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gd:etag="W/&quot;Dk8FQ347fyp7ImA9WhVTE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-426763535053108852</id><published>2012-02-27T10:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-27T10:00:12.007-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-27T10:00:12.007-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Etsy artist of color" /><title>New Team Blogger: Made with Hope Jewelry.</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MIhNHfmRKKo/T0aH8lCJdwI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/SbsS_H7GyG4/s1600/Picture+27.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="368" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MIhNHfmRKKo/T0aH8lCJdwI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/SbsS_H7GyG4/s400/Picture+27.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We really happy to welcome EAOC Team Member Brittany of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/madewithhope?ref=pr_shop_more" target="_blank"&gt;Made With Hope&lt;/a&gt; to our blog team. &amp;nbsp;Brittany is from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and creates fabric button earrings and accessories. &amp;nbsp;She also has a graphic design etsy shop called &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/beviedesign" target="_blank"&gt;Bevie&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;You'll be hearing from her soon so lets welcome her. &amp;nbsp; In the mean time here's two of my favorite pieces from her etsy shops.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;EAOC Team Member&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/mrroberttrujillo" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Robert Trujillo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; is an mixed media artist and illustrator living in Oakland California. &amp;nbsp;Here's a special post written and illustrated by Robert Trujillo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;To celebrate Black history month I want to praise one of the greatest storyteller's to ever put pen to paper, Ms Octavia butler&lt;br /&gt;
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“the thing that I want to build is so damned new and so vast. I not only don’t know how to build it, but I’m not even sure what it will look like when I have built it. I’m just feeling my way. Using what ever I can do, whatever I can learn to take one more step forward”&lt;br /&gt;
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These were words coming out of the mouth of Octavia via her character “Lauren Oya Olamina” in the story “Parable of the Talents”. I was introduced to Octavia by my mother. My mom and I both share a love for science fiction, good stories, and nerdy things all around. She would always tell me I should read her, but like most teenagers I hated reading! It wasn’t until I was in my mid twenties that I picked up “Wild Seed”. I started it and could not fathom how or why I was done with it days later. I read Parable of the Sower, Clay’s Ark, again same thing; and I’m a slow reader. I have many people to credit for teaching me how to read and Octavia is one of them. I’ve read 6 or 7 of her books and the last one is read was “Fledgling”. Her work not only weaves present day struggles and ideas into futuristic planes; it dissects society, flourishes with love, and promotes character.&lt;br /&gt;
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I asked my mother to describe how she came across Butler’s work. Rubbing her hands together she began to describe a teacher and a library at Peltan junior high in Hunters Point San Francisco where she went to school. She had a professor who was into science fiction and led her to Butler’s work. She went on to tell me that winning the Nebula and the Hugo for a black woman at that time was unheard of. Not only were there few women who had one the award, but few people of color who had won it. Also, MacArthur awards, which Butler also won are usually reserved for people in science? Wow.&lt;br /&gt;
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After reading a little bit on Octavia on wiki, I decided it best to leave her beginnings and finer details to you to research. I ahvent read her story “Kindred” yet so moms told me that I still had some reading to do. She also said that she was interested in Butler’s work and that of other science fiction writers because it gave a glimpse into a world outside of what we know. There’s tons of information on her, even a scholarship for writers of color set up in her name. Happy page turning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-5335527830336434288?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/ak7ov8f0etM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/5335527830336434288/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=5335527830336434288&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5335527830336434288?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5335527830336434288?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/ak7ov8f0etM/celebrating-black-history-ms-octavia.html" title="Celebrating Black History- Ms Octavia Butler" /><author><name>shevon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05388744624984157610</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="20" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cYNK3MuIK_k/ThvB7NHKEAI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/yrmdsHG1wg8/s220/mecookbook3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BqliYBGoFNQ/T0aADlWM8dI/AAAAAAAAA6I/IH5nc6ebT4w/s72-c/octavia.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2012/02/celebrating-black-history-ms-octavia.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkYGSXs5fip7ImA9WhRaF0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-9158270157441204340</id><published>2012-02-20T17:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-20T17:48:48.526-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-20T17:48:48.526-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="challenge" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="EAOC event" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="eaoc" /><title>CARNIVAL - EAOC Monthly Team Challenge</title><content type="html">It's that time of year again when around the world celebrations of &lt;b&gt;CARNIVAL&lt;/b&gt; take place! "&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sights, Sounds and Scents&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;" was this month's team challenge theme and our talented jewelry artists show off their visions of &lt;b&gt;CARNIVAL&lt;/b&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
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Charm Necklace "Free Shipping"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Candy Carnival Pie Charm-A La Mode. Carnival Themed Party&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-osgaclZH0RY/T0EbieceMBI/AAAAAAAABZE/c_hL48frdec/s1600/eaocksasha1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-osgaclZH0RY/T0EbieceMBI/AAAAAAAABZE/c_hL48frdec/s320/eaocksasha1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 570px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/89788928/hot-pink-and-neon-orange-faceted-crystal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Hot Pink and Neon&lt;br /&gt;
Orange Faceted Crystal and Dyed Jade Gold Circle Charm Dangle&lt;br /&gt;
Earrings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 570px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hIOxlvs0xQY/T0EbkLm4aHI/AAAAAAAABZM/fBo0iScMyrQ/s1600/eaocksasha2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="255" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hIOxlvs0xQY/T0EbkLm4aHI/AAAAAAAABZM/fBo0iScMyrQ/s320/eaocksasha2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 570px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/50404823/my-little-ackee-earrings-red-black-and" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;My Little Ackee&lt;br /&gt;
Earrings Red Black and Yellow Glass Seed Beads Jamaica&lt;br /&gt;
Fruit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--prGs2oHijQ/T0EblXQ7hkI/AAAAAAAABZU/Plb_nyq7QwU/s1600/eaocwaterbury1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="260" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--prGs2oHijQ/T0EblXQ7hkI/AAAAAAAABZU/Plb_nyq7QwU/s320/eaocwaterbury1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 570px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/91782668/carnivale-cha-cha-bracelet" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Carnivale Cha Cha&lt;br /&gt;
Bracelet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8cC_S42rxQ4/T0Ebnh0616I/AAAAAAAABZc/JZuR3Uhzelk/s1600/eaocwaterbury2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8cC_S42rxQ4/T0Ebnh0616I/AAAAAAAABZc/JZuR3Uhzelk/s320/eaocwaterbury2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 570px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/91789469/lovely-pink-cha-cha-bracelet" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Lovely Pink CHA CHA&lt;br /&gt;
Bracelet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-9158270157441204340?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/iiXVO9GT3IM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/9158270157441204340/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=9158270157441204340&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/9158270157441204340?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/9158270157441204340?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/iiXVO9GT3IM/carnival-eaoc-monthly-team-challenge.html" title="CARNIVAL - EAOC Monthly Team Challenge" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ywHxm7HNvAg/T0EbfUBEKpI/AAAAAAAABY0/F9JNNNEzM7g/s72-c/eaocdecadanceminis1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2012/02/carnival-eaoc-monthly-team-challenge.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE8DRX46eip7ImA9WhRQEkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-6556695332052579865</id><published>2011-12-07T17:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T17:27:54.012-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-07T17:27:54.012-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Healthier Steps</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYnmohb5pSg/Tt_mo5TCupI/AAAAAAAABWM/2ubLWjJ3PtI/s1600/header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="52" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYnmohb5pSg/Tt_mo5TCupI/AAAAAAAABWM/2ubLWjJ3PtI/s400/header.