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Welcome to the January 11, 2007 edition of Carnival of the Creators. I’m honored to be allowed to host this carnival this month. There are a lot of talented people out there and we had quite a few send in entries this time around. I hope you’ll visit each of them and see what they have to offer.
Rocket presents Unknown Onward Drawn – Part 2 – The Departure posted at The Rocketman’s Change For A Dollar, saying, “Part 2 of a fantasy story I began writing in June. The initial post was not intended to produce a serial, but a recent re-visitation sparked a few ideas, and so I’ll be working at this one for a while. Enjoy!”
Jake Danger presents Warrior Poet – A True Story » “Chungking Mansions: Tuesday, April 19, 2001″ posted at Warrior Poet – A True Story.
Karl Staib presents Meditation Series for Beginners posted at 10,000 Swimming Pools Inside Our Minds.
Brandon Peele presents The Economics of Self-Awareness posted at GT.
Jack Yoest presents Rocky Balboa: Courage, Integrity, Faith, Victory The Movie posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “Your Business Blogger was in Philly recently and wondered about the Rocky statue that was briefly at the top of the 72 steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Since September, the statue is now at the base of the steps.
So I decided to ask the man who might know, Sylvester Stallone.
Why? I asked him.
Rocky Sly says, It’s better where it is — at the base of the steps. At the top was the completion — the end — but it’s not the completion that counts — it’s the journey. The Effort; The Passion.”
Cyndi presents Making a mixed media necklace from piano ivories posted at Cyndi Lavin, saying, “a new tutorial on my blog 
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Dawn Xiana Moon presents Why I Will Never Have a Boyfriend posted at Dawn Xiana Moon: Randomness.
Douglas T presents Setting graphic design free posted at Thoughts on Design.
James presents Learning to Pitch posted at On The Scene.
Mallory presents Naughty Secretary Club posted at Miss Malaprop – independent, sustainable, eco-friendly shopping, film, art, fashion, crafts & design, from New Orleans with love.
Will Chen presents Micro-donations for Darfur posted at Wisebread, saying, “Greg Go of Wise Bread presents the “Darfur Wall,” a solemn and beautiful reminder of the ongoing tragedy in Darfur.”
Corey presents Web 2.0 posted at myopiniononeverything.com.
lorenzo presents Channeling Inspiration posted at RealitySeeds, saying, “he Inspiration Channeling Method can be used to invoke and channel inspiration for a multitude of purposes, including finding inspiration for art projects, creating new business ideas, speaking with customers or partners, writing inspired blog posts and articles, bringing the best contribution during work meetings, create new ideas, bring inspiration and advice to others, etc…”
Jakob Dupont Knudsen presents 10 Steps to become a magician posted at Jakob Dupont Knudsen.
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of the creators using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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January 11, 2007
Welcome to the January 1, 2007 edition of Carnival of Jewelry Design.
Jewelry Design
Mallory presents Miss Malaprop – independent, sustainable, eco-friendly shopping, film, art, fashion, crafts & design, from New Orleans with love » Blog Archive » Circle Jewelry posted at Miss Malaprop – independent, sustainable, eco-friendly shopping, film, art, fashion, crafts & design, from New Orleans with love.
Mallory presents Miss Malaprop – independent, sustainable, eco-friendly shopping, film, art, fashion, crafts & design, from New Orleans with love » Blog Archive » Conflict Free Diamond Jewelry posted at Miss Malaprop – independent, sustainable, eco-friendly shopping, film, art, fashion, crafts & design, from New Orleans with love.
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival of Jewelry Design using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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January 1, 2007
Welcome to the December 4, 2006 edition of carnival of jewelry design.
We Have a Winner!
First entry is an exciting one! Fellow b5media blogger, Cyndi Lavin, actually won a design contest at Fire Mountain Gems. Check out her fabulous winning design. Congratulations Cyndi!!!
Cyndi presents Ohmygosh, ohmygosh, ohmygosh! posted at Mazel Tov! Jewelry blog.
Jewelry Design
michelle presents Dripping in Trash posted at AmericanInventorSpot.com.
Bracelets, earrings … posted at Journal of Ruth, saying, “I recently discovered jewellery-making, and it’s such a joy to give them away.”
Cyndi presents Handmade beaded bracelets for the holidays! posted at Mazel Tov! Jewelry blog.
That concludes this edition. Do you have a piece you are particularly proud of? Why not submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival of Jewelry Design using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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December 4, 2006
Well, here’s the October 23, 2006 edition of carnival of jewelry design. Again, I got a couple of terrific submissions! Take a look!
Sharla Oliveri presents New Jewelry! posted at Sharma Designs – Behind the Scenes, saying, “The newest one of a kind pieces in my collection of handmade jewelry!”
Sharla shows us some of her latest creations and inpires me to get my tolls out and make some new things myself. Great stuff, Sharla!
