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term="leaves" /><title>Elite Art for the Elite at Heart</title><subtitle type="html">[office worker by day; artist by night] Welcome to the artist behind 1337 Art.</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>261</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/1337art" /><feedburner:info uri="1337art" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>1337art</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0QGQn04eyp7ImA9WhRVGU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-3783940784088929707</id><published>2012-01-18T15:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T16:02:03.333-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-18T16:02:03.333-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craftisart" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="selling handmade" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="etsy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="selling online" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="artfire" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zibbet" /><title>Looking for an Etsy or Artfire alternative?</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dawnhilldesigns.com/zibbet-logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 99px;" src="http://www.dawnhilldesigns.com/zibbet-logo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's not easy to find a venue to sell your handcrafted items, your craft supplies, or your vintage finds. Sometimes a major venue like Etsy.com or Artfire.com can make major changes that will effect your business negatively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people feel that there are no alternatives out there for selling their items other than Etsy, Artfire, or even Ebay. But there are two sites out there that are slowly gaining momentum, and they both offer great tools to help you succeed with your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first alternative is &lt;a href="http://www.zibbet.com/sell"&gt;Zibbet.com&lt;/a&gt;. It is Australia based, however, anyone in the world can set up shop. They currently have a free basic account where you can list up to 50 items for free, and they also have a month-to-month premium account as well as a yearly premium account. Currently their monthly price is $9.95 and their yearly price is $79.00. At the time of this post they are offering a free 45 day premium trial using code &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;45FREE&lt;/span&gt;, and it expires in 3 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To check out their complete list of features follow the link below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zibbet.com/sell"&gt;http://www.zibbet.com/sell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I opened my &lt;a href="http://www.zibbet.com/1337art"&gt;Zibbet Shop&lt;/a&gt; in 2009, and to date I have sold 2 items. They do not have much internal traffic, and their site can be slow. But their admin is quick to answer questions, and there are a lot of great items for sale. The listing process is easy, and you can import your Artfire and/or Etsy shop items into your Zibbet shop using their free importer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/162056_74539283098_723804_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 144px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/162056_74539283098_723804_n.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The other alternative is &lt;a href="http://www.craftisart.com/1337art/sell"&gt;Craft is Art&lt;/a&gt;. It's a fairly new marketplace that accepts supplies, vintage items, and handmade items. They offer you the option to accept payments via Google Checkout, Amazon Payments, Authorize.net, PayPal, and Checks/Money Orders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have a basic pay as you go account as well as a premium monthly or yearly account. Premium accounts can offer multiple quantities, variances (colors, sizes, etc.), and so much more. You can either pay a monthly fee of $8.99 or you can pay for a year for only $79.99. You can also import your Etsy and/or Artfire shop items into your Craft is Art shop as well as your feedback score if you choose to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also offer you the opportunity to have a free for life account if you refer 5 people to open a premium shop. I need only two more people to use my referral codes, and my shop there will be free!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you plan to go premium there (either monthly or yearly) please use one of my referral codes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;7H5C6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;85FUY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To check out their full list of options and tools follow the link below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.craftisart.com/1337art/sell"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.craftisart.com/1337art/sell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;Craft is Art is very quick to submit your products to Google, and you can set up your Google Analytics account so you can track your traffic. I've sold 3 items there to date in &lt;a href="https://www.craftisart.com/1337art"&gt;my shop&lt;/a&gt;, and I get a lot of internal traffic as well as traffic from search engines. I only have 17 items for sale there at the moment, but I have very high hopes that my business will be successful on this venue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Etsy and Artfire succeed through their sellers, but if their sellers leave to other venues, these new venues can succeed too. It's the beginning of the year and now is a great time to think long and hard about your business, and what you believe will help you succeed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-3783940784088929707?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/zNJRURTM7KA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/3783940784088929707/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=3783940784088929707" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/3783940784088929707?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/3783940784088929707?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/zNJRURTM7KA/looking-for-etsy-or-artfire-alternative.html" title="Looking for an Etsy or Artfire alternative?" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/looking-for-etsy-or-artfire-alternative.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0QDSH46eyp7ImA9WhRVEEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-564197500625252812</id><published>2012-01-08T18:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T19:22:59.013-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-08T19:22:59.013-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="lol" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="humorhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="toothpastefordinner" /><title>Bored on the job at the office?</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LUz4ajbp2Sc/TwpdDcR10-I/AAAAAAAAAps/2jHZWdpykFU/s1600/lunchtime-meeting.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 371px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LUz4ajbp2Sc/TwpdDcR10-I/AAAAAAAAAps/2jHZWdpykFU/s400/lunchtime-meeting.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695466992475427810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If you haven't stumbled upon the pure awesomeness that is &lt;a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/"&gt;toothpastefordinner&lt;/a&gt; you are missing out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been following this web comic for years. It helps you get through an especially long, drawn out, boring, awful, slooow work day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/"&gt;Click here to see the comics.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're welcome.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-564197500625252812?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/rgCLpT3zhIo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/564197500625252812/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=564197500625252812" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/564197500625252812?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/564197500625252812?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/rgCLpT3zhIo/bored-on-job-at-office.html" title="Bored on the job at the office?" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LUz4ajbp2Sc/TwpdDcR10-I/AAAAAAAAAps/2jHZWdpykFU/s72-c/lunchtime-meeting.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/bored-on-job-at-office.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C08MQHk4fSp7ImA9WhRWGUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-4262189772913702607</id><published>2012-01-07T10:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T10:44:41.735-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-07T10:44:41.735-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dog" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cat" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="toys" /><title>My cat is actually a dog.</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BK2RPBKND48/TwiQzK4dAWI/AAAAAAAAApg/l7H204ruvAQ/s1600/kitty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BK2RPBKND48/TwiQzK4dAWI/AAAAAAAAApg/l7H204ruvAQ/s400/kitty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694960937578856802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Or she acts like she was a dog in another life. I bought her a pack of plastic coil toys, and she loves them so much that she actually fetches them and brings them back to me like a dog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Katniss's favorite color appears to be blue, because that's the toy she plays with the most. If I pick up the blue toy I have her immediate attention, and when I throw it across the room she runs, picks it up in her mouth, and runs back over to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course I have to take it and throw it again because it's just so darn cute. Sometimes she gets smart and when she comes back over she lays on the toy so I can't get to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I throw it to a tough place, and she can't reach it so she will circle the area and cry until she can find it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bought these toys from &lt;a href="http://www.vitacost.com/Ethical-Pet-Products-Colorful-Springs-Cat-Toy-Wide"&gt;Vitacost&lt;/a&gt;. My husband didn't believe the cats would even play with them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-4262189772913702607?