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A new gift shop has opened in downtown Rockwood, brimming with cute odds and ends to make a house a home.

“I like cozy,” said You Say Tomato co-owner Jimmy Adkins. “I like things that make me smile.”

Clocks are among his interests, and the shop has a large collection.

There is also an array of figurines, ornaments, decorations and more.

“I do love it,” said friend and customer Beverly Powers. She had just bought crystal antique perfume bottles, a Christmas ornament and a large wooden statue.

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development has launched a network of social media sites dedicated to quickly informing job seekers of local jobs, workshops and job fairs.

In a constant search for new avenues to inform Tennesseans about new job opportunities, the department joins the conversation 140 characters at a time to disseminate new jobs directly and instantly via Twitter.

Anyone interested in Roane State Community College’s Advanced Materials Training and Education Center — a no-cost, high-tech job training program for those who are unemployed or underemployed — is welcome to attend upcoming meetings at the college’s Clinton location and on the Oak Ridge campus.

The meeting in Clinton Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility, 214 Nave St., will be at 6 p.m. Dec. 2.

The meeting at the Oak Ridge campus, 701 Briarcliff Ave., will be at 6 p.m. Dec. 10 in the back room inside Anderson’s Grille.

Finding and sharing do it yourself projects, fixes and solutions are a fun hobby turned career for a Harriman woman and her daughter.

They turned that hobby into a business when daughter, Lesley Clavijo, discovered a moleskin solution to poking underwire bras.

Clavijo and her mother, Denise Iroler, also are getting sponsors for their blog postings at Chaotically Creative.

Clavijo, who blogs as Lesley Warren, went into her toolbox at home and found the moleskin to put on her bra, and her mother recommended she put it on the blog.