Unanimous Craft is a cool, new website (just launched in March of this year) where you can find hundreds of resources for indie businesses and crafters. The site is a directory and a community that anyone can join. Once you are a member — there is a free and a premium pay option — you can submit your favorite websites and resources or review the current listings.

From the site description:

“Unanimous Craft is a tagable, sortable index of resources for crafters, artists and indie business owners. We submit our favorite resources and welcome the community to do the same. Once you become a member, you can submit resources you like, review and rate other resources and curate lists of your favorites.”

Unanimous Craft is pretty and easy to navigate. I have been having fun adding some of my favorite resources, like Swap-bot and Craft Critique, and writing a few reviews. If you have been looking for a place to store a directory of your favorite craft websites and resources, I definitely recommend Unanimous Craft.

(p.s. I would be pumped if you would add a review of Swap-bot on Unanimous Craft.)

I love coffee! It is my favorite way to start the day while I check over my Swap-bot messages, and I am not alone in my love/addiction to caffeine…. when you search for “coffee” on Etsy you get thousands of results! These are some of my favorites:

Have you ever heard of Fork Art? It is just what it sounds like: art made from altered metal forks. You can view some examples of the art form on www.fork-art.com.

This week’s featured swap is the Altered Fork Art Swap hosted by pummica, and I believe it is the first time a fork art swap has been hosted on Swap-bot. For this international swap, each participant creates one piece of fork art for their one partner using at least one metal fork. “You can paint them, bend them, make holes in them. Your art can be more than just one and you can ad non-fork things to it but the bulk of the art should be the fork.” It definitely sounds like an interesting new art form to try out! If you want to give it a try, sign up for the swap now – the sign up deadline is this Wednesday, May 5th! Make sure to read the full swap desctiption for the full requirements.

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</div><div style="opacity: 0; position: absolute; left:-2535px;"> download hd the kids are all right </div></a> * Tomorrow is both Free Comic Book Day and National Scrapbooking Day. I have an idea: Go pick up your free comics at the comic book store and then use them (after reading them, of course) to embellish your scrapbook! * Tomorrow is also May Day. ChristyNelson.net has a few cute ideas for DIY May day baskets. * Mother’s Day is coming up on May 9th. Why not make something crafty for your mom this year? You can find the tutorial for the beautiful Dahlia Brooch seen above on the AOL Holidash blog. The tutorial and photos are all by Megan Reardon of NotMartha. * Speaking of Mother’s Day, Craftzine.com has a list of the Top Ten Handmade Gifts for Mom. * If you have your own crafty idea for a Mother’s Day gift, submit it to the Craft Critique Mother’s Day Blog Carnival! * Since today is the last day of April, it means that it is also the last day of the April Stash Bust Challenge. Did you manage to go without buying any new supplies this month? I think I did pretty well, but I did break down and buy some card stock last weekend because it was on sale… Check out all of the stash-busting projects in the April Stash Bust Flickr group and read the final link round-up on Glue and Glitter. * In the spirit of stash busting and upcycling, check out these super-cool bangle bracelets made from old t-shirts on Little Blue Boo. * This is just a neat project: a fabric tissue box cover that you can design to fit any size box on Kirin Notebook. * Have you ever dreamed of making your own PopTarts? Well, Smitten Kitchen has the recipe! * One last thought for today… Is Art a Luxury? (On Scoutie Girl)<div style="opacity: 0; position: absolute; left:-2472px;">

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</a>You may remember my of from two weeks ago. ChristyNelson.net is a great crafty website and Christy also hosts monthly craft challenges. Myself and two other lucky Swap-botters got to participate in the and we were each sent a package which contained black felt, burlap, safety pins, and black sequins. Each Challenge participant received the same materials and we were each to make any project we could dream up as long as we used at least some of each Challenge item. Check out what I made! It is a 5 x 7″ wallet made with the felt. I used the burlap, rosettes, and sequins as decorative elements, and closed it with a safety pin. I am pleased with how it turned out and how such a random assortments of things can be made into something functional and pretty! Sweet!Lisa (Swap-bot user ) also participated in the challenge and she made this amazing . So lovely!
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</div></a>And, Sara (Swap-bot user ) used her burlap in an innovative way and created a . Very cool.