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/XUI-6EvFlsI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/4262189772913702607/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=4262189772913702607" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4262189772913702607?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4262189772913702607?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/XUI-6EvFlsI/my-cat-is-actually-dog.html" title="My cat is actually a dog." /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BK2RPBKND48/TwiQzK4dAWI/AAAAAAAAApg/l7H204ruvAQ/s72-c/kitty.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-cat-is-actually-dog.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkMFRX48eip7ImA9WhRWGEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-679771398569467972</id><published>2012-01-06T06:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T06:00:14.072-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-06T06:00:14.072-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cake decorator" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="baking" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cake" /><title>In another life I'd want to be...</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MpHUl9_mMFY/TwZpCDWoZ5I/AAAAAAAAApU/gWjUm6K0LOQ/s1600/200601_1751319735518_1014615481_31638360_3744791_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MpHUl9_mMFY/TwZpCDWoZ5I/AAAAAAAAApU/gWjUm6K0LOQ/s400/200601_1751319735518_1014615481_31638360_3744791_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694354262837454738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;An amazing cake decorator. I suppose it's doable now, but I've missed so many years of practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One year for my mom's birthday I decided to make her a three layer cake. Unfortunately somehow it fell in on itself, and it was so odd my brother that eats everything didn't even want it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One year for my anniversary I made my husband some cookies with monkey and dragon shaped cookie cutters. Somehow they didn't hold their shape so he had to go by my word that they were in fact the monkeys and dragons...only blobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently baking is just not my thing, but I still enjoy the attempt. I think the closest I will get to be an amazing cake decorator is the fun of making shaped baked goods for my husband's birthday and future kids' birthdays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I'll stick to the beads. :]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" &gt;The picture is a dog cake from Albertson's that I bought for my mom's birthday last year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-679771398569467972?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/k__zwUuHdCc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/679771398569467972/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=679771398569467972" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/679771398569467972?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/679771398569467972?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/k__zwUuHdCc/in-another-life-id-want-to-be.html" title="In another life I'd want to be..." /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MpHUl9_mMFY/TwZpCDWoZ5I/AAAAAAAAApU/gWjUm6K0LOQ/s72-c/200601_1751319735518_1014615481_31638360_3744791_n.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-another-life-id-want-to-be.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIGQ3o4eip7ImA9WhRWF0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-4164715791532717348</id><published>2012-01-05T00:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T00:02:02.432-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-05T00:02:02.432-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="etsy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="glass" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="clip on" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="clip on earrings" /><title>New Unique Clip On Earrings</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YHfcQbYMRTM/TwVXpTAh_AI/AAAAAAAAApI/Hgy-95IRsGo/s1600/clip%2Bons.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YHfcQbYMRTM/TwVXpTAh_AI/AAAAAAAAApI/Hgy-95IRsGo/s400/clip%2Bons.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694053670868614146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been meaning to make more &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/1337art/search?search_query=clip+ons&amp;amp;search_submit=&amp;amp;search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5210813&amp;amp;shopname=1337art"&gt;clip on earrings&lt;/a&gt;, and I've finally done it! These clip on earrings are made with hand blown glass beads that sit inside of a silver plated brass spiral cage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are blue with black spiral stripes, red with black and white spiral stripes, and brown ones with black spiral stripes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These earrings are truly fun and unique. Each bead varies in color, shape, and size, and the silver spirals are slightly different than the others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking for a gift for someone with unpierced ears? Look no further! These &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/1337art/search?search_query=clip+ons&amp;amp;search_submit=&amp;amp;search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5210813&amp;amp;shopname=1337art"&gt;clip on earrings&lt;/a&gt; are available in my &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/1337art?ref=si_shop"&gt;Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for looking! I hope to make more clip on earrings in the near future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-4164715791532717348?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/9nZYFT_lOhs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/4164715791532717348/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=4164715791532717348" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4164715791532717348?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4164715791532717348?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/9nZYFT_lOhs/new-unique-clip-on-earrings.html" title="New Unique Clip On Earrings" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YHfcQbYMRTM/TwVXpTAh_AI/AAAAAAAAApI/Hgy-95IRsGo/s72-c/clip%2Bons.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-unique-clip-on-earrings.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0EFRXc4fyp7ImA9WhRWFkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-820652651121964464</id><published>2012-01-04T06:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T06:00:14.937-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-04T06:00:14.937-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="humankind" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pay it forward" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pif" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kindness" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nice" /><title>PIF - Pay it Forward</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.naturalnews.tv/e.asp?v=0C6FF035DA070AEE2DA0804065A45337&amp;amp;s=2" frameborder="0" height="270" scrolling="no" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My brother shared this video with me last night. It's a live demonstration of PIF (Pay if Forward). Now if only the world would follow this example.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-820652651121964464?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/2ZDyUBkcC6E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/820652651121964464/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=820652651121964464" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/820652651121964464?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/820652651121964464?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/2ZDyUBkcC6E/pif-pay-it-forward.html" title="PIF - Pay it Forward" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/pif-pay-it-forward.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0UERHo6cCp7ImA9WhRWFUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-8454343879136334546</id><published>2012-01-03T06:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T06:00:05.418-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-03T06:00:05.418-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cute" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bunny" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="rabbit" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="photography" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="aww" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fun facts" /><title>10 Interesting Facts about Rabbits</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xzjbr6F-aTg/TwKBZtR5VPI/AAAAAAAAAoY/5fLVtOyS4jU/s1600/bunnyyy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xzjbr6F-aTg/TwKBZtR5VPI/AAAAAAAAAoY/5fLVtOyS4jU/s400/bunnyyy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693255157601096946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I took this picture of a wild rabbit that was eating under the willow tree in our front yard in the early Autumn. My friend named him "Hugo" and he used to come out everyday to eat by himself. I used to have a pet rabbit so it was hard not to try to pick him up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came across this picture, and I decided to find some interesting facts about rabbits. Below are some of the things I found:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Rabbits can be litter trained.&lt;br /&gt;2. Rabbits can purr similar to cats.&lt;br /&gt;3. They have 28 teeth that never stop growing.&lt;br /&gt;4. They can jump 36 inches and higher.&lt;br /&gt;5. They can literally be scared to death by predators.&lt;br /&gt;6. Domestic rabbits cannot breed with wild rabbits.&lt;br /&gt;7. They only sweat from the small pads on their feet.&lt;br /&gt;8. They can weigh between 2 and 20 pounds.&lt;br /&gt;9. Rabbits can have false pregnancies.&lt;br /&gt;10. Rabbits can recognize their name as well as a few simple words.