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Meet Michelle Blackwood of &lt;a href="http://healthiersteps.com/"&gt;Healthier Steps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;What does Michelle have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;My name is Michelle, I’m passionate in sharing with others how they can  achieve a better lifestyle, by avoiding the pain and suffering plaguing  society through disease. I give health lectures and cooking classes for  the public, in between homeschooling my children and keeping home for my  hubby Devon. I also enjoy organic gardening, foraging wild edible  plants, baking and decorating vegan cakes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I'm a home school mom of 2  children. I live in the beautiful countryside of Virginia. I love nature  and decided to create beautiful handmade soaps using the finest  ingredients, all natural, free of chemicals, gentle enough that I use  them on the delicate skin of  my 2 year old.&amp;nbsp; My 13  year old home  schooler leads out in design, photography,  and graphic as part of home  schooling . We grow all of the herbs organically that are used in the  soaps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I will increase my product line gradually, I like to do custom  orders, please contact me  if you are interested. These creations are  from my home to yours, we want you to enjoy that luxurious feeling we  experience daily.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Michelle's &lt;a href="http://healthiersteps.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vegan Cooking&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://healthiersteps.com/VeganCooking/tabid/70/entryid/2/Vegetarian-Fried-Rice.aspx"&gt;Vegetarian Fried Rice&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v_Dw80c2X6M/Tt_na_dVC4I/AAAAAAAABWc/crQZWc5Nd2c/s1600/tofu+nuggets+3.JPG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="252" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v_Dw80c2X6M/Tt_na_dVC4I/AAAAAAAABWc/crQZWc5Nd2c/s320/tofu+nuggets+3.JPG.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.healthiersteps.com/VeganCooking/tabid/70/entryid/7/Gluten-Free-Tofu-Nuggets.aspx"&gt;Gluten-Free Tofu Nuggets&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Natural Soaps&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oj-jM_LuiSg/Tt_n9-nTfjI/AAAAAAAABWk/fFzCjlyiU5U/s1600/il_570xN.290680721.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oj-jM_LuiSg/Tt_n9-nTfjI/AAAAAAAABWk/fFzCjlyiU5U/s320/il_570xN.290680721.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ti4IXotNyzI/Tt_n-FhFk5I/AAAAAAAABWs/jhIiCCAeDP8/s1600/il_570xN.246033910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ti4IXotNyzI/Tt_n-FhFk5I/AAAAAAAABWs/jhIiCCAeDP8/s320/il_570xN.246033910.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yBfANGshlck/Tt_n-Tp07EI/AAAAAAAABW0/sYxapGKYhQk/s1600/il_570xN.289093967.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yBfANGshlck/Tt_n-Tp07EI/AAAAAAAABW0/sYxapGKYhQk/s320/il_570xN.289093967.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and Natural Remedies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-teU8MMxCxzY/Tt_oPgvV-TI/AAAAAAAABW8/7jt8Ax4HyqE/s1600/9662357_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-teU8MMxCxzY/Tt_oPgvV-TI/AAAAAAAABW8/7jt8Ax4HyqE/s320/9662357_s.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
To learn more about Michelle and Healthier Steps, please visit &lt;a href="http://healthiersteps.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/HealthierSteps"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-6556695332052579865?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/LQ1axqhcQPY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/6556695332052579865/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=6556695332052579865&amp;isPopup=true" title="5 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/6556695332052579865?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/6556695332052579865?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/LQ1axqhcQPY/blog-love-healthier-steps.html" title="Blog Love:  Healthier Steps" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYnmohb5pSg/Tt_mo5TCupI/AAAAAAAABWM/2ubLWjJ3PtI/s72-c/header.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-love-healthier-steps.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Dk4BRX0zcCp7ImA9WhRQEE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-9130805378969428759</id><published>2011-12-04T07:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T13:55:54.388-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-04T13:55:54.388-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="EAOC 2011 Holiday Catalog" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="team eaoc" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Team Catalog" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="holiday gifts" /><title>EAOC 2011 Holiday Catalog</title><content type="html">The holiday season is fast approaching, so as you endeavor to check-off the names on your shopping lists, don't forget to shop at the many EAOC member stores.  You're sure to find something there to meet the needs of all those on your list. Here are but a few of the stores featured in our Team Catalog. 

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For a complete list of EAOC member shops, please &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/p/member-directory.html" target="_blank"&gt; click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Happy Shopping and Happy Holidays.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-9130805378969428759?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/kZ0-fvkSM_g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/9130805378969428759/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=9130805378969428759&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/9130805378969428759?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/9130805378969428759?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/kZ0-fvkSM_g/eaoc-2011-holiday-catalog.html" title="EAOC 2011 Holiday Catalog" /><author><name>Rabihah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17116116589685929238</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/eaoc-2011-holiday-catalog.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYDQHo4eyp7ImA9WhRREU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-2983989691734452301</id><published>2011-11-23T21:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T21:52:51.433-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-23T21:52:51.433-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fine art photography" /><title>Photography by Team Member Incitephoto.</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://img2.etsystatic.com/il_fullxfull.251497246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://img2.etsystatic.com/il_fullxfull.251497246.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;Lovely. &amp;nbsp;I just love the fall season. &amp;nbsp;I could see this print hanging in my living room or bathroom.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I love the dramatic sky. Very inspirational. &amp;nbsp;I think this print would look amazing in a home office or bedroom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Check out&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/incitephoto" target="_blank"&gt;IncitePhoto&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Etsy shop to see more of her travel and nature photography.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;-Shevon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shevongantceramics.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Team Captain &lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-2983989691734452301?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/SV0VzyNkcUE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/2983989691734452301/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=2983989691734452301&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/2983989691734452301?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/2983989691734452301?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/SV0VzyNkcUE/photography-by-team-member-incitephoto.html" title="Photography by Team Member Incitephoto." /><author><name>shevon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05388744624984157610</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="20" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cYNK3MuIK_k/ThvB7NHKEAI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/yrmdsHG1wg8/s220/mecookbook3.jpg" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/photography-by-team-member-incitephoto.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkMFRXs7cCp7ImA9WhRSFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-3998497579393711339</id><published>2011-11-16T08:00:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T08:00:14.508-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-16T08:00:14.508-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Niki Art Studio</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YJy_I-NhJ14/TsMcCTIZCXI/AAAAAAAABRM/Xe6lCgn-e2E/s1600/header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="52" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YJy_I-NhJ14/TsMcCTIZCXI/AAAAAAAABRM/Xe6lCgn-e2E/s400/header.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meet &lt;b&gt;Niki Lopez&lt;/b&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nikiartstudio?ref=top_trail"&gt;Niki Art Studio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Niki have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;I am a creative spirit.  I have been attracted to art, color, and weird  places in my mind since I could remember.   Work from home on my art,  photography, and graphic design while my two year old tries to rule the  house...&lt;br /&gt;
