FRIDAY'S FEATURED SELLER AND GIVEAWAY-EDGEINSPIRED

Hey everyone! I am so excited to be bringing you a giveaway from today's featured seller EdgeInspired! I will have instructions on how to enter at the end of the feature. I really love everything about this shop! They have been on the front page of Etsy, and if you take a look at their shop you will soon realize that it was well deserved! The photos are excellent, the owners are extremely nice, and most importantly, their products are both unique and lovely. They all take me back to when I was a little girl, walking along the beach with my Dad on cold, overcast mornings. I used to love finding little treasures on the beach, and EdgeInspired's shop takes treasures just like those I used to find and turns them into beautiful art. Here are my favorite items:

Personalized Wedding, Occasion Favors Set of 12 (I really wish this shop had existed when I got married! I would have loved to have these there.)

Hanging Gifts-Stone (This is just lovely. I love beach stones...)

Original Mixed Media Collage-Remnants (This reminds me of walking along the beach on a gloomy June morning...)

In the artist's own words...
1. The address of your Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/EdgeInspired
2. Description of what you make: We make wooden hanging gift charms, original art collages and handmade gift tags. Beautiful curiosities inspired by the sea. Our pieces are fashioned from reclaimed materials, treasures collected over time and objects found from our journeys to the water's edge.
3. Your favorite creation: This is a tricky one! We love all the items we make. Each one is made with love and care. I would probably say our wooden hanging gift charms as they are new in our shop and we are really enjoying making them. We have so many ideas for new items our heads are spinning!
4. How you learned your craft: My name is Charlotte. Ever since I was a small girl I have loved foraging for forgotten treasures and turning them into beautiful things. I spent 3 years at Art College many years ago and learnt so much! I love recycling forgotten things and selecting 'exactly the right treasures' when creating my pieces.
5. Years you've been creating: My partner and I have always been lucky enough to live by the sea and have long been inspired by the ocean. We have recently discovered Etsy and decided to combine our creative talents and open our shop 'EdgeInspired' We get so much pleasure from creating our items and are so happy to be able to share them with you.
6. Item you'll be giving away: A set of our Seven Seas Gift Tags!

In order to win this absolutely beautiful set of gift tags, you must do ALL of the following things:

• Become a follower of this blog.
• Visit EdgeInspired's Etsy Shop at http://www.etsy.com/people/EdgeInspired/
• Come back here and post which item is your favorite (please post a link) and your email address so that I can contact you if you win.

For extra entries you can do any or all of the following things:

• Tweet about this giveaway and retweet @alteredbeauty. Post that you tweeted in a separate comment here. (1 extra entry.)
• Follow Altered Beauty on Twitter. Post your username here. (1 extra entry.)
• Fan Altered Beauty on Facebook. Post your username here. (1 extra entry.)
• Blog about this giveaway. Post the link in a separate comment here. (3 extra entries.)
• Make a purchase from either EdgeInspired or Altered Beauty and post the transaction link here. (5 extra entries per purchase.)

That's it! I will select a winner via a random number generator next Friday at 12:00AM. If you win, I will contact you via the email address you provide in your comment. If you fail to respond to the email within 7 days, I will select another winner. Thanks so much for participating and learning more about EdgeInspired's beautiful creations!