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February Contest Ready For Entries!
Saturday, Feb 06, 2010
Sometimes I feel like a mosquito flying over a nudist colony... I can see what needs to be done, but am overwhelmed by the choices! :-)
Currently we are doing a workshop in Fort Myers. I am also working on a couple website projects. And at the same time have been handling the support emails for our customers while Robin is on vacation. (She comes back to work Monday - yeah!)
Great Story From Our Member QuirkyKim
My son came over to Atlanta, for a job interview. He presently works with the GEEK Squad, in Athens, GA, about an hour away. Today was an interview for a better job. We even went out to purchase a suit, since he didn't even own one. Anyway, he went to the interview with the IT security company. It went so well, he said, that afterwards he decided to drive around the immediate area to check out possible apartments to live, if he got the job. (He's a positive thinker, like I am!)
He met me afterwards for lunch, since we were both up in the area of the interview. He sat down and said, "O.K. Mom. I'll give you your laugh for the day." He told me he found the perfect apartment complex. It was brand new, and only about 2 minutes from the office, should he get the job.
He loved the "feel" of the place, so he went into the office of the complex to get more info on it. He was feeling so great in his new suit. He asked the lady about the units, and the cost, etc. She said she didn't think he "qualified". (Oh, I'm laughing again, for the umpteenth time since he told me this...)
He was pretty huffy, thinking to himself that he looked successful in his new suit and all. How could she say he didn't qualify?! He (I swear) looked at her and said, "What? I"m an adult, and I'm active."
Huh? The SIGN of the complex had said, "For Active Adults" !!! He truly did NOT have a CLUE it was a "55+" complex! He told me he didn't know they had places for 55+ "active adults" to live! He said they had a cafeteria style dining room and everything, and a pool, and it was so close to "work"! He was truly disappointed he couldn't live there!
The kicker is, I got home after he had been by to get his things, because he was headed back to Athens. THE BROCHURE for the place was on my kitchen counter! I almost wet myself, laughing so hard! It really, really was true. I just WISH I could have heard the reaction of the people in that office after he left! I just HAD to share. His cluelessness in some areas almost scares me. I told him he could move in and be in house Technical support for all of those "active adults." Oh, my. QuirkyKim
February Contest Now Open
Our February project contest is now open! Details are on this page... February 2010 Project Contest. First place is $100 cash! :-)
There are TWO SETS of designs in the February Member Bonus. You can use designs from EITHER of these two sets for this contest!
Spring Workshops Schedule
We have mapped out our Spring trip back to Illinois and included stops along the way where we can do "Digitize In A Day" Workshops. The workshop locations and dates are below under "Digitize In A Day" include New Orleans, Montgomery, and Columbia. (Details below)
Our February 1-Cent Sale Starts 2-14-2010
Coming in mid-February is our second "1 Cent Sale". We had SO MANY members buy the DVD we offered in January that we are going to do a 1-Cent Sale in February from the 14th through the 28th. Our DVD's normally sell for anywhere from $12 to $25 each plus $4.95 shipping & handling to USA and Canada. In our 1-cent sale, we sell them for 1-cent plus shipping & handling. But you'll have to be a member of ATW in order to get in on that deal. This month's 1-cent sale will be on our "Multi-Hooping" DVD starring Nita O'Keefe.
Join us at one of our upcoming "Digitize In A Day" workshops! The day starts at 8am with coffee and danish or bagels and a quick introduction to digitizing embroidery designs. By lunch time you will have digitized your first designs AND you'll understand how to do it again and again. After lunch it gets even more fun when you learn how to digitize faster and how to personalize the designs you make with fun and creative techniques.
Workshop announcements...
New Digitizing Workshops
We are currently setting up hotel contracts for "Digitize In A Day Workshops" in Fort Walton Beach (Sat 3/6), New Orleans (Sat 3/20), Montgomery AL (Sat 3/27), and Columbia SC (Weds 4/28). As soon as we have the contracts signed, we will put tickets on sale for these events. That should happen next week. When the tickets DO go on sale, please buy the tickets as soon as possible because all of our classes have sold out so far and I expect these ones will too.
