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Is your shop or studio hosting a Black Friday or Cyber Monday sale? Would you like to advertise it for free? I’d love to share it with my readers. Simply add it to the linky below, upload a square image (it will be re-sized to 80 x 80 pixels) and you’ll be part of the list for all to see. Please enter text for your image – you’ll have 30 characters to use.

Can you believe the holidays are already upon us? I’m ready for all the great sales! Are you offering free shipping? A BOGO? Is your team hosting a sale? A percentage off? A free gift with purchase? I can’t wait to see them.

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I found this image on Craftgawker, so went to visit the blog. The post was just too good not to share.

Enjoy…

Welcome Home Inigo

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I admit it. I’m a True Blood fan. My DVR is religiously set every Sunday night. But you know what? Most of the time I’m there and watching while it is taping. Then, later, I can re-watch the most exciting bits again. I can’t take my DVR with me though, so I was perusing some of my favorite sites for wearable and collectible True Blood paraphernalia.  And I’m sharing.

There are lots of True Blood inspired items for sale on Artfire and etsy.  And, by inspired, I mean the handmade art that isn’t a direct knock off or copyright infringed creation. The sellers that continue to use images that are clearly copyrighted are everywhere, and frankly, deserve a good swift kick. Or bite. tee hee

Happily, there are lots of great True Blood inspired items to choose from, like the items I’ve included below.  Each item links back to it’s owners shop, if you are interested in purchasing for yourself. I’m going to pick up a couple.

Go team Eric!

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I ran across this blog post today, and thought it was worth sharing.

Why does handmade cost so much?

Enjoy!

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Each first Tuesday of each month, I’ll add a new blog post called Totally Giveaway Tuesday.

I love giveaways, and I thought it might be nice to share some real estate for some blog-o-sphere giveaways with my readers. I’d like to profile Artfire and other artisan giveaways, but feel free to list any great giveaways you have to share. Each link will contain the name of the giveaway linked to the entry instruction page. Enter as many as you would like

Got a blog giveaway you’d like to advertise? Hosting an artisan jewelry giveaway? Have a handmade soap giveaway? Announcing a felted animal giveaway? Have a guild giveaway you’d like to list? Want to announce your team’s giveaway to the world? Please use the widget below to list your announcement. In the Your Name Field: enter the item you are giving away, and the date the giveaway expires In the Your URL Field: enter the website address of the page to find instructions about how to enter.

Giveaways for July 2011:

Note: I can’t be responsible for outcomes of giveaways hosted by anyone but me. Outcomes of giveaways hosted elsewhere are the responsibility of the giveaway owner. Please read each giveaway’s entry instructions carefully and only enter if it isn’t going to get you into any trouble in your location. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!

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(For those of you receiving this via RSS, you have to visit my real live blog to see the list of shops with sales. Not sure why, but looks like the Readers eat the linky code. sorry. )

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Sarah visited me on my facebook fan page. I don’t know how I haven’t discovered this foodie blog before now :

Ask Sarah: Surviving Life with Flair

She’s posted several great recipes for scrubs that are (literally) good enough to eat.

5 Homemade Hand, Face & Body Scrubs

Enjoy!

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Apparently, the city of Oakpark, Michigan has decided that growing vegetables in one’s own front yard contributes to the blight of the city. Really?

Oakparks’s city planner, Kevin Rulkowski, has cited Julie for the garden and plans on bringing them to court. She actually faces a 3 month jail term.

Here’s her blog: Oakpark Hates Veggies..

and some other links with info:
Does Michelle Obama know about this?  Make sure you check out the comments
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110709/METRO02/107090366/1409/metro
Oakpark mother faces 93 days in jail for planting a vegetable garden

I’m hoping the Daily Show picks up on this one.

Here is the offending front lawn. That’s some kind of blight. NOT. (Photo from The Agitator)

I’m pretty sure a war on tomatoes is a sign of the impending apocalypse. Sheesh.

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Each first Tuesday of each month,  I’ll add a new blog post called Totally Giveaway Tuesday.

I love giveaways, and I thought it might be nice to share some real estate for some blog-o-sphere giveaways with my readers. I’d like to profile Artfire and other artisan giveaways, but feel free to list any great giveaways you have to share. Each link will contain the name of the giveaway linked to the entry instruction page. Enter as many as you would like

Got a blog giveaway you’d like to advertise? Hosting an artisan jewelry giveaway? Have a handmade soap giveaway? Announcing a felted animal giveaway? Have a guild giveaway you’d like to list? Want to announce your team’s giveaway to the world? Please use the widget below to list your announcement. In the Your Name Field: enter the item you are giving away, and the date the giveaway expires In the Your URL Field: enter the website address of the page to find instructions about how to enter.

Giveaways for July 2011:

Note: I can’t be responsible for outcomes of giveaways hosted by anyone but me. Outcomes of giveaways hosted elsewhere are the responsibility of the giveaway owner. Please read each giveaway’s entry instructions carefully and only enter if it isn’t going to get you into any trouble in your location. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!

Visit again next Month for a whole new list!

and don’t forget to tweet and share with your friends using the widgets below

(For those of you receiving this via RSS, you have to visit my real live blog to see the list of shops with sales. Not sure why, but looks like the Readers eat the linky code. sorry. )

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A wonderful fellow jewelry artisan is getting married soon. She’s got friends she’s made online all over the world, and accepts that a trip to the Midwest for her wedding is probably not within their budgets.

So instead, she’s asked her friends to help out a bit with the wedding preparations, as only fellow jewelry makers could do. Here is her love note to us (I’ve edited it a bit to protect the gorgeous bride to be):

“ While I would love to invite each and every one of you to my wedding, many of you simply wouldn’t be able to come due to various reasons. But your friendship and support has meant so much to me in my life that I can’t stand the thought of you not being there with me. Without each and every one of you, I wouldn’t be nearly as confident or, let’s face it, sane as I am. (Stop laughing, I am sane! )

So I have a request…

I’m in the process of planning my jewelry for that day. I also have some of my great-grandmother’s crystals to use. But how would my bridal jewelry set be complete without pearls? You know how much I love them, right?

What I would love, though, are pearls sent from you to include in my necklace and bracelet. I’m not asking for a full strand or even a half strand – Just a single pearl or a few orphans you have sitting around. They needn’t be perfect, because to me they’ll be perfect coming from you. They needn’t be any specific size or shape, because I want to be forever reminded of each and every one of you. They don’t necessarily even have to be a certain color, because each of you has such a unique vision within your art that it would seem almost odd to have a single color. In fact, they needn’t actually be pearls – I just want something of you with me. (Something old, something new, something borrowed, something of the amazing community I belong to?)

Since I plan on waltzing by myself down the aisle on the day I get married with no one giving me away, I guess this is almost like asking you to do it.. Would you please do this for me? I can’t even begin to express how much it would mean to me.

If you’re unable to do it, I understand. I will still think of you when I put on my necklace anyway, because I have learned so much about not only jewelry from each of you but more importantly about friendship and how a strong community of women can empower you no matter how far the distance!

I love you! Thank you!”

The relationships I’ve made online are quite incredible. In many ways, the kinships I’ve made via the interwebs have allowed me to be me in ways silly, simple and sometimes profound. This is just another perfect example of the wonderful women I am lucky enough to call friends.

And a pearly package is heading toward a wedding party this week.

Love and hugs

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