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Home
Location: http://www.craftyavenue.com

Welcome to the Crafty Avenue homepage! Here you can navigate to the various areas of the site. The homepage may change from time to time as we continually update the site. We always keep up to date boxes featuring new items in our store, new photos in the gallery, and links to new articles. We have also included quick links to a few popular pages within the site for your convenience.

Shop
Location: http://www.craftyavenue.com/store

The Crafty Avenue shop is a large shopping center with 1000's of patterns from many talented artists, all with instant download or free shipping!

Just a few Shop features:

• Advanced Search - search for products by keyword, in a certain category, by artist, by price and/or by date!
• Take a look at what our bestsellers are. On our front page, you will see a box on the right hand side with our top 10 best sellers.
• E-goods can be instantly downloaded upon payment! This means no more waiting for that email with your e-pattern or e-book! As soon as you finish checking out, there will be a link to download your purchased e-goods.
• Browse patterns by category or by artist (from the drop down menu under "Browse by Artist" at the left hand side of every page).
• Items that you put in your shopping cart will stay there until you either delete them or purchase them. So if you have to leave the computer, your items will still be in your cart next time you visit us!
• Account Information page - view a history of your orders with details about what you bought and the status of the order, as well as account information, your product notifications list, and more!
• Read and write reviews for each product. Get to know what other customers are saying about specific products before you decide to buy!
• Subscribe to product notifications for certain items (or all items) to be notified of changes in stock, price, etc.
• Quick "Tell a Friend" links for each product, so you can share your favorite items.
• New products added at least twice a month!
• View all of our new items in one area.
• Enjoy 5-star customer service - we pride ourselves in taking care of our costumers. If you have any questions or concerns, we are always here and happy to help!
• Enjoy a safe shopping environment. Crafty Avenue uses industry standard SSL encryption to ensure that privacy is maintained with each and every customer transaction.
• Quick shipping to countries all over the world! 
• Enjoy FREE SHIPPING on all patterns!!

School House
Location: http://craftyavenue.com/school/index.html

Crafty Avenue's School House is an interactive learning center dedicated to crafting! Not only can you read and learn here, but you can also share your own ideas and resources with others and teach crafters the techniques that have helped you!

Let's take a look at the different areas in our School House:

• Articles - Here you’ll find informative and inspiring articles from experienced artists around the world.
• Tutorials + How To's - Learn with step by step instructions (most with photos) on how to create anything from dolls to tags.
• Tips + Tricks - Crafters from around the world have come together to form a huge collection of crafting tips, tricks, and techniques. Learn from other crafters and submit your own tips to share with others.
• Prim Dictionary - The primitive world contains many words and phrases that may be new to you. Look them up here to learn what they mean!
• Books - Learn from Crafty Avenue’s exclusive e-books and other crafting idea books & recipes.

Just a few School House features:

• Search through the articles, tutorials, or tips by typing in key words in the search box.
• Submit your own articles, tutorials, tips, and dictionary words by sending us an email at 'info @ craftyavenue.com'. Each submission receives a coupon to our Shop!
• Print articles and other information by clicking on the "Print" link.
• Email an article, tutorial, or other info by filling out the simple "Email to friend" form.
• Read and add your own comments to submissions.
• Rate and view ratings for each article or other submissions.

Forum Community
Location: http://www.craftyavenue.com/forum/index.php

Welcome to Crafty Avenue's Community! Here, crafters gather from around the world to share ideas, information, stories, laughs, and more. Our Forum is a message board for crafters separated into several distinct topic areas: General Crafting, Tips, Tricks & Techniques, Product Review, Showroom, General NCR (non-crafting related), Family, Games, Challenges, and more!

Just a few Forum features:

• Communicate with other crafters from around the world.
• Share ideas and tips with others.
• Create your own profile with your interests, occupation, website address, and more.
• Create a signature (a phrase or image that will display after all of your posts).
• Upload or choose a free avatar to display under your name.
• Send and receive Private Messages to other users.
• Search through thousands of past posts for information, tips, techniques, and more.
• Browse posts by section, or click on the links to view only new posts, your posts, or unanswered posts.
• Play games in the games area.
• Participate in swaps, contests, challenges, and more.

Gallery Museum
Location: http://www.craftyavenue.com/gallery/index.php

Crafty Avenue's Gallery Museum is the first user gallery on the net dedicated to crafters! Here you can browse through hundreds of creative crafts organized by type and by member. You can even share your own photos of what you created, then receive and give feedback on each photo, absolutely free. Each user receives a free account with plenty of space to store up to 100 photos. If you find yourself running out of space, you can always upgrade your account.

Just a few Gallery features:

• "My Photos": Your own personal section of the Gallery Museum where you can view all of your images posted, and upload more images.
• "My Favorites": As you browse through the Gallery, you can save your favorite images to "your favorites" so that you can view them later for quick inspiration!
• Upload images to the Gallery. When you upload your photos, you can choose which category or album to put the image in, type a description and title, and type in keywords so others can easily find your photo in a search.
• Post and view comments and questions to each image. The comments will show up beneath the photo. This provides a great opportunity to learn from other crafters, share your own techniques, and for constructive criticism.
• Advanced search: search through all of the images by keyword, username, category, and more to narrow your search.
• Receive email updates when users post comments to your images.
• Email galleries to your friends. At the bottom of each user gallery, you'll find a place to email the gallery to your friends and family.
• With an upgraded account, you would also be able to use "My Albums" to create virtual albums where you can organize your images by theme, category, or any method you wish. You can even upload an album cover image!

When you participate in the Gallery Museum, make sure to follow the Terms and Rules.

News Stand
Location: http://www.craftyavenue.com/news.html

Here at our News Stand, you can keep up to date with all that's happening at Crafty Avenue! Learn about new items, read about our monthly tip or challenge, get introduced to our crafter of the month, and more!

Let's take a look at the different areas in our News Stand:

• Announcements: Here we post our general announcements about our website.
• Product News: Here we announce new arrivals, new trends, and when out of stock items become available again.

Some informational pages:

Contact
Location: http://www.craftyavenue.com/contact.html

Here you will find all of our contact information, as well as a quick contact form. Feel free to email us with your questions and suggestions!

Link to Us
Location: http://www.craftyavenue.com/link.html

Here we have provided buttons, banners, and more. If you enjoy Crafty Avenue and all of our free information, please return the favor by adding a link to us on your website or web space. We have also included gallery buttons and banners so that you can link directly to your gallery if you wish. Linking to our site is not mandatory, but we do appreciate it in exchange for all of our hard work to provide you with free services and crafting information.