~SNS SALE IN JODISCRAFTEMPORIUM~

Saturday Night Specials
January 31st at 5pm EST to February 1st at 6am EST

40% off the item price

Also, spend $20 or more receive free shipping

If you buy or custom order 3 simple dishcloths or 4 mini round dishcloths you will receive the next one free.

Happy Saturday Night to you.

Please, after you made your purchase, leave your paypal email in the note to seller box, for an immediate revised invoice to be sent to you. If you have already paid for the item, I will refund the difference back to you.

Have fun shopping.

http://www.JodisCraftEmporium.etsy.com

~SNS SALE IN LUXSPA~

Saturday Night Specials
January 31st at 5pm EST to February 1st at 6am EST

30% off the item price

Also, spend $20 or more receive free shipping

Happy Saturday Night to you.

Please, after you made your purchase, leave your paypal email in the note to seller box, for an immediate revised invoice to be sent to you. If you have already paid for the item, I will refund the difference back to you.

Have fun shopping.

http://www.LuxSpa.etsy.com

~Fingerprints Friday~

My Fingerprints Friday would be the wonderful people that helped me through my depression over last weekend. I was really at a bad point and no clue why. I had no cares to do anything and to feel for anything. It lasted from Thursday to Monday and that is why you don't see anything posted in my blog for a week. My hubby, best friends, and friends from Etsy helped me out tremendously. My hubby let me be by myself for 2 hours and also let me relaxed for the whole day Sunday. My Etsy friends and especially the wonderful SNSers sat and talked with me all night Saturday. You always have to thank God for the wonderful people you have surrounding you at your time of need. And he was helping me by surrounding me with people that absolutely care about me and how i was feeling. So here is a big shout out to all my Etsian friends that helped me out, best friends, and my hubby. That is my fingerprint Friday of God.

Follow Me on My Journey to My Weight Loss Goal (Fourth Weigh In)

WEEK THREE: 169

I am so proud of myself right now. So far I have dropped 2.5 lbs. since biggest loser started at work. Since September of 2008 to now I have lost a total of 6.5 lbs. I am slowly getting my energy back and my metabolism. I upped my exercise routine and now I am borrowing my dad's Wii Fit to add to my routine for the weekends only. Hoping with our tax we will have enough to buy a Wii and Wii Fit so I can work out every night. But I am definitely going to work hard because of it being Super Bowl weekend. Sorry everyone, can't give up the pizza and wings but I promise not to pig out. Next week I will have pictures to show my progress and hope to see results. If you don't think you can do what I am doing, you are wrong. It takes focus and the push to do it. Find an outlet, like blogging, to keep you going on the success of it. Its helping me and I know it will help you. Update you next week :D

Simple Dishcloth in Tea Rose

Are you the type that like the simple things in life, plus you like to always keep things simple? Well check out this cute but simple dishcloth. This dishcloth was made out of 100% cotton yarn that is crocheted tightly to give you that best cleaning action. This dishcloth would also make a charming addition for your kitchen especially during Valentine's Day with the beautiful color pink.

Click on picture for the link to this beautiful dishcloth.

~New Listings From The Featured Artist~

hdawnparratt

Here are a couple of gorgeous and awesome cards created by hdawnparratt. Come take a peek and click on the pictures for additional information about them:

All Occasion Cat Card with Ladybugs

Cherish Valentine Card

10 Mini Note Valentine Cards Aqua

Make sure to check out the rest of her awesome shop for your card giving needs. I promise you, you will not leave empty handed.

Listing From The Featured Artist

hdawnparratt

Here is another beautiful listing from featured artist hdawnparratt. Great for Valentines Day :D

10 Mini Note Valentine Cards Lilac

Click on the picture for the information on these beautiful cards.

Also, check out the rest of her shop for the variety of cards she has to offer.

Follow Me on My Journey to My Weight Loss Goal (Third Weigh In)

WEEK THREE: 170

I am still happy that I lost 1/2 lb because my clothes are starting to feel baggy. So I am guessing this is my week for the toning. I have been doing 15crunches, 10 each on side crunches, superman and 10 push ups. So this week I am picking it up a notch. Right along with those three (bumping them up 5 each of course), I am doing 20 (10 on each side) bicycle moves (which is me being on my back and peddling in the air), and 10 on each side for leg lifts. Slowly bringing different types of exercises into my workout. But here is a before facial pic of me:














Right now facial pic:












As you noticed my face has slimmed down a little bit which to me is an awesome sign.


