Fridays during my summer teaching session have been the only days during the week that I don’t have class, so they have tended to be catch all days where I attempt to catch up on grading papers and non-school tasks like running the cat to the vet, having lunch with the friends who are mad at me because it’s summer and why am I so busy, stopping by pak mail, blogging on my About.com site and this one, oh, and doing a little Susan Sansone.

As you can imagine, that often means I either don’t get everything on the “to-do” list done (like the lunch with friends things) or I get most of it done but not all that well. Yesterday, it was my Crafty Princess Diaries blog that suffered because I posted the wrong links!

However, one item I did cross off my list (and, yes, I did get papers graded but those are never completely gone so can never really be marked off the list) was setting up a sale at my Etsy shop. So, today I’ve got a double dose for you: my “real” craft links and info about a whiz bang blow out sale. First, let me babble about my sale, and then you can cruise the links at your leisure.

**EVERYTHING ships for a buck EVERYWHERE during August 2008!**

To make this as easy as possible on shoppers as well as myself, I’m slashing shipping costs.

If you buy 1 listing, you pay $1 for first class shipping, no matter where you live. If you buy 2 listing, it’s $1. If you buy 3 listing, and so on and so on, it’s still just $1!!! This is for August only, so buy and save during my **HOT SUMMER JEWELRY/SUPPLY SALE!!!**

Note to my silver star and circle fans, more are coming. Got to make the stars!

Okay, info-mercial is over, here are this weeks crafty links (for real this time!):

About Family Crafts
Gather together all the kids you know and follow these directions to show them how to make a variety of fancy craft foam visors with little effort and a few common craft supplies.

About.com Cross Stitch
Practice your stitching skills with these patterns that use basic stitches.

Aileen’s Musings
Creativity comes in all forms. Follow Aileen’s sons Olympic adventure as he sets off for China! He’ll be performing with the Olympic Orchestra as one of 2008 musicians from all over the world. Aileen is challenging you to create an American Cheer for our Olympic athletes and post it!

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world
Tons of free patterns and how-to’s for mixed-media and beaded jewelry, a crochet sweater, a doll name tag, a vinyl tote bag and a chance to win a free copy of any Quayside Publishing Group Book, Crafter’s choice!

Crafty Princess Diaries
Have a book idea or even a few book ideas but not sure what to do next? Which one do you devote your time to? The Crafty Princess has some answers or actually some questions for you.

Layers Upon Layers
An artist profile with the fabulous June Campbell, one of the most generous women in the mixed media art world!

Stefanie Girard’s Sweater Surgery
Listen to my favorite new song while reading about Superfly-the big aluminum Airstream craft project that got a face/floor lift with freecycled materials…with a touch of cross stitch thrown in.

The Impatient Blogger
Margot wants to know what you think. Please take a moment to answer her crafty survey.