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For my paintings, it's not just about the end product or where my  painting will end up.  For me the journey and the process that goes into  creating, the brush strokes, the energy, and for some pieces, the  research.  Some of my work is a personal piece of my story, while others  are about research, story telling, and awareness, while some are just  response to the energy or vibe of the day and very cathartic.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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My photography work allows me to tie in my graphic design process and techniques and explore another aspect of story telling.  &lt;/i&gt; &lt;i style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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When you support and share my work, you help me in my journey of sharing and growing as a artist.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Niki's &lt;a href="http://nikiartstudio.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Of course her beautiful artwork...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hPEBxATMeP4/TsMdRtSlWnI/AAAAAAAABRU/S9uBtGZqiCg/s1600/il_570xN.262057429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hPEBxATMeP4/TsMdRtSlWnI/AAAAAAAABRU/S9uBtGZqiCg/s320/il_570xN.262057429.jpg" width="207" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-35U4uE4BQVA/TsMdSLEJaiI/AAAAAAAABRc/XsnjYeXJv34/s1600/il_570xN.273164947.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-35U4uE4BQVA/TsMdSLEJaiI/AAAAAAAABRc/XsnjYeXJv34/s320/il_570xN.273164947.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RG6_nh4-_qg/TsMdS_SJJNI/AAAAAAAABRk/W-Ic87Utaac/s1600/il_570xN.273196702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RG6_nh4-_qg/TsMdS_SJJNI/AAAAAAAABRk/W-Ic87Utaac/s320/il_570xN.273196702.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aTzP5cYHeDo/TsMdTnMbkrI/AAAAAAAABRs/r6ho8tZ0Pd4/s1600/Olokun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aTzP5cYHeDo/TsMdTnMbkrI/AAAAAAAABRs/r6ho8tZ0Pd4/s1600/Olokun.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;...and how she uses her talents to support community organizations and efforts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about Niki's work, please visit &lt;a href="http://nikiartstudio.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nikiartstudio?ref=top_trail"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-3998497579393711339?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/A0AudiAn7_c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/3998497579393711339/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=3998497579393711339&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/3998497579393711339?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/3998497579393711339?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/A0AudiAn7_c/blog-love-niki-art-studio.html" title="Blog Love:  Niki Art Studio" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YJy_I-NhJ14/TsMcCTIZCXI/AAAAAAAABRM/Xe6lCgn-e2E/s72-c/header.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-love-niki-art-studio.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0EFQXg4eyp7ImA9WhRSEko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-7042624773140207177</id><published>2011-11-14T08:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T08:00:10.633-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-14T08:00:10.633-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Musings of a Jewel in the Rough</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-phl_ejL0_Bc/Tr-6VEnEetI/AAAAAAAABQM/23fEMc4kjZc/s1600/header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="52" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-phl_ejL0_Bc/Tr-6VEnEetI/AAAAAAAABQM/23fEMc4kjZc/s400/header.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meet &lt;b&gt;Lauren&lt;/b&gt; of &lt;a href="http://diademjewels.blogspot.com/"&gt;Musings of a Jewel in the Rough&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Lauren have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;I'm a 24 year old college senior who loves to bead and belly dance.  I'm  in love with all things victorian and victorian inspired (needless to  say, I love steampunk clothing).  I also enjoy buying handmade items  from etsy to support artisan work.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you have anything you'd like to trade, feel free to ask- especiall if  its well-made clothing.  I'm always looking to expand my costume closet  :)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I do cater to plus sized women so if you ever need anything extended a  few inches for comfort no charge, please, please, do not hesitate to  ask.  I will be happy to do that for you!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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..++**+..++**++..You Can Change A Child's World..++**+..++**++..&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A percentage every sale I make is donated to WorldVision.org, an  organization helping needy children around the globe get food, clean  water, warm beds, schooling, and more.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Lauren's &lt;a href="http://diademjewels.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about Lauren and DiademJewels, please visit &lt;a href="http://diademjewels.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DiademJewels"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-7042624773140207177?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/LqLWs_BdT9w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/7042624773140207177/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=7042624773140207177&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/7042624773140207177?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/7042624773140207177?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/LqLWs_BdT9w/blog-love-musings-of-jewel-in-rough.html" title="Blog Love:  Musings of a Jewel in the Rough" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-phl_ejL0_Bc/Tr-6VEnEetI/AAAAAAAABQM/23fEMc4kjZc/s72-c/header.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-love-musings-of-jewel-in-rough.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUQDR3syfyp7ImA9WhRSEUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-6143091512327615394</id><published>2011-11-12T10:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T10:56:16.597-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-12T10:56:16.597-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Mopheadz City Rambler</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mopheadz City Rambler&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meet &lt;b&gt;Zulma Brooks&lt;/b&gt; of &lt;a href="http://mopheadzvillage.wordpress.com/"&gt;Mopheadz City Rambler&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Zulma have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I hope to make a living making toys from my original designs. I am a  native New Yorker who 4 years ago moved to North Carolina to seek new  job opportunities. However due to the economic downturn, I found myself  permanently unemployed.   In April 2010, I decided to turn a love for  soft dolls into a business and MICO TOY CO was born. It's still in the  fledgling stages but the best thing about my company, ALL of the toys will  be made in the USA!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Zulma's &lt;a href="http://mopheadzvillage.wordpress.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Her soft dolls&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qJ4_H188flo/Tr6V_vmvSXI/AAAAAAAABPM/6jG2X_q2uEI/s1600/mico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qJ4_H188flo/Tr6V_vmvSXI/AAAAAAAABPM/6jG2X_q2uEI/s400/mico.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;and many ways to help make her dream a reality of creating her own doll company!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about the Zulma and the Mico Toy Company Project, please visit &lt;a href="http://mopheadzvillage.wordpress.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/MicoToyCo"&gt;her Facebook Fan Page&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-6143091512327615394?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/ZRbD1J8WGuw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/6143091512327615394/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=6143091512327615394&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/6143091512327615394?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/6143091512327615394?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/ZRbD1J8WGuw/blog-love-mopheadz-city-rambler.html" title="Blog Love:  Mopheadz City Rambler" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qJ4_H188flo/Tr6V_vmvSXI/AAAAAAAABPM/6jG2X_q2uEI/s72-c/mico.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-love-mopheadz-city-rambler.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ak4MQX09fSp7ImA9WhRSEEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-1923168605943545362</id><published>2011-11-11T08:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T08:43:00.365-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-11T08:43:00.365-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="EAOC Treasuries" /><title>Good and Natural.</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DN7aO-D-RII/Tr0kLCQ7yZI/AAAAAAAAA2c/dhPYr5ppVCw/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-11+at+8.31.03+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="301" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DN7aO-D-RII/Tr0kLCQ7yZI/AAAAAAAAA2c/dhPYr5ppVCw/s400/Screen+shot+2011-11-11+at+8.31.03+AM.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Check out this lovely&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NzU2MzEyNHwxMDgzNDIwNzYw/good-and-natural" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Treasury&lt;/a&gt; by EAOC Team member &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/MadameKoiteh" target="_blank"&gt;Madamekoiteh&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Don't forget to comment and share it with your facebook friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-1923168605943545362?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/5z7kfZnN0hA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/1923168605943545362/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=1923168605943545362&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/1923168605943545362?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/1923168605943545362?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/5z7kfZnN0hA/good-and-natural.html" title="Good and Natural." /><author><name>shevon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05388744624984157610</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="20" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cYNK3MuIK_k/ThvB7NHKEAI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/yrmdsHG1wg8/s220/mecookbook3.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DN7aO-D-RII/Tr0kLCQ7yZI/AAAAAAAAA2c/dhPYr5ppVCw/s72-c/Screen+shot+2011-11-11+at+8.31.03+AM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/good-and-natural.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEEERnk7fyp7ImA9WhRSEEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-5149273561472432019</id><published>2011-11-09T23:43:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T20:50:07.707-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-11T20:50:07.707-05:00</app:edited><title>Takeaways From Hello Etsy</title><content type="html">Sunday, September 18, 2011, I attended what I hope will be the first of many Hello Etsy conferences.  The Washington, DC summit was one of five such events held in the U.S. simultaneously with the two-day &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.helloetsy.com" target="_blank"&gt;Hello Etsy: A Summit on Small Business and Sustainability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; held on September 17-18 in Berlin, Germany.  