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Long time away

Wow how time flies when you're busy. I thought as we got to each year life would get easier as the kids became more independent so leaving us with more time - why isn't that happening? I feel like I'm getting less and less time to do what I need to do. However, we go to bed, get up the next morning and continue to do as much as we can - the house work will still be there tomorrow.

As to the shop - it has definitely been a difficult start to the year with the weather and the "recession". What other excuses can we find as to why life is tough at the moment for a lot of people. Bring on the good weather - we always feel better when the sun shines as it is at the moment.

The world doesn't seem to be a better place than it was this time last year or is it that we only hear the bad news on the television and in the newspapers. Why do they delight in pulling people to pieces and mis-reporting anything to make it sound worse than it really is.

Fancy blogging again and having a good moan. Here's a thought for today to maybe make you think:

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Sunday thoughts

Well, we are definitely back to normal. All the snow and ice have gone and yesterday and this afternoon we went out to walk the dogs and it was just beautiful. Didn't get too far as kept meeting people we had to stop to talk to - it was lovely, just like a summers day.

The snow and ice have definitely affected business as people just couldn't get to us but it's lovely to see our customers again coming out of hibernation.

It seems to be that time of year where not a lot happens but we have our Scrapbooking club tomorrow evening which I look forward to. I have decided to make a "Birthday Book" where I can put everyone's birthdays and addresses in so it will always be at hand.

I can't let it go and not say something about the terrible earthquake in Haiti- we cannot begin to understand the level of grief, fear, hardship (this hardly seems a strong enough word) that the people who have survived are going through. They must be in everyones prayers whether you believe in God or not.

If you know of someone that is still missing or have lost someone then be assured that a lot of people are praying for you and are contributing in some way to to help the situation.

Cornwall is shut!!

Well the snow has hit us at last and it has lasted all of one night. It's amazing we have a little snow and the country closes down. I do understand that we are just not geared up for it 'coz it only happens once in a blue moon. It is fun though. Apparently we're in for more tomorrow and Friday. (Hope not - not good for business).

I was glad that things were done tastefully in Wooten Basset yesterday.

Are you knitting - everyone down here in Porthleven are knitting their own hats, gloves and scarves and even leg-warmers(which takes me back to my younger days). It gives you something to do, maybe to learn a new skill with something to show at the end of it and they will keep you warm.

Life is definitely getting better!

JEDWARD ARE OUT! HURRAY!! I can get back to watching a proper singing competition now, that would be XFactor.That has made life so much less angry now they are not there - I know I need to get a life! Although Lucy was my favourite and so sad that she's not there. I'll just have to vote for Jo now.

Had a good end to last week - went out for the day on Friday with my hubby - we don't get nearly enough time to chill together. Anyway this time we went to Port Issac then Tintagel and finally Boscastle. I can't believe that I have never visited these places in my whole life. There are some absolutely great places to visit around Cornwall. I think a great holiday would be to start at the north border and work your way around to the south border at Plymouth visiting all the lovely places as you go. It's a great way of picking up Christmas presents with no pressure 'coz everywhere has such different things to offer from everywhere else. I do include Porthleven in that the different types of shops here are great for Christmas shopping and in these high winds you get to see the sea at its most magnificent state. Then we have great places for a little snack and of course there's us - Creations - we have great crafting things for presents and things to knit and sew. The Christmas Panels and Aprons are lovely. I will be wearing one throughout December (I think). Must get on with "making"

The JEdward Problem

How can you say the race to the Christmas number 1 is between DAME Vera Lynn and John and Edward (assuming they win XFactor) - where is the comparison there? And if they did win would anyone actually buy their records? I don't understand why people think it's good to keep them in the competition. I only hope that those who have been voting for the contestants who have been sent home will vote for the talented acts that are left and that eventually John and Edward will be outvoted and sent home.

Soldiers in Afghanistan? We're told that this is fighting terrorism over there so that it is not on our doorstep. I do think that this is true but wherever we fight it there will be casualties. I only hope that the Afghan President is strong enough and that the people are strong enough to speak out if they know where these terrorists are - someone must know these terrorists after all they will have families.

I think our soldiers are extremely brave and am full of admiration of them. Their families should be extremely proud of them(as I'm sure they are).

I've not been in the shop for a couple of days as I'm trying to shake some kind of bug off but it doesn't want to leave me so crafting is out of the window at the moment - I really want to knit by arms are so sore that I can't - maybe tomorrow!!

