Busy time of year

With the holidays fast approaching, many members of the HOST team are working overtime to fill up their shops and prepare for the holiday selling season. During this time, it's easy to get overwhelmed, feel stressed and cut back on sleep. Every week, HOST does its best to support sellers, promote shops that are struggling and provide a friendly environment for our team.

If you'd like to visit with us, please stop by the Etsy forums to say hello!

Helping to showcase sellers in need

This new treasury was compiled on behalf of HOST, to showcase sellers in need this Festive Season.... If you are Christmas shopping on Etsy, please do check out these shops! These sellers have a lot to offer and as you will see from the treasury, the items were carefully chosen with prices to suit most budgets.

Follow this Etsy link while it is active:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=19742

Featured sellers

Main list:

SkinzNhydez
Lor2507
HolidayPrimitives
strawberrymoonbeam
dkjewels
LostnFoundJoys
lariescreations
fairytalefibers
Donnalda
kidnaroundcreations
magnolyadesigns
debs1967

Reserves:

art2theextreme
TurquoiseTangerine
caseynrbq
LavenderDragonHerbs

Care to SHOP or BUMP?

HOST is running - or assisting with - the following promotion threads for:

• LavenderDragonHerbs
• melaniesoriginals
• dkjewels
• a promo for our PW ad-boxes on this blog!

These are the threads... Do take a look at these sellers' terrific Etsy shops if you don't know them already - or post to help keep the promos afloat! You can always heart the shops to visit later :)

For LavenderDragonHerbs: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5786646

For melaniesoriginals: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5791772 and http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5792945

For dkjewels: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5791197

And finally, for our PW ad-boxes: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5784669

Thank you for looking!

Healing, well wishes

We at HOST wanted to send love and best wishes to Amanda and all the poorly furry babies at the AWBAR - Abandoned Wild Babies Animal Rescue. Sadly 3 of the raccoons recently brought to AWBAR were infected with the deadly parvo virus and in the last two days, Amanda has lost 10 baby raccoons :( The virus is difficult to fight and highly contagious but Amanda is battling on with incredible resolve despite being utterly heartbroken by her losses - many of them babies that she had hand-reared since they first opened their eyes. The vet bills are mounting up but Amanda is doing whatever it takes to care for her little patients. So many Etsy sellers have generously donated items for sale in the AWBAR shop to help raise funds for the centre but particularly in the last 48 hours to help raise money for essential anti-biotics and IVs. We would like to thank everyone who has supported AWBAR and express our deep admiration for the stoic work that Amanda is doing - particularly when she has had barely 2 hours sleep in the last 48 hours! Hang in there Amanda - and hang in there furry babies - we are all cheering for you and sending well wishes. If you would like to make a purchase, or donate an item to assist AWBAR with raising finds to cover these new vet bills, please visit the AWBAR shop, or get in touch with Amanda or another member of the team at: http://AWBAR.etsy.com Any support will be most gratefully received; also check out the 'HHH' AWBAR items we have listed (left).


maisyh

Happy Monday

Welcome to a fresh new week everyone! We know some of you will have come flying into it, excited to find out what lies ahead this week - and others have come to it more slowly, a little weighed down by the things you have going on in your lives. Whatever the week holds, remember that HOST is here for you, to celebrate the good and offer support during the not so good.

From a team perspective, this particular Monday started off on a happy note, when one of our early risers (well, not really a morning person if the truth be told - just luckily placed because of her time zone!) managed to snag a treasury west space and filled up the list with some great goodies currently available in the HOST team shop - yay!!

The new HOST treasury west is pasted in here for all of you to enjoy even after it is timed out on Etsy. If these items have been snatched up by the time you run to the HOST shop, don't worry because thanks to all the generous hearts of the Etsy sellers, we receive some really wonderful donated items and the shop will re-stock, so keep stopping by as often as you can.

Remember that ALL proceeds from the HOST shop sales go towards Etsians who are having a tougher time of it than others. We HOSTies take nothing away for ourselves but the feeling of satisfaction that we have managed to help someone along. Well... actually, we're not really that selfless. Nope. Truth be told: we do it for the hugs - LOL :)

Click on the image for a more detailed view - or click straight through to the HOST team shop and check out all the other items we currently have available:-

http://HOST.etsy.com

maisyh