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-8454343879136334546?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/9GAPXFaWKpI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/8454343879136334546/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=8454343879136334546" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/8454343879136334546?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/8454343879136334546?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/9GAPXFaWKpI/10-interesting-facts-about-rabbits.html" title="10 Interesting Facts about Rabbits" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xzjbr6F-aTg/TwKBZtR5VPI/AAAAAAAAAoY/5fLVtOyS4jU/s72-c/bunnyyy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-interesting-facts-about-rabbits.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEQNRHo9eCp7ImA9WhRWFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-6279147200950911897</id><published>2012-01-02T06:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T06:59:55.460-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-02T06:59:55.460-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="lol" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the sims 3" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fun" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="video games" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="humor" /><title>5 Things I've Learned from Playing The Sims 3</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.wikia.com/sims/images/a/a1/TheSims3cover-1-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 469px;" src="http://images.wikia.com/sims/images/a/a1/TheSims3cover-1-.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thesims3.com/"&gt;The Sims 3&lt;/a&gt; is an awesome simulation game where players can control the lives of characters that they create from choosing their careers to making them talk to strangers or go see a movie at the cinema. Not only that, but you can design your character to be fat or thin, muscular or skinny, a baby or an adult...the possibilities are endless! You can control what your character looks like right down to what pajamas they wear to what shape their eyebrows are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I've compiled a list of 5 things I have learned [about life] since playing this game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. There's always something else to do. &lt;/span&gt;Depending on your interests you can watch tv, go for a jog, learn to garden, take a walk into town, talk to strangers at the library or park, take up a part time job at the salon, bookstore, or grocery store, read a book to learn a new skill, redecorate your house, go fishing, overclock your computer, talk into the mirror to improve your charisma, take classes to learn a new skill, and the list is pretty endless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2. Random bad things happen...but so do good things. &lt;/span&gt;A burglar can break into your house and steal your stove before you can wake up to call the police. You can be on a date at a restaurant, join in the table next to you that's singing "Happy Birthday," and get a raise because it turned out to be your boss's friend's birthday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3. You can make a living off of gardening, fishing, mooching money and food from people, selling paintings, and writing books/articles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4. If your basic needs aren't met chances are you're angry or depressed.&lt;/span&gt; Who would be happy if your house is cluttered, your fridge is empty, your bed is uncomfortable, your shower only puts out cold water, your walls are bare and ugly, or you just haven't been getting enough social interaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5. I take life very seriously.&lt;/span&gt; I tend to play the game the way I want life to be in real life. Everyone in the household has a stable job, everyone gets along and has good personality traits, the house is big and beautiful, everyone likes to cook and use the computer, there is enough money to go shopping or out into town, etc. My characters tend to be normal and do what is expected of them...most of the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must warn you that if you have not yet played this game it is highly addicting. When I first started playing The Sims 2 for the playstation I somehow stayed up playing 6 hours after my bedtime. The Sims 3 is much more addictive because there is just so much to do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-6279147200950911897?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/tbcbJjL47Tc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/6279147200950911897/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=6279147200950911897" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6279147200950911897?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6279147200950911897?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/tbcbJjL47Tc/5-things-ive-learned-from-playing-sims.html" title="5 Things I've Learned from Playing The Sims 3" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-things-ive-learned-from-playing-sims.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUEHSHg7fCp7ImA9WhRWFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-5180348345262377928</id><published>2012-01-01T03:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T10:47:19.604-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-01T10:47:19.604-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2012" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="new year" /><title>2012 - Why Change for This New Year?</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_PZVX3uZvXc/TwCpgcUYO8I/AAAAAAAAAoM/SLxMJumfXWQ/s1600/funny-pictures-happy-new-yeeeaaaw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_PZVX3uZvXc/TwCpgcUYO8I/AAAAAAAAAoM/SLxMJumfXWQ/s400/funny-pictures-happy-new-yeeeaaaw.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692736303818881986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I want to wish all of my readers a very Happy New Year where your good luck and karma are actually on your side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not going to be making any New Year's Resolutions because I was already on track to where I want to be in 2011 so there is no use changing that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, it is a new beginning, and it wouldn't be wrong to wake up each morning from this day on viewing each day as an opportunity for something amazing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-5180348345262377928?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/5k6TIDhd_No" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/5180348345262377928/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=5180348345262377928" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/5180348345262377928?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/5180348345262377928?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/5k6TIDhd_No/2012-why-change-for-this-new-year.html" title="2012 - Why Change for This New Year?" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_PZVX3uZvXc/TwCpgcUYO8I/AAAAAAAAAoM/SLxMJumfXWQ/s72-c/funny-pictures-happy-new-yeeeaaaw.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-why-change-for-this-new-year.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUYCSX87eip7ImA9WhRWEU8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-4140217520990992262</id><published>2011-12-28T18:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T18:52:48.102-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-28T18:52:48.102-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="quick update" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2012" /><title>Quick update.</title><content type="html">I've had a very busy holiday season this year. Thank you so much to all of my customers!!! I have a lot of plans for 2012, and I'll be busy with organizing my craft room so that I can make all of the new designs that I have written down on random pieces of paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll get back to blogging more regularly soon. Now that Christmas is over I can focus more attention on my blog and designs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for reading. Happy New Year!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-4140217520990992262?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/S8teFjhA1d8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/4140217520990992262/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=4140217520990992262" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4140217520990992262?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4140217520990992262?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/S8teFjhA1d8/quick-update.html" title="Quick update." /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/12/quick-update.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUUDR3gzfip7ImA9WhRSFEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-2670558385110627255</id><published>2011-11-16T18:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T18:34:36.686-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-16T18:34:36.686-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cats" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kittens" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kitten" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kitty" /><title>New members of the family.</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-40PUAtjlWUs/TsRv3XjG9FI/AAAAAAAAAn0/ra9JohiSePY/s1600/kittehs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-40PUAtjlWUs/TsRv3XjG9FI/AAAAAAAAAn0/ra9JohiSePY/s400/kittehs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675784427398427730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a year of sporadic begging we were able to finally adopt two kittens!