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I woke up yesterday morning feeling a little down, Iv'e had a lot of health problems, and a whole load of workmen in my house for 9 weeks now,then the postman delivered a beautiful birthday card from Irish Angel (Lynne ),I had forgot my birthday was coming up , what a lovely surprise. more so as I have not sent any myself for some time due to the health problems,so thank you Lynne , You truly are an Irish Angel,cheered me up no end
Sally Sunshine xx

Enjoy the babysitting Jo

Ann
Glos

Morning everyone, hope you are all OK

Sylvia & Johan hope that you arrived home safely from your trip to England.

Me, I'm off to stay at my daughters for 5 days as her OH is away and she has so many meetings to attend needs a live in babysitter!! so I will be back on Wednesday.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Jo,
So pleased that you managed to meet Sylvia and that you all had a good time. That was a long way to drive though.

The trouble with charging for cards is that you can never charge what the cards are worth. people seem to want to pay less for hand made. They would have to pay almost £2 a card for something similar in the shops. But well done for getting the order.

Ann
Glos

Finally met up with Sylvia and Johan yesterday, had a lovely time she is such a lovely lady. So pleased I drove up to Darlington to see her, met Lizz first then drove over to Sylvia. Got home round mdt so was a long day but I really enjoyed it.
Just watching Create and Craft and they have had some lovely things on, its their crafting week, so much to choose from, still have managed to keep my credit card in my pocket so far, the kits are just too big for me.
Hope everyone is OK

Well, I have tried and tried to ring Sylvia, but getting no reply on her mobile so will turn up tomorrow and just hope that she is there.

Hope everyone is OK and not working too hard, I have made lots of cards this week, and showed someone them and they placed and order for 20 , so going to be busy, think I must be too cheap but no idea what to charge for them!!



Have just managed to get Sylvia, so will, all being OK on the 4 hour journey up there, meet her tomorrow.

Afternoon girls,

Ann the weather has been awful, glad to hear you kept in the crafting spirit and purchased lots of goodies :)
Not seen Jojo or Liz M about today, but will nudge them if I do.

Jill, you are so busy, hope you get some time to rest.

Hope all the girls are well and happy crafting.

Sylvia have a nice trip in the UK, sorry don't think I will be able to meet up, got 100 things to do.
Have a good time xx

Heather xx

hello all,
Back from a wet and windy Lake District. Now have all the july cards to make. but went to paper Warehouse while up there and bought lots of stuff that I am looking forward to using.

Sylvia is trying to get hold of Jo and Liz Milburn regarding her visit and meeting people. I have had contact from somebody who she is phoning so if they'd Pm me I can forward contact details.

Ann
Glos

Good evening to you all.
Been a very busy week but have nearly finished Rémi's 1st birthday card.
The new cooker range and other bits come tomorrow so kitchen in a mess with trying to make room, roll on Sept when the kitchen will all be finished :)))
Hope everyones keeping well

xx Jill

nudged up for Mary

Afternoon everyone well at least the awful winds of the last few days have quietened down and it is overcast - but at least it is not raining. Hope the rain holds off this weekend as I have the grandchildren staying. So will be busy.

Jill sounds like you have a very busy time ahead, still I am sure the odd bottle of wine will help you through!!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Good morning to you all and a big hug to all that need one xx
Had a good but hectic time back in the UK and Isle of Man, the christening was on the 8th and it was a lovely sunny day.
Rémi was very good, despite no one knowing his first tooth was coming through to appear the next day. We also caught up with the rest of our family so had lots to catch up on.
Did manage to buy a few crafty bits and also help M & S profits :))) the car came back like normal --loaded.
We have people in the gite that have been twice before,so it means a lot of evenings spent having the odd bottle of wine, we are getting in need of a total rest !!
We have the new kitchen being done in September so need to start moving things out as all the new things like the range, chiller and other bits start arriving next week and we need to store it all.Looks like its going to be a couple of months of mess as John wants to plaster part of one wall as none of ours our straight due to the age of the house and the room was used for bread and butter / cheese making.
Was sorry that we could catch up with Sylvia but we must of past each other on route.

xx Jill

Morning ladies, hope you are all well.

Weather here at the moment is lovely and sunny if a little cold, rain forecast for later though.

Post on FTF from Maureen to say she has cut her holiday short as her daughter is critically ill, I am sure we all wish her a speedy recovery and send Maureen lots of love at this difficult time. Keeping them all in my thoughts and prayers.

Val thanks for letting us know, hope to be meeting her next week.

Hello i just thought i would let you know that i have just been and had coffee with Sylvia and Johan.
They had an awful journey over here apparently there was a bad accident near Brussels which delayed them and they didn't get to Ashford until just before 10 last night.

She says that she is looking forward to meeting some of you.

Val

Evening. Hope you are all well. Have spent the day at the hospital with my sister today, she was there having her pre-op assessment for major spine surgery next month.
Weather here has been awful this morning but sunny and overcast this afternoon. Tonight it is very dark and cold looks like a storm on its way.
Off to do some card making now, still trying to catch up. Have finished my ATC's, keeping asking myself why they take me so long to make, obviously my fingers are not nimble enough!!

Sue, I ended up missing most of the programmes and managed to resist. I did watch a craft outlet the other night on QVC and there was some lovely embroidery templates on, nearly bought them but luckily they sold out before I rang!!


Anne glad to hear you had lots of lovely cards and sounds like you had a lovely day. The concertina card you made sounds fantastic, never tried one myself.

Issy your extension sounds lovely the grandkids will love it I'm sure.

Morning all, its a dull windy day here today. Hooray, the workmen have left at last! The plumbers did the last job yesterday and now we have to get on with the decorating. before the carpet fitters come. The new bedrooms and bathroom look great, the grandchildren are very pleased with their new rooms. My grandaughter is nearly 18 so she is going for sophistication while my grandson, 13, is still into footie, Arsenal, so he has gone for red and white and black. Looks better than it sounds.

Glad to see you decided to stay, Heather.

JoJo, can you eat honey? I know some people just dont like it but if you can take a spoonful now and agian it might help with your cough. The set honey not the runny one. Hope you will be feeling better soon.

Have a good day

Issy

HI, everyone,

I had a nice lazy day yesterday, and spent a lot of time opening my cards, and having a good look at them. One of the nice things about these cards, is that you can look at them several times and really enjoy them.

It was also my nephew's second aniversary, so I made a snall concentina card, and printed off 5 photos at pocket book size - when they were first courting, wedding, going-away, birth of Anna six months ago, and one taken of the three of them last month. I was really pleased with it, and so were they.

Jojo, sorry about your cough, I hope it improves soon.

Love to all

Anne

Happy birthday Maureen and Anne, hope you had lots of cards.

Sorry to hear you still have the cough Jo, hope it clears up soon.

Ann
Glos

Happy Birthday Maureen and Anne, hope you both have had a lovely day with lots of cards and pressies!!

Hope everyone is OK, still have my cough, just will not go, still it is not as bad as it was, not chesty now just irritating!!

Sylvia, hope to see you when you come to the UK will be driving up north on 24th June, will pm you.

Well I am still miles behind on my card and ATC making this month, seems I just cannot catch up, like really to be about a month in advance normally, but at the moment seem to be making them as they are needed. Still have just finished 2 house warming cards and 4 thank you cards for my daughter, at least they are now out of the way, if a little late!! Perhaps I should be making cards instead of being on here!! Have been at daughters for the last couple of days as she is not well. Have done 5 hours of ironing today for her in this heat, think I nearly melted, still all done now.