This weeks Featured Artisan is MoonSong Ranch! Beautiful Creations by a very talented Artisan!
Moonsong Ranch Handmade Alpaca Fashion products include felt nuno scarves, western style hats, purses, cases, knitted scarves and many other unique gift items
You can Find MoonSong Ranch at:
This week’s “Share the Love… Blogger’s Unite” featured artisan is me! I’m Julie from Julia Hutchins Designs.
This weeks featured artisan is Julia Hutchins Designs
You can find Julia at:
Shop URL:
http://www.juliahutchins.com
2nd Shop URL:
http://www.artfire.com/users/juhutch
Website URL:
http://www.juliahutchins.com
Twitter Page:
http://www.twitter.com/juliahutchins
Facebook :
http://www.facebook.com/juliahutchinsdesigns
I just finished publishing a new cookbook titled “Civil War Era Recipes Compiled from Historical Cookbooks”. The book is available in printed paperback or downloadable via ebook. There are over 40 pages of original recipes found in old cookbooks from the mid to late 1800′s.
So much fun to read, and a valuable resource for any Civil War reenactions. I did not change any language, grammar or spelling for this cookbook. The recipes were printed just as I found them in the antique cook books. This was so much fun putting together, and very hard to choose which recipes to include!
The cost for the printed version is $35, and the ebook version is only $4.99. Available on lulu.com
This weeks featured artisan is Little Sistah Studio!
Little Sistah Studio makes the paper, makes the adornments, makes the cards! She creates the art! Welcome to Her world of creativity!
You can find Little Sistah Studio@
I started a new website back in March, called American History Fun Facts. This was my first website (but it won’t be my last) using the SitSell Site Build It! program, and I have to say… I’m very impressed!
My first attempt at a website was not very successful. Traffic is low on my handcrafted jewelry website – Julia Hutchins Designs. When I decided to build a new website, I wanted to make sure that it was successful. With the SBI! program, I felt sure that my new site would be just that.
It’s been successful beyond what I could have imagined, in only a few short months. I can’t wait to see wait the next six months bring! My traffic stats are shown below, starting with my first partial month in March, and going through August 1, 2010.
March through July SBI traffic stats
As you can see, my traffic is great for a new site! Visitors more than doubled last month! My bounce rate is in the low 20′s, depending on which source I use to look at it. I’m completely sold on SBI! and will definitely build my future sites using their program. I have to do the hard work on my website, but SBI! provides exactly the tools that I need to do it! That, along with the knowledge they provide with their 10 step Action Guide, gives me everything I need to build a successful website.
SiteSell offers a monthly plan that you can cancel any time. If you are wanting to build a successful online business, or even make your current business more successful on the internet, I highly recommend trying their monthly plan.
If you want to watch some videos of other SBIer’s who are running their own successful businesses, read some of their stories here.
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!
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.
Today, April 22nd, has been declared “National Thank Anne Day”. Who is Anne, you might ask?
The Anne that we are thanking is Anne from Made for me by Oaklie. Not only does Anne make gorgeous crocheted scarves and accessories, she also works tirelessly to help promote other artisans, like me. She started the “Share the Love… Blogger’s Unite” program that I participate in to promote fellow artisans on the On Fire For Handmade Ning network that I belong to.
Anne deserves her own day, and I am happy to participate in the “Thank Anne Day”! Thank you, Anne! You are very much appreciated!
I received an e-mail today that I actually thought was worth sharing.
New Political Party.
Not Democrat, Not Republican, Not Independent.
It’s called the “PISSED OFF PARTY” (or POP).
This party is dedicated to vote every incumbent out of office in the next elections.
If you’re Democrat, vote Democrat. Just don’t vote for the incumbent.
If you’re Republican, vote Republican.. Just don’t vote for the incumbent.
We need to send a message to all politicians, that we’re tired of their B.S.
If the country votes out all the incumbents, the new incoming politicians will get the message..
It’s pretty simple. Nobody needs to change parties and lets face it, there’s plenty of blame to spread around.
A few good politicians will lose their job but they probably have better retirement and insurance then 95% of the American public.
You’ve had to struggle for the last 5 years. Some of you have lost your job and may be working in some other sector just to feed your family.
I guarantee you, none of them will suffer like this country has.
If you like whats going on and think this is a bad idea, delete this.
But if you’re fed up and think this is a good idea, then pass this E-mail on.
If you really think this has legs then a website and a blog could help get the word out.
Be sure to read the letter below…
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Here’s an irritated Senior!!
This should be read and understood by all Americans – Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To All 535 voting members of the Legislature; it is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:
a. The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE NEED FOR GOOD HEALTH CARE, IT’S ABOUT TRUSTING THE GOVERNMENT TO RUN IT.
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our “duly elected’ and their staff (they never read anything) will clue them in on how Americans feel.
This week’s featured artisan is Lise from Lottie’s Trinkets. She has some very fun and beautiful jewelry – please visit her shop!
This week’s Featured Artisan is Lise – Lottie’s Trinkets. Lise has beautiful creations that are each truly unique. She also does custom orders. Stop by Lottie’s Trinkets and see all of her beautiful creations!
Find Lottie’s Trinkets @”
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