The purpose of the two-day gathering was to provide a venue for small business owners to connect with their peers, learn the skills to find success and independence, and partake in the movement to build human-scale economies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the keynote address by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sublimestitching.com" target="_blank"&gt;Jenny Hart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I attended a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thinklocalfirstdc.com" target="_blank"&gt;Think Local First DC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  breakout session where the organization’s Executive Director, Stacey Price, provided information on the benefits of appealing to the local market as well as how to better tap into it.  In addition to specific references and tools, one of the more compelling takeaways was how to use “local” as a unique selling point in promoting online shops.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was pleased to have gotten an opportunity to meet Tara Gentile (http://www.taragentile.com/), creative business coach and blogging guru extraordinaire.   I had read her &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scoutiegirl.com/52-more-weeks-blogging-passion" target="_blank"&gt;52 Week of Blogging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and the follow-on &lt;em&gt;52 More Weeks of Blogging&lt;/em&gt; which have become my blogging library and are essential reading for those who are already blogging or hoping to set up a blog.  Tara had lots of tidbits to share on how to bridge the philosophical gap between creating what you love and feeling justified in profiting from it.  Her lecture focused on what she calls the pillars of making money:  Passion, Productivity and Profit.  My big takeaway from her segment was that “you don’t sell stuff; you sell experiences.”  The experience is the deeper meaning behind the thing (item for sale) itself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on both presenters as well as their conceptual approaches, visit the following links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thinklocalfirstdc.com" target= “_blank”&gt;Think Local First DC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:  http://www.thinklocalfirstdc.com&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.taragentile.com" target="_blank"&gt;Tara Gentile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: http://www.taragentile.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m sure you’ll pick up something of value.  I know I did.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-5149273561472432019?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/BHHxDZ2cVE4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/5149273561472432019/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=5149273561472432019&amp;isPopup=true" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5149273561472432019?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5149273561472432019?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/BHHxDZ2cVE4/takeaways-from-hello-etsy.html" title="Takeaways From Hello Etsy" /><author><name>Rabihah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17116116589685929238</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/takeaways-from-hello-etsy.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A04MQX09fyp7ImA9WhRTE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-405118911486262464</id><published>2011-11-04T00:13:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T00:13:00.367-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-04T00:13:00.367-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Eclectic Life</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O9frx-ikg7I/Tq9qHx9QtBI/AAAAAAAABIs/JrOKokGt-Cg/s1600/coollogo3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="137" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O9frx-ikg7I/Tq9qHx9QtBI/AAAAAAAABIs/JrOKokGt-Cg/s400/coollogo3.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Today's blog love goes to the &lt;a href="http://eclecticones.blogspot.com/"&gt;Eclectic Life&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does the writer behind the &lt;a href="http://eclecticones.blogspot.com/"&gt;Eclectic Life blog&lt;/a&gt; have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I'm a self proclaimed "diva on a budget." Lover of fashion, jewelry maker  and soon to be mother of three. Life is hectic but I love every minute  of it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on the &lt;a href="http://eclecticones.blogspot.com/"&gt;Eclectic Life blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Creations&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3VJwGQRFCUs/Tq9t0Tbh4yI/AAAAAAAABI8/fXTk4vjoAZc/s1600/PIC_0602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3VJwGQRFCUs/Tq9t0Tbh4yI/AAAAAAAABI8/fXTk4vjoAZc/s320/PIC_0602.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ACYgyfRl9hU/Tq9t0r_CUhI/AAAAAAAABJE/y0lTqsVo_X8/s1600/PIC_1014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ACYgyfRl9hU/Tq9t0r_CUhI/AAAAAAAABJE/y0lTqsVo_X8/s1600/PIC_1014.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aQx0J8-VC9c/Tq9t1OvIJ5I/AAAAAAAABJM/l5B7VJn-qos/s1600/PIC_1277.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aQx0J8-VC9c/Tq9t1OvIJ5I/AAAAAAAABJM/l5B7VJn-qos/s1600/PIC_1277.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1stlPZEphgQ/Tq9t1Ql0z-I/AAAAAAAABJU/HnBHZTY0wr0/s1600/PIC_1366.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1stlPZEphgQ/Tq9t1Ql0z-I/AAAAAAAABJU/HnBHZTY0wr0/s1600/PIC_1366.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fashion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;and Fashion Recreations.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about the diva behind the Eclectic Life, please visit &lt;a href="http://eclecticones.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/1eclecticchick"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-405118911486262464?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/he010tngkj8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/405118911486262464/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=405118911486262464&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/405118911486262464?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/405118911486262464?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/he010tngkj8/blog-love-eclectic-life.html" title="Blog Love:  Eclectic Life" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O9frx-ikg7I/Tq9qHx9QtBI/AAAAAAAABIs/JrOKokGt-Cg/s72-c/coollogo3.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-love-eclectic-life.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUYGQXc4fip7ImA9WhRTEk0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-8768438937397201256</id><published>2011-11-02T00:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T00:12:00.936-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-11-02T00:12:00.936-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Intertwyned</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e2na2ypEZ58/Tq9mc85lNRI/AAAAAAAABIE/WsqyNpLgIVc/s1600/BANNER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="52" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e2na2ypEZ58/Tq9mc85lNRI/AAAAAAAABIE/WsqyNpLgIVc/s400/BANNER.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Meet Cecile of&lt;a href="http://www.intertwyned.blogspot.com/"&gt; Intertwyned&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Cecile have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #783f04;"&gt;I always liked tinkering with things but never thought of myself as very  patient. When I met my best friend Jamie, she woke a sleeping beast.....  She was a self taught crocheter and I recalled learning how to knit in  middle school in Sweden. We discovered that the way I knew how to knit  was different from the American way of knitting, but the results are the  same, go figure!&lt;br /&gt;
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When I moved from Colorado to Alabama in 2010, I figured it would be too  hot to knit. I needed a new hobby. Someone suggested earrings but I  just couldn't see myself capable of creating such small and delicate  items.  It just so happened I was in Michael's craft store one day and  instead of going straight to the yarn section like I usually do, I took a  detour through the bead aisle. Talk about sensory overload! I wanted to  buy the whole store. I was so overwhelmed by all the pretty that I just  walked away from it empty handed. I went home and did my research and  once I knew what kind of materials, findings and beads to look for, I  returned with a shopping list.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Now I enjoy making unique earrings that are comfortable and light (no one wants split earlobes, ladies. It just isn't cute)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I LOVE to travel and I have seen so many pretty places around the world.  I draw inspiration for my earrings and knits from places, colors and  impression of places I have been so that my buyer can bring a piece of  the world home or wear it.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you find on Cecile's &lt;a href="http://www.intertwyned.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Intertwyned"&gt;Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about Cecile's work, please visit &lt;a href="http://www.intertwyned.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Intertwyned"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-8768438937397201256?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/1mgzUIYCIAo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/8768438937397201256/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=8768438937397201256&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/8768438937397201256?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/8768438937397201256?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/1mgzUIYCIAo/blog-love-intertwyned.html" title="Blog Love:  Intertwyned" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e2na2ypEZ58/Tq9mc85lNRI/AAAAAAAABIE/WsqyNpLgIVc/s72-c/BANNER.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-love-intertwyned.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ak4GQXs-fip7ImA9WhRTEUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-3239758739642001696</id><published>2011-10-31T23:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T23:42:00.556-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-31T23:42:00.556-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  The Knitter's Restaurant</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--yhzmSq2FUs/Tq9e4_dMdjI/AAAAAAAABHE/wd1TfZvxxH4/s1600/cropped-websiteheader1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="83" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--yhzmSq2FUs/Tq9e4_dMdjI/AAAAAAAABHE/wd1TfZvxxH4/s400/cropped-websiteheader1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Meet&amp;nbsp; Beverly Bochenek of &lt;a href="http://www.beverlybochenek.com/"&gt;The Knitter's Restaurant&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Beverly have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #351c75;"&gt;I learned how to knit in grade school - using pencils. I made a hideous  looking scarf that I wore my freshman year in high school and after that  I put down the knitting needles until a few years ago. Now it's amazing  they are out of my hands long enough for me to write this!&lt;br /&gt;
