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		<title>Kept Creations Mails-In Support of CRE8TIME</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kept Creations, owned by Kim Parkinson in Whitman, MA, recently joined CHA, having only been in business for a few months. Kim heard about the CRE8TIME Movement and the call for support from CHA Members. The message resonated with them on a personal level and they decided they HAD to support in some way! On [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftandhobby.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9388897&#038;post=3316&#038;subd=craftandhobby&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What If We Did Creativity Small? A Month of Creativity, 8 Minutes At a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jan Whitted, Artbeat LLC http://artbeatonline.com/ At first I was thrilled to hear about the Cre8time movement. As the owner of Artbeat, a creativity store and studio, my goal is to encourage people to take time and make time for creative activities. Then I read something about finding 8 hours a month to devote to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftandhobby.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9388897&#038;post=3299&#038;subd=craftandhobby&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Key To Retail Marketing Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Negen, Retail Expert, Author and Speaker, WhizBang! Training There&#8217;s a Chinese proverb that says the weakest link is stronger than the most powerful memory. I know, I know, some of you are thinking, &#8220;Well, what in the world does that have to do with marketing?&#8221; The simple answer is everything. A major key [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftandhobby.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9388897&#038;post=3267&#038;subd=craftandhobby&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Product in Front of Millions of Consumers and an Expanded Buyer Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHA’s New Products Preview Program is an exciting new opportunity for manufacturers to premiere their “latest and greatest” in front of hundreds of media, thousands of prospective buyers, and millions of consumers.  President &#38; CEO of the Craft &#38; Hobby Association, Andrej Suskavcevic, took some time out from his knitting project to discuss this valuable [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftandhobby.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9388897&#038;post=3286&#038;subd=craftandhobby&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHA President &amp; CEO&#8217;s Crafting Journey Continues (Real Men Knit!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Andrej Suskavcevic, President and CEO of the Craft &#38; Hobby Association, shared with us how he recently came down with the passion for crafting bug. It has been going around the CHA offices lately. What better way to show you his progress than a video update? &#160; Let Andrej know what he should [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craftandhobby.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9388897&#038;post=3279&#038;subd=craftandhobby&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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