Item Highlight: Winter Wonderland Beret

Here is today's item highlight, the Winter Wonderland Beret! This beret is perfect for being stylish this winter! It is hand crocheted with two yarn colors together to give it a beautiful silver/blue color. Combine the gorgeous color with the shimmery yarn and sequins and you'll be a walking winter wonderland! I mean really, how can you pass up such a cute hat? This beret is made in true beret fashion. So keep in mind, if you're looking for a slouchy hat, this is not it. I am working on some slouchy hats. But there's no more fashionable way to wear a beret than the original classic!! There is only one of these, so if you want, better head on over and grab it. Someone else will, if you don't. Sad day, right? :) Seriously though. This hat is gorgeous! Get it before it's gone!!!!

Item Hightlight: Strawberries and Cream Ruffle Scarf

This is today's highlighted item, the Strawberries and Cream Ruffle Scarf. It won't be too long before the weather starts to get cold. For some of you it may already be getting pretty chilly, seeing as we are nearing the end of September. This scarf is perfect to keep you from freezing without the "boring winter scarf" feel. This scarf is anything but boring!! Ruffles are so very chic, and the sweet color will have you feeling pretty in pink!! Besides being stylish, this scarf is made of a high quality homespun yarn that is soft and warm. You will have no trouble with the cold this winter! Stay warm and turn heads with the Strawberries and Cream Ruffle Scarf! Click on the "Store" link and head on over to the Red Tail store to pick up this gorgeous scarf right now before someone beats you to it! There's only one available!

Item Highlights

So, to promote some of the stuff in the Red Tail store I will be highlighting one item per day for the next several days. When you see the item you want, click on the link that says "store" and head on over to the Red Tail store to pick it up. In most cases there is only one of each item available right now so you will not want to miss your opportunity!!

New Items!!

There are a few new items in the store that you'll want to check out, including this gorgeous mint colored infinity scarf. I've mentioned before and I'll say it again, this mint color craze isn't going to go away when winter hits. Snap up this gorgeous scarf made out of soft yarn before someone else does!

Link Update

When I posted about our grand opening, I mentioned I was having some difficulty getting the blog linked with the store. Well, problem is solved! Now all you have to do is click on the "Store" link right underneath the Red Tail Crochet name, and you will be ready to SHOP! Yay!! This blog is also linked from Etsy, so if you found me on Blogger from Etsy, Welcome!!!! Feel free to follow!

September

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I've made a few observations. First, Everyone seems to know the color pink represents Breast Cancer Awareness, which is the month of October, but did you all know that gold is the color that represents childhood cancer awareness? I'm fond of saying "Go Gold in September!" Childhood cancer awareness has been a soapbox of mine for the last 4 1/2 years. Ever since it hit a little too close to home. Back in 2009, I had just become a parent for the first time. Childhood anything had been as far off my radar as it could possibly be, especially cancer, until then. My baby boy was healthy, but when he was 6 months old, our little cousin who was 3 at the time began having symptoms that something wasn't right. after several trips to the ER, they discovered a mass in her brain. It turned out to be a tumor. Anaplastic Ependymoma to be exact. If you're anything like me, you just said "Anna-who???" Well, turns out, Ependymomas like my cousin's are the third most common brain tumors in children, and there are over 28,000 children with brain tumor diagnoses in the U.S. What a scary thing to hear for someone who had just become a parent. All of a sudden childhood cancer was very real and very close to home. Ever since then, it's been a mission of mine to raise awareness for childhood cancer. I can just hear you asking "why do we need awareness?" Well, because childhood cancer research is drastically underfunded in comparison to cancers that typically affect adults. In the last 20 years, only one drug has been approved by the FDA that specifically targets childhood cancer. It is a drug for Lymphoblastic Leukemia. That's only one type of cancer that affects children. In one year alone (2012) the FDA approved twenty-three drugs that target adults. Surely we can do better than that! Childhood cancer gets less than 4% of funds raised in large cancer research organizations. We can SERIOUSLY do better than that!!! Red Tail Crochet has taken action. This month I will be offering a couple items especially to raise awareness about childhood cancer. The proceeds from these items will go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to help fund the vital research they do into various forms of childhood cancer. In fact, they have been researching a specialized treatment for Anaplastic Ependymoma and are currently running a trial, which is working for my cousin. She is now 7 and is the most amazing, beautiful, and courageous girl I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. I am taking action in hopes that someday very very soon, all kids like my cousin who fight this terrible disease will have access to a cure!

This is the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Scarf. It is black and very soft and cozy. At each end is gold ribbon symbolizing Childhood Cancer Awareness. It is $45. If you are interested in purchasing this scarf head on over to my Etsy store and grab before it's gone!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/RedTailCrochet?ref=search_shop_redirect

LAUNCH DAY HAS ARRIVED!!!!

September 15, 2013..... Red Tail Crochet GRAND OPENING!!!!!!!!! Wow! I am so excited!!!!!!! Are you guys ready to shop? If so, head on over to Etsy to check out my very first listings!!!! Don't worry, I'm still setting up shop, so there are lots more listings to come!!!! This is the most exciting day of my crocheting career! Also, Etsy has a link back to this blog so you can follow both my store and this blog! I will keep posting pictures and updates to things on this blog, so keep checking back! For some reason I cannot get Blogger to link the pages, so for the time being you will have to do this the old fashioned way- copy and paste the link into your URL bar. I will work on getting a permanent link set up. Thanks so much for all support I've gotten in this countdown to launch, even having to stall out in the middle of a move. Now, what are you waiting for! Ready, Set, SHOP!!!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/RedTailCrochet?ref=shop_sugg

We are Back!!!!!

Hello everyone! Guess who's back!!! Ugh, I never want to be without internet again, that's for sure. Well, I have some awesome things going on here at Red Tail. The past week without internet has enabled me to get quite a few more projects done! So here is the last two pictures as a countdown to launch! The next time you hear from me it will be LAUNCH DAY!!!!!!!

Wire crochet bracelet! This one is rose gold with cream and cappuccino colored pearl beads. Also available are matching anklets. I am so excited to launch this week! Check back tomorrow for more news!

Countdown to Launch

Well, my crochet loving friends, there's a wrench in the plans. I have lost Internet until Thursday! We moved yesterday and the soonest they can install Internet is Thursday! How I'm going to survive I don't know. What I do know is since I'm limited to my phone there will be some radio silence from me for the next few days. I apologize for the stall in the countdown, but I knew this was coming so that's one of the major reasons I delayed the launch of Red Tail. Thank you for your patience! I will be sure to inundate you with pictures upon my return on Thursday!!!! Until then, here's a picture from moving day....