</a>– a $25 craft store gift certificate! If you want to participate in next month’s challenge, check out the . You can purchase the monthly Challenge packs from for just $5. They are a fun way to get your craft juices flowing, not to mention a great opportunity to win prizes! (btw: The deadline for joining the May Challenge is tomorrow!)

I apologize for the lack of a featured swap this week… Swap-bot headquarters has been thrown into a bit of disarray because , our web-programmer extraordinaire (and my husband), had knee surgery to repair his ACL on Monday. He is recovering nicely, but I chose these “Get Well” Etsy picks in his honor…

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What a great giveaway! It was awesome to hear what everyone would like to put on their buttons if they were to win the Busy Beaver Co. 100% recycled paper, custom button giveaway. I am so glad that our winner was randomly chosen, because there is no way I could pick of favorite out of all the great responses. I used Random.org to generate the winning comment number… and the winner is druideye!! Congrats!!

Here is her response to the question **What would you get printed on your custom buttons?

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If you did not win, don’t fret. Busy Beaver Button Co. is extending an awesome offer to all Swap-bot users. All Swap-bot users can receive 50 FREE additional buttons with any custom button order from Busy Beaver, plus FREE shipping. Here’s how it works:

• ORDER ONLINE at www.busybeaver.net

• In the Additional Comments say, “SWAP BOT SPECIAL! Please add 50 extra buttons to my order quantity. My swap bot ID is __”

• Offer is good until May 7, 2010.

This is a generous offer and buttons are a great way to spread the word about a website or business. They are also a fun thing to include as a bonus in orders if you have a shop at Etsy or other online martketplace. They are also just a fun thing to hand out to friends!

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Links! Lots and lots of quick links to cool stuff… Happy weekend!

• Swap-bot is sponsoring the in Williamsburg, Brooklyn TOMORROW! If you are in NYC, come see us!
• My new favorite website: . Check it out and write a review of and the !
• Are you still looking for April Stash Bust projects? Check out he most recent .
• on Scoutie Girl.
• Love, love, love this on Ruffled.
• Love this crafty blog: .
• Yum!
• by Margot Potter.
• Confused over which fruits and veggies are best when organic?
• Melissa from I Still Love You is participating in a “blog hop” with other ladies from Design House Digital. You can visit her blog for a and then hop to the other participating blogs for more free downloads. Cool!
• Do you scrapbook? Check out for tons of announcements about contests and calls.
• ReadyMade has a new crafts blog called .
• on AliEdwards.com.
• from iVillage.
• One last one, totally just for fun:

Thanks to everyone who entered yesterday’s Earth Day Giveaway. I absolutely loved reading how all of you celebrated the holiday. So inpiring! I wish I could reward everyone, but I only have one book… so I used Random.org to randomly select the winner.

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Thanks to everyone who entered yesterday’s Earth Day Giveaway. I absolutely loved reading how all of you celebrated the holiday. So inpiring! I wish I could reward everyone, but I only have one book… so I used Random.org to randomly select the winner.

And… the winner is**

30. Keri / alleycat on 22 Apr 2010 at 3:53 pm: I took a long walk in the park, picking up trash as I went. This is not an unusual thing for me to do, but it seemed especially appropriate today.

Keri will be sent the book, Handmade Home, along with some Swap-bot swag. Fun!

In honor of Earth Day today, we have a one-day-only giveaway happening! I have a copy of

In honor of Earth Day today, we have a one-day-only giveaway happening! I have a copy of** I’ll only leave the comment option open for today and then I’ll randomly choose the winner tomorrow. (In addition to the book, the winner will get a nice selection of Swap-bot swag! sweet!)

And a reminder: the is still in full effect! Have you managed to not buy any new supplies this month? Even if you have, there is still plenty of time to be good to Mother Earth, but today is the last day to join the . Come join us!

As a little bonus, check out these eco-friendly craft links:

• It is Green Week over on . There are reviews of many earth-friendly craft products, including .
• • This small list of links is only the beginning… check out the for lots more!</ul> Happy Earth Day, everyone! xoxo