Coupon Links for this Week!

WALGREEN's $5.00 of $20.00 for Friday (9-26) and Saturday (9-27) Only: http://www.walgreens.com/hotbuys/default.jsp?xec=hn596_getcoupon

20% off Michael's: http://www.mommysavesbig.com/printable-coupons/michaels.pdf

Hobby Lobby Coupons - 30% off Krylon Spray Paint: http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/weekly/coupons/coupon.cfm

Joann Coupons - 40% off: http://www.joann-mail.com/J0913D7Q/coupons_only.html?r=2709_29616&i=J0913D7Q025&bc1=520827824149756600405 and/or enter "SEPTA840" on Joann.com.

9-21-08 through 9-27-08

Save $10 at Walgreens on 9/12/08 & 9/13/08

Walgreens $10/$40 Coupon

for Friday and Saturday Only

Click on this link for the coupon: http://www.walgreens.com/hotbuys/default.jsp?ec=hn591_getcoupon

Need MORE Blog Traffic

Building Traffic

with Blogs

If you are looking for a way to drive traffic to your website, look to your blog. Blogs are an excellent way to communicate with your target market and invite them to visit your site. Here are some tips you can use to blog for traffic.

Post on your blog regularly; at least 3 times a week. By updating your blog on a regular basis, you are giving your readers a reason to keep referring back to your blog. If you are providing timely and informative posts, your readers will see you as an expert in your field.

Customers who read your blog on a regular basis will come to have a beneficial relationship with you, since they will begin to feel that they can trust what you say. Many readers will come to you for answers and advice.

By installing a feed burner onto your blog, you will make it easier to keep in contact with your customers. Your readers will be able to subscribe to your blog and choose to have new posts delivered right to their email or computer's homepage. There are several services to choose from, and you can get a basic service for free. Setting up the service is easy; you simply install a small piece of HTML code onto your blog.

You could also choose to add a list of blogs that your readers might be interested in on your blog page. Each time you link a different blog to your page, ask that blogger to link back to you as well. This will help you boost traffic since you will be reaching a larger audience. Remember, though, that it only makes sense to link to blogs that your target customer would be interested in.

A fast and simple way to use your blog to get more traffic to your website is by linking back to it from your blog each time you post. You can entice blog readers to check out your website by posting a short excerpt of new articles appearing on your website to your blog along with an invitation to read more and a link to your website and the complete article.

When older articles that have been on your website for a while become especially useful to your customers again, you should place links to them on your blog. An article about entertaining kids during the summer with costumes can be brought to your blog readers' attention again when Halloween is getting close.

Adding links to opt-in pages is another option.

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Craft Store Coupons (Joann, Michaels, & Hobby Lobby) - Week of 9/7/08

KEEP Your Money - Money Saving Coupons

JOANN COUPONS:

JOANN COUPON COMMOTION PRINTABLES (Five 40% off coupons): http://www.joann-mail.com/J09093A2Z/coupons_only.html?r=2365_381009&i=J09093A2Z004

JOANN FABRIC COUPON CODES: http://www.couponcabin.com/coupons/joann-fabric/index.htm

HOBBY LOBBY PRINTABLES:

30% OFF ANY UNFINISHED WOOD PRODUCT: http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/weekly/coupons/coupon.cfm

MICHAELS CRAFT STORE:

20% OFF PRINTABLE: http://www.michaels.com/coupons/090708/coupon.html

* You can use Michael's coupons at Joann's and visa-versa.
* Hobby Lobby coupons can be used at Joann's, but I'm not sure about Michaels.

Be sure to get your neighbors and friends coupons too!

Have fun shopping!

Annabelle

Handmade Basket - New Today - Start Shopping for the Holidays

MALIBU BAY BREEZE Handmade Basket

New 9/2/08

free, Free, FREE ETSY Shop Giveaways and Sales Through Labor Day Weekend

Online Blog and ETSY Shop -

Giveaways and Sales for the Labor Day Weekend:

Happy Labor Day 2008!

Good luck!

Lots of giveaways below. Be sure to click on every one so you can enter and win something.

