Saturday Sillies

Some funny and crazy comments from BSMET members on being in the Montana Team

You know you're in the Montana team when...

... there's discussion of skinning rattlesnakes
... it seems perfectly natural to share what we bagged this hunting season
... it's unusual to NOT have pets/livestock
... snow is possible any time of year
... we think nothing of driving hours to work a craft show together
... when our snow tires do not come off until July
... we travel in emergency travel only roads to get to a show
... we bring beer in our coolers to a show
... you bring "fermented grape juice" to your craft show
... you move to Ohio and cannot bring yourself to change your Driver's License after 10 months (or longer)
... you move out-of-state and when the grocery store clerk asks "paper or plastic" you ask why boxes aren't an option
... you no longer live in Montana, so you refer to yourself as a tumbleweed
... you cannot understand what is wrong with pronouncing creek "crick"
... you think it would be cute to use an actual tumbleweed as a Christmas decoration (or you have done that)
... you prefer traveling on gravel roads in the winter, since they are smoother when they are covered in ice
... when you milk a cow and the cream freezes before it hits the bucket
... when the power goes out and you melt snow to brush your teeth
... when your sitting on top a wooden fence between two boars
... when you lasso a calf and it takes off over the ice - and you sit down and enjoy the ride
...when you are climbing a fence and the pig bites your toe and you end up hanging over the fence on your stomach

Or .. if those things haven't happened to you, they've happened to someone you know.

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Hope you enjoyed the sillies today and have a great weekend!

Meet Judy Liz

The Big Sky Montana Etsy Team would like to introduce Judy Liz of JudyElizabeth'sFlock.

Judy has a wonderful shop full of sweet lambs, ewes and cozy shirts and flowing skirts!

Judy Elizabeth tells us she takes her inspiration from all the beautiful things around her. She creates sweet sculptured sheep, after having raised sheep on her ranch for several years, it is just the natural thing for her to do.

Judy is an avid sewer and says that her favorite part of her creations process “is the hand sewing – I love to do the hand sewing details -- quilting, trapunto, and the finishing of a garment or soft sculpture – having the item come to life! That is my great joy!”

Just as a shepherd sees each little difference in his flock, Judy sees the each unique aspect of her soft sculpture sheep and cherishes each one, hoping that the child or adult who receives one of her creations enjoys it just as much as she does.

Judy lives on a ranch surrounded by the beauty Montana has to offer - she can see Glacier National Park and the glory of the Rocky Mountains from her home which is close to rivers and even has a fishing creek. There are ‘the winters, the winds, the summers, the droughts, birth of children, good and bad years on the ranch, floods, fires, beautiful rainbows, gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, wide open spaces, moose, elk, cougars, bear, and deer.’ All she has to do is take a look out the window to find inspiration and to remember what makes her stay.

Montana is definitely home to Judy and where she gives birth to her flock and creates many unique clothing items, along with quilting, stenciling, and even drawing cartoons! She loves everything about Montana (except maybe the summer traffic) and even ventured to say, “Where else would I want to be?”

Thank you, Judy, for sharing you sweet creations that show so much love with us and on Etsy!

We're back!

Hello everyone!
Well, we're back and ready to get into the groove. Matt, Margie and I will be hard at work in the coming days to get this blog up and going to showcase our wonderful team members and the Etsy community.

Margie and Celeste, our team co-founders have been run ragged keeping up with our crazy antics on the Yahoo group and can barely see straight! So several Big Sky Montana Etsy Team (BSMET) members have volunteered to write for the blog and Matt and I are going to do our best to take over the general upkeep and regular posts.

Our Montana tumbleweeds and rocks out there will be dishing up some fun and informative blog posts for you ... we are working out featuring BSMET sellers, tutorials, craft show helpers and photography tips and fun features of sellers whom our team members adore.

Stick around ya'll and come back by frequently!

~Jamie