General Chat

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday the temperature never got above freezing with some snow flurries and lots of sun, now today is damp and grey skies, I prefer the cold with the sun, somehow makes you feel better.

Just finished making two more cards, still have 3 left to make for this months family birthdays and anniversaries, still haven't finished the new baby cards as I have not had chance to go into town to get some new embellishments. Looks like that will be the job for Sunday.

Have a lovely weekend all of you.

Joxx

Hi all, Jo glad you have got back on line, annoying when that happens isn't it. Hope you got your embellishments as well.
Sylvia, hope you are all tucked up and warm, don't risk going out if it is slippery.

Sorry it posted twice.

Sorry not been on line for a few days my modem broke and had to wait for a new one to be delivered, arrived today and I have managed to get it set up tonight and working.

Snow again here today and it is soooooo cold.

Sylvia hope things went well for you both at the hospital. At least if you are stuck in home you can get lots of crafting done. Wallpaper makes excellent backing paper, and so much cheaper.

Ann baby cards not quite finished ran out of embellishments so need to go shopping for a few for the different pages.

Keep warm all of you.

Joxx

Hi all,
And just when I thought that Spring was just around the corner, down comes that white, cold, wet stuff - yes, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW ands it's quite thick again. Just think of all those cards I can make because I'm not going outside to break my neck!
I had to go to the cardiologist today but Johan did too so in the car from here to hospital. On the way home popped in to a D.I.Y. shop as we want a new laminate kitchen floor. I also thought of picking up some samples/offcuts of wallpaper, both thick and thin. I think I can use some of these bits and pieces as background on some cards I am going to make - cheap anyway.
Tomorrow my help comes as she couldn't come on Monday and in the afternoon we have a pedicurist who comes to us.
At the end of the afternoon somebody is coming from one of the schools here in Almere as Johan has promised the school some tools which he doesn't use any more. He says that if he dies they may just be thrown out and he wants to put them to good use now.
Some of the tools were from my father too. Feel a bit sad but Johan is right that they will be made good use of here.
It is Carnaval here and the children have a holiday.
bye bye sylvia xxx

Hi Jill, cold here too and we are promised tonight will be even colder.

Hope you are well and the craft classes doing well too.

Good evening to you all from a very cold France.Hope you are all keeping well and the weather is not too bad for you.

xx Jill

Jo, hope the baby cards came together for you. Not done any craft work for a couple of days since making 10 cards on Saturday!

You see that is why I really don't do stamping!!!!!!!

I suppose I really ought to go for some lessons to improve my technique, but then I always find something else to do instead, will get round to it one day.

Just off to make a new baby card for my expected new grandchild next month, no idea whether it is a boy or girl so will make two, don't want to be caught out if it comes early!

Been doing some family history research this week at the records office, nice to get back into it have not done anything with it for quite some time. Have got to some dead ends and cannot seem to get past them, but I did break one of them this week - so there is hope for the rest of them. I think it was looking at the records with fresh eyes. I am also surprised at how many people on Ancestry are researching my family line, as far as I am aware they are not relatives of mine but who knows, will have to at some point contact them.

Joxx

Thank you Jill for that, I will try and remember.

Ann, there are so many types of inks now and unless you want to try new stuff, it will be best to stick to pigment inks to emboss and set with a heat gun or dyes that dry fast. The memento inks are lovely and fast drying plus come in small sizes and a good price.
If you want to try doing background, the distress inks are good and try using a wet baby wipe to put ink direct to card.

xx Jill

Well I have made ten cards this afternoon. I have made five for CRUK to put in the envelopes and drop into the shop. These were all using as a base for the toppers some of the beautiful work I retrieved off birthday girls cards when I ran out of space. So they are partly down to you. The rest were for my stock and my originals.

Jill, sounds great. I sometimes think I must be dense as I get very confused with all the different stamping inks and their uses. Is there an easy way of knowing?

Has anyone else found that sometimes there seems to be residue left in a little stickles bottle but you can't get any out, despite clearing the nozzle?

Good morning to you all and after a lovely Spring like day on Thursday its now grey, cold and windy.
Hope you are all keeping well and have a good weekend planned.

Yesterday was one of my craft class days and we ended up in tears of laughter as one lady couldnt work out why the glitter glue wouldnt work-- she had left top on :) We do end up having a good laugh but they were all pleased with their cards made including multi stamping with lots of different stamps to give a lovely frame to a square card then painting it. We will have a play with alcohol inks and distress inks next week to make backgrounds on acetate and gloss card.

xx Jill

Evening Ladies hope you are all well and looking forward to a lovely weekend, I have my grandchildren for the weekend so will be busy but I am sure we will have great fun.

Weather has been very mixed over the last few days, frost, sun, rain and fog, not much left to get now, although we have a frost again tonight.

Hugs Joxx

rain, rain, rain here but relatively mild.

Sylvia thank goodness you saw such a lovely doctor that listened and understood everything you have been going through for so long now. Hopefully they will sort you out very soon, that will be lovely for you. Like Ann will keep sending positive thoughts your way.

Miserable weather here again today rain or snow on and off all day.

Take care
Hugs Joxx

Well at least it does look as if you are making progress Sylvia, let's hope so anyway.

And what service, lunch supplied.

anyway will keep sending you positive thoughts for a good outcome.

Hi all,
Well, at last I think we are getting somewhere in finding out just where my health problem lies. I was at the hospital from 11 oçlock until 4.00 pm. The gynaecologist was a very sympathetic young lady and we hit it off very well. I saw the pelvis physiotherapist and here again a young lady easy to talk to. I had all sorts of tests and I now have to wait while the BIG 4 get together to discuss what they are going to do with me. That will be the gynaecologist, the urologist (the one I walked out on), the pelvis physiotherapist and the surgeon who operated on me for bowel cancer. The gynaecologist looked at my record of all I have been through and said this cannot go on any longer. Hurrah. Our hospital now supplies a packed lunch if you have to stay on through the lunch hour. I could ask for what I wanted so chose a brown bread roll with cheese/lettuce, carton of milk and a tangerine. I only ordered the bread roll and the rest came with it. I ordered for Johan as well. No wonder our health service is getting expensive!
All our waiting rooms have coffee machines etc. where you can help yourself to coffee and tea. What a service.
Now these next 2 weeks will be difficult to get through
Greetings, Sylvia xxx

Rained here all day today, really prefer the frost especially when it comes with the sunshine. The rain makes my joints ache, think it must be old age creeping on.