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Calla Lily Hair Sticks, A Handmade Polymer Clay Tutorial

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By Beverley Start Calla Lily Hair Sticks, A Handmade Polymer Clay Tutorial                     For this tutorial you will need the following; Green, orange, and white polymer clay (Fimo, Sculpey, Primo…It’s your choice… I just use what’s cheapest) Water based polyurethane A blade A small paint brush [...]

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Why go natural?

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Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) are surfactants, enhancing the spread of water over surfaces. In basic terms, they’re what makes detergents lather. The inclusion of SLS and SLES as cleansing agents in detergents means that consumer use of these products may result in contact with the general body surface, hair, nails, [...]

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Featured Artist AJewell

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I often hear about people that found their passion early in life and dove in with no looking back, but there are others that find their loves quite by accident! Such is the story of a lovely lady from Dublin Ireland and her love of beads. Annette was innocently waiting on a bus and had [...]

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Paypal Tips for Handmade

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In recent years paypal has rather decided to give a buyer their money back regardless of the what the real situation is. Buyer’s remorse? Sure, file a claim, check item not as described, provide paypal with tracking number of buyer sending it back – and the buyer has their money back. No questions asked by [...]

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Taking Your Online Store to the Street – You’ve Been Accepted! Now What?

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  You got that email/letter/phone call, and WHOO-HOO, you’ve been accepted to that perfect-fit show! And then panic sets in… Not to worry! You should have some time between now and then to get organized. You’ll need to remodel your business into a whole new venue. A good place to start is to take a [...]

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Rasmussen Gems

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John Atwell Rasmussen   I am John Rasmussen. I was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, but we moved soon after that. My family lived in several different states because my father was transferred from assignment to assignment. As I grew up, I developed a love for geology and natural science. I have taught geology, then [...]

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