the profits from their shops

to an animal charity of their choosing,

and/or to EFA's featured Charity of the Month.

Showing posts with label august challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label august challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Starry Night knitted dog kerchief by thedoghouse's shop


This sparkly purple hand knitted dog bandanna is studded with twinkling star & moon buttons courtesy of fellow EFA member Nicole ( brizel4TheAnimals.etsy.com ). 100% of the proceeds from its sale will go to EFA charity of the month.
My designs are inspired by greyhound rescue, about which I am passionate. I donate a portion of my shop profits to my local greyhound rehoming charity, Gracehounds, http://www.gracehounds.plus.com, with whom I am a volunteer dog walker & fosterer.

Monday, August 2, 2010

The Violet Peacock, 8x10 Fine Art Print by thebluewindmill's shop


Look to the Skies, this beautiful peacock is standing on a roof with the sky beyond him. This photo measures 8"x10" including white border. It is printed on professional darkroom paper Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl 285 gsm with vibrant Vivera inks.
I am donating 10% of sales for this print to the Audobon Society and 10% to EFA's charity of the month. I also donated a copy of this print to Help the Gulf Coast shop: http://www.etsy.com/listing/51731260/the-violet-peacock

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Decorative Silk Box vegan keepsake Golden Dragonfly by Brizel4theanimals' shop


Golden Dragonfly is a sweet gentle fiber arts container, with a lid of its own, featuring variegated banana silk yarn in lilac, blue and mint green pastel colors & embellished with a gold metal dragonfly button. Banana silk is a vegan silk-like yarn made from banana fibers ! This lovely unique decorative Silk Tapestry keepsake Box measures approx: 3" in diameter x 2 1/4" high with an interior of 2" in diameter x 2" high
Brizel, aka Nicole, owns some 20 acres up in the mountains of no. Cal where I have planted orchards and floral gardens in view of creating habitat which attracts birds, butterflies, bees, bats, hummingbirds... it is also a seasonal mating ground for dragonflies ! I work to provide a safe loving home for my animal rescues; I participate in EFA's COTM program when I can; and volunteer as blog Mistress for EFA's main blog.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Sunshine Fun Vintage Baby Animal Crib Size Quilt by faeriegood

I machine embroidered these wonderful vintage baby animal motifs, 9 in all with top quality Isacord threads made in Germany. There's a puppy, kitty, calf, lamb, kid, turtle, piglet, duckling and bunny. In all there are twelve blocks so some are repeated in different colors. The piecing for the quilt is done using many different pastel child prints of 30's all new reproduction quilt shop quality cotton fabrics. The backing is soft orange and creme print so it will work for girls or boys. Warm and natural 100% cotton batting was used for the middle layer. It has been machine quilted using meandering, stitch in the ditch and several different decorative quilting stiches, all done with nylon thread so as not to distract from the beautiful embroidery.The double fold binding was hand sewn for the best possible finish.It measures 52x38 inches.

10% will be donated to EFA's charity of the month.