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to the &lt;a href="http://www.kitsap-humane.org/"&gt;Kitsap Humane Society&lt;/a&gt; during a free adoption sale. (saved about $300!) There were kittens everywhere. Most were adopted or weren't ready to be adopted yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spotted these two lovelies in a cage together, and they were the only kittens that were playing and wrestling. We wanted playful kittens, and I loved how the tortoise kitten had a half black and half orange face. We just had to have them. Unfortunately they needed to get surgery (spayed) before we could take them home so we had to wait a whole weekend for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tortoise shell's name was Moon Beam, and we decided to change it to Katniss (from &lt;a href="http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/"&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt;) The Siamese's name was Sally, and we changed it to Rue (also from &lt;a href="http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/"&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt;) Their new names fits their personalities. Rue likes to sing and be in high places, and Katniss is a crazy offender and very very playful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could go on and on, but in summary: they are so very cute and playful and "melty" I'm sure I'll post many pictures of them in the future. &amp;lt;3&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-2670558385110627255?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/tDykkCBH6u8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/2670558385110627255/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=2670558385110627255" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/2670558385110627255?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/2670558385110627255?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/tDykkCBH6u8/new-members-of-family.html" title="New members of the family." /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-40PUAtjlWUs/TsRv3XjG9FI/AAAAAAAAAn0/ra9JohiSePY/s72-c/kittehs.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-members-of-family.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEUERHo7fCp7ImA9WhRSEkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-7285943362634141564</id><published>2011-11-13T20:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T20:50:05.404-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-13T20:50:05.404-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pop embroidery" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="giveaway" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="winner" /><title>There is a Winner!</title><content type="html">We have a winner for the recent My Memories Suite Scrapbooking Software &lt;a href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/free-software-giveaway.html"&gt;Giveaway&lt;/a&gt; I hosted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations to Teresa from &lt;a href="http://www.zibbet.com/PaperOnParade"&gt;POP embroidery&lt;/a&gt;!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fun key fobs, original key straps, embroidered gifts and personalized ID badge holders ALL available at POP embroidery!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She's also on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/PaperOnParade"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to like her page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have an amazingly fun time trying out the software. Beware - it's addicting!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-7285943362634141564?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/DGFXlHPWOBQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/7285943362634141564/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=7285943362634141564" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/7285943362634141564?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/7285943362634141564?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/DGFXlHPWOBQ/there-is-winner.html" title="There is a Winner!" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/11/there-is-winner.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C08AQXkzfCp7ImA9WhRTFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-1589642684941969208</id><published>2011-11-04T22:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T22:44:00.784-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-04T22:44:00.784-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="celestial" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="inspiration" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="watch" /><title>Inspiration Behind the Piece: Celestial Watch</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FKxTu3Lhk54/TrTKStwLi3I/AAAAAAAAAmg/yiXuCVZJL00/s1600/celestial%2Bwatch%2B1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FKxTu3Lhk54/TrTKStwLi3I/AAAAAAAAAmg/yiXuCVZJL00/s400/celestial%2Bwatch%2B1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671380253634431858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There is something calming about the night sky with the moon and stars hanging in balance in all of the nothingness that is the universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I created this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84425707/celestial-watch-black-and-silver-beaded"&gt;Celestial Watch&lt;/a&gt; in different stages. I first found the watch face and bought the star beads to match it. I knew I wanted to use black and silver and eventually found the perfect beads. They are dual colored, and they match perfectly with the other components of this watch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XBwc4TzAVcg/TrTKNCEzTtI/AAAAAAAAAmU/bL68WA9jQec/s1600/celestial%2Bwatch%2B1.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I didn't know I needed to use the gunmetal stardust beads and the antiqued silver pewter spacer beads and the swirl toggle clasp until I sat down and placed the components alongside one another. Everything about this watch design - the colors, shapes, textures...all happen to be a beautiful contrast, but yet one and the same. Silver, black, and grey; just like the universe above and around us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for reading. This Celestial Watch is currently available &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84425707/celestial-watch-black-and-silver-beaded"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-1589642684941969208?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/EANy6X7FDos" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/1589642684941969208/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=1589642684941969208" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/1589642684941969208?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/1589642684941969208?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/EANy6X7FDos/inspiration-behind-piece-celestial.html" title="Inspiration Behind the Piece: Celestial Watch" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FKxTu3Lhk54/TrTKStwLi3I/AAAAAAAAAmg/yiXuCVZJL00/s72-c/celestial%2Bwatch%2B1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/11/inspiration-behind-piece-celestial.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0cNRHo4fSp7ImA9WhRTFE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-6972828012837860414</id><published>2011-10-30T19:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T10:51:35.435-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-04T10:51:35.435-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="free" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="giveaway" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="my memories" /><title>Free Software Giveaway!</title><content type="html">&lt;div  style="text-align: left; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;amp;ik=925716f89b&amp;amp;view=att&amp;amp;th=132d0ca210c2d326&amp;amp;attid=0.1.1&amp;amp;disp=emb&amp;amp;zw"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 551px; height: 144px;" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&amp;amp;ik=925716f89b&amp;amp;view=att&amp;amp;th=132d0ca210c2d326&amp;amp;attid=0.1.1&amp;amp;disp=emb&amp;amp;zw" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Today &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I have  the honor to give away some &lt;a href="http://www.mymemories.com/"&gt;digital scrapbooking software&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.mymemories.com/"&gt;My  Memories Suite&lt;/a&gt; to one lucky reader! There is no catch, just a simple and  easy giveaway. With this &lt;a href="http://www.mymemories.com/"&gt;scrapbooking software&lt;/a&gt; you can create cards,  photo books, scrapbook pages, and more all on your computer. It's not  just for scrapbooking. Their website offers templates, kits, papers, and  embellishments for very low prices, and they even have a &lt;a href="http://www.mymemories.com/store/free_digital_scrapbooking_kits"&gt;free page&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tDMB_14shpg/Tq4MDuN-TgI/AAAAAAAAAl8/2GMZYVy4bmk/s1600/hmm%2Bcollage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tDMB_14shpg/Tq4MDuN-TgI/AAAAAAAAAl8/2GMZYVy4bmk/s400/hmm%2Bcollage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669482238991814146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I took a little bit of time to play around with my free copy of this software, and it was really fun and easy to learn. Between what was already included in the program as well as the free kits I downloaded from their site I had so much to work with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right before I was contacted to do this giveaway I was starting to look into how to make collages and cards digitally, and this software is the perfect thing. I included my partially completed collage. It started out as a blank white canvas, and it was so easy to turn it into what you see. I'm  a perfectionist when it comes to collages so I might not be done with this one for a while longer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you take a look you will notice the fonts. The program has WordArt incorporated into it, and I can choose from a ton of fonts and colors. It's digital so I can rotate the font backwards or to a 90 degree angle if I wanted to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: left; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-07b32-_FtHM/Tq4L8-Ib1SI/AAAAAAAAAlw/xcDB2hnA6PU/s1600/hmm%2Bcollage.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Once I place an embellishment and start working on something else I can easily go back and change it. I decided to fade the snowflake decoration on the left side of the collage instead of it being a solid white like the notebook. And speaking of the notebook, those are &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;beads&lt;/span&gt;! Cute colorful little beads, which is one whole embellishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;This collage is just one of the many things you can do with this digital scrapbooking software. You can use any .jpeg or .png file to import your photos right into the software so make a lovely scrapbook page or a Christmas card with a picture of your family on the front.