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I have a degree in English Literature and I love to write. Please visit  my blog: &lt;a href="http://www.beverlybochenek.com/"&gt;http://www.beverlybochenek.com&lt;/a&gt; for a steady update on knitting  (it really is quite interesting) and other things as I see them.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #351c75;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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StitchCraft is a knitting group I founded in 2007 and has over 100 members. The group has three components:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #351c75;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A social network for people who just want to get together and knit. No  pressure to make things for charity or knit a sweater or anything like  that. Just getting together for the love of the craft and the enjoyment  of those who love it the same.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #351c75;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A mission component for those who are interested in knitting for a  cause. We are asked to provide items for different charities and we hold  an annual Sit &amp;amp; Knit where we get together for a morning to knit  for a specific group or organization.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #351c75;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Marketplace - for those who want to sell their items, we provide  opportunities to participate in craft sales and shows. It is a way to  get into the business side of knitting without too much of a financial  impact.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #351c75;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are in the Chicago area and would like to join the group, please  visit http://meetup.com/stitchcraft for information on our meeting  schedule.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Beverly's blog?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about Beverly's work, please visit &lt;a href="http://www.beverlybochenek.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/designbcb?ref=top_trail"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-3239758739642001696?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/jA0yAMi4jJM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/3239758739642001696/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=3239758739642001696&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/3239758739642001696?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/3239758739642001696?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/jA0yAMi4jJM/blog-love-knitters-restaurant.html" title="Blog Love:  The Knitter's Restaurant" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--yhzmSq2FUs/Tq9e4_dMdjI/AAAAAAAABHE/wd1TfZvxxH4/s72-c/cropped-websiteheader1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-love-knitters-restaurant.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck4AR3o4fip7ImA9WhdaFE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-5418264186703629267</id><published>2011-10-23T21:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-23T21:49:06.436-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-23T21:49:06.436-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  River Girls Studio 365</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MXDGOM5zLeQ/TqClPxn33XI/AAAAAAAABDM/z_SezR1BVDM/s1600/header.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="155" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MXDGOM5zLeQ/TqClPxn33XI/AAAAAAAABDM/z_SezR1BVDM/s400/header.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Meet Wanda Fleming of River Girls Studio 365.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Wanda have to say about herself?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am the girl, who at eight, loved to make her own dollhouse and  furniture to fill it. After all, what are shoeboxes and vintage fabrics  for? Valentines emerged from lace doilies, and quilts from found cottons  and silks. Over the years, before babies and between writing, I fell in  love with card design, stained glass window making and mostly soaping.  In 2010, I celebrated 10 years of  handcrafting River Girls gentle soap  and bath products--always colorful, kind to the earth and 100%  vegetarian.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; Each day in the River Girls Studio, I seek to make the rudimentary--  pretty, the plain--witty and memorable. My sense of humor is a bit  twisted and always wry! ;-) . And,  I adore my work because,  step-by-step, it recalls how to explore and play. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Wanda's blog?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lovely soap creations... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beautifully created Etsy montages...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;and loads of humor!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about Wanda's work and to see what else is on her River Girls Studio 365 Menu, please visit &lt;a href="http://rivergirlssoapwandafleming.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/rivergirlsstudio"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-5418264186703629267?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/FJnlfwnfNek" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/5418264186703629267/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=5418264186703629267&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5418264186703629267?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5418264186703629267?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/FJnlfwnfNek/blog-love-river-girls-studio-365.html" title="Blog Love:  River Girls Studio 365" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MXDGOM5zLeQ/TqClPxn33XI/AAAAAAAABDM/z_SezR1BVDM/s72-c/header.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-love-river-girls-studio-365.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUMCQ3szfip7ImA9WhdbGUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-4329433688429440523</id><published>2011-10-18T23:00:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T23:04:22.586-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-18T23:04:22.586-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Etsy Treasury" /><title>Lime and Chocolate Etsy Treasury</title><content type="html">Here is a new Etsy Treasury featuring the work of EAOC artists.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;                &lt;h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTA0ODAwMDF8OTA4NTc5NTQ2" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                       'Lime and Chocolate'                &lt;/a&gt;                by                &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtisticExpressionsE" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                       ArtisticExpressionsE                &lt;/a&gt;            &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 10px;"&gt;Who can resist these colors or flavors!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;                                                                       &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/76068803" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_170x135.251261608.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/76068803" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Urbanknit" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   Urbanknit                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$25.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/47865631" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_170x135.235325607.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/47865631" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/JarvisGift" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   JarvisGift                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$42.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/74411970" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_170x135.245381759.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/74411970" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/yarncoture" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   yarncoture                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$72.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/62469246" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_170x135.195052110.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/62469246" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BeadtifulDesigns" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   BeadtifulDesig...                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$14.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                  &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67749326" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_170x135.215716686.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67749326" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Kezzmit" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   Kezzmit                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$14.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/56660685" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_170x135.175591286.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/56660685" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sabbio" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   sabbio                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$16.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/57349322" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_170x135.177897478.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/57349322" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/DiasporaDesigns" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   DiasporaDesign...                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$18.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67853589" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_170x135.261330415.