booking another tour...

I'm going on tour again..a shorter one this time... with Charles Davis and we could use some help booking shows if you know of any places near these cities... We're looking for places with a built in audience or house shows...Also looking for a date on March 30th in or near Vermont.
April
10 - Philadelphia
11 - Baltimore
12 - Roanoke/ Charlottesville
13 - Boone/ Winston
14 - Ashville
15 - Athens
16 - Atlanta
17 - Nashville
18 - Louisville
19 - Lexington
20 - Pittsburgh

if anyone could help, that would be great! my e-mail is nicoleerincarey@gmail.com

Crafters with Carpal Tunnel

I do a lot of repetitive motions with crafting, painting, playing guitar, etc.. I noticed when I was cutting squares for patchwork things my hand started getting a weird nerve shooting through my hand. I looked it up and it looks like there are many crafters with carpal tunnel. I found this article useful, I think i'm going to the local health food store tomorrow to get some B vitamins. Has anyone had a problem with tendonitis and tried B vitamins? Here's the link to the article if you're interested

http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa022198.htm

I started a new etsy shop with only vintage items, view it here if you're wondering where all of the Nicole's Threads vintage items went....they went to Granny's Threads!

honey heals all wounds!

I burnt the roof of my mouth. It's so annoying. I looked up some folk remedies and one was to put honey on the roof of your mouth and not eat anything for three hours. I'm about one hour into it and it's definitely soothing!

On another note.. I just found this DIY screen printing tutorial that seems very resourceful! http://www.220voltage.net/screen-print-the-diy-way/

I'm going to be shipping out items to Young Blood Boutique & Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow so if you are near there, check next week for some cute shirts!

Also, myself and Becky Lee of Pigeons In The Attic are revamping the Philly Etsy Team's Myspace. Be our friend here!

Pottery Treasury

A Pottery treasury that I made earlier today: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=38736

Concert for Karen - Please Read!

This is a cause that is near and dear to my heart, it was started 10 years ago after my Aunt Karen passed away from Leukemia. My Grandmother was looking so much forward to helping raise money for research for this cause and has since past and will not be there. Please, if you are my friend, if you care, if you have ever had a loved one pass or survive, if you are broke, if you have lots of money, the least you could do is repost this. The most you could do is donate to the Leukemia Society. This information has been sent to me from Alan Stout who donates so much time to put the concert together every year. I'll be playing and I hope to see you there!


Well, it's been about eight months since you've heard about CFC, but it's back ... "Concert For A Cause 7: A Concert For Karen" will take place on April 22 at The Woodlands. Check out the CFC 7 MySpace page for complete details on the show, the complete lineup of bands, updated blogs on the show's history and hundreds of photos of past CFC events.
It's at: http://www. concertforacausenepa. com

You can also check out the story about CFC 7 from the current issue of The Weekender at:

http://www.
theweekender. com/music/CFC_7_set_for_April_22_music_on_the_menu_01-06-200
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Save the date and help spread the word. This is going to be a great night of music for a great cause. And thanks for all of the great support over the years.

treasuries

I stayed up late last night making a treasury and then walked away and missed my chance to get it, so i'll post some of my favorites here:


Business has drastically slowed after Christmas on Etsy and Earth and Wears. I'm looking into new advertising for my Etsy site and looking into building my own website. My uncle reserved nicolecarey.com for me a few years ago and I haven't done anything with it...that's something I'm planning on for this year.. along with more collaborations. I'm really looking forward to the art show at green being, i've been painting my butt off while sitting at earth and wears. What things are you going to be working on for New Years? Where do you advertise online?

antibiotic or happy cows?

I was working at my mom's store Earth and Wears the other day while a lady from the local Hillside Farms stopped in. She (being the education director) informed me of some news that never ever crossed my mind and was super interesting. After doing research on organic vs. not it's not hard to digest the fact that although it may be more expensive, organic is much healthier in the long run. Everything healthy isn't marked organic though. Apparently, in Europe, if this particular farm was relocated, they would be certified but in the US, the FDA will not certify an organic farmer if it treats sick cows with antibiotics. This blows my mind! I read a few articles and it seems that the cow will hopefully have a good outcome either way. If a cow becomes sick on an organic farm, the options are to first treat it with all sorts of natural healing. In my opinion, this is the best form of medicine with any animal. I think modern medicine is an important back up though. In Europe after the cow is treated with an antibiotic the farmer must wait two weeks to sell their milk. In America, the cow can't be used at all..giving organic farmers the option to either euthenize the cow or sell to a non organic farmer. I haven't done enough research but I'm just assuming an organic calf is more expensive than not. Anyway, I found out that Hillside follows all of the organic guidelines for the FDA but they do give their cows antibiotics if they get sick. There should be another term for a farmer that practices these farming ethics because it's definitely a million steps up from factory farming and might even be more humane than organic farming. On another hand i've been feeling a little sick, probably from being around a lot of smoking... and everyone is sick this week so i'm going to share a few of my favorite getting better products......

Honey Gardens makes some of my favorite products... and they send out really informative newsletters that I look forward to reading every month. I recommend the Blueberry Rejuvination Tonic, Propolis Spray and absolutely the honey... the honey paired with Traditional Medicinals Organic Throat Coat. I definitely recommend trying to find a similar product if anyone local has a tea business but this really helps. Brewing tea according to directions is really important. Throat coat has ingredients that will only melt in super boiling water. Let it steep covered for about fifteen minutes. Then uncover it and after about 5 or 10 more minutes put in a little bit of honey. When raw honey is heated it looses a lot of its health benefits so tea must be cooled off. If you know me, you know how obsessed I am with helping out the honey bees, so buy raw honey from your local farmer! You can sneak it into more food that you cook than you'd think.
what are your favorite folk remedies for the cold and flu season?