I'm back

Well I've not done my blog for a few days - illness - but on the mend now I think. What a change in the weather - it seems we're now in winter, dark nights, cold, wind and rain. Now's the time to get knitting woolly jumpers, hats, scarves and gloves. The yarns that are available now are just gorgeous, I don't know which to start with. So I've picked Katia Azteca and I'm knitting a cardigan and I'm really pleased with it.

If your interested in knitting a scarf the Katia "Big Snow Lux is flying out and is lovely. It just takes one ball at £11.95 to knit a big scarf, you just need the ball of yarn and no 8mm needles, cast on 8 stitches and knit 'til you run out of yarn and cast off.What could be easier than that.

On a sad note I thought it was shocking about the loss of lives in Afghanistan - do these people want help? Are they any nearer finding solutions out there. Thank goodness my boys are not in the army!

Yet again the Postal Strike

Well they've done it - and they're on strike. Do they want people to support them? Why would they - when it could upset the economy further, even cause businesses to go under (probably quite extreme) but it's hard enough without more problems. How must people feel who now don't have jobs - a bit of a kick in the teeth I would say. How can we ever hope for World Peace when they can't even get it right for our Postal Service? Anyway my Postman is not on strike and brought my post today and will work tomorrow (if there's any post to bring) so I stamped his hand with a "Thank You" rubber stamp in appreciation.

It's Christmas again today - you've guessed it we've had another 2 deliveries of craft things - some for Christmas and some for everyday. We had an Art delivery yesterday with Golden Acrylic Paints and Mediums. I think I must be in the best business in the world 'coz it's always exciting and you get to meet people and order "stuff" and open the boxes when they arrive. I have been known to get the customers excited too! You don't get that sort of service in the big stores. Well best get off and put all this lovely new stuff into stock control and get it displayed on the website which, by the way, is http://www.eCreations.co.uk

Swine Flu

Are you eligible for a Swine Flu jab? I think I fall into the category that will be last on the list.I don't know whether to worry or not about that. Am I likely to get it? Have I had it and not known about it?Is this a bit of relief from the postage strike? I don't know about you but just what do we believe? and how much are they manipulating us. The other thing is that now they're saying that the rate of growth of our population is greater than it ever has been - we'll be a borough of London soon!!

Anyway back to real life - tonight Man Utd will be playing so it will definitely be an evening of knitting and footy - if I can get away from some new stock that has just come in. I think since we've started selling Sirdar Yarns it has sparked a renewed interest. One day soon I'm going to start making my Christmas cards before we sell all the stock.

Come on you Reds.

Postal Strike

So the postal workers want to go on strike. I think they're lucky to have a job at the moment. Their strike will affect a lot of mail order companies who rely heavily on the postal service. I wonder if they've thought of all the repercussions - while the whole country is in the state that it is in. I can't help but think they're looking very short term at their problems. I'm sure they must have real gripes with conditions and pay etc to want to strike but at least they have a pay packet coming in whereas a lot don't and the rest of us will go on as best we can until things get better.

That aside we had Scrapbook Club last night which went well but we all felt a bit tired - actually I've nearly finished my Disney Holiday from 2005!!!! Just 2 pages to go and then the journaling and the titivating and then I can start on our other Disney holiday from 2007. For those of you who don't Scrapbook I would recommend it. I started because I had to run the club and now I absolutely love it - looking back over those old memories and having a well documented memory album to look through - it's well worth it in these dark evenings to have something to look back on and also have something nice to do.

Political Conferences

It's that time of year for the political parties to have their conferences. I can't think of anything more boring than sitting for hours listening to politicians "talk" about what they think they should do with our country 'coz you know it won't make any difference and they won't come through with all their promises. And yet isn't it so important what they do for our country, particularly at the moment with the recession. Maybe if they were a bit more believable it would be worth taking more interest.

Since Labour have come into power they certainly don't seem to be on the side of the shop owner. It seems that we have very few rights but staff and customers have all the rights. Anyway this is a big issue that would take forever to discuss.

That aside we have had a Katia delivery (yarn from Spain) - gorgeous. We also have had some papercrafting things in ie the lovely "The Snowman" - Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without "The Snowman", and a lot of other "stuff" visit our online store at www.ecreations.co.uk