Now for the profiles

Here is the link in my blog to when I started out:

http://jodiscratsnmore.blogspot.com/2009/01/follow-me-on-my-journey-to-my-weight.html


Now here is what I look like now:















My hubby had fun take snap shots of me excercising tonight.






















K, until next week. Hopefully, I will pull out a big lost next week with all of this exercising :D

Listings From The Featured Artist

Here are some awesome listings from hdawnparratt that will practically knock your socks off. Two of them are perfect for Valentines Day and the other is perfect for Easter :D

You Crack Me Up Chick Card

10 Mini Note Valentine Cards

10 Mini Note Valentine Cards

Click on the pictures for additional information about these gorgeous cards.

Also check out the rest of her shop for your card giving needs. She has a huge variety to choose from.

~FEATURED ARTIST: HDAWNPARRATT~

~GETTING TO KNOW THE FEATURED ARTIST~

hdawnparratt

from hdawnparratt:

I am 36, married, no kids, a dog and two kitties. I started scrapbooking almost 3 years ago after my wedding. When I ran out of pics to scrapbook, as you can only do so many wedding layouts and pet layouts. I turned to making cards. I joined etsy on march 21 2008 and found i have been blessed with great friends and people who love my cards. I especially am happy when a buyer comes back. It is a great feeling. I recently got a request for 30 cards to make for a woman battling cancer, who would like to give out inspirational cards at the hospice. It is nice to know my cards can lift spirits and put smiles on the faces of loved ones.
I hope I can sell my cards for a long time to come and hope to meet even more great people then I already have :)

here are a couple of her listings:

Mouse with Heart Valentine's Day Card

Happy Valentine's Day Cat Card

Click on pictures to links to these beautiful cards.

Make sure to check out the rest of her shop for the variety of cards she has to offer.

~TWITTER SALE~

Fun sale I am running on twitter. The only way to get this fun sale is that you are on twitter and follow my updates. Fun, fast and easy. To follow me:

http://www.twitter.com/JodisCraft

SNS SALE IN LUXSPA

~Saturday Night Special~

~January 17th 5 pm EST to January 18th 6am EST~

30% off the item price

spend $30 or more (after the 30% is discounted) you will receive free shipping.

After purchase please wait for a revised invoice. Also, please leave your email to your PayPal, RME, or GoogleCheckout in the Note To Seller box for immediate invoicing. If you have already paid for the item(s) then you will receive a refund of the difference.

☺ Happy Shopping ☺

http://www.LuxSpa.etsy.com

~SNS SALE IN JODISCRAFTEMPORIUM

~Saturday Night Special~

~January 17th 5 pm EST to January 18th 6am EST

30% off the item price

spend $30 or more (after the 30% is discounted) you will receive free shipping.

After purchase please wait for a revised invoice. Also, please leave your email to your PayPal, RME, or GoogleCheckout in the Note To Seller box for immediate invoicing. If you have already paid for the item(s) then you will receive a refund of the difference.

☺ Happy Shopping ☺

http://www.JodisCraftEmporium.etsy.com

Yellow Square Coaster

Looking for a unique but beautiful coaster to use in your beautiful living room or in any sitting area in your house. This coaster would look nice in any home with the spring, summer, and fall theme to it. This coaster was beautifully crocheted to perfect with 100% cotton yellow yarn. This coaster measures 4 inches by 4 inches.

Click on picture for additional information.

~Featured Artist Week 3~

FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK:

hdawnparratt

What an awesome card maker and wonderful etsy seller. I bought Christmas cards from her and they were absolutely beautiful. Friends and family rave about these cards still to this day. The craftsmanship is unbelievable and you can really tell she takes her time with her cards.

I will be featuring her all this week and hope you all get to know her like I do. And maybe pick up a card or two from her awesome shop. Here is a couple listings from her wonderful shop:

10 Mini Note Valentine Cards

Cherish Card great for Valentine's Day

Click on pictures for information on these beautiful cards. Also check out the rest of her shop for the additional variety of beautiful cards she has in her shop.

Happy Belated Friday

What a long day yesterday, ppphhheeewww.

So now its time to play catch up because of falling asleep early, lol. Here we go.

FEATURED ARTIST ZZAZZ


(her other shop: ArretsPlace)

I hope you all enjoyed getting to know this wonderful artist. Her work is practically amazing and shouldn't be missed out on. From personal experience from her and her work I highly recommend her. She is a very nice individual and a person that you would love to business with. Here is two items that I would like to show you for her final day of being on my blog.

