SpongeBob SquarePants Swims to the Cricut (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

ANAHEIM, Calif.----Thanks to a partnership with Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products, SpongeBob SquarePants and his Bikini Bottom friends are coming to Provo Craft’s Cricut® Personal Electronic Cutter in a new cartridge.

Provo Craft Demonstrates New Cricut® Cartridges at CHA Winter (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

ANAHEIM, Calif.----Provo Craft today revealed three new Cricut® Solutions cartridges and four regular Cricut® cartridges for the award-winning Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter. The cartridges will be showcased at the Craft & Hobby Association’s annual Winter Convention and Trade Show on January 25 through 28 in Anaheim, Calif.

Provo Craft Unveils the Yudu Personal Screen Printer (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

ANAHEIM, Calif.----Provo Craft today unveiled Yudu™, a revolutionary personal screen-printing system that enables users to unsilence themselves. With Yudu, crafters can transfer their favorite designs from personal hand-drawn art, Cricut® cartridge images, and other customized art from their computer onto T-shirts, book covers, or virtually any other flat surface.

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Inspiration Creative Cutter by Pazzle (BellaOnline)

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WHAT’S UP (Gaffney Ledger)

Holiday hours Iron City Ministries in Blacksburg is closed through Jan. 4 and will reopen on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Gospel singing Living by Faith will be singing Saturday, Jan. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Chesnee Gospel Music Center, 672 Greenlake Road Chesnee. Concessions will be available at 5:30. For information, call 828-223-1514.