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/67853589" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sedruola" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   sedruola                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$76.97                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                  &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/75526855" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_170x135.249252661.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/75526855" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Jamilary" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   Jamilary                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$65.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/22284398" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_170x135.61460923.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/22284398" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabashcreations" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   calabashcreati...                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$18.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/6742072" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_170x135.10395281.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/6742072" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/calabashcreations" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   calabashcreati...                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$95.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/22085123" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_170x135.60783122.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/22085123" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/michemozaix" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   michemozaix                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$32.50                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                  &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/71068139" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_170x135.231444883.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/71068139" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/mrroberttrujillo" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   mrroberttrujil...                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$20.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/76362683" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_170x135.252257682.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/76362683" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/stoneandbone" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   stoneandbone                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$45.95                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/71572525" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_170x135.233535570.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/71572525" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thesoapseduction" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   thesoapseducti...                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$4.50                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                   &lt;td height="70px" style="border: 1px solid #ECECEC; padding: 6px; text-align: left;" width="110px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83130488" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_170x135.275617491.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="110px" /&gt;                                                                          &lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/83130488" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                       &lt;span style="color: #666666; display: none; font-family: sans-serif;"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;/a&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="display: none; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ChocolateCherriBomb" style="color: #b2b2b2; text-decoration: none;"&gt;                                   ChocolateCherr...                               &lt;/a&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #78c042; display: none; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;$24.00                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                                                  &lt;/tr&gt;
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To view the Etsy Treasury page, click &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTA0ODAwMDF8OTA4NTc5NTQ2/lime-and-chocolate?ref=pr_treasury"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Go, EAOC!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-4329433688429440523?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/xBmsHOkwr_U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/4329433688429440523/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=4329433688429440523&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/4329433688429440523?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/4329433688429440523?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/xBmsHOkwr_U/lime-and-chocolate-etsy-treasury.html" title="Lime and Chocolate Etsy Treasury" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/10/lime-and-chocolate-etsy-treasury.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0IHSXw4eip7ImA9WhdbE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-2902281455261361905</id><published>2011-10-11T20:26:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T20:32:18.232-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-11T20:32:18.232-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Stone and Bone</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JCJRmq-3uME/TpTbcmQxaLI/AAAAAAAAA_8/tLgM_y5F4-0/s1600/header2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="52" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JCJRmq-3uME/TpTbcmQxaLI/AAAAAAAAA_8/tLgM_y5F4-0/s400/header2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meet Puakea, known to most as Pk, of &lt;a href="http://stoneandbone.blogspot.com/"&gt;Stone &amp;amp; Bone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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What does Pk have to say about herself?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was born and raised in a  sleepy little town called Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii, smack  right in the middle of the Pacific ocean.  Stone &amp;amp; Bone, is my love  child. Everyone who knows me, knows that creating beautiful handmade  jewelry and painting Hawaii’s beautiful landscape is my passion. Since  I've been doing this for as long as I can remember.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;My idea of all things handmade comes with a purpose, as well as  practicality. If not, well, why do it. I'm most excited about designing  wire wrapped and bead embroidered  ethnic jewelry and accessories for  both men and women, as well as making old vintage jewelry  fashionable  again. Creating anything with up-cycled discarded items, gives me such a  creative rush. It pushes and challenges the artist craftsman to  rethink, reestablish, and most of all really get inspired about the  world around me, especially due to the fact that I believe in being eco  friendly and going green in whatever way possible. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I also love the many native cultures that make me who I am, so I use  nature as well as native tribal heritage to inspire and lend to my  pieces. Knowing everything has a story, everything comes from the  source, and there's no separating that, gives me a sense of pure joy to  be apart of life’s magic evolution.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #990000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stone &amp;amp; Bone, &lt;a href="http://www.stoneandbone.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.stoneandbone.etsy.com&lt;/a&gt;   is pure essence to me, I love bridging the past with the future,  native style with urban panache, which birthed a style all it's own, I  like to call it Tribal Chic. I myself love to mix and match trends,  styles, and cultures, borrowing from her, taking from there, and who  knows what I'll come up with next. All I do know is I'm truly having fun  doing it., and meeting a lot of wonderful people in the process.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Pk's &lt;a href="http://stoneandbone.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Loads of fabulously created jewelry...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;...and Etsy treasuries, featured artists, and the motivations behind her Tribal Chic philosophy!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about Pk's work, please visit &lt;a href="http://stoneandbone.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/stoneandbone?ref=pr_shop"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-2902281455261361905?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/1ZgTpCYnjo0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/2902281455261361905/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=2902281455261361905&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/2902281455261361905?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/2902281455261361905?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/1ZgTpCYnjo0/blog-love-stone-and-bone.html" title="Blog Love:  Stone and Bone" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JCJRmq-3uME/TpTbcmQxaLI/AAAAAAAAA_8/tLgM_y5F4-0/s72-c/header2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-love-stone-and-bone.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU4AR3Y_fip7ImA9WhdUGUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-5984648109796551416</id><published>2011-10-06T22:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T22:19:06.846-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-10-06T22:19:06.846-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Sydney Austin Designs</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fu0LcVY9Xas/To5fvQO0L4I/AAAAAAAAA_E/c4LEc9zHdLE/s1600/headerphoto.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fu0LcVY9Xas/To5fvQO0L4I/AAAAAAAAA_E/c4LEc9zHdLE/s320/headerphoto.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Meet Robyn of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SydneyAustinDesigns?ref=top_trail"&gt;Sydney Austin Designs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Robyn have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Keep in my mind that I'm a artist and I'm sensitive about my..." - Erykah Badu.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #45818e;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I have been a jewelry designer since 2004.  