Jubilee Roll Pillow Cover

Jubilee is a fabulous decorator roll pillow cover. Made with 100% cotton decorator fabrics. This is a heavier fabric, very sturdy and long wearing.

The main fabric has pink and chocolate brown design throughout. The contrast is a pink and chocolate brown stripes with matching drawstring ties.

Measurements are 25" around and 19" long. If your pillow is shorter in length, just gather the ends as I have and tie the drawstring ties around to make a tootsie roll wrapper style.

Afghan Baby REVERSIBLE with Lilac Edging

This beautiful ivory afghan has the exact same pattern on both sides. The switch is, that one side has a beautiful lilac pattern and the other side is a bright contrast of multi colored yarn. And if you love a colorful afghan for your baby, this is the one for you.

It's very soft and cozy and measures 39 inches by 35 1/2 inches.

The afghan is crocheted with 100% acrylic yarns and is completely washable in gentle cycle with gentle detergent.

It makes a wonderful gift, a throw, lap blanket, or whatever

Click on pictures for additional information.


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FINGERPRINTS FRIDAY

My fingerprint Friday, even though everyone will cringe at this, is the snow that we received. To me this is a huge fingerprint from God in which he is trying to cleanse our wonderful earth. I know that we are having the frigid temps that brought us as low as almost -20 wind chill but it looks absolutely beautiful outside. I was thinking to myself "why complain about the snow, this is a gift from God and to enjoy it".

Ok, now you are probably thinking she is crazy. But I am not crazy because I use to hate the snow. I was almost in a terrifying accident 7 years ago with my older son in the car. I was delivering a cake for my dad for his birthday and the weather was just fine with no snow. After I delivered the cake and waited a little bit for my dad the snow started falling heavily. So I decided that I better go so I don't get caught in it. (Just a little insight, my dad lived a mile up a hill and winters aren't too friendly there) So i go about 5 miles an hour down the hill and my car slides off the road and almost off a cliff. I thank God everyday that he planted a tree to where it held my car so I would plunge down the cliff.

Did I scare you, didn't mean to but it really did happen. For many years, I dreaded to going out in the snow. But this year, it doesn't seem so bad. I look outside and thank God for the beautiful snow and what it does to our wonderful earth. Plus, for the many picture perfect scenes that I would love to take but unfortunately don't have my camera with me to do so, lol.

Snow is my fingerprint of Friday :D What fingerprint has God left you on a friday.

PamperingBeki, that came up with Fingerprints Friday. I was inspired by both of their blogs that I could not pass this up. So I signed up and wanted to share my fingerprint Friday with you. Please go checkout PamperkingBeki's Blog and read about. You will definitely sign up too.

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~WEEKLY POLL~
~WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE CRAFT~

Here are the results from this weeks poll:

1. Other - 63%
2. Crocheting - 27%
3. Pottery - 9%

All the rest was at 0%. Hopefully the next poll will have a bigger, better response. Thank you to all have voted.

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Support Our Troops Ribbon with Canadian Maple Leaf

Another new ribbon that will help show that you support your troops. This beautiful yellow ribbon is accented with a wooden maple leaf button and a gold clip to be able to clip on your clothing to show your support for the cause. It is assembled together with hot glue.

For each sale of a ribbon, all but $1 of the purchase price will be donated evenly between these two organizations ($2.50 each):

http://www.taps.org/ - Helps those who lost a spouse in the war.

http://www.aerhq.org/ - Helps needy military families

Click on picture for additional information.

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☺Happy Belated Friday and now on my way to work on Saturday blogging ☺

Yellow Mini Round Dishcloth or Coaster

Welcome to the new world of new minis. This crochet little piece can do wonders plus be used for a coaster. It is made out of 100% cotton yarn in yellow, and crocheted together to bring out the beautiful spring, summer, and fall colors. It measures 5 inches in circumference. Hurry and get yours today and I promise you will really love it.

Click on picture for additional information.

Yellow Granny Square Dishcloth

Looking for a beautiful dishcloth that could go with your spring, summer, or fall themed kitchen. This dishcloth would fit in perfectly with its beautiful yellow color. This wonderful dishcloth was beautifully crocheted and took time to make all details perfect. This granny square dishcloth measures 7 inches by 7 inches.

Click on picture for additional information.

