2011 December | Ewing & Associates

By: Barbara Lipkin

Lynn Zwerling helps an inmate during her weekly "Knitting Behind Bars" program at the Maryland prison system's Pre-Release Unit in Jessup. (Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun / October 27, 2011)

Knitting is a wonderful way to relax and enrich your creative side. It is also a great way to give back to your community in terms of donations of baby hats, blankets for foster children, caps for chemotherapy patients.

Now knitting and crochet will be walking the red carpet on the coattails of the Kardashian name. A major yarn producer has entered the keyword name game to sell their luxury yarns. Creative use of trending celebrities is being used to grab attention. Word has it from the BlackStitch that Tahki S.Charles yarns is introducing Kourtney, Khloe, and Rihanna soon. New yarns with hot topic, highly searched celebrity names are sure to be winners with young knitters and crochet crafters. The naming of yarn gets an entirely new meaning for its initial online success, but the proof of the pudding lies in the finish, the way the yarn performs on needles and hooks.

In my mind, Knitting has much more value than having yarn named for celebs.

In 2009, a 67- year old woman started teaching Maryland prisoners to knit as a form of personal transformation. To me, that is a worthwhile endeavor.

By: Michele Hren

Let’s be honest – none of us grew up dreaming of “selling vitamins”… But none of us grew up knowing about:

- Wellness becoming a Trillion $$ industry…
- Fish oil hitting the main stream…
- “Energy drinks” or $4 Cups of coffee

And we didn’t know about:

- This powerful thing called the internet that allows people to shop from home and Business builder’s store are open 24/7.
- A guy named Charlie Ragus who would sacrifice everything to build something that was bigger than himself
- A new millennium cultural shift where “purpose driven” work and balanced living would be valued, pursued, and honored

And we certainly didn’t grow up knowing that:

- Companies (and states!) were promising retirement packages they couldn’t honor
- Social Security would by many be compared to a Ponzi Scheme that couldn’t last
- Players on Wall Street largely have their own interest in mind, not ours

Recently, after months of research to find a Plan B to supplement my Real Estate income, I became an Independent Distributor with Advocare. No doubt you have been seeing a huge increase in Fitness, Weight Management, Energy and overall Wellness advertising lately? So, regardless of the belief systems with which we grew up, let’s choose to see and experience what IS, now, and how things have indeed evolved that make Advocare fun, wise, and rewarding since 1993. Not all companies are equal.

Several times a month I will give you information on the benefits of supplements, spotlight bestselling products on the market and why Advocare is changing people’s lives in their Health and their Finances. If you want more info now vs. later I’m here to help you.

Ask about our “24 Day Challenge” Weight Loss Program or
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