My designs are created with  lampwork, semi-precious gemstones, vintage beads, sterling  silver,copper, pewter, freshwater pearls, shells, wood, swarovski  crystals, and more.  I rarely make the same thing twice!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What gorgeous jewels can you expect to find on Robyn's &lt;a href="http://www.sydneyaustindesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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To learn more about Robyn's work, please visit &lt;a href="http://sydneyaustindesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SydneyAustinDesigns?ref=top_trail"&gt;her Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-5984648109796551416?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/mF_mGUYf3LM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/5984648109796551416/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=5984648109796551416&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5984648109796551416?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/5984648109796551416?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/mF_mGUYf3LM/blog-love-sydney-austin-designs.html" title="Blog Love:  Sydney Austin Designs" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fu0LcVY9Xas/To5fvQO0L4I/AAAAAAAAA_E/c4LEc9zHdLE/s72-c/headerphoto.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-love-sydney-austin-designs.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0IDRHc7cSp7ImA9WhdVGUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-3465623912914211939</id><published>2011-09-24T21:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-24T21:52:55.909-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-09-24T21:52:55.909-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  The Artful Chatterbox</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JY69Z8klcF0/Tn6DVA4BhZI/AAAAAAAAA7k/PeSV1Wlhe2E/s1600/My+Blog+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="60" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JY69Z8klcF0/Tn6DVA4BhZI/AAAAAAAAA7k/PeSV1Wlhe2E/s400/My+Blog+Banner.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meet Renaissance Austin, the creative force that is&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/raghousenternational?ref=top_trail"&gt; Raghouse International&lt;/a&gt;!&amp;nbsp; Follow her blog, &lt;a href="http://artfulchatterbyrenaissance.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Artful Chatterbox&lt;/a&gt;, to learn about her passions for crafting, fashion, photography and more!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;So what does Renaissance have to say about herself?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Creativity, I cannot  live without. I love all things beautiful and the visual and performing  arts. And most of all I love love...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was taught crochet at the age of eight by my grandma who is my  creative foundation. I love her! By eleven, I was sketching and  designing women's clothing and hand sewing by twelve. I continued with  my fashion studies all the way through school and into college where I  double majored in fashion design and fashion marketing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I officially opened the doors of my shop to the online community in 2007 and I have not looked back!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="overlay-body wrap"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt; Since that time I've learned knitting,jewelry assembly and design and  am continuing to learn and grow from amazing artisans from all over the  world!&lt;br /&gt;
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Raghouse International's mission is to finally put the rest the bad  reputation that crochet has had from its birth. In the early years of  this art form, crochet was know as a poor man's craft, bulky, ugly to  wear, not comparable to knitting, but the past ten years have changed  this and revolutionized the craft. Crochet and even knitwear in general  have pushed their way to the forefront of the fashion industry and  because I am so passionate about texture, I create every piece with  texture in mind. I don't see crochet or knit, but feel, mood, and style.  I hope you see it too! &lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Renaissance's blog?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="overlay-body wrap"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Especially for those who love the &lt;i&gt;smell-goods&lt;/i&gt;.... Meet Nikki of &lt;a href="http://nikkimakesscents.blogspot.com/"&gt;Nikki Makes Scents&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I started dabbling in candle-making in 1998 for my love of candles but  frustration for not finding quality candles I wanted to accent my new  apartment. To this day my mom still has the first candle I made out of a  sour cream cup. Hopefully you feel my candles have progressed since  then :-) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;None of our candles are mass produced like department store candles that  could be on the shelves for months. Almost all are made fresh to order.  Therefore, no two candles look exactly alike.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;All of our candles are lead-free!! We currently have over 650 candle  scents to choose from with new scents coming in regularly. Our small  American company has the big candle factory feel with the ability of  creating thousands of candle styles, scents and colors variations, yet  still maintaining our personal touch with our customers by making one  candle at a time. For sensitive noses, we can make unscented candles,  and bath &amp;amp; body products so all can enjoy. For the green, vegan or  environmentally conscious, we have a line of natural wax candles as well  as many natural ingredients in several of our bath &amp;amp; body items. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;What kinds of scents can you expect to find on Nikki's &lt;a href="http://nikkimakesscents.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h1 style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;To learn more about Nikki Makes Scents, visit &lt;a href="http://nikkimakesscents.blogspot.com/"&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/nikkicandles"&gt;the Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-1346084433438392596?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/_Cfgy7CnyKQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/1346084433438392596/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=1346084433438392596&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/1346084433438392596?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/1346084433438392596?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/_Cfgy7CnyKQ/blog-love-nikki-makes-scents.html" title="Blog Love:  Nikki Makes Scents" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t6UuMeBcx3M/Tmvl-0iVV5I/AAAAAAAAA6Q/Q69kPcyXT0M/s72-c/logoheader3.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-love-nikki-makes-scents.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkUCR38_eyp7ImA9WhdXF0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-7980238390597925290</id><published>2011-08-30T22:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T22:37:46.143-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-30T22:37:46.143-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Indigofera Beauty</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4HwWpnI9qtE/Tl2azJk5iSI/AAAAAAAAA5A/IJc1yPF7FRA/s1600/Indigofera_Banner+q3+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="73" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4HwWpnI9qtE/Tl2azJk5iSI/AAAAAAAAA5A/IJc1yPF7FRA/s400/Indigofera_Banner+q3+2011.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meet Chanelle Washington of &lt;a href="http://indigoferabeauty.blogspot.com/"&gt;Indigofera Beauty&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Indigofera is a beauty &amp;amp; wellness company offering plant based beauty solutions and natural beauty education  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;My mother tells me I have been pursuing business since I was a young  girl. I grew up in Philadelphia, PA with many creative, cultural and  entrepreneurial influences. In high school I took advance placement  biology and my teacher encouraged me to be a nurse or a pharmacist. I  earned a B.S.N. with honors from Temple University. Holistic healing,  aromatherapy and wellness intrigued me so I read as many books as I  could find. Maybe it what I learned about the mind, body, spirit connect  that led me to create nourishing aromatic body care, my first  Indigofera collection.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;I loved to joy of blending exotic butter, moisture rich oils, uplifting  essential oils and fragrant herbs. My clients loved it too! So I shared  my body butter, bath salts and hair oils to open mics, craft shows,  street festivals and pamper parties. Indigofera gave me hope through  life's challenges and wisdom as I grew into a woman.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;The evolution continued and I paired by plant based product with my love  of natural beauty and hair care. I spread my wings and opened a brick  and mortar location in my hometown. The Indigofera Natural Hair &amp;amp;  Skin Studio. My clients enjoyed many Signature Services including  Aromatherapy facials, Therapeutic Scalp Treatments, and natural hair  care at it's best. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;See you are a sum of your experiences and I believe what made "The  Studio" so special was my  understanding of holistic beauty,  spirituality and science. My Indigofera philosophy is something I now  share with others who have a passion to deliver a tranquil  transformative experience.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you find on Chanelle's &lt;a href="http://indigoferabeauty.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;...and of course, her plant-based products!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c4lx7vmGPKU/Tl2c5JYF4ZI/AAAAAAAAA5U/KYRnaCaiCXQ/s1600/moisturizinglotionweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c4lx7vmGPKU/Tl2c5JYF4ZI/AAAAAAAAA5U/KYRnaCaiCXQ/s320/moisturizinglotionweb.jpg" width="156" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;To learn more about Chanelle's products, visit &lt;a href="http://indigoferabeauty.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Indigofera?ref=pr_shop"&gt;the Indigofera Beauty Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-7980238390597925290?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/nobIM2wbnbQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/7980238390597925290/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=7980238390597925290&amp;isPopup=true" title="5 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/7980238390597925290?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/7980238390597925290?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/nobIM2wbnbQ/blog-love-indigofera-beauty.html" title="Blog Love:  Indigofera Beauty" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4HwWpnI9qtE/Tl2azJk5iSI/AAAAAAAAA5A/IJc1yPF7FRA/s72-c/Indigofera_Banner+q3+2011.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-love-indigofera-beauty.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0MCSHk5eSp7ImA9WhdXE0Q.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-2263077223257221497</id><published>2011-08-26T18:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-26T18:57:49.721-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-26T18:57:49.721-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Wirequeen</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dnUuJV9mXxI/TlgjYycPzII/AAAAAAAAA30/pk9JhP7mpOQ/s1600/banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="51" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dnUuJV9mXxI/TlgjYycPzII/AAAAAAAAA30/pk9JhP7mpOQ/s400/banner.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
