Hello March | Welcoming New Sponsors + Monthly Notes

How do you measure time? Hourly, daily, monthly?

When is that space in time where you take a break or a deep breath? At the end of an hour, a meal, a day, the end of a week, the end of a month?

I do a little of everything, celebrating the end of one time period (or just being thankful it's behind me) and then moving on to the next with a clean slate whenever possible. I like turning the calendar each month and I like seeing the new month ahead of me, I like going to bed each night and I like waking up each morning - I guess you could say I actually like both endings and beginnings.

This month I'd like to welcome (or welcome back) the following new sponsors to my blog for March:

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  UPRINTING.COM| A leading socially responsible online printing, marketing and technology firm, has established itself as a major player in the industry with its distinct vision and clear approach to helping small businesses grow. It serves thousands of on-demand business printing and graphic printing orders online daily, using high-quality press printing and a robust yet simple and easy-to-use online ordering system, resulting in high-end printing services and reliable color printing at discount printing costs.




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  BANANAFISHSTUDIO | A miniature design boutique owned and operated by graphic designer France Wisniewski. Based in a lovely Seattle neighborhood, she specializes in creating an assortment of paper and digital notions inspired by her love of modern design and vintage ephemera.




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  LINDY HARRISON| Hi, my name is Lindy Gruger Hanson and I’m a joyful hearted, nature lovin’ artist...I like to paint colorful, whimsical worlds! You will see art with lots of vibrant color, line and pattern. I mainly sell my prints in my Etsy Shop at http://lgrugerhanson.etsy.com and my originals on my website at www.lgruger.com or at the Laughing Raven Gallery in Jerome, AZ.




• A LIFE HANDMADE | A delightful new shop filled with a stylish assortment of paper and crafting goodies. A Life Handmade highlights the versatility of items like tags, twine, doilies and journaling cards, and they're constantly introducing new products to help ignite your creativity.




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  CHIC TAGS | We specialize in designer, handmade, high quality, scrapbooking paper products. Our list of products include: journaling tags, journaling spots, and embellishments. Each item is uniquely designed and exclusive to Chic Tags.

Look for giveaways from many of these companies this month or next. If you'd like to learn more about sponsorship send me an email sponsors@aliedwards.com

SOME NOTES & HAPPENINGS FOR MARCH

• If you're a student in One Little Word a new prompt is now available in the classroom. This class is open for people to join throughout the year. You can read more about it and sign up here.




• I'm guest posting a couple times a week this month over at a cool photo + words site called Habit.




• The 5th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge is underway at Two Writing Teachers.




• My 52 Creative Lifts Newsletter continues to be released at the end of each week. You can access the archives here or sign up to receive the once-a-week emails here.




• If you missed my announcement earlier this week I've got a new self-paced album class available called FIVE. It's a fun adventure into creating an album that includes enlarged photos, specific room to tell the story, and five fun crafting techniques to be used on top of enlarged numbers - all in an 8x8 book. Check it out and sign up ($14) here.