My Beautiful New Blog/Banners and Avatar Sets!

   I love getting new banner sets from Dale at SeaDreamStudio on etsy!  She offers so many unique designs for any type of seller!  Her banners and avatars are already sized for you, all you have to do is download them.  She also always makes sure she has everyting just as you want it!  She is very kind and dosen't mind making changes to suit your needs!
   I am tempted to buy everything she creates, they are all so irresistable!  She has recently added Holiday/Winter themed sets,
with close to 100 different designs to choose from!  Her prices are great and her designs so professional!  I just love bragging about my new banner/blogger sets because of how beautiful they are and how satisfied I am as a repeat customer!  I wouldn't buy my graphics from anyone else..... Dale's service and quality can't be matched!  Visit Dale's etsy shop today at: http://www.seadreamstudio.etsy.com/
See my new matching banners/avatars from Dale in my two etsy shops!  My Artistry Jewelry Shop    My Victorian Fantasy Shop

only 9 Weeks Until Christmas!!!

   It is SO hard to believe, but there are only 9 weeeks left untill Christmas!  I hope everyone will visit my two etsy shops, as I am adding new items daily in preperation for Holiday shoppers!

  I have added many more bracelets, as shopper's have requested more bracelets in both of my shops!  Visit my facebook fanpage to access a facebook/twitter exclusive discount that is applicable in both of my shops!            Aprilee

Can't Toterate heavy Spray and Perfumes Air fresheners?

My mother and I suffer from terrible nasal allergies! I can't go into a candle shop, due to my severe reaction.  I recently decided to try a product from DCC, one of my close friends sells their products!  Well, I absolutely love it!  I got an electric shoe warmer with Gardenia scented Scoopables!  You can really vary the heat, it's not an open flame, and the scent is gentl, but very noticable! I am a regular customer now!  Here is what my friend Kathy Adams has to say about DDC:

"Diamond Creek Candles has been in business since 1998. We take great pride in all of our products which include, our own Diamond Chunk Candles, traditional candles such as pillars, jars and votives, as well as our Scoopables, wickless candles that are melted instead of burned. We also have glass warmers and "high heel" warmers in which to meltAll of our scented candles are hand crafted using the finest wax, lead-free materials and exotic blend of oils. Our scented jar candles smell great and burn with no wasted wax, no tunneling, and no sooting.
Our scoopables are made from pure vegetable wax which makes them a perfect choice for people with allergies.
With over 100 scents from which to choose, and many styles of warmers, you are sure to find something you will like.

Find these/and more Candles HERE
 Visit Kathy's Ecclectic Mall HERE:

Kathy Adams

Little Wrist? Let's Make It Fit!

    My Ma (Mother) is a very tiny woman! She is less than 5 feet tall, wear size 2 children's shoes, and I make bracelets for her!  She cannot buy them due to her small wrist size!  Well, I had made a number of bracelets for small wrists and had just begun listing some when it occurred to me that it wouldn't be a big deal to make ALL of my bracelets available in custom lengths!
    So, I am going to add to my etsy shops storefronts that ALL of my bracelets can be made to any custom length to please the buyer!  (Their will be a  maximum length of 8".).  I will offer the custom length of your choice as a FREE service in both of my shops!
    I have no idea why it took me so long to realize that it would be quite simple to offer this on all of my bracelets! So, now you can browse my bracelets with confidence, knowing that I have YOUR size!                         Aprilee

Let's Talk Witches, Conspiracy,Hysteria, And A Popular Saying!!!

I feel crappy! I've got a virus, the flu, the "oinkers" (LOL!), who knows!  Anyways, I watch ALOT of documentaries.  Right now, there is a very informative documentary about "Witch Hunts" the "Origin of Witches" on :The History Channel.  Basically, All you could ever want to know about the hysteria that was that horrific era in time!
As it turns-out, "Heinrich Heumler" (in Germany), with another German, wrote a "Manifesto" on Witches, hunting witches, dealing with them, etc.  The Manifesto stated that Women were "Lustfull, decietfull, evil" and "Witches" fornicated with the Devil in wild orgies on the Sabbath!  They assumed women, who were midwives, and healers with herbs, were at risk of using their powers for evil!  Back in such puritan times, celebacy was assocciated with Christianity, and so the Devil, with lust and fornication! 
The Manifesto also stated that you should never ask "are you a witch?" but "when did you become a witch?"  The law stated that a "witch" could only be  executed upon a confession of being a witch!  This is where the saying "the third degree" originated.  There were three degrees of tourture.  The third degree was always fatal.  One infamous tourture was called "the floating of the witch". They would bind someone and toss them into the water.  If you floated, you were guilty, and would be excecuted.  If you sank and drowned, you were innocent!  Prior to their inevitable death, "witches" had to implicate other "witches".  Willing to do anything to end their agony, they named others.  "Oddly" enough, when an official's wife was accussed, the "witch hunt" abruptly ceased.  This all started with a game played by a slave with two young girls in which a raw egg was cracked into a glass of plain water, creating a makeshift "crystal ball".  They would ask questions of it and "see" images in the mixture as "answers".  During one such session, the "egg" told one of the young girls that her husband would die.  The young girls (basically) "threw a fit" and the slave woman was accussed of casting an evil spell upon them.
"Wicca" is a very popular belief system.  It is followed by a great many people.  In in no way involves "devil worship" and instead is based on celebrating the changing seasons and belief of a continuing cycle of life.  Their (Wiccan's) motto:  "Do what you will, but harm none".
Here is one of the many online articles related to the "witch Trials" and "Witch Hysteria" available on the internet:Timeline: Witch Hunts In American History