General Chat

Oh yes Sylvia, Eileen on the anxieties thread was telling us of that tradition, it sounds like fun.
Hope you feel better tomorrow and that the cakes are a success.

I stayed in today even though it was nice weather as I had promised to bake some little cakes for my help's little girl who will be 10 years of age tomorrow. I was not feeling too well this morning and didn't get washed and dressed until lunch time., so it has been a bit of a muddling day.
Tomorrow my hairdresser will be coming instead of Friday because Friday is the official birthday of our queen and everybody is free and every little village, town etc. will have their own festivities, including lots of stalls with both new and secondhand goods and the one day in the year when children are allowed to have a stall and sell their outgrown toys etc.
Have a nice evening. Sylvia xxx

Sylvia, sounds like things are improving, just need to find out about the noise for poor Johan.

Jill, I have heard several demonstrators on C&C saying about not using stazon unless you clean it immediately and also that some of the cleaners cause damage to the stamps.

Lovely day here again, had baby Jessica and other daughters 2yr old here for the morning she is such a sweetie. Now off to visit my neighbour who has MS for a couple of hours whilst her hubby goes out for a break.
Take care all
Joxx

Good morning to you all.
Sorry that I am a bit erratic coming on but weeks seem to fly by, very busy with animals and craft workshops and now our crafting holiday website has been launched.
Quick tip,any off you that use stazon ink on your stamps, avoid using it on your acrylic stamps like clarity as its too strong and can end up eating into the stamp. I was having problems with it sticking to the card when I stamped so asked on another forum and several people answered with the same info. If you make sure you clean it well it could be OK but I am back with my momento tuxedo black.

xxJill

There was a warning about the toxicity of bonfires, it said more people would be burning their rubbish with the strict recycling laws. However it is illegal to burn anything that puts toxic waste into the atmosphere. Worth asking your local council Jo if there is a local bye law regarding bonfires. I hate the things, so thoughtless.

Hallo all,
Well things are still improving with me. I can now stay awake the whole day. A small problem early this morning. I woke Johan up with the noise of my mask (the machine). One of the straps must have become loose and air was blowing in my eyes and mouth and making a horrible noise. It didn't wake me. I was awoken by Johan kicking me - softly in bed. I just undid the mask and slept the rest of the time without mask. I must ask the mechanic what I can do to avoid this in future. He is coming round one of these days.
The weather is still too cold for me and we have the central heating on every evening.
Yes, I was also pleased with the baby card and so was the recipient, who herself makes beautiful cards.
Bonfires are one thing I am glad I don't live in England any more. Nobody here has them at all.
Now till the next time.
Love Sylvia xxx

Evening ladies, hope you are all keeping well. Still have my cough & cold begins to go then comes back again, think it is also mixed in with hay fever which I normally get in March from trees but seems to be late this year. Still have not seen new granddaughter but am babysitting for her tomorrow so will get plenty of time with her then. DIL has the cough and cold so she is not worried about mine now!!

Sylvia lovely to hear that you are not feeling so tired all the time, hope you carry on improving. The baby card sounds so lovely and very special.

Weather here has been glorious if a little cold, but the sunshine makes everything seem fine - although today I had a line full of bed linen and towels drying nicely when a near neighbour lit a bonfire!!!!!! 2pm is a little early I think to have one. I was so cross.


Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Joxx

Be interesting to see the result when they check the chip Sylvia.
Your baby card sounds nice.

Hi all,
Well, still sleeping ok with the mask and not feeling so tired during the day any more. Hope my memory improves as well.
The rep from the mask firm are coming to see me again next week. They will take out the chip in the machine and put it in the rep's laptop computer and then they can see what I have been doing.
Has anybody else here with apneu?
I made a nice card for a friend I met on the internet who has just become "granny"for the first time. She sent me a photo of the baby and I printed this out and placed it behind an oval aperture and then decorated the card with "Its a boy" ribbon and some text - not too busy. I managed to find a comical baby bib in English too. She received it today and thought it very unusual.
I watched our baby blue tit leave the nest yesterday. It peeped through the hole and then flew against our window and then on top of the nesting box and then away not to be seen again. Sad, I miss seeing mum and dad flying in and out of the nesting box,
Greetings Syl xxx

Sylvia glad the mask seems to be working.

Jo, sorry that you are under the weather, hope you cold/cough gets better soon.

Sylvia, pleased that the mask now seems to be working well for you, hopefully you will soon start to feel much better.
It is a shame when they built the new library they did not take account of people in scootmobiles or even place a disabled toilet on the ground floor.

Have a rotten cough, cold and sore throat at the moment so have not been able to see my new granddaughter for a week, getting withdrawal symptoms!! At least it doesn't affect me looking after my other grandchildren as they gave it to me in the first place!!!!!!!

The weather here was really cold and miserable today

Hope everyone is OK.


Hugs Joxx

Hallo everybody,
Yes, it is me, back again. I have been very busy but hope from now on to be able to contribute more to this thread.
Yesterday I was able to sleep for the first time with my mask on the whole night. Usually I wake up in the morning and find I have thrown the thing off in the night, or it is wiggled itself off. Anyway, let's hope I can keep this up now.
Wat fantastic weather we are having. I went into town today with Johan as we thought there was a music concert on, but it was something for children. It was held in our new library.This was the first time I have see the new library. I was disappointed as the entrance is so cold looking. You have to take the lift to the first floor where the information stand is and the t oilets. This is a problem for me. I couldn't get upstairs in the lift with my scootmobile. Fortunately we had our mobile folding scootmobile with us today so could get upstairs. I was hoping in the f uture to be able to go on my own and not have to have Johan with me. This won't be possible now.
I have to make a card for a friend I met on the internet. She has just become grandma. She sent me a photo of the baby, so I have copied this into a file and printed it to be able to use it in a card I want to make for her. The only trouble is that I don't know how to print the picture in a smaller size.
I managed to buy some bargain leggings and tops today so am looking forward to wearing them.
Hope that everybody is fine. Please forgive me if I have not answered a letter or if you have asked something else and I've not answered but this should be better in the future. This has been due to my illness apneu.
Enjoy the sunshine Sylvia xxx

Happy birthday Heather, hope you have a lovely day.

Happy Birthday Heather have a fantastic day

Joxx

Thank you Ann and thank you to all the girls for birthday cards, so many different styles.

Hope everyone is keeping well & enjoying the bits of sunshine we're getting.

Take care & have a great weekend

Heather xx

Happy birthday Heather, hope you have a lovely day.

Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes, and lovely birthday cards, had a quiet day but then all the kids and grandchildren arrived for tea!!!! Made a lovely chocolate birthday cake for them as the little ones love to keep blowing out the candles then went out with hubby's niece and her husband for a lovely meal.

Weather not as nice today cold and windy, yesterday was sunny but windy in the morning, although it did turn really cold in the afternoon.



I see that a lot of the UK airports are closed because of the volcano in Iceland, hope it doesn't affect anyones holiday plans!



Have a good day.

Joxx

Jo Happy birthday, I am sorry, your card is going to be late but it is on its way to you.

Happy Birthday Jojo, hope you've had a lovely day xxxxx

Lambs are chasing about all over the field, enjoying the sun :)
Have you tried running wax paper through your embossing CB folder then sandwich it between normal card, don't use gloss, then iron it .You can then sponge ink, (I used distress inks over both pieces of card) and get two different effect.
I cut each piece into two squares then mounted all four onto a larger square card, looks very pretty.

xx Jill