Travel Turtle

In honor of the Olympics, I wrote several posts about China, but not Beijing. The first part was about the town of Datong, the second was of the Yungang Caves. This final post is going to be about shopping in China and some customer service tips for craft fair vendors here.

Shopping in China is unique. [...]

Thank you everyone for all the well-wishes. Today was thankfully uneventful on my side of town. It was dark most of the day and didn’t start raining until later in the evening… and it hasn’t stopped.
I’m hoping to get another fabric giveaway up by Wednesday evening. Please check back.

After an extremely fun weekend riding bikes, BBQ-ing and swimming I am ready for the week. Which works out great because there seems to be a tropical storm headed in my direction. Since there was so much FUN this weekend, I have to do some hurricane-related prep work today. Make sure I have water, gas, [...]

I’m planning on having a great weekend. Biking, BBQ-ing, and enjoying some time at home. I wanted to leave this blog with some words taken from the Nike commercial I posted less than 24 hours ago (yet 3 posts ago).
EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS ALREADY INSIDE.
Have a great weekend.

Thank you to everyone who entered. I went to random.org and generated a random integer and that integer is:
(drumroll….)
Here are your random numbers:
13
Timestamp: 2008-08-15 21:00:00 UTC
Comment #13:
Aug 14, 2008 - 06:08:12 | Edit
Carol VR said:

Please count me in and do contact me on your next giveaway.

Carol… I will email you shortly.
Thanks again everyone, and please [...]

Way back in this post, I showed a project I started working on which I called “flower patches”. I didn’t know what I was going to with the patches and I got a lot of great recommendations. THANK YOU. I decided that one thing I would do with the flower patches is put them in [...]

I apologize in advance for not discussing travel and crafts for the first part of this post. Try to stay with me, though.
I watch the Olympics all day long. And all night. I’m watching women’s gymnastics right now, in fact. As a whole, I find the Olympic Games inspiring. Part of it is my love [...]

I am truly honored that one of my favorite blogs, Pulp Sushi, nominated me for:

Thanks Pulp Sushi! By accepting this award, I agree to:

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Fabric Scrap Giveaway #1 is here. Why #1? Because I’m going to be doing three of them over the course of the next three weeks! This is just the first one!!
Here’s a glimpse of what you could win:

Disclaimer: These are discontinued fabric samples from a local interior design shop. They range in sizes from placemat [...]

I’ll be doing a fabric scraps giveaway within the next two days. More details to come. Be on the lookout!