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you download digital scrapbooking kits and images from other websites this software supports those! Unfortunately their terms of use do not allow finish products to be sold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So how does this giveaway work?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Visit &lt;a href="http://www.mymemories.com/"&gt;My Memories Suite&lt;/a&gt; and check out the &lt;a href="http://www.mymemories.com/store/category_search?search[category]=72"&gt;Digital Scrapbooking Kits&lt;/a&gt;. Pick out your favorite one and leave a comment on my blog with a link to that item with a brief explanation of how you would use that kit. Remember to include some way for me to contact you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. For an extra entry tweet this blog post on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, and include your Twitter account in your comment entry. You can tweet this as many times as you would like, however, it will only be counted as one entry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Only one entry per person (with the exception of those that Tweet.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to follow my blog so you can find out if you're the winner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on &lt;a href="http://www.mymemories.com/"&gt;My Memories Suite&lt;/a&gt; check out their social links below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.mymemories.com/"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyMemories/140359372717593"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/mymemoriessuite"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also have a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MyMemoriesSuite"&gt;YouTube Channel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;My readers can also use this exclusive code: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: arial;"&gt;STMMMS8587&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; for $10 off the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software"&gt;MyMemories Suite v2 scrapbook software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Not into scrapbooking, card making, or other digital crafts? You can still enter this giveaway for a friend or family member...the holidays are coming up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Thank you so much for reading this post. I hope I  inspired you to enter the giveaway for a chance to win this great  software. Remember &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the giveaway ends Wednesday, November 9th, 2011&lt;/span&gt;. The winner will be announced shortly after.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-6972828012837860414?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/_ge5TU-prbg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/6972828012837860414/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=6972828012837860414" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6972828012837860414?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6972828012837860414?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/_ge5TU-prbg/free-software-giveaway.html" title="Free Software Giveaway!" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tDMB_14shpg/Tq4MDuN-TgI/AAAAAAAAAl8/2GMZYVy4bmk/s72-c/hmm%2Bcollage.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/free-software-giveaway.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0EMQHY5fyp7ImA9WhdaGUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-7567510426898579695</id><published>2011-10-29T22:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T22:14:41.827-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-29T22:14:41.827-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="halloween" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recipes" /><title>3 Quick and Easy Halloween Recipes</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.media-allrecipes.com//site/allrecipes/area/community/userphoto/big/507437.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="http://images.media-allrecipes.com//site/allrecipes/area/community/userphoto/big/507437.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I was browsing online for a quick Halloween themed recipe that I could   surprise my hubby with since we both work that day and won't see each   other. All three recipes courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.allrecipes.com/"&gt;AllRecipes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On this quest I found 3 quick and easy recipes that you still have time to do!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first recipe is &lt;a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/green-grog/detail.aspx"&gt;Green Grog&lt;/a&gt;. 25 8oz servings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prep Time: 7 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Cook Time: 7 minutes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="ingredients" style="margin-top: 10px;"&gt;         &lt;h3&gt;             Ingredients&lt;/h3&gt;                          &lt;ul tabindex="-1"&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     2 (12 fluid ounce) cans frozen limeade concentrate&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     2 (12 fluid ounce) cans frozen lemonade concentrate&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     2 (2 liter) bottles lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1 (750 milliliter) bottle rum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     2 quarts lime sherbet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="directions" style="margin-top: 10px;"&gt;         &lt;h3&gt;             Directions&lt;/h3&gt;                                   &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt;                     In a large pot, combine limeade, lemonade and  lemon-lime soda. Stir in rum (add more to taste if desired.) Mix in the  lime sherbet.                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;                  &lt;/div&gt;                  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.media-allrecipes.com//site/allrecipes/area/community/userphoto/big/23454.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="http://images.media-allrecipes.com//site/allrecipes/area/community/userphoto/big/23454.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The second recipe is &lt;a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/smores-apples/detail.aspx"&gt;S'mores Apples&lt;/a&gt;. 6 servings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prep Time: 25 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Cook Time: 10 minutes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="ingredients" style="margin-top: 10px;"&gt;         &lt;h3&gt;             Ingredients&lt;/h3&gt;                          &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     6 Granny Smith apples&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     6 wooden sticks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1 (14 ounce) package individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     2 tablespoons water&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1 1/2 cups crushed graham crackers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="directions" style="margin-top: 10px;"&gt;         &lt;h3&gt;             Directions&lt;/h3&gt;                                   &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt;                     Insert wooden sticks 3/4 of the way into the stem  end of each apple. Place apples on a cookie sheet covered with lightly  greased aluminum foil.                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt;                     Combine caramels and water in a saucepan over low  heat.  Cook, stirring often, until caramel melts and is smooth. Stir in  the vanilla. Dip each apple into the caramel and gently run apples  around insides of saucepan to scrape off some of the caramel.  Scrape  excess caramel from the apple bottoms using the side of the saucepan.                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt;                     Combine the miniature marshmallows and graham  crackers on a dinner plate. Roll the apples in the mixture to coat.  Place on the aluminum foil and chill.                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt;                     Put the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl.  Cook in the microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring between each,  until melted and smooth. Drizzle over the apples and return them to the  refrigerator until ready to serve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;                  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.media-allrecipes.com//site/allrecipes/area/community/userphoto/big/500015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="http://images.media-allrecipes.com//site/allrecipes/area/community/userphoto/big/500015.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The third recipe, which is the one I might make on Monday is &lt;a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/mud-and-worms/detail.aspx"&gt;Mud and Worms&lt;/a&gt;. 4 servings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prep Time: 10 minutes&lt;br /&gt;Cook Time: 15 minutes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="ingredients" style="margin-top: 10px;"&gt;         &lt;h3&gt;             Ingredients&lt;/h3&gt;                          &lt;ul tabindex="-1"&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     12 chocolate cream-filled sandwich cookies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1 (3.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     2 cups milk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="plaincharacterwrap ingredient"&gt;                     1 (3 ounce) package gummy worms candy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="directions" style="margin-top: 10px;"&gt;         &lt;h3&gt;             Directions&lt;/h3&gt;                                   &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt;                     Place the chocolate sandwich cookies into a  resealable plastic zipper bag, and crush with a rolling pin into crumbs.  For a more mudlike appearance, untwist the cookies and scrape off the  creme filling before crushing cookies.                