Use the Order Form (link on left nav bar) or send me the required information in an email.

You can also mail a Postal Money order to:

www.tamicraft.com

Tamicraft
A site originally intended to be a place to sell our crafts, embroidery and quilting but has since been turned into a place to post articles and show off your crafts. We no longer sell off the site but instead offer an opportunity for you to post your crafts and articles with links back to your site as well as provide information on a wide variety of subjects.

www.cpfsn.org

Cerebral Palsy Family Support Network
A site devoted to providing information on Cerebral Palsy and places to get information of your rights as regards disabilities, the school system (IEP, 504 plan and special needs) as well as local contacts of advocacy sites that will help you to negotiate the system and get the necessary care and services for your child with Cerebral Palsy. We post your articles and have a Forum to talk with others to help each other. We also post our story and our continuing fight for our child's needs in hopes that others may learn from our experiences. 

If you have CP or know of someone who does have them go to the www.cpfsn.org site and have them send their stories to post or links to places where others can find useful information. You'd be helping them, me and other people with disabilities. 

We will never voluntarily sell or give out your name, address, email address or any other information we may collect unless required to do so by Court Order. Though we will not be responsible if the information is stolen. But to reassure you we only file your name the item you purchased and the amount of the purchase. We have to do this for tax purposes. Nothing else is kept on record after the sale. 

I’d like to apologize for the way the site is set up. I know it is not so easy to navigate as others might be. And is most definitely harder on the eyes. But the old adage “All that Glitters is Not Gold” holds true when it comes to websites. I have found several that look snazzy and make me drool but when I look at the content I find there is little to none. They are just fronts for links pages. You click on these links and make the site owner money. But you have lost time and were in effect hoodwinked by these flashy pages. Your click through has made the site owner money but you are still searching for information. I place ads on my sites but I also place relevant content so that you may not have to click through. The ads make me money but it is the content you are interested in. If I serve it up rather ‘Plain Jane’ isn’t it better to get what your looking for than be entertained or worse have to click through a links site with no content?

I guess we all have differing opinions on what makes a site worthwhile. For some it may be entertainment or a flashy look. For others they may not mind having been hoodwinked into a links only site to make the site owner money. Personally I would rather a content rich site where I might find useful information and if I choose to leave the page through an advertisement ( that may make the site owner some money) it is my choice, not one I was forced to make. Often when I hit a links only site I just back out rather than click through, why should I make a person money for having tricked me? Though there may be times when it is links that I am looking for. Links to information I can use. Though if this is the case the links (most often) are to websites that are not compensated, such as my links to disability pages on http://www.cpfsn.org . Sure there are some ads but most links are to pages that hold information that the user is looking for and I am in no way compensated for placing these links nor do I ask for a link exchange for providing them.

As to the look of my sites:

1st.
I do not know CSS and do all my sites in plain old html which is laborious and time consuming, and though I could easily make them fancy like those who have buttons, special effects, scripts and flash pages these are time consuming and take more time to load which makes them nice for those on broadband but dialup users are left waiting for page loads. The less graphics, effects and scripts, the faster the load time.

2nd.
Search engines categorize by what they read on the site. Typically they read the text as it appears in the html. I build my pages with tables, having a left nav-bar, a center content section and a right advertising section. Search engines therefore read the left nav-bar first. If all they see is links and the text of these links are to pages with different content they do not categorize the page correctly or not at all. In order for the Search to know what the page is about I have to place a couple lines of text about the page in the left nav-bar, at the beginning of the table.

3rd.

I place text in the links section so that you the user can know where the link may take you. It avoids your having to click links to pages you have no interest in, but it also clutters the links section and makes it more drawn out than it needs to be. I tried having a just links left-nav bar with buttons some years back and found it clean and neat but also found in my stats that many pages saw views but that few stayed on them long. I assumed that they had found pages that were not of interest and moved on. Since implementing a link and text format I find less page views but a longer stay on a page as the user is finding the information they are seeking faster. Some links do not require text as the link itself is pretty self-explanatory. 

4th .

People want ‘instant gratification’ that is to say they want what they are looking for handed to them on a silver platter. They do not want to have to read much or wade through a lot of information that has no bearing on what they are looking for. I have two choices. Either make a short simple page on every single subject and satisfy the general user who wants instant gratification, or place several content related articles on single pages and let the reader have to read a bit of text to find that pearl they are looking for. Well In some cases I have done the former and in some the latter. Why? Well for some subjects they are best served alone. They express an opinion or some content that should not be blended with any other such as your stories, comments, or tips. However other pages can and should be blended as they have interlacing content such as the IEP, 504plan, and IDEA 2004 on www.CPFSN.org . I do separate out the actual programs to some extent but I also combine so that a reader may see the way these programs interact.

So in closing I hope you will forgive the mess and I hope you have found information and/or links to pages that have been of help.

Remember to follow the ‘GoldenRule’ and (life, fate, karma, God) may just reward you with a bit more happy days than sad ones.
Thanks
Robert and Tami 

Also I would love to be able to place a Buy Now button on every item but we never know what shipping will be and hubby says oscommerce is above his ability as it is written in .php and then there is having to place hundreds of items we've already listed into the oscommerce pages. So though I'm sure it would increase sales it is not feasible at this time. Everything needs to be done via email. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We do accept Paypal and I can send you a Paypal invoice. You can pay using your Paypal account or any major credit card. If you choose you can snail mail a U.S. Postal Service money order. It is the only other form of payment we accept. Of course there is cash but few trust the mail. I would appreciate if you would notify me if you want USPS insurance on your items as there is no place to put it after the fact on a Paypal invoice. Insurance is available for the amount of the item (s) only and is not available to all countries or with all shipping methods. See www.usps.com for fee structure and availability. We charge actual USPS fees with no add on for insurance.

Please understand that the use of " I " can refer to hubby or myself taken in context. Most all about clothing, vintage dating, embroidery and crafts is me the rest is hubby. But we both contribute to all our sites and use " I " when referring to ourselves. Hubby has little interest in clothing, embroidery and the like but is really into the Cerebral Palsy sites. Likewise I know little about websites and he does all the HTML and such. We both contribute and we both refer to ourselves as I.

Done! I bet you feel as if you just read a novel? Sorry.