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	<description>Adventures of a self taught bookbinder</description>
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		<title>Tools of the trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I have been hard at work on my new 2011 calendars which will debut this week. The calendars are all fabric hard cover notebooks, and the cover alone is a fairly time consuming task. However, I was making it much harder on myself by not having the right tools.
See, each cover starts with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding code: Adding a badge to your site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having badges on your blog has become quite popular lately, and a great way to link to other websites or blogs in a more visually engaging way. Often, badges are used to show off if you have been featured somewhere, or to just link to a site or a cause that you support.
So, on to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/tutorial/adding-a-badge-to-your-blog</link>
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		<title>Using Color Theory to Create a Cohesive Treasury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I only recently started creating treasuries, but I really love doing them. It gives a fantastic excuse to browse through etsy and discover new things, and I have also found that they are a unique way to express my creativity in a whole new way.
As a designer, color is extremely important to me, and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/tuesday-treasuries/color-theory-etsy-treasury</link>
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		<title>Shop Update Complete&#8230;and a Blog Feature!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I put unpacking on the back burner (yes, I was devastated) and worked on getting my shop all updated with all of the new photos that I had taken. I am so pleased with how cohesive my shop looks now. I also added a fun Halloween banner &#38; shop avatar that are super [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/promotion/shop-update-and-blog-feature</link>
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		<title>New photos: A sneak Peak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving this time around has been quite an interesting experience. We moved all of our stuff in, and then slowly started moving my boyfriends parents out. They have given us the pretty cool opportunity to live in their house while they move into a smaller fixer upper and work their renovation magic. My boyfriends mom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/boot-camp/new-photos-a-sneak-peak</link>
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		<title>Etsy Holiday Boot Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday I moved, and every time that I move my goal is to reorganize, and refocus. Life has been pretty crazy the past few months, I have been in a creative flurry trying out all sorts of new things. It has been exciting, frantic, and chaotic...and tons of fun. However, I feel that in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/boot-camp/etsy-holiday-boot-camp</link>
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		<title>Christmas in July Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I saw a post on etsy about participating in the Christmas in July sale. I thought this was a fun idea, and decided to have a sale for my handbound notebooks &#38; stationery shop. I have free worldwide shipping, free gift with purchase, and a section that has my items that are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/design/christmas-in-july-sale</link>
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		<title>Polka Dot Love Treasury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a small (ok large) obsession with polka dots. Anything with polka dots pretty much makes my heart beat a bit faster. I think that they areso versatile and wonderful, they can be fun and playful, or classic and elegant, and really everything in between.
Today I searched through etsy for some polka dot items, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/tuesday-treasuries/polka-dot-love-treasury</link>
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		<title>75 Minutes to Hardcover Redemption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have already talked about my first bookbinding experience and how lovely it was. I am so thankful for this first experience, because my second go at bookbinding was disastrous. I was in my advanced typography class, the third and final one in the series, and probably the class I had been most looking forward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://handmade.ncharshaf.com/bookbinding/75-minutes-to-hardcover-redemption</link>
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		<title>Cleaning Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure what it is, but it seems spring cleaning has come a bit late, as everyone seems ready to clean up their studio spaces. Nothing like the first 100+ degree day to get me inspired to spend 5+ hours cleaning my own disaster space.
My craft space ranges from unusable to disaster zone on most [...]]]></description>
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