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="plaincharacterwrap break"&gt;                     Whisk together the chocolate pudding mix with the  milk in a bowl, stirring for 2 minutes. Sprinkle about 1/3 of the  crushed sandwich cookie crumbs into the bottom of a serving bowl, and  spoon the chocolate pudding over the crumbs. Smooth out the top of the  pudding, then top with the rest of the chocolate cookie crumbs to  resemble dirt. Poke gummy worms halfway into the dirt. Refrigerate until  serving.                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;                  &lt;/div&gt;                  &lt;/div&gt;These all look delicious. Are you planning to cook or prepare any treats this Halloween?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-7567510426898579695?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/sufjTZjscus" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/7567510426898579695/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=7567510426898579695" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/7567510426898579695?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/7567510426898579695?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/sufjTZjscus/3-quick-and-easy-halloween-recipes.html" title="3 Quick and Easy Halloween Recipes" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/3-quick-and-easy-halloween-recipes.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE4HQX87fyp7ImA9WhdaFkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-7077609371958140912</id><published>2011-10-26T20:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T20:42:10.107-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-26T20:42:10.107-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="inspiration" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="work in progress" /><title>Work in Progress Wednesday 10/26/11</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bx0VxSK6VwU/TqjP5xNio_I/AAAAAAAAAlM/sEXOUdiwjfw/s1600/wipw%2Bblog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bx0VxSK6VwU/TqjP5xNio_I/AAAAAAAAAlM/sEXOUdiwjfw/s400/wipw%2Bblog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668008722415395826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week I have more inspiration than actual progress, but that's part of the fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have some cameo pendants that will be made into beaded necklaces, although the skull one might turn into something more manly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a few necklace starts at the top of the picture with amethyst, lampwork glass, and swarovski pearls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's an owl key chain hiding in the top right corner, and below that a pair of cute rose hair pins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blue and pink earrings were previously featured &lt;a href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/work-in-progress-wednesday.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The bottom left corner is some starts for cell phone charms. I want to use the rune pendants for something so I pulled those out of their storage (along with the black and grey snowflake obsidian pendants) and there are some flower hair pins as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the left of the colorful earrings are some tech/geeky charms. I was thinking maybe zipper pulls or cell phone charms? Not exactly sure yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is Work in Progress Wednesday? It's a meme from off of the internet   somewhere. I've decided to start posting some of what I'm currently   working on every Wednesday for your viewing pleasure and my motivation. I   have to finish what I show you...right?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-7077609371958140912?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/xtpGF1ejbvY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/7077609371958140912/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=7077609371958140912" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/7077609371958140912?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/7077609371958140912?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/xtpGF1ejbvY/work-in-progress-wednesday-102611.html" title="Work in Progress Wednesday 10/26/11" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bx0VxSK6VwU/TqjP5xNio_I/AAAAAAAAAlM/sEXOUdiwjfw/s72-c/wipw%2Bblog.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/work-in-progress-wednesday-102611.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEFR3c_cCp7ImA9WhdaFUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-5551600612832374882</id><published>2011-10-25T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T06:00:16.948-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-25T06:00:16.948-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="christmas" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="holidays" /><title>Reasons to Send Holiday Cards This Year</title><content type="html">It's getting to be that kind of year where you are thinking about how to spread the holiday cheer with gifts to your friends, your family, your coworkers or classmates, and the list always seems to grow...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you come to the realization that you cannot afford to provide a gift to all of these people, but you can't shake the feeling of wanting to do something for them. I often feel the same way. I try to think of small inexpensive gifts to get everyone, but even this ends up being expensive because I want it to still be "nice."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the solution is holiday and/or Christmas cards. Yes, the idea seems simple and "not enough," but last year when I was writing out all of our cards my husband wanted to give some to his coworkers. The night he came home after handing them out to everyone he told me about their responses and comments. Many people told him how unexpected and appreciative they were because they never get holiday cards from anyone, and the card he gave them made their day. Hearing this made me feel all fuzzy inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giving people well thought out personal holiday cards is the best inexpensive gift that you can give them. They can display the card in their locker or desk at work to read during times they are having a bad day, or they can take them home to put out on the table.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year I sent maybe around 50 cards, and I received less than 5. In honesty it was disappointing, but I clung to the thought that the people I sent mine to appreciated the thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cards don't have to be expensive or handmade. This year I found a great deal on plain cards, and I plan to write out a nice personal message/holiday greeting in them. The image on the front of the cards are nice and festive enough, but people will focus on the handwritten note inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though I must say on more than one occasion at work a coworker gave everyone a card, but they just signed their name and didn't add anything to the simple printed message "Happy Holidays" that was inside. I know I should be grateful that they took the time to give me a card, but it just felt really impersonal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few questions for my readers: Do you ever send or receive holiday cards? How does it make you feel? Do you plan to send any this year?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for reading.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-5551600612832374882?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/ZN7MsDa2R3Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/5551600612832374882/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=5551600612832374882" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/5551600612832374882?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/5551600612832374882?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/ZN7MsDa2R3Y/reasons-to-send-holiday-cards-this-year.html" title="Reasons to Send Holiday Cards This Year" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/reasons-to-send-holiday-cards-this-year.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU8GQ3c7eip7ImA9WhdaFEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-6319002195060050434</id><published>2011-10-24T06:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T06:43:42.902-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-24T06:43:42.902-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="celtic tree necklace" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="inspiration" /><title>Inspiration Behind the Piece: Celtic Tree Necklace</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vy7J0ym-wYY/TqVimqboTEI/AAAAAAAAAlA/4c5sWayEZWo/s1600/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vy7J0ym-wYY/TqVimqboTEI/AAAAAAAAAlA/4c5sWayEZWo/s400/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667044122480364610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84442284/celtic-tree-necklace-copper-green-glass"&gt;Celtic Tree Necklace&lt;/a&gt; was inspired by a friend of mine. She loves all things trees and copper and green.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to make something extra special with the tree pendant, and I was hoarding the green beads until I could come up with the perfect design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When holding this necklace the beads are so lustrous and sleek. I can safely say that this is one of my favorite pieces that I have ever made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But where are the Celtic symbols? You can't see it very well in the picture, but that triangle bail that holds the tree pendant has Celtic designs on it as well as the top round part of the toggle clasp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for reading. Please check back as I will continue to write the inspiration behind some of my pieces.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-6319002195060050434?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/O1vE40M4DU4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/6319002195060050434/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=6319002195060050434" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6319002195060050434?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6319002195060050434?