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Cookie Counting Set

How cute is this fabulous gift idea!! I have to young nieces and I'm thinking what a great gift idea for them--I'm so excited about finding this.

This is a perfect gift for that special little one. Just in time for back to school. This listing features a custom draw string personalized bag with a real cookie cutter. Your child's name will be machine embroidery on the front of the bag on a stuffed cookie. The bag measures around 11 by 11. You will also receive 10 Cookies with numbers 1 -10 on them ( Cookies can be made without numbers) Cookies fit neatly inside the draw string bag.Bags can come in different fabric. Will have samples of fabric posted in the next couple of days. Order can take a few days to ship. Made to order.

Elegance for Fall

The mineral olivine (when gem-quality also called peridot) is a magnesium iron silicate with the formula (Mg,Fe)2SiO4. It is one of the most common minerals on Earth, and has also been identified in meteorites and on the Moon, Mars, and comet Wild 2.

Pantone Fall Colors 2009 includes a touch of elegance and sophistication to fall with Warm Olive!

Vibrant color!

Brilliant facets!

17x11mm rondelle

French brass hooks

Beautiful brass bead caps

Waterfall Earrings

This is the only pair, unless I can find more of these breathtaking beads of Premium Czech glass!I LOVE these beads, and kept a pair for myself! An absolute brilliant shade of aqua blue; washed within clear glass - and only part of the bead has a frosted finish! Part high gloss shine, part matte finish. Antique copper French earwires

Our First "PIF" Earrings

The concept was described by Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Benjamin Webb dated April 22, 1784:

I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you [...] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro' many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.

The Swimmer

Quotes about Swimming

• Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. ~Author Unknown
• Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim? ~Author Unknown
• What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn. ~Author Unknown
• When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world. ~Author Unknown
• Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it. ~Author Unknown
• Swimming - what real men do while boys play football. ~Author Unknown
• We swim because we are too sexy for a sport that requires clothes. ~Author Unknown

I simply can't understand
Why swimsuits are in such demand
They're soggy and damp,
Bind like a clamp,
And hold about three pounds of sand!
~D.R. Benson