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News that Jo-Ann Stores has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of private-equity firm Leonard Green & Partners for about $1.6 billion has sent shares of the craft retailer soaring 33% in premarket trading.

Even Santa is feeling the pain of the recession this holiday season. To help relieve some of the strain on your wallet, consider making gifts for friends and family. You can throw most of these presents together in a few hours, and none of them will set you back more than $20. 1. Stylish Wine...

Forgetting the reusable cloth shopping bags on a few shopping excursions can result in an abundance of petroleum-based plastic shopping bags. Vilified for wreaking havoc on our oceans and clogging landfills for all eternity, the cheap and easy answer to transporting goods from store to home ranks...

Valentine's Day is coming up this weekend and I think some of the gift ideas at the dollar stores are worth looking into. To me, love isn't about how much money you spend. If you've got the money, fine, buy a dozen, long-stemmed roses, have dinner in a fancy restaurant, or both. For the rest of...

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to finally start making some money on your cute hand-knit scarves or famed secret-recipe jam, you won't want to miss this offer from fredflare.com: get a 30-day color ad on the popular shopping site for just $75. The price is right for anyone who wants to...

Easter's hopping up quickly. And chances are you're scrambling for some craft ideas for the kids. Scramble no longer. Instead, download this free Easter craft projects e-book and make the kids smile. You're on your own for the chocolate bunny, though.

Retailers across the board are reporting weaker sales this holiday season as shoppers have less money to spend on gifts and on themselves in this ugly economy. There is one exception, though. Craft sales are much stronger this year, as folks turn to do-it-yourself projects and handmade goods to...

People are turning to homemade gifts this year--both out of revulsion at the big box shopping experience and for the sake of their own budgets. This fall one survey showed that 58% of people said they were "more likely" to give a homemade gift this year. Nearly the same portion said they would buy...

Tis the season for holiday craft fairs. No, they're not just for knitted chimney stockings and tree ornaments. Many talented craftspeople and artisans show cool wares good for year-round use that you won't find anywhere else. I went to the Feria Urbana in Oakland, California last year and found...

Michaels, a craft store with over 900 locations in the U.S. and Canada, has taken a rather unique view on change -- or at least one store has. Recently the Michaels in Hemet, California wouldn't let a youngster, who was shopping for her mother's birthday present, pay for a $4 purchase in quarters....