Madge on August 22nd 1964...age one! Check out that wicked cool carousel cake!
It's time once again to spread the linky love across the blogosphere. This week's edition of TastyLinksTM is supersized and includes some tasty extras, happy birthday wishes and hearty thank yous! I'll be back on August 25th with a new round of links and to share some tales of our trip to the Smokey Mountains. So y'all come back now, ya here!
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Now is the time to start sharing your Halloween ideas and, more importantly, photos of your home-made costumes, jack-o-lanterns, and haunted decorations.
About.com Cross Stitch A Pattern-A-Day in August '08 continues. Don't miss the new free patterns!
Aileen's Musings Meet Fleurita the Flower Nymph, she's quite the fashionista! Learn how to create your very own flower nymph and enter her in OTM's Art Muse Contest.
Craftside- A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world Gear up for fall crafting with a chance to win a Crafty Chica Bobble head and her book along with her tour schedule, touching quilt stories, a free Halloween raven template with a paper and jewelry tutorial, a fashion illustration guideline for sketching your new fall fashions and how to sew a book cover just in time for back to school.
Crafty Princess Diaries Links are still hot! And so is metal clay. Tammy offers some ideas for making metal clay links and then incorporating them into an easy earring design.
Layers Upon Layers Come meet Angela Mabray, the Crafty Goat, as she shares her recyled art inspirations!
Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery Practicality wins at Sweater Surgery and the craft supplies get a new home with a freecycled wood shelf how-to.
The Impatient Blogger The Impatient CrafterTM Margot Potter has a special guest in her new craftertaining video sampling! Jenny Harada comes to the little school house to share how to make your very own fuzzy monster!
Jenny Harada shares her visit with the Potter Family to film a The Impatient CrafterTM video in this charming blog post.
The divine Ms. Stacy McQueen aka The Craft Whore launched her new website with links to all of her brilliantly subversive crafty videos this week. Go see! Love the Valley of the Dolls style bio photos!
My dear friend Jean Yates' son is in a kick arse up and coming rock band called The Ruse. Vote for them to win at the MTV Music Awards here: http://la. mtv2. com/. You can only vote up until August 24th, so hurry!
The gals from Porch Stories gave me a super shout out this week, thanks gals! "Our porches are places of comfort and confidence. This is our online porch where we tell stories, brag & complain, swap recipes, show off our latest projects, ask for advice, give unsolicited advice.... and yes of course... gossip."
Don't forget Tammy Powley has a free metal clay project from her fabulous book Picture Yourself Creating Metal Clay Jewelry on her Crafty Princess Diaries blog! AND! She's got another new book Jewelry and Beading Designs for Dummies available on Amazon penned with her pal Heather Dinsmore! GO TAMMY GO!
If you missed the QVC shows I had this past week, you can always go to the Suspicion marcasite jewelry section at www.qvc.com and click on the videos on any of the marcasite items and up pops the latest video with yours truly. I didn't even know that until I wandered over there recently!
Thanks in advance to my bestest gal pal Inky aka Fiskateers Agent 411 aka Rebecca Peck for inviting us out to Margarita Madness tonight! I'm really excited to see her and my other bestest gal pal the incredibly talented and ever fantabulous Ms. Robin Beam! YAY!
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dear friend jewelry making superstar Katie Hacker! Please go show her some birthday love at her blog!
Don't forget our YouTube video we posted here earlier in the week. As always, if you post it in your blog, I'll give you a Linky Love shower when I get back from Tennessee! Here's the url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-kv_MF2HEM
Phew. Okay so we're off to enjoy some R & R and I'll be back next week, another year older and hopefully another year wiser. How in the hell did I get to be 45?! Break out the chardonnay, the birthday cake, the Botox and the vat of spackle! Madge is getting OLD!
xoxo
Margot McBirthday Gal