Stockings at "Sweet Retreat" and "Creative Mamas"!

To help beat the winter blues we're offering FREE U.S. SHIPPING on all of our Child's Play Slings at Sweet Retreat!

Stop by and bid on our HC$ auction for a beautiful "Bleu Pierre" Child's Play Sling!

Find the perfect Valentine Design at Creative Mamas!

Available Slings:


Valentine's Designs:

Haiti Relief Effort - Images Mailed!

Thanks to Laura and Kate for your top bids in our Haiti Relief auctions at Hyena Cart!

Your printable images have been emailed.

They chose the following images from our designs gallery:

Thank you for Participating in the Haiti Relief Auctions at Hyena Cart

A special thank you to all who participated in the Haiti Relief Auctions on Hyena Cart. The auctions ended yesterday, and Jen says that over $1700 was raised to help the Haitians! :)

Thank you.

Support the Haiti Relief Effort at Hyena Cart

See my original blog entry for more information about this amazing cause: Haiti Relief Effort

Still need bids for this item: Winner's Choice JoyfulRose Printable Image

Thanks again!

Haiti Relief Effort

JoyfulRose is proud to be a part of the Haiti Relief Effort at Hyena Cart.

From the main site:
"This event is being organized by Jennifer of Three Pears. The purpose is to bring together as many people as possible in one event to benefit those affected by the earthquakes in Haiti. Each artist will donate their creations on their own terms, and the profits will be donated to the Red Cross to help fund the recovery effort and then later rebuilding in that region."

I've donated 4 slots for the winner's choice of one of my Printable Images and 1 slot for a custom animated banner.

The auctions for the Printable Images are now live! Please visit the site and help support the people of Haiti.

Our auctions:
Slot #1
Slot #2
Slot #3
Slot #4

New Vendor Header for "Sweet Retreat"

The ladies at the "Sweet Retreat" Congo wanted a new header for auctions to benefit Katie from "Ewe Need It".

Click to view larger:

Charity Banners for Katie's Auction

One of the ladies on one of my forums (Katie from "Ewe Need It") is going through a rough time right now. Her husband has a tumor next to his heart and the family is having a lot of financial problems due to the surgeries.

Another kind lady (Amber from "Fairytale Boutique") is setting up auctions to help Katie and her family.

I wanted to do something to help so I designed a couple of animated banners to help announce the auctions. I made them to match Amber's shop and also included the cute little lamb from Katie's shop.

Here's the 468x60 standard web-sized banner:



And this is the 150x50 DiaperSwappers siggy-sized banner:



Note: I'm putting these animated banners in the public domain. Anyone is welcome to copy them and use them in advertising the auctions for Katie. :)

Here are some instructions I wrote up for getting the blinkies to link in DiaperSwapper's Signatures:

* Right click on the 150x50 size button above, choose "save image as" and save it to your computer, then upload it to your Photobucket account

* Go into your Photobucket account, find the button, and copy the code for "Direct Link"

* Log in to DiaperSwappers, go to "User CP" on the top left bar and choose "Edit Signature"

* Scroll down to "Edit Signature"

* Use the following code as an example of how to make a clickable link:

[+url=http://hyenacart.com/FairytaleBoutique/][+IMG]http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm218/JoyfulRoseCustoms/Charity/eni-auction150.gif[/IMG][/url]

* Copy the code above, paste it into your DS Signature Editor, and remove the + signs before the [+url] and [+IMG] codes above

* Replace the part after "url=" with the url of your HC. Be sure to keep the quotations there

* Replace the part after [IMG] with the "Direct Link" image code from your Photobucket account

* Be sure to leave all the rest of the coding in place (the [] symbols, etc)

* Click "Preview Signature" and your button should now click to the correct place!

* When finished, click "Save Signature"

Hoping the buttons bring lots of customers to Amber's shop and help raise money for Katie and her family.