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/O1vE40M4DU4/inspiration-behind-piece-celtic-tree.html" title="Inspiration Behind the Piece: Celtic Tree Necklace" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vy7J0ym-wYY/TqVimqboTEI/AAAAAAAAAlA/4c5sWayEZWo/s72-c/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/inspiration-behind-piece-celtic-tree.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0UNR3czeCp7ImA9WhdbFEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-2635296347152345315</id><published>2011-10-12T14:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T14:34:56.980-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-12T14:34:56.980-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="supplies" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wip wednesday" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="work in progress" /><title>Work in Progress Wednesday</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W1wzfKsgrkM/TpYGy29BDGI/AAAAAAAAAk0/UjeZgKa-IeM/s1600/wipw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W1wzfKsgrkM/TpYGy29BDGI/AAAAAAAAAk0/UjeZgKa-IeM/s400/wipw.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662721052279639138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What is Work in Progress Wednesday? It's a meme from off of the internet  somewhere. I've decided to start posting some of what I'm currently  working on every Wednesday for your viewing pleasure and my motivation. I  have to finish what I show you...right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I have a few bookmarks: dog, dragon, and coffee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some bracelets that are almost finished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rocker necklace with a big guitar pendant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some random 1337 letter beads...not sure what to do with those just yet. I recently used some of them to make &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83342242/1337-wine-charms-meh-lol-omg-wtf"&gt;wine charms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking of using the cherry and castle charms to make cell phone charms. Or maybe key chains?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the pearls will be made into earrings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for browsing! What are you working on this Wednesday?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-2635296347152345315?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/0bjyie4qjDM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/2635296347152345315/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=2635296347152345315" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/2635296347152345315?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/2635296347152345315?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/0bjyie4qjDM/work-in-progress-wednesday_12.html" title="Work in Progress Wednesday" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W1wzfKsgrkM/TpYGy29BDGI/AAAAAAAAAk0/UjeZgKa-IeM/s72-c/wipw.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/work-in-progress-wednesday_12.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0EFR3w7fCp7ImA9WhdUGUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-4075909893058469396</id><published>2011-10-06T09:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T09:46:56.204-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-06T09:46:56.204-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social network" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="facebook" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="google +" /><title>Facebook vs Google +</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DiU5GPgNkKM/To3aZvcH_yI/AAAAAAAAAks/hTFIuCnO7W8/s1600/da%2Bpoll.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DiU5GPgNkKM/To3aZvcH_yI/AAAAAAAAAks/hTFIuCnO7W8/s400/da%2Bpoll.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660420442440597282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I recently conducted a survey with 86 participants regarding their views on Facebook vs Google +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The majority voted that they don't need another "social network"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once Google + launches their business pages, and the site gains popularity I wonder if it will surpass Facebook?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I personally can't wait until they release the business pages, though I can't say whether I'll use the personal page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-4075909893058469396?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/ONx5rlPkKck" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/4075909893058469396/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=4075909893058469396" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4075909893058469396?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4075909893058469396?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/ONx5rlPkKck/facebook-vs-google.html" title="Facebook vs Google +" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DiU5GPgNkKM/To3aZvcH_yI/AAAAAAAAAks/hTFIuCnO7W8/s72-c/da%2Bpoll.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/facebook-vs-google.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEcESHs5eyp7ImA9WhdUGEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-5096658051233513600</id><published>2011-10-05T05:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T05:00:09.523-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-05T05:00:09.523-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wip wednesday" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="work in progress" /><title>Work in Progress Wednesday</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbtKR6m4PiU/ToexNvrhlcI/AAAAAAAAAkg/D-fyxEFAT2o/s1600/wip%2B1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 335px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbtKR6m4PiU/ToexNvrhlcI/AAAAAAAAAkg/D-fyxEFAT2o/s400/wip%2B1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658686306509755842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are a few projects that are on my desk waiting for completion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earrings&lt;br /&gt;More Earrings&lt;br /&gt;Long Chain Necklaces&lt;br /&gt;Pearl Bracelet &amp;amp; Earrings Set&lt;br /&gt;More Earrings&lt;br /&gt;Misc. Pendants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is Work in Progress Wednesday? It's a meme from off of the internet somewhere. I've decided to start posting some of what I'm currently working on every Wednesday for your viewing pleasure and my motivation. I have to finish what I show you...right?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-5096658051233513600?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/3Vj2Mr9dWTs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/5096658051233513600/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=5096658051233513600" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/5096658051233513600?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/5096658051233513600?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/3Vj2Mr9dWTs/work-in-progress-wednesday.html" title="Work in Progress Wednesday" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbtKR6m4PiU/ToexNvrhlcI/AAAAAAAAAkg/D-fyxEFAT2o/s72-c/wip%2B1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/work-in-progress-wednesday.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEcNQHo-fCp7ImA9WhdUE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-4548000302080521885</id><published>2011-09-29T17:16:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-29T20:08:11.454-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-09-29T20:08:11.454-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social network" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="new" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="facebook" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="change" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blogging" /><title>I'm Leaving Facebook</title><content type="html">Both my personal and my business page are going to be deleted soon. I am claiming back my free time. I can't even begin to think how much time I have wasted on that website.  Aside from the many privacy violations I would just rather be using my time productively. I want to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;make&lt;/span&gt; things. My friends have other ways of contacting me,  and there are other ways for me to keep in contact with the business pages I liked. Such as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;RSS feed their website. Whether it's news or new items I have set up my Google home page to have RSS feeds from my favorite news and merchandise sites so I can see their latest updates without visiting their website.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;I can sign up for their email newsletters so I can keep up to date when I'm busy with other things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;I can spend the hours I was on Facebook [to] visiting their website on a weekly basis just to check in and browse.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;For the __1337 Art fans there are several ways you can stay in touch:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://1337-art.deviantart.com/"&gt;Deviant Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/1337art/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/1337art"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://1337art.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=49518fa46cd339f27dd2ab63b&amp;amp;id=ed7b657630"&gt;Email Newsletter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.1337art.net/"&gt;Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://1337art.tumblr.com/"&gt;Tumblr (new!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artfire.com/ext/fire_feed/products/1337art"&gt;RSS my Arfire Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/1337art/rss"&gt;ESS my Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Another great thing about this change is that I can spend more time &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;updating this blog!