Please Answer Our Current Survey...
A-Kids-View-Tooth-Fairy
Artwork By: JDS Clipart
Just in time for Valentines projects...
Click Here To See The Newest Member Designs
More Magnets
by leesewquilt
"Design is from ATW. LeeAnn in Phoenix"
Thank you leesewquilt
for posting this great picture
in our photo gallery!
Note: When posting pictures showing an embroidery
design in our photo gallery, please give
credit to the digitizer as other members will
want to know where to get those designs too!
Each photo posted in our photo gallery enters
you into our weekly photo contest where we give
away a 3 month membership to ATW.
It's a random drawing so your photo doesn't have
to show some wonderful one-of-a-kind project
in order to be the winner.
Just do something, take a picture,
and post it to our photo gallery!
Cupid Bear
Digitized by Lisa "Hyfibutt"
Does anybody besides me still make homemade pickles? lol Make a fancy topper for your homemade pickles and gift them to someone special. Artwork from www.scrappindoodles.com
You can change the colors, I wanted to digitize it with pink fur, but everyone told me it would look like a pig. LOL
Note From Larry: I LOVE this design! Not only is it cute and usefull, but it reminds me of my mom and the great pickles she used to make and can.
Thank you Lisa "Hyfibutt" for donating the above design to our members!
ATW members can download this design in
Member-2-Member
January DVD Sale!
Get Details Here...
January DVD Sale... "Basics Of Machine Embroidery" Our most popular DVD ever... "Basics Of Machine Embroidery"
is now on sale at the lowest prices we have ever offered! So many people have told us that THIS DVD helped them correct the little mistakes that they were making and made their machine embroidery turn out better every time. We're now offering this video, shipped to your home on DVD, at the amazing price of just $7.49 INCLUDING SHIPPING! Along with the DVD you also get a trial membership to ArtisticThreadWorks where you can download freely from our Members' Design Library of more than 18,000 designs.
What's on the DVD? Read on...
Back-to-Basics-Farm-Blocks
Free From JDS Clipart
Guests & Members...
Click Here & Download Wednesday Sampler!
Sewing Machine Cover
Saturday, Feb 06, 2010
This photo was posted by charlotte44s who
has won a 3 month
ATW membership
for posting it...
"Since last months ATW contest used mostly 5x7 designs and I wanted to make a machine cover I used other ATW designs and designs from Cute Embroidery. to do this for my sister." 
Click Here To See LOTS Of Recent Projects
In The ATW Photo Gallery!
(Note to members... when you post a photo in the gallery, it is automatically entered into the contest for that week's prize drawing. But, if the photo includes an embroidery design you must say what website or digitizer the design came from like mjaybee did with this photo, in order for it to win the prize for the week. If the design came from another digitizer, that's okay, you can still win with the photo, but we have to be able to credit the other digitizer's work or I can't post the photo here in our newsletter so I can't let that photo win. Okay? Cool. You guys rock! -- Larry)
"Magic In The Meadow 5x7" AND "Flights Of Fancy 4x4"
Here are the member bonus design set free to members during February 2010. There are TWO SETS this month as one set is 5x7 designs only and the other set is 4x4 designs only. This way all members get something they can stitch out now and use for this month's contest. If you have a 5x7 hoop size you have two sets you can use now. If you can only use 4x4 hoops size now, you have one set you can use now, and you should download and SAVE the 5x7 designs for when you get a machine with larger hoops OR for when you learn how to "Multi-Hoop". (Note: "Multi-Hooping" is a technique you can learn that lets you stitch a design that is larger than your hoop by splitting it into pieces and aligning them perfectly with each other.) Set 1: "Magic In The Meadow 5x7" 
Set 2: "Flights Of Fancy 4x4" 
Members: Click Here And Download The Bonus Designs Now!
Billy Bear
Free From JDS Clipart
Everyone Is Invited To
Click Here & Download Our Current Freebies!
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