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Wooly Moss Roots {giveaway}

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Today’s giveaway is from Jeff and Taryn of Wooly Moss Roots.  They have lots of exciting news, and I am so glad that they are here today to share it with all of you!  Be sure to follow along at Taryn’s Blog, and “like”  Wooly Moss Roots on Facebook.
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“Hi everyone and thanks to Ginny for inviting us back here today. Many of you already know us from before on Ginny’s blog, but for those of you who don’t, we are The Wilson Family- Jeff, Taryn, and Bracken. When we are not creating, we’re busy on our small homestead usually in the garden or the kitchen.

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Jeff is the wood wizard around here and he makes some gorgeous buttons. We’re a good pair since I’m a knitter and love using his handmade buttons all the time. Plus I really enjoy spreading the love and offering the special buttons he makes to other knitters, sewers, and crafters of all kinds. I like photographing each unique set and listing them in the shop, but what I love most of all is hearing from our customers and getting to see pictures of all the beautiful things they are creating with them. That’s my favorite part. (And that’s why I’m filled with glee every time I visit our Ravelry group and there’s a new project posted there!)

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Jeff was going strong, sanding buttons and woodburning them, but he did what he tends to do: work, work, work nonstop. His body started rebelling and he started getting tendonitis in his elbow.  At the same time he was struggling with some sciatic pain. Things he’d always done easily before, in our work and on the homestead, became challenging for him to say the least. We knew we wanted to keep doing what we loved for our business, but at the same time not work his body like a machine. We embraced some new technologies we’d never considered before and started using a laser machine.

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The laser machine made it possible for him to take designs and burn them into the wood, rather than woodburn and carve everything by hand. I can’t say how exciting this was for us! Spending more of his time doing design work and less time carving and woodburning made his tendonitis disappear. (He’s been busy creating wooden jewelry with the help of the new tool and the next step is to start burning designs on our buttons, which we’ve just been beginning to do.) He’s still doing quite a bit of sanding and we will continue to offer our high-end wooden buttons that we are so fond of, but we will also be offering some other options that are a bit more affordable. In addition to our fabric buttons, we are now offering coconut buttons with all sorts of designs. We found some beautiful coconut buttons and have been having so much fun burning designs on them (give us your requests if you’d like to see something in particular.) Just this week Jeff came into the house from the shop with a huge grin on his face and showed me his very first wooden shawl pin with a design burned into it with the laser. Check out the new offerings (there are some fun wooden knitting magnets as well), exciting things are happening around here these days!

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For today’s giveaway, Jeff and Taryn are offering a lovely gift bundle including:  a wooden knitting magnet in Oregon myrtlewood that says: “I Knit Therefore I Am,”one set of eight buttons in winner’s choice of: honeybees in juniper wood or chickens in myrtlewood, and one set of eight coconut buttons in winner’s choice of: butterflies, trees, chickens, flowers, or Celtic knots.

In addition receive 10% off in both of Jeff and Taryn’s shops: Wooly Moss Roots and Mystic Orb, when you use the coupon code: NOVEMBERLOVE at checkout. The coupon code will be good through Thursday, November 20th.

For your chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post!  Comments are closed and the winner is KC who commented, “What stunning buttons!  I adore all of Jeff’s creations.”

Thanks Jeff and Taryn,and  Wooly Moss Roots!

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  1. We love their buttons! I am just about to finish up a fall sweater for one of my girls, and those chicken buttons would be adorable on it! Thank you for the chance.

  2. Please enter me in this wonderful give away. I have known these fine folks for a while now and order their buttons too. Everything they do is first rate quality. Thanks for giving others the chance to find them as well.!

  3. I just bought a ton of buttons from Wooly Moss Roots! And my favorite necklace is from their sister shop! Would love to win!!!!! Best Xmas gift ever!!!! Thanks!

  4. I absolutely love Wooly Moss Roots’ buttons and Taryn’s blog. Please enter me in the drawing for the giveaway. One of my family members just came home from a chicken show with more chickens to add to her flock – I would have to pass on the new chicken buttons to her! 😀

  7. I stayed up late last night reading all about wooly moss roots all I can say is what a wonderful hard working family im just wowed! I enjoyed all the stories and the pictures of the baby. Their blog is down to earth and relateable and honest, its been along time since Ive found and enjoyed such good reads, I hope she can find time and keeps going with the passion to write and will write a book. Thanks for a chance to win and all the hard work and information you bring to us!!!!! you inspire me:-)

  9. My favorite buttons in the world! Also my favorite jewelery. So loving all the new designs and laser cutting!

  12. These are So beautiful! I can never find wooden buttons locally, so thank you for sharing this resource!

  25. I love this family! I love Taryn’s blog. Her son is adorable. I love their buttons and other goods! Great giveaway.

  30. goodness – chickens and bees! how sweet. thank you for the opportunity and for introducing me to these amazing artists.

  31. I just finished knitting a sweater, and it would look wonderful with some wooden buttons. Plus the honeybee buttons are so pretty!

  34. I have been admiring these buttons for years, and as a fellow Oregonian, am thrilled to support your business! And of course today is the day I blocked my latest baby sweater and began the search for buttons…thanks for the chance to win!

  39. These would be perfect for the my gals’ fall sweaters. Just finished the last one this morning and need to find buttons….it’s a sign! Thank you for the offering!

  49. Taryn’s is one of my favorite blogs and I have some of their buttons & lip balms!
    Thank you for the chance to win!