Welcome to my weekly round up of what's been going on here...

So......what's been happening?

Contents:

• News and updates
• New Members
• Forum
• Galleries
• Blogs
• Fairs
• Tutorials
• Articles
• Medals and Awards
• Raffle
• Business Directory
• Polls
• Newsletter
• Next Week

News and updates...

• We will be taking a well earned break between 5pm 30th December and 9am 4th January. New galleries, blogs, photos, links, images etc will not be approved during that time. New Galleries and Blogs will be set up when we return. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
• Now displaying business hours on FAQ page.

New Members...

• Welcome to Kweeny, Smjozwiak82, UKTech, miss_2lonely anja73, margaret25 gryknght and eriufaeye! 

Forum...

• (You need to be logged in first to view)
• New topics in forum:
  • In Off-Topic-Chit-Chat > "Seasons greetings" posted by Hazel

 Galleries... 

• Kweeny
• Savy Sense
• Coia
• We now have 26 Member Galleries
• NOTE:  Some people when registering are ticking the "Enable gallery" box but not putting what name they want. Without the name I'm afraid we can't set it up. If you are one of those people then please email me at gallery@icklebits.co.uk with your username and preferred title. Gallery will be set up within 48 working hours.

Blogs...

• New blogs:
  •  Kweeny's House
  • Savy Sense
• We now have 20 Blogs
• To read the latest posts go to www.icklebits.co.uk/blogs then you will see the latest posts by each member.
•  Also if you join us at twitter you can see the lasest posts via tweets! (see twitter window to left of website or bird at top left)
• It's been brought to my attention that people are setting up their blogs but not posting in them! You all clearly need an incentive to get posting...any ideas welcome. Please email us at blog@icklebits.co.uk  

Fairs Coming Up...

• ***January 2011 Fair Dates added!!!***
• 2nd January - Exeter,Devon,UK
• 2nd January - Ely Fair, Cambridgeshire, UK
• 2nd January - Rugby Fair, Warwickshire, UK
• 8th January -  Dollhouse Miniatures Flea Market
• Click here to view all 19 fair dates for January 2011

New Tutorials and printables...

• Tutorial links:
  • Fireplace Fender
• Video Tutorials (you must be logged in first)
  •  No new videos this week 
• Click here to see all new tutorials for December 
• We now have 690 tutorials listed on icklebits (including videos)!!!

Articles...

• 19 Fair Dates Added
• How Do I Add An Event To Your Calendar
• We have 379 articles to date. Click here to read...

Medals and Awards...

• Medals and points to be awarded for 2010! 
  • Honour Medal
  • Most Active - highest points in 2010 (not including prizes)
  • Top Author - awarded to the person who had the most articles published in 2010
  • Most Loyal - awarded to the person who achieved the most daily logins in 2010
  • Top Poster - awarded to the person who posted the most replies in the forum for 2010
  • Most Topical - awarded to the person who started the most topics in the forum for 2010
  • Top Inviter - awarded to the peson who successfully invited the most new members for 2010
  • Top Rater - awarded to the person who rated the most articles in 2010
• Medals will be awarded in the New Year and announced on 7th January in the next weekly update and newsletter. 

Raffle...

• FREE for December!
• You can enter as many times as you wish!
• Prizes have been increased for December! 1st = 300, 2nd = 200, 3rd = 100

New Entries in Business Directory

• Click here to view the all of latest entries in our business directory. 

Polls...

• No new polls this week. Why don't you suggest one? Email us at admin@icklebits.co.uk with your suggestion.
• 100 icklepoints awarded for any published poll!

Newsletter... 

• Would you like these FREE weekly updates sent to your inbox?
• These are just brief updates of new tutorials, galleries, blogs etc for that week to save you searching the website. We now offer that to your inbox for FREE!
• If you would like that then after logging in, click on Newsletter in the User Menu. Then go to My Subscriptions and tick "Yes" and Save. If you would rather we do that for you then email us at newsletter@icklebits.co.uk with your username and request and we'll do it.

Next week...

• Next update will be Friday 7th January. 

See you next week!

Donna

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