1-Embr-News... Dec 22nd, 2012

Published: Sat, 12/22/12

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Saturday - Dec 22nd, 2012

Join Us @ ATW
2 Days To Finish...

Christmas Eve is 2 days away...


We are in Chicago area...

The snowfall here was only about 1 inch on Thursday night.  Yeah!  That was much better than the 6" we were expecting.  The bad news was the ice and wind and temps in the low 20's all day Friday.  Brrrr!  Made us remember why we live in FLA now! 

Tonight we will watch The Nutcracker ballet starring out grand-niece.  Well, maybe other people won't know she is the star of the show, but to us she is.  ;-)  

We had some time last night for Holly to work on her computer, installing Windows 7 on it as an additional operating system.  She now has the choice of running any of 3 operating systems... Mac, Win-XP, or Win-7.  For most people one operating system is enough, but Holly wants to be able to go into Windows-7 when a student has Windows-7 on their computer and needs help.  

...and now Windows-8 is out!

Here's a hard and fast computer rule I live by... never update to a new operating system until you absolutely must! There are always bugs to work out with new operating systems.  Wait for other users to identify the bugs and for Microsoft to have time to fix them before you upgrade your own computer.  :-)
 

 
ATW membership
is all about...

"val·ue"


Join the club here...


ATW Club Members received over
2,300 new designs
to our members in 2012! 




Who won our $2,000 contest? 
There were 100 winners!   Here they are...
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New Designs @ ArtisticThreadWorks

Newest designs released to
ATW Club Members
TODAY...

Jacobean Bells
A "Surprise Set"

Released to members Dec-19-2012
Artwork by DesignStitch
Digitized by Theresa Schorn
The ATW Digitizing Team


What's a "Surprise Set"? 


We normally release a new design set on Monday, Wednesday, and two sets on Friday.  Sometimes, Holly and the TEAM have worked far enough ahead that she has extra sets ready to go out and rather than waiting, she has them put up now as extra design sets above and beyond the normal 4 sets per week.  Holly calls those extras "Surprise Sets".


Members of the ATW club pay either $9.95 a month OR can choose our money-saving quarterly plan at $19.95 every 3 months. They get at least 17 new SETS of designs every month PLUS they can download as much as they want from our archives of more than 20,000 more designs!


Sign up for our newsletter here...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/1newsletter

See our latest 15 sets of new designs here...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/designsearch

(While you're there... click the "Next" link at the bottom of the page and keep going!  Members can download any or all of 1,858 sets of designs currently in the archives!  What a great value!)

Vote For Your Favorites From Last Month
(Most Voted For Set Becomes Freebies!)

Download Last Months Winning Set Here...

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Yesterday's #1 Seller at...
Hollys Design Studio

BAll Jar Lids

Multi-Line Birdhouses
with 16 designs was yesterday's #1 seller...


It must have been the cold weather triggering thoughts of Spring already! For whatever reason, folks found the multi-line birdhouses to be the thing to buy yesterday!  
 
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HDS designs are just $4 per SET and you can
take discounts of 10%, 20%, or 30% off
when you buy 3 or more design sets at...
www.HollysDesignStudio.com!

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www.YouCanDigitize.com

Digitizing Story #13...


"Getting Paid For Your Work"

A couple days ago someone emailed and asked if Holly covers the business aspects of digitizing in her classes. The answer is yes she has covered that before and we can direct a person to recordings we have made of those classes and answer new questions too.

Then yesterday a member posted in our forum "How do I get a person to pay me for my embroidery work?"  It seems the person has run up a $700 bill and only paid $200 of it.  Several folks have advice for her in our forum.

Business is a little different from hobby... it adds a whole new set of challenges.  If you want help, join us! 



Do You
Want To
Digitize?


Holly can help you.  Get a trial copy of Generations from us that will run for 30 days before you buy!  Details on our website. 

You can learn to digitize in 30 days with Holly's help.  Holly has taught HUNDREDS of people to digitize in her 8 hour "Digitize In A Day" classes.  She can teach you to digitize in 30 days of online lessons!

Start with a trial copy.  If you decide to keep Generations you can deduct the cost of the trial program off the cost of Generations.,  Then you can either trade in one of the other programs you already bought (for up to a $1,000 credit!), or you can buy Generations from us with a "no-interest / no-credit-check" payment plan!

Heck, you can even just buy Generations without a trade-in or the free financing plan and you'll get a really nice gift (a $470 value) from us for doing that instead.  

Any way you choose, buy Generations from us and you will have the ONLY digitizing program you will ever need and a GREAT teacher who will help you learn to USE your software.



Opens January 2013 but you can look now!
http://www.youcandigitize.com
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www.EmbroideryHighway.com
Follow our travels and embroidery fun on our blog site... "Embroidery Highway". 

Holly digitizes and has an embroidery machine in our RV for working while we travel.  We also build and maintain our websites from the RV.  Our permanent home is in the Florida panhandle.
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A Set Of Designs From ATW...
Help yourself to this complete design set every day of the month compliments of ArtisticThreadWorks.  Starts over again on the first of each month.

The 22nd...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/public/1084.cfm

The 21st...
http://www.artisticthreadworks.com/public/565.cfm


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Latest Freebies @ ArtisticThreadWorks.com
Come on by and download these newest samples today!  We put up a new set of freebies every Friday morning.  If you're subscribed to our "1-Embroidery-Newsletter" then you'll get a link directly to the new freebies in every issue. 


These weekly freebies are 1 design from each of the new SETS our club members can download each week.  Club members get 4 new design SETS every week and can also download thousands more designs at no additional charge from our library! 
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www.EmbroideryDailyNews.com
See the newest designs released on more than 50 embroidery websites every day in one place at... 


Be sure to check our daily drawing for today's winner while you're reading the daily news!  If you're subscribed to our newsletter then you're in our daily prize drawing already.  Just check the Daily News each day for the winner!
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Making Machine Embroidery Fun & Affordable...

Join us at...
www.ArtisticThreadWorks.com
www.YouCanDigitize.com

Larry & Holly
Phone:  847-946-1342
Email:  webmaster@artisticthreadworks.com

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