This weeks featured artisan is Va Beach Quilter!
Kim makes lovely quilts, table runners, coupon organizers, wallets, purses and more! A truly talented
lady offering a wide variety of creations! All make wonderful gifts!
You can find Va Beach Quilter @
VaBeachQuilter’s Blog ~ With monthly giveaaways!
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I just signed up for an awesome application called MarketMeTweet! Prior to MMT, I had been using Hootsuite to keep my three Twitter accounts running and to have everything in one place for easy access and use. But I just heard about MarketMeTweet last week, and this is the greatest Twitter app since sliced bread, in my opinion! I quickly became an affiliate of MMT, and just today I signed up as a user too!
What’s so great about MarketMeTweet? For me, it’s the ability to “brand my tweets”. Look at my tweet below, and you will notice at the bottom of the tweets it says “via American History Fun Facts” and “via Julia Hutchins Designs”. Those are my branded, clickable links to my websites, American History Fun Facts and Julia Hutchins Designs!
Isn’t that cool? Instead of advertising for Hootsuite, or Twitter, or Tweetdeck, I’m now able to advertise for my own websites! Not just one, but all of my websites! I set up a “brand” for all three of my Twitter accounts, with clickable links to my different sites. You can set up as many brands as you want, and use on as many Twitter accounts as you have.
Now this feature would be more than enough to sell me on MarketMeTweet, but they also offer lots of other great features. I can schedule tweets, either individually or bulk (by uploading a text file with multiple tweets). I can schedule them through Google calendar, which allows me to schedule my tweets through a mobile device that supports Google calendar. I can also look at all of my scheduled tweets by week, month or even year.
I can also look at my Facebook personal and business pages through MMT (and update them!), follow and unfollow people, send one tweet to all three of my Twitter accounts, import my RSS feeds to my Twitter accounts, set up reply campaigns, and so much more. This really is the perfect tool for my businesses, and I am so glad I found out about it!
If you are interested in trying them out, they offer a 3 day trial. That’s how I started out with them, and it’s only been one day and I already know I’m keeping it. I LOVE MarketMeTweet! Now I’m off to play with it some more!
Kansas in July…. a time for big yellow sunflowers with bright green leaves, amber waves of grain with the beautiful wheat fields, and fields of green corn (sweet and field corn). To capture the colors of Kansas in a new piece of jewelry, I created my “sunflower” necklace using items from my favorite bead supplier… Artbeads.
For my inspiration piece, I chose the beautiful Stoneware Rectangle Pendant – Sunflowers.
Stoneware Pendant - Sunflowers
I then needed something for the “petals”. I found the perfect bead with some Flat Teardrop Pendant beads in amber. To compliment the amber and yellow, I wanted a pretty green bead for more color for my piece. I just love the Wasabi beads that Artbeads has, and I found some beautiful Wasabi luster glass brick beads that worked perfectly!
Sunflower Necklace
I couldn’t decide how I wanted to attach the teardrop pendants to the necklace at first, and then I remembered that I had a huge bag of vintage sterling silver bails that my Mom used to sell at her antique shop (she carried native American jewelry in her shop in addition to some silversmith supplies). They were just what I need to attach the teardrops. I also wanted to add some brown tones to the necklace, and found some rectangle Tiger Eye beads leftover from a previous project. They work well with the new Artbeads components that I was using for this Sunflower necklace, and with a few small seed beads for accent, I started my work.
The result is this “Sunflower Necklace”. I think it reflects the beautiful colors found in Kansas in July… what do you think?
Sunflower Necklace
Disclosure: I have received some of the components used for this design from Artbeads free of charge. I am posting an honest review of said products and have not been paid to endorse said products.
This Weeks Featured Artisan is Creations with Heart
I truly enjoy creating jewelry and it\’s a bonus and a pleasure to make it available to you!
I love to create classic and western jewelry that will always fit your style! Gemstones, crystals, pewter and leather are just a few materials I enjoy working with. I\’m a \”dog mom\” so including animals in some of my creations is a must — I love them so much! A percentage of all animal related purchases is donated to help the animals. It\’s something I like to do to help our furry friends that need and depend on us.
You\’ll see jewelry styles ranging from classic, animal themed, southwest, western and inspirational. My wish is to have my guests smile when they put my jewelry on. When you smile, you feel good!
I hope you enjoy the jewelry I\’ve created and may it bring you joy and happiness
You can find Creations with Heart @
Shop Name:
Creations With Heart
Shop URL:
2nd Shop URL:
Website URL:
Twitter Page:
http://twitter.com/CreationsWHeart
Blog:
http://CreationsWithHeart.blogspot.com
Have you heard about “MarketMeTweet” yet? Do you use HootSuite, Tweetdeck or some other application to send your business tweets out? If so, you are missing a great opportunity to send out your own branded tweets!
MarketMeTweet combines so many of the features you love (scheduled tweets, twitter managment, RSS, facebook integration, etc) with the ability to “brand your tweets” with a clickable link to your website! How cool is that? Instead of seeing “hootsuite” or “tweetdeck” below your tweets, you could be sending out a clickable link to your website with every tweet you post!
You really should check it out – it’s very affordable (especially with other app’s talking about charging for their services). Why pay another service to brand themselves through your tweets, when you could be branding your tweets yourself?
Their lifetime plan with special pricing ends tomorrow, so if you want to take advantage of a great lifetime price ($99) – better hurry! But don’t worry, their other plans are so affordable that you can still take advantage of them after the lifetime special pricing ends.
This Weeks Featured Artisan is ArtiZen Beads
Truly Unique Creations! You must visit here shop to see for yourself!
You can find ArtiZen Beads at:
Shop URL:
2nd Shop URL:
Website URL:
http://www.LauraRSilverman.com
Twitter Page:
Facebook :
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/laura.r.silverman
Blog:
http://www.laurarsilverman.blogspot.com
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