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  Cactus and Coyote wishes you a very blessed and Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah or Kwanzaa...


        
        Whatever your faith or religion may be, whatever holiday you celebrate, we wish you joy and peace. We wish you good health and safety.  Enjoy this time with your families and friends ~ make happy memories for years to come and treasure them always.
       
        We wish your 
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For a limited time, Cactus and Coyote is offering Michigan's own stone creatively beaded into necklaces, bracelets and earrings.  This series is not yet listed on our site but will become available within the week.  As soon as the original set was made and advertised on FaceBook...most sold!  We're working at making more as I type....  Photos below 
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Giving everyone a heads up that Cactus and Coyote will be 'live' at the  Costick Center's Holiday Shopping Expo on those dates!  Come Friday  (5-8pm) to test your luck in a raffle or come Saturday (9-3pm) with the  kids - Santa will be there from noon to 3pm!!  We're so lucky to have  him visit!  Food and drink will be available! 
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https://facebook.com/cactusandcoyotejewelry    

You may click here to 'Like' us quickly.  Thank you so
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I'm really excited about all this (can you tell?) so please visit my page and be my friend!  I'll reciprocate just as soon as I can
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During the month of March, we'll be changing sale items weekly to celebrate our 5th birthday! We turned 5 on March 3rd!  We've come a long way and want to share the love! Check back each Saturday/Sunday for new deals.

  
We're also 
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Whatever your faith or religion may be, whatever holiday you celebrate, we wish you joy and peace. We wish you good health and safety.  Enjoy this time with your families and friends ~ make happy memories for years to come and treasure them always.  We wish your coming year to be one with lots of love
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On Saturday, December 4, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Costick Center will be transformed into a Craft and Vendor Expo with holiday gift items 
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Visit our website for sales and FREE shipping!
Although Cactus and Coyote is 4 years, 3 months, and 22 days old :) ~ our website will be celebrating its First Anniversary on June 25, 2010!  We want to share the joy and show our love by offering discount prices on.....what better than....hearts!  So anything with hearts will have a lower
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Bring some fun into your day with a necklace, bracelet, earrings or all three! So many shades of pinks and purples.  Swirls everywhere!  This is a very fun stone!  Take a peek.....

 Come on over and smell the roses at Cactus and Coyote!  
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If you live in or near Michigan...you know we've had our share of snow in the 2nd week of February and more on the way.  So I've decided to dedicate my newest pieces, 'Winter Wonderland' to, well, snow lovers! 

Each piece is made with Magnesite; also known as White 
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Whatever your faith or religion may be, whatever holiday you celebrate, we wish you joy and peace. We wish you good health and safety.  Enjoy this time with your families and friends ~ make happy memories for years to come and treasure them always.  We wish your coming year to be one with lots of
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On Saturday, December 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Costick Center
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hOpRDvjvW9Qvx2-TVN0-6ebo3zk/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hOpRDvjvW9Qvx2-TVN0-6ebo3zk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CactusAndCoyoteHandcraftedArtisanGemstoneJewelry/~4/eYT1GDCI8ks" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://cactusandcoyote.blogspot.com/2009/11/holiday-expo-at-farmington-hills.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEcMRHk5cCp7ImA9WxNVEUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7293258118526320851.post-2760701687295159377</id><published>2009-10-21T18:55:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-21T19:01:25.728-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-21T19:01:25.728-04:00</app:edited><title>VA Beach Quilter has Featured Me!</title><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://cactusandcoyote.blogspot.com/feeds/2760701687295159377/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7293258118526320851&amp;postID=2760701687295159377" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7293258118526320851/posts/default/2760701687295159377?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7293258118526320851/posts/default/2760701687295159377?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CactusAndCoyoteHandcraftedArtisanGemstoneJewelry/~3/u_drkwWDJMI/va-beach-quilter-has-featured-me.html" title="VA Beach Quilter has Featured Me!" /><author><name>Annie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16531462028306821795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gcZAWYEAUNc/SnsxJOL-v1I/AAAAAAAAABg/y3ppRlastO8/S220/badge.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gcZAWYEAUNc/St-MHWg_GoI/AAAAAAAAAD4/kW6DeSd_qe8/s72-c/vabeachquilter+banner.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><content type="html">VA Beach Quilter has featured me on her blog!  



This is a blog you must visit!  She's very dedicated in promoting others out of the kindness of her heart.  This world needs more people like that!!  You can find feature after feature of many other artisans on her blog.  From there, you can visit VA Beach Quilter on ArtFire store. (or just click on the link)  With great karma, absolutely 
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Jamie says "I'm a star-gazing, animal-loving, halloween obsessed, creative kind of gal. I am also a
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Thanks so much to those at MadeItMyself.ning.  It's a wonderful site to belong to...give it a try!  Wonderful place to meet new people, make new 
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Christmas is right around the corner ladies and gents! It'll be here before you blink!  And Cactus and Coyote has recently listed more holiday jewelry for either yourself....or as gifts! Free gift boxes included at your request. And shipping is always a FLAT rate of $2.50...no matter how many items in your order! Free jewelry cleaning cloth with the purchase of 3 items 
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