Holly Aho presents Beaded Necklaces posted at Soldiers’ Angel – Holly Aho.
Holly shows us three of her newest necklace designs. They are truly fabulous! Her blog is fun and an intersting read. And I love her designs!
That’s it for this month. Please submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of jewelry design using this Submit an entry to “carnival of jewelry design” carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on the Blog Carnival index for “carnival of jewelry design”
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October 23, 2006
Yes, this is the very first edition of the Carnival of Jewelry Design. I’ll moderate it for a month or so, then ask for volunteers from other designers to act as ‘guest moderators’ now and then, to add some spice to the postings.
You say that you’re unfamiliar with a blog carnival or what its purpose could be? No problem! I’ll explain. We bloggers pour our hearts out into our blogs and then hope people manage to stumble across them and read them. If left alone, this would be a pretty haphazard process, at best. So some very clever people have thought of some good ways to help each other gain traffic, and hopefully, regular readers for each other. If all goes well, we all win in the end!
You say that you have a blog, would love to increase your traffic, but don’t blog about anything remotely similar to jewelry? That’s ok too! You can sift through hundreds of blog carnivals here, where you’ll surely find at least one carnival that your blog will fit perfectly.
Now, back to this month’s carnival. Since it’s the first time we’ve had a jewelry design carnival, the entries were few. But not to worry, the entries we got were outstanding! You’ll see what I mean…
Dawn White is a lampwork bead artist whose work I have admired (and bought) for years! And I assure you, I’ll be a future customer of hers as well. First of all, I would like to compliment her on a fun blog, overall. She posts about her family, her trips and everyday adventures…much like I do. But she also posts her latest bead masterpieces as well. She is much better than me at keeping the photos of her work current on her blog and they’re always breathtaking!
Here’s her official carnival entry: Dawn presents Blue Necklace posted at Duda Designs.
But, don’t stop with that post! Here’s one that I’m absolutely in love with! Fabulous!!
Our second carnival entry is Mazel Tov! Jewelry Treasures. Here’s the official entry: Cyndi Lavin presents Mazel Tov! Jewelry Treasures posted at Mazel Tov! Jewelry Treasures.
Cyndi and her friends have created a great collaborative project involving a “Charming” necklace! They have all contributed charms for the necklace, then are passing it around for all to enjoy. Once all have had it, they will auction it off for some as-yet unnamed charity. What a fun idea! I’m thinking of joining this too the next time!!
Again, Cyndi’s site is full of great pieces she’s created. This one is simply spectacular!
You’ll want to browse through all the previous posts too.
I have both of these terrific blogs in my news reader so I can keep up with every new post they make. If you’re a fan of jewelry or of jewelry design, you might consider doing the same.
Now the next step in a blog carnival is that each of the entry blogs will post an entry linking to this carnival post. That way, we all benefit from added exposure and, hopefully, find new readers.
I know I’ve enjoyed telling you about both of these blogs and their treasures. If you have a blog related to jewelry design, I hope you’ll consider entering next month’s blog carnival of jewelry design. And spread the word! The more, the merrier!!
The next edition of the Carnival of Jewelry Design will be posted on Monday, October 16. That means that all entries must be received by 5:00 pm CST on October 13 in order to be included. Submit your latest brag pieces here!
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September 18, 2006
Thanks to Wendy in my Blogjolt! group, I’ve learned another fabulous way to get the word out about my blog while learning about other, similar blogs out there. It’s called a Blog Carnival. A person can set up their own carnival (group of bloggers) on a certain topic. Then, they invite other bloggers to post items on their subject and link to the carnival post. They then gather all the posts in the “carnival” and post a large post of their own with information about all the other blogs.
If this sounds confusing, don’t worry, it was for me too. However, I took a look at some of the carnivals out there and got the hang of it pretty quickly. So, you guessed it, I’m starting a new blog carnival on Jewelry design. You can join and contribute to it here.
I hope to get interest from as many other jewelry designers as possible, so please submit!…to the carnival, that is. 
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August 16, 2006
I’ve already noticed a huge jump in jewelry sales as a result of my brand new blog!
Ok, so I’m stretching the truth just a bit about this. But I did just sell two items from my web site to a good friend that I emailed about my new blog. She looked at the blog, then went to my jewelry site and saw a couple of things she wants to buy. Not huge, you might say, but it did happen from the link on my blog, no matter who it was that made the purchase. (Thanks so much, Anne!)
I’ve been under the weather since I got back from Seattle with a cold that has kicked my butt, so I haven’t even ventured into the studio to work on any new items in over a week. And there’s a bunch of new things I have finished and haven’t had time to photograph for the site. But, not to worry, I’ll be back in the swing of things in a day or two. You can expect posts about the jewelry to begin then.
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July 16, 2006