Adora Art Original Paintings is offering free shipping
Alesi has a "Buy One, Get One for $5.00" sale
Ann Made Stuff is having a 20% off sale
Azaiez ETSY Shop is offering 10% off
Baby White Elephant's ETSY Shop is having a 30% store-wide sale and free domestic shipping
Batiz Jewelry's ETSY Shop is having a 10% off sale items, 20% off items not on sale
Beads by Sam is offering free shipping anywhere
Bloggy Giveaway Giveaway from Swede at Heart
Calypso Mineral Makeup's ETSY shop is having a 40% off sale
Cards By Jenna is having a giveaway on her blog
Clean Rinse has a "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" sale on laundry samples
Cool Crafty Mom's Blog is having a giveaway of a beautiful print from Groovy Inclinations
D'Elle Juwelen's A freshwater pearl charm with swarovski crystals and sterling silver giveaway
Diba Beads and Vintage is having a "Find Indy" sale - 10-20% off
DZ Fantasy is having a "Wear a Fairy" giveaway
Erin T Fashion Accessories has 20% off anything in her store - mark "Labor Day Sale" in the "notes" section to get your discount
Goldentone Designs is offering free shipping
Goldtone Design has free shipping anywhere in the US
Groovy Inclinations ETSY shop is having a $10.00 off 3 prints
Handmade By Pam has a 10% off sale
Hodge Podge Bricologe is having a 10% off sale + free shipping
Home Studio's ETSY shop is having a "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" sale
IXTIL is offering "Buy One, Get One 1/2 Off"
Jewelry by Mel is offering free shipping
Joyas Bellas Jewelry Giveaway
Just a Girl's ETSY shop is having a 15% off sale + free shipping for orders over $25
Kimber's Handmade Bath & Body has a monthly drawing and is currently having a sale
Kristina Laurendi Havens ETSY Shop is having a "Buy 1, Get 1 Free" sale
La Chapina Huipil Crafts is having an earring giveaway through Thursday 9/4
La Mia Designs A necklace and earring set that is made out of japanese washi papers from LuLu Village
LillyD Bags has free shipping on select summer bags
Lindentree Photography is having a "Buy 5 cards and Get 1 Free" sale
Little Hand Studios is offering free shipping
Lizard's Jewelry has a 20% off sale
Megan Speers ETSY shop is having a HALF OFF sale through Sept. 5th on notebooks and zines
Melanie's Originals is offering a FREE SOAP with any order
Mimowha's Boutique is having free shipping in the US and $1.00 shipping in Canada
Mommy's Monkey is having a 10% off sale and has a new $5.00 section
My Cozy Creations ETSY Shop is having a HUGE sale
Natasha Designs ETSY Shop is having a 50% off sale
Nebulamystic's ETSY shop has everything marked down 10-20%
New Hope Beads is having a 15% off sale through 8/31 on all handcrafted jewelry
Prizey Directory of Online Giveaways
RavenX - Dirty Pretty Things is having a "Buy 3, Get 1 Free" sale on cards
Red Barbi is offering a free business card holder with every purchase
Rock My World Inc is giving away a Peace Pin with every purchase
Rocki's Supplies Handcrafted Artisan Jewelry Findings is having a big sale
Sha Nic Design is offering free shipping to celebrate her grand opening
Simply Raevyn's ETSY Shop -and- Raevyn77's ETSY Shop 20% off of everything in both of my shops, except summer clearance items. Summer Clearance items are Buy 1 Get 1 Free!!
Square Expressions is having a store-wide sale - everything is $0.75 cents
The Bead Sock Lady is offering free shipping for US residents
The Gaudy Goddess has everything 10% off + free domestic shipping
The Tribal Market has a "Buy One, Get One Free" sale
Thread Spider ETSY Shop is having a sale on her hand stitched sampler
Timeless Designs is having a 20% off sale
Tribal Witch is having an earring giveaway
Vintage Goodies is having a SHOP sale
Vintage Opulence is having a 20% off sale
Viva la Violette is offering free shipping to the first 5 customers
Win Crafty Handmade Giveaways Listing
Zuccini & Co is having a "Buy 2, Get 1 free" sale

Alcohol Consumption: Drinking with ME/CFS

Alcohol Consumption

How Badly Can It Affect ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Sufferers? Part I

(Copyright, Claire Williams, 2003-2007. All Rights Reserved.
The wonders of alcohol. )

The achilles heel for many people. The 'norm' for some others. And probably poison if you have ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ...

I remember when I first got Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS /CFIDS) back in 1995, I thought that having a drink or two wouldn't affect me any differently to my pre-PVFS days. Unfortunately I didn't realize what I was doing to myself.

I didn't know how badly alcohol consumption can affect the severity of Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS /CFIDS) ...

Nowadays I don't touch alcohol at all, and haven't done so for a few years now. I'd rather see at least a few hours in the day instead of being bedridden for weeks on end because of one alcoholic drink!

Because when you have ME/CFS /CFIDS , you might as well be pouring arsenic down your throat...
------SIDE NOTE-------

Okay - so that comparison might be a little 'dramatic', but you get what I mean right?
-----SIDE NOTE-------

You see when you have ME/CFS /CFIDS , you are likely to develop **alcohol intolerance**...
The smallest alcoholic drink - even a tiny bit of alcohol consumption, can send you into a relapse - as I learned the hard way many years ago.

Having an alcoholic drink now and again was enough to tip the severity of my ME/CFS over the edge and put me in bed indefinitely.

When a **normal** person gets drunk they may feel ill for a day or so after which, they're back to 'normal', bouncing back and raring to go. But when a person with ME/CFS gets drunk - or even has just one drink, they're likely to feel like 'death warmed up' for what seems like an eternity!!!

Personally, I don't actually like alcohol much so I don't miss it. But even if I did, I have realized that alcohol consumption no longer makes me feel the way it used to before I had ME/CFS ...
Drinking alcohol now feels like I'm feeding myself poison, and my body reacts accordingly - i.e. a flare, or worse, a relapse - and I suffer the consequences for a long, long time afterwards.
Unfortunately, most of us ME/CFS sufferers are just not strong enough to resist the poisons of alcohol.

So for most of us, it's unfortunately a case of accepting it, or getting much, much worse.
As Dr Shepherd writes in his book 'Living With M.E.', many people who might have been able to drink alcohol before the onset of their illness, often find themselves getting very unwell even after small amounts of alcohol consumption.

So if you have ME/CFS, it is likely that you may have developed an intolerance to alcohol.
To find out more about diet and nutrition for ME/CFS visit:
http://www.sleepydust.net/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-nutrition-supplements.html

And to read reviews of my favorite supplements & items for ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome visit:
http://www.sleepydust.net/ME-CFS.html

This article will be continued in Part II...

Copyright, Claire Williams, 2003-2007. All Rights Reserved.

-------Claire Williams is editor of sleepydust.netand has suffered from Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome/ ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since 1995.
She created 'Sleepydust' to helpME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgiasufferers deal with their condition - fromrecovering from their illness, to handling their money worries.
http://www.sleepydust.net/