If you love jewelry, then you're in for a treat at Michelle Hawkins' &lt;a href="http://wirequeen.blogspot.com/"&gt;Wirequeen&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Michelle have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am an International Trade Specialist, Artist, Jeweler. A networker for  the heck of it. I'd rather help you than hurt you. I want to share my  artistic works , whether jewelery, art or more. I live in Scottsdale and  there's always something going on here. So now I'm Blogging.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;What can you expect to find on Michelle's blog?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqoA2K5wfpo/TlgkMabD_bI/AAAAAAAAA34/B1HCLCXVuNY/s1600/Turquoise+necklace+set.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqoA2K5wfpo/TlgkMabD_bI/AAAAAAAAA34/B1HCLCXVuNY/s1600/Turquoise+necklace+set.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cxU515DgjUM/TlgkNgMogZI/AAAAAAAAA4I/A9Lj_yJEwEo/s1600/Small+pearl+ww+ring.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="237" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cxU515DgjUM/TlgkNgMogZI/AAAAAAAAA4I/A9Lj_yJEwEo/s320/Small+pearl+ww+ring.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;In addition, you will find loads of information on how to build a better business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;To learn more about Michelle's work, visit &lt;a href="http://wirequeen.blogspot.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/wirequeen?ref=pr_shop"&gt;Ella's Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-2263077223257221497?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/BCG0h2hDIzI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/2263077223257221497/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=2263077223257221497&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/2263077223257221497?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/2263077223257221497?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/BCG0h2hDIzI/blog-love-wirequeen.html" title="Blog Love:  Wirequeen" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dnUuJV9mXxI/TlgjYycPzII/AAAAAAAAA30/pk9JhP7mpOQ/s72-c/banner.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-love-wirequeen.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEIHRXw-cSp7ImA9WhdQGU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-8991752365806595170</id><published>2011-08-21T00:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T00:55:34.259-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-21T00:55:34.259-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  ella Parry</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HYiJBIWwrjU/TkifXl7QnNI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/QKCgvcBKxWo/s1600/blogbannerweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="140" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HYiJBIWwrjU/TkifXl7QnNI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/QKCgvcBKxWo/s400/blogbannerweb.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Meet &lt;b&gt;Ella Parry&lt;/b&gt; of &lt;a href="http://ellaparry.blogspot.com/"&gt;ella Parry&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Encouragement from her primary school Art teacher, coupled with her love for Japanese cartoons and the illustrations in Anderson's Fairy Tales, Ella knew she would become an illustrator.&amp;nbsp; And that's exactly what she did.&amp;nbsp; Ella is the creative mind behind the "Little Curly" character. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What does Ella have to say about herself?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i style="color: #274e13;"&gt;I'm Ella but you can call me Little Curly, Little Curly was my childhood  name (used only by my lovely family, Ah! but my parents still call me  Little Curly).&amp;nbsp; So here I am - Little Curly:&lt;br /&gt;
Little Curly was born with natural curly hair and two round big eyes.   She is a shy &amp;amp; innocence girl who enjoys watching Japanese cartoon  after school and day-dreaming.  Little Curly loves drawing and crafty, she loves to share all her artwork with family and friends.&lt;br /&gt;
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Little Curly's illustrations are simplicity, naivety, colour-inspired  and unpretentious and usually works in soft water colour pencils. &lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;What can you expect to find on Ella's &lt;a href="http://ellaparry.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Her current artistic endeavors.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;And lots prints showcasing the adventures of "Little Curly" and her friends.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-8991752365806595170?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/IHlpBOdhnfY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/8991752365806595170/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=8991752365806595170&amp;isPopup=true" title="5 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/8991752365806595170?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/8991752365806595170?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/IHlpBOdhnfY/blog-love-ella-parry.html" title="Blog Love:  ella Parry" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HYiJBIWwrjU/TkifXl7QnNI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/QKCgvcBKxWo/s72-c/blogbannerweb.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-love-ella-parry.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkQEQXw5eSp7ImA9WhdQFkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483115099877940006.post-1708171775882638159</id><published>2011-08-18T00:05:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-18T00:05:00.221-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-18T00:05:00.221-04:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="blog love" /><title>Blog Love:  Artistic Expressions by Elisabeth</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-54WTGzMXXmw/TkicfyfpmfI/AAAAAAAAA2A/XQLZw5D7vPM/s1600/my+blog+header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="178" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-54WTGzMXXmw/TkicfyfpmfI/AAAAAAAAA2A/XQLZw5D7vPM/s400/my+blog+header.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What does Elisabeth have to say about herself?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #741b47;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Back in June of 2010 I became the official name behind Artistic  Expressions by Elisabeth.&amp;nbsp; I chose that name because I think it suits  who I am as a person.&amp;nbsp; I love so many different creative outlets that I  can't choose just one.&amp;nbsp; My expressions may come in the form of crochet,  photography, cooking, crafting, sewing, and most recently, knitting.&amp;nbsp;  Let's also throw in there that I change my hairstyles quite frequently -  another expression!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;So what do you expect to find on this blog?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Food.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1NPoDh_MRCc/TkicuhD_T1I/AAAAAAAAA2E/wurNfnpV9zs/s1600/takeout3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1NPoDh_MRCc/TkicuhD_T1I/AAAAAAAAA2E/wurNfnpV9zs/s320/takeout3.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Fiber.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Photography.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b2QRjac9DiY/TkiddpIkWTI/AAAAAAAAA2U/O3loGxUC_Xw/s1600/lily4_sg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b2QRjac9DiY/TkiddpIkWTI/AAAAAAAAA2U/O3loGxUC_Xw/s320/lily4_sg.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;To learn more about Artistic Expressions by Elisabeth, visit &lt;a href="http://artisticexpressionsbyelisabeth.blogspot.com/"&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/artisticexpressionse"&gt;the Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;If you're interested in having your blog featured, list your blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;url on our Etsy team discussion &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/6303/etsy-artists-of-color/discuss/7578800/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;pre id="embed"&gt;XOXO,&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/390/154C36C40A8A76C89CDC138A3555EE68.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5483115099877940006-1708171775882638159?l=eaoc.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eaoc/~4/UJqRdYLaGb4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://eaoc.blogspot.com/feeds/1708171775882638159/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5483115099877940006&amp;postID=1708171775882638159&amp;isPopup=true" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/1708171775882638159?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5483115099877940006/posts/default/1708171775882638159?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eaoc/~3/UJqRdYLaGb4/blog-love-artistic-expressions-by.html" title="Blog Love:  Artistic Expressions by Elisabeth" /><author><name>Libby</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14071016583187622819</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHnjYpiq0vs/Tn6SnnJbXRI/AAAAAAAAA8k/AAvFK0S_Rj0/s220/ebh92411-13_sg.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-54WTGzMXXmw/TkicfyfpmfI/AAAAAAAAA2A/XQLZw5D7vPM/s72-c/my+blog+header.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://eaoc.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-love-artistic-expressions-by.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