&lt;/span&gt; I have plans to start including &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ork &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;n &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;rogress Wednesdays&lt;/span&gt; where I show off what I am working on at the moment, I want to start doing Artist Features again where I post an interview of a great artist and a few pictures of their work, and I want to show off my studio craft room a bit and provide some general tips for organization, stuff around the house, etc.  And post more green/organic/natural things. So there are many things coming soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget you can sign up to receive my blog updates in your inbox. Just find the box on the right side of this page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for reading. I look forward to blogging again soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-4548000302080521885?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/H0Xq3hDQFso" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/4548000302080521885/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=4548000302080521885" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4548000302080521885?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4548000302080521885?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/H0Xq3hDQFso/im-leaving-facebook.html" title="I'm Leaving Facebook" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/09/im-leaving-facebook.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C04DR3Y7fip7ImA9WhdWGU8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-4172069270298727020</id><published>2011-09-13T06:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-13T06:52:56.806-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-09-13T06:52:56.806-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="moving" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="grey" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="lime green" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft room" /><title>Quick Update.</title><content type="html">So we moved, and the new house is amazing even though we have found a lot of quirks and odd little details, but that is just how it is with lived in houses. We still love it. I took a few "before" pictures of my craft room, and if I ever feel that I reach an "after" point I'll take some pictures of that too and write a post with them. The room is a little smaller than my old one, but I think that is a good thing. Things in this room so far are closer, and I don't feel so microscopic when I'm sitting in it alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first I was set on lime green walls, but after much thought (irregardless of my husband's 'No! I don't want that ugly color in this house!' comments) I decided on grey. It won't be painted for some time, but when we do get around to painting the color won't be too dark as to affect my jewelry photo shoots in a negative way, and it has way more personality than dirty white walls. White walls are so boring and uninspired.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-4172069270298727020?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/_k2--ZN_-D0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/4172069270298727020/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=4172069270298727020" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4172069270298727020?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/4172069270298727020?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/_k2--ZN_-D0/quick-update.html" title="Quick Update." /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/09/quick-update.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkUMQno_cCp7ImA9WhdQE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-6593919323462753269</id><published>2011-08-14T12:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-14T12:31:23.448-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-14T12:31:23.448-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="moving" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="crafty storage blog" /><title>It's moving time.</title><content type="html">We are due to move at the end of the week, and we have barely packed. We aren't panicking yet, but I'm sure that's going to change when it comes to our days off from work and have to scramble to get everything packed, moved, and cleaned. My husband says to focus on my craft room, and he will get the rest of the house. Okay!
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&lt;br /&gt;I was browsing through this &lt;a href="http://craftystorage.blogspot.com/"&gt;crafty storage blog&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm looking forward to my new room and how it's going to be once everything is unpacked and organized. I foresee painted walls, mounted shelves, cute containers and jars, and tons more to always keep me motivated to create something new. Maybe one day my room will look as amazing as some of the rooms featured on that blog.
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&lt;br /&gt;Do you have any pictures of your craft/work space? I'd love to see them. Please feel free to leave a link in the comments.
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&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for reading.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-6593919323462753269?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/TsRA1RMR3ao" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/6593919323462753269/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=6593919323462753269" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6593919323462753269?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/6593919323462753269?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/TsRA1RMR3ao/its-moving-time.html" title="It's moving time." /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-moving-time.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkINRHsyfip7ImA9WhdREk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861632340660074794.post-2994348248729475447</id><published>2011-08-01T14:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-01T14:36:35.596-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-01T14:36:35.596-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="vegetable" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fruit" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stevia" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="greens to go" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="healthy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="natural" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="organic" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="food" /><title>Greens to Go - Health in a Bottle or Glass</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-saOjxZXrU6A/TjcaO0sS7_I/AAAAAAAAAkQ/j6gnjDXt-G0/s1600/166390.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-saOjxZXrU6A/TjcaO0sS7_I/AAAAAAAAAkQ/j6gnjDXt-G0/s400/166390.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636002300642390002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Can you get 6 servings of fruit and vegetables a day in one 16 ounce bottle of water or glass? This product says so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went shopping the other day at &lt;a href="http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11233077&amp;amp;search=go+greens&amp;amp;Mo=1&amp;amp;cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&amp;amp;lang=en-US&amp;amp;Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&amp;amp;Sp=S&amp;amp;N=5000043&amp;amp;whse=BC&amp;amp;Dx=mode+matchallpartial&amp;amp;Ntk=Text_Search&amp;amp;Dr=P_CatalogName:BC&amp;amp;Ne=4000000&amp;amp;D=go+greens&amp;amp;Ntt=go+greens&amp;amp;No=0&amp;amp;Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&amp;amp;Nty=1&amp;amp;topnav=&amp;amp;s=1"&gt;Costco&lt;/a&gt; and found this interesting product. It's made with real organic fruits and vegetables and uses a natural sweetener - Stevia. It comes in little pouches that you can put in your purse or lunch box, and all you need to do is dump it in a bottle of water and shake it up. (or put it in a glass and stir it)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I type I'm drinking my first glass of this stuff. I love the color green, but not this kind of green. It doesn't look so great, but the flavor is pretty decent. If you check out some of the &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Go-Brands-Greens-24-packets/product-reviews/B000Y410Y2/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;showViewpoints=1&amp;amp;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending"&gt;reviews on Amazon&lt;/a&gt;, the "aftertaste" is the Stevia sweetener. It takes a little getting used to, but it's so much healthier than sugar. I'm still waiting to hear what my picky husband thinks of it, and I'm going to stick with drinking this every day for awhile to see if I feel an overall "improvement" in myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see it coming in handy in the afternoon at work. I always crave flavor instead of just water, and with this I get both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not work for the company that makes this product. I just wanted to share what I found to help out my readers in case they are looking for an easy way to consume healthier foods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks so much for reading.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5861632340660074794-2994348248729475447?l=elite-art.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1337art/~4/3Y5OOwQWtkc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://elite-art.blogspot.com/feeds/2994348248729475447/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5861632340660074794&amp;postID=2994348248729475447" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/2994348248729475447?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5861632340660074794/posts/default/2994348248729475447?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1337art/~3/3Y5OOwQWtkc/greens-to-go-health-in-bottle-or-glass.html" title="Greens to Go - Health in a Bottle or Glass" /><author><name>1337 Art</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08003480622870125963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHmRWbh_mZ8/TrW6jY89P_I/AAAAAAAAAm4/NZwVyQJetBM/s220/celtic%2Btree%2Bnecklace%2B3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-saOjxZXrU6A/TjcaO0sS7_I/AAAAAAAAAkQ/j6gnjDXt-G0/s72-c/166390.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://elite-art.blogspot.com/2011/08/greens-to-go-health-in-bottle-or-glass.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

