So I have now officially quit smoking for 7 months! Creating this site was the perfect way to get my mind off the cravings BUT once I got over the withdrawl I kinda have to admit that I stopped spending time on the site (must work on that!)

So I spent the last couple months attending numerous travel hockey and travel cheerleading events. It`s been a great season! My stepsons team finished off the season with 2nd place in their last tournament and I was so proud of my daughter cheer team last weekend! They got 2nd place in the American National Cheer Competition!!

With this busy winter season I haven`t had much time for anything of my own! But spring is in the air and hockey season has ended (cheer is year round) and it`s time for MOM to take some time doing the things she loves! So back to scrapping all my amazing photos from last seasons sporting events and I have a couple other things on the go that I will be working on! I will update and tell you about those later!!

Anyways I stopped by today to say Happy Easter to everyone and I hope you all keep stopping by my site! I have been pleasantly surprised to see that there is still activity on here everyday!!

Site is #1 in Yahoo Search!

Ok! I am very very pleased!! I have been playing around with my site over the past week and I hope you like the new "look".

I decided to type Craft Classifieds in the yahoo.ca search the other day. To my stunned surprise my site came up first!!!! This is a big deal as it will definitely bring more traffic to the site! I have already been seeing numerous hits from all over the world!

Keep letting your friends know about this site! It's free and it's made just for my fellow craft junkies to sell their stuff and form one great big friendly community!

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

January 13th

I hope everyone has settled into the New Year!

First I want to thank Danielle and Tara for stopping by my site! Danielle is such a sweetheart and having her brightening up the message board with posts is always a nice thing to log on to! And Tara has been actively posting the most amazing scrapbooking kits for such a GREAT price!! I do hope you will check them out! Tara, I will be emailing you later this week! I wouldn’t mind getting my paws on one of those kits!
I received an email from a friend a couple weeks ago. She knows how I love to scrapbook so she sent me a link to her friend’s website. It is similar to "Creative Memories" or "Stamping Up" but it’s the digital version! Needless to say anything to do with scrapbooking catches my eyes so I am having a "party" to learn more about it at the end of this month! Check out the site if you get a chance! It looks very cool!

I am at work right now so I will be logging off. Feel free to leave your comments!
Have a great week!
Michele

Happy New Year

So I have a New Years Resolution to get this site off the ground! I started it during a busy time (before Christmas) and I wasn't able to put as much into it as I should have prior to the holidays. But now with Christmas behind us and the long winter ahead of me I certainly will find the time to get on here more often to update and work at making this site craft community I want it to become.

I see that we have more visitors to this site fairly regularly. I would love for you all to come and say hello on the message board! If you have an Etsy store, Ebay store or home-based business and you wish to get more free advertising please feel free to post it in our classifieds or feel free to upload your work in our gallery and share with others on our message board.

If you just have old supplies that you want to sell to get back some money or you want to earn some extra cash for something new, please feel free to post your unwanted supplies as well.

I am always looking for someone to feature on the site. So starting in January any new members on my message board will automatically be entered into a random monthly draw to be featured crafter of the month. This will include a full article about the artist and free featured advertising on the site for the month they are chosen.

So enough about the site for now! I did get some scrapbooking done through the holidays - another New Years Resolution for me!! Here are my most recent pages.

Please leave a comment if you want!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holidays. Happy New Year to you all.

Quick & Inexpensive Christmas Decorating Ideas

Quick and Inexpensive Christmas Decorating Ideas:

1) Brighten up your table with a crystal bowl of tree balls of different colours, add cinnamon scented pinecones for texture.

2) Create a Christmas ambiance by turning on your fireplace and using less lights and more cinnamon or vanilla scented candles. The flicker of your candles and fireplace with the sparkling lights from your Christmas tree will create a settling and relaxing ambiance! This will also help your energy and heating bill during the Christmas season.

3) Tie (using ribbon) tiny sprigs of evergreen to your cloth napkins to make your own napkin rings.

4) Spray "fake" snow to a real evergreen swag or wreath. Tie a large bow to the wreath using garbage bags ties and you have yourself a easy, inexpensive door ornament.

5) Fill clear glass bowls or containers with candy canes and peppermint candies and place on coffee tables and shelves throughout the house to add Christmas colours to the rooms.

6) Tie back your curtains with Christmas bows and evergreen sprigs.

7) Hang a small ornament on your guests wine glass.

Do you have a quick and easy decorating idea? Please email your decorating tips to share with other site visitors.

Samantha's got a great stamping sale going on!

A fellow blogger emailed me some great information on some sales going on at her site! You need to check this out if you like stamping and scrapping! She's in the USA but her prices are fantastic and her shipping charges to Canada are extremely reasonable!

Check out Samantha's site http://thescrapmaster.blogspot.com/

Looking for featured items!

I want to feature your blog or website on my site! I am looking for great craft articles or blog entries that would be a great resource for other crafters! Share your tips and ideas with me!

Please send me your "featured" blog entry or "tips" article that you want featured and I will provide free featured advertising to your online store, site or blog on my site as well as free featured listings in the classifieds for one full month!