Yellow Tiny Facial Wipe

Here comes the tinys. This crocheted tiny piece can be used for those nightly routines of wiping the dirt and make-up off your face. It is made out of 100% cotton yarn in yellow and crocheted together to bring out the beautiful spring/summer/fall colors. It measures 2 3/4 inches in circumference. Hurry and get yours today and I promise you will really love it.

Click on picture for additional information.

More To Know About The Feature Artist

The featured artist, ZZAZZ, also owns another shop. Arretsplace is the one stop shop for beautiful crocheted and sewn items. She has a variety that you would certainly want to check out. Here is the most recent listing in her, ArretsPlace shop:

Pastel Leg Warmers

With this frigid weather, you'll need something to keep your legs nice and warm. These pastel colored leg warmers will do the trick!

Crocheted with 100% acrylic yarns, in a shell pattern are completely washable in cold water gentle cycle. Placing in a net bag to toss in the washer will help them from getting snagged.

Wearing them over your slacks helps keep your legs extra warm, keep the weather off the bottom of your pants, or even having the cuff of your pant get all muddy from the floor mat of your car.

Click picture for additional information.

Tile Tart in Candy Apple

Do you like picking tarts that do not have any designs on them? This tart is just for you. This cute tile tart is made out of soy wax (which burns cleanly), colored with red color tablets, and is scrumptiously scented with candy apple. The tart smells so good you would think you were standing at the concession stand waiting for your yummy candy apple. Ahhhh, memories.

Click on picture for additional information.

A Listing From the Feature Artist

Hawiian Flair

Isn't this lovely fabric. I decided to use the main fabric for the center of the pillow and the contrasting fabric for the sides with matching ties. I made it wide enough just in case your bolster/roll pillow is longer. If not, just gather the ends and wrap the ties around as I did to make it fit tighter.

As all of the rest of my covers, it is washable in cold water on permapress. It may need a touchup with the iron.

This cover fits my roll pillow for easy on and off. My roll pillow measures 17" long and 25" around. The ties are more than long enough to create bows on each side. The contrast fabric is also made of 100% cotton and accents very nicely.

Click on picture for the link to this item.

HIV Awareness Ribbon

Another new ribbon that could help another person dealing with HIV. This beautiful red ribbon is accented with a small iridescent la mode button and a gold clip to be able to clip on your clothing to show your support for the cause. It is assembled together with hot glue.

For each sale of a ribbon, all but $1 of the purchase price will be donated to http://www.helpchildrenwithaids.org.

click on picture for additional information.

Follow Me on My Journey to My Weight Loss Goal (Second Weigh In)

Week Two: 170.5 lbs.

Wow in just one week I lost exactly a pound. I am so proud of myself. What I remember that was told to me is that if you at least loose a pound per week then it will be a lot harder to to put it back on. For the whole week I just portioned my foods and walked the extra steps to get where I am going. I had one 20 oz Pepsi and junk one day during the week (yes I have a cheat day). I believe that you shouldn't take everything out because later down the road you are going to want it so badly that you will pig out on it.

Starting tomorrow I will be working on sit-ups and keeping up what I did last week. I am slowly working on fitting a healthy routine in tight and busy schedule. My family is routing for me and they know that I can do it. Sorry no pictures this week. I thought I would take them every other week to see if you can see the difference that way.

Wish me luck for next week and hope I take off a little more weight.

Simple Dishcloth in Rose Pink

Are you the type that like the simple things in life, plus you like to always keep things simple? Well check out this cute but simple dishcloth. This dishcloth was made out of 100% cotton yarn that is crocheted tightly to give you that best cleaning action. This dishcloth would also make a charming addition for your kitchen especially during Valentine's Day with the beautiful color pink.

Click on the picture for additional information.

Diabetes Awareness Ribbons

Another new ribbon that could help another person with diabetes. This beautiful gray ribbon is accented with a small red la mode button and a gold clip to be able to clip on your clothing to show your support for the cause. It is assembled together with hot glue.

For each sale of a ribbon, all but $1 of the purchase price will be donated to http://www.diabetes.org.

Click on picture for additional information.

A Listing From The Feature Artist

Paintbrush Placemats for Two

Everyone must be ready to brighten up their home and here is a pretty way to brighten up your table.

A placemat set for two people with matching napkins. The main fabric has a paintbrush effect to it and is quilted to give a little padding to your dinnerware. The other side is a warm golden tan. So you have two looks to choose from for your table.

Measures 18" x 12" for the placemats and a generous 15" x 15" for the napkins. Fully washable on perma-press in cold water.

Click on the picture for additional information.