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Today's agenda! A celebration of greed?

I've been looking forward to today all week! Today my friend, Brian, and I are going to go shopping, grab a bite to eat, and go see Capitalism: A Love Story. It's playing at an artsy theater in downtown Raleigh which means parallel parking might be involved, but I'm trying to save that panic attack for later, lol. Looks like gorgeous weather today, too!!

So in the spirit of Michael Moore, I stepped into Etsy's search engine armed only with the words 'art' and 'greed' and this is what I got:



Have a great weekend!

~Lori

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Some fun on a Friday...

I made a Zazzle store. This is super-seriously addicting. It's so easy, you can do it all day long!



If you have one, comment below and I'll take a peek at it!

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Wordless Wednesday-"Vintage Leaf"

I stepped into the Etsy search engine with only the words 'vintage' and 'leaf' in hand and here are the fruits of my labor:



1. Windy River
2. Sweet Rice
3. Park and Beach
4. Good Life Vintage
5. The Caravan Collection
6. Fashion Rerun
7. Aimee's Armoire
8. Jody's Vintage
9. A Collectible Cachet
10. Sparker Select Vintage
11. Capricious Traveler
12. Portobellobelle
13. LaVogue
14. Elisa Loves
15. All Wild Jewels
16. Japanese Greeting

Yes, I love leaves. Truly, madly, deeply. Hopefully, you are now afflicted with the same disorder.

~Lori ;-)

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Can you Zibbet it just a little bit? Win a FREE Zibbet Premium Account!

**CONTEST CLOSED. WINNER CHOSEN**
CONGRATS TO MOON OF GLASS!
Yes, you can! If you've been a reader of my blog, you know that I have a shop at Zibbet and have sung their praises in two separate posts here and here. Zibbet is a young venue, but I truly like the vibe there, and the owners are very down to earth people who respond to you lickety-split!



One of the great things about Zibbet is that you can open a shop for free and list up to 25 items! That's a great deal for a free account. Zibbet has just launched their Premium Accounts at $7/mo. and for that price you can list unlimited items, customize your shop colors, choose from 4 different banner sizes, put widgets in your shop such as your Etsy mini or your Twitter feed, post video, rearrange your entire shop, and choose which feedback you want to appear! The $7/mo. is an introductory price; the regular price will be $15/mo.

Now, $7/mo. is a fantastic deal, but Zibbet is letting me give away a FREE Premium Account for life right here in this little post, so if you'd like to win a FREE Premium Zibbet Account for life, then you need to go to Zibbet, find an item you like, and come back and link to it in the comments. Be sure to leave your email address as well in case you win.

If you'd like an extra chance to win, then tweet 'I Want A Premium Account at Zibbet' and then come back here and comment with a link to that tweet, again, with your email address.

The winner will be chosen next Sunday night at 9pm, EST time! Good luck and let me see you Zibbet it just a little bit!

~Lori
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I've been tagged-10 facts about me

I was tagged by Fo-Shizzle Design Studios so it's my turn to share ten facts about me and to tag 10 others to do the same. This is a great way to get to know about each other and further develop our friendships, even though most of them are long-distance.

So... without further a-do, here's 10 facts about me:

1. I have two cats that have almost convinced me that I'm one of them.

2. I have synesthesia, specifically grapheme --> color synesthesia. All numbers and letters are a specific color in my mind as do days of the week and months of the year. For instance, I've never been able to think of the days of the week as anything but: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I don't know why Sunday and Wednesday are the same. They just are.

3. I write all the time. When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing.

4. Nothing thrills me more than findings beads that look exactly like lettuce or veggies or hamburgers.

5. I'm a bleeding heart liberal, and I consider myself just one person in this great big world, a person who has no right to deny health care to anyone else. I think politicians who think otherwise are incredibly selfish and quite frankly, cruel.

6. I like Laffy Taffy and tangy, sour candy.

7. I have a degree in Education with a concentration in High School English, but I spent my career being a child care teacher, director, business manager and then operations manager and then in accounts receivable for construction companies. I've taken coursework beyond college in Early Childhood Development and Computer Programming. Now, I run Risky Beads and the Handmade Highway. Go figure.

8. I'm an avid fan of: Mad Men, So You Think You Can Dance, Wipeout (because it's brainless hilarity), Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Countdown, The Daily Show, Reno 911, The Rachel Maddow Show, Glee, Big Brother, and The Colbert Report, and documentaries. This year, I'm trying out Survivor.

9. I buy way too many music soundtracks and TV soundtracks. Including Mad Men. Great soundtrack!

10. Up until about 6 months ago, we didn't have Bravo on our cable system here, so I couldn't watch Project Runway. When we did get and I saw it come on one day, I realized that for years, I thought the show was Project Runaway. I was expecting a riveting documentaries about teens on the streets. o_0 I wish I was making that up!

I tag:
1. Five to Nine Design
2. Ollie's Boutqiue
3. Lynsey & Harper Confections
4. Moppets Closets
5. Californiablue
6. Hypnotransformations. Hypnosis To Transform Your life
7. Make Every Day Your Lucky Day
8. Addition Style
9. PieceMama
10. Luminous Art by Shannon
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Pulling Over to the Side of the Road

See this sign right here?

Click it and you'll go straight to our very first Souvenir Stand on the Handmade Highway tonight! We have 43 pieces of gorgeous jewelry marked down and ready to go! If you're not in the buying mood, that's okay! Just come by and enter our giveaway. You could win free registration on the Handmade Highway or a very cool necklace from one of artists.


Isn't that the coolest necklace ever? Remember, click the road sign to get to the Souvenir Stand! See you there, Lori

Sale runs 5pm - midnight, Friday, 9/18
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