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Copello to resign

Wow - I'm surprised he hasn't resigned before now - why do the famous put up with the attitude of our press in that they can only print the negative about anything - how about a bit of positive press to make us feel better in this recession.

Anyway, back to Copello, will he go if England win? And who will take his place? What about Martin O'neil with David Beckham as his no. 2?

This is my favourite time of year - everything is back to normal with the children back at school, the football season is well on its way and we can now start to prepare for the best time of year - Christmas. I have now picked out what I 'm going to do to make my Christmas cards so I shall start to do that in plenty of time so I can enjoy the build up and not feel as stressed the closer Christmas comes.

I'm also knitting scarves with the new yarn we have in the shop and they are lovely. And on that note I must go and DO some of these things I've been talking about.

Looking forward to Christmas

Well, summer holidays are over, the kids are back at school so what can we focus on now? My background for this is - my other half (husband) used to be in the Navy and ALWAYS went to sea about now. I hated it so got myself into the habit of finding something to focus on - which was Christmas. Planning what presents I would buy, when I should make the Christmas Cake, when I could make my Christmas Cards etc etc.

He's not in the Navy anymore but I can't seem to break the habit - I love Christmas, it conjures up lovely warm feelings and great family times together so I'm only too happy to keep up this "tradition" I've created.

Having the shop only reinforces this as I have to order Christmas stock early so this "feeds my habit". Actually, just to say - if anyone is thinking of making any Christmas presents or Christmas cards or even Christmas decorations such as (Quilted wall hangings) you really should think about it soon and take the pressure away from manic November and December.

Remember: - The early bird catches the worm!

Bank Holiday

It's Bank Holiday Monday and it's so quiet, mind you it is also sunny but with a cold wind.

The Politics still goes on - but who do I vote for? I find it difficult to believe any of them. I expect I will make the decision when I'm standing in my polling booth and HAVE to make the decision.

As for crafting we are beginning to get more new things in eg Tim Holtz - although as we order an awful lot is still out of stock so that will come in slowly (this is better on the purse strings for everybody because it is just gorgeous). We should also get a delivery of 7 Gypsies this week (again this will be tugging on the purse strings 'coz I love this range of crafting so I've GOT to have it).

As for knitting, I must finish the 6 projects I'm doing before I start any more! It would be wonderful if we could have a few more hours in the day or maybe an extra day in the week when shops legally have to shut so we can have a day to do crafting!!!

For all the sports lovers (actually football lovers) isn't the Premiership exciting this year. Who will win - Chelsea(hope not) or Man United(yes please), or who will get that 4th spot for European football next season - I hope either Tottenham or Aston Villa. I will be a nervous wreck next weekend - hoping Man United can do it and also my son is in a cup final in his under 16's league - COME ON WENDRON.

Hope you all have a good week, 'til the next time cheerio.

A craft "New Year"

Well I'm feeling inspired following our visit to the Trade Show at the NEC in Birmingham. But I feel we want to take a slightly different track. Let me explain I think over the past few years the papercrafting, ie Cardmaking and scrapbooking have become a craft of quick fixes where we can make beautiful cards quickly as we just stick on someone elses art work. When I began cardmaking I would make my own background papers and using rubber stamps, as I am no artist, make a 'focal' point for my cards. I feel like I've lost the ability to do that. So after seeing Tim Holtz creating and hearing him say it could take him up to 3 hours to make a card (or was that one of the sales team? I can't remember) I thought - yes, since people made cards to sell it became quick cards to make them more cost effective. For me it is time to get back to making all aspects of a card and it doesn't matter how long it takes.

This also follows for scrapbooking too. You can buy lovely papers but you could also make beautiful papers.

So it is my quest to get back to making my own background papers and producing my own "art work".

How about you?

It's March and we're having some great weather in Porthleven - it's cold but sunny - wonderful.

What a bad weekend

Chelsea won - yuk, Man Utd lost - yuk, and John and Edward are still in XFactor when Miss Frank were sent home. I think this really makes a mockery of what the programme is about ie Miss Frank can sing and dance whereas John and Edward can't - simples!!!

Well the clocks have gone back so now it really does have that Christmassy feel when I close the shop in the evening and it's just about dark - we're on the way!!! And now with the dark evenings what would you but craft or knit. Painting is good during the day with the most beautiful colours in the leaves on the trees but then the evening - if you're bored you could make your Christmas cards, or a nice Christmassy wall hanging to decorate your house at Christmas or Christmas stockings for your children or grandchildren If this doesn't interest you - be practical and knit yourself a hat, scarf or gloves or a nice warm jumper. Oh there's so much to do and so little time!!

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.

Weekend looms

Well the weekend is almost here again and the sun is still shining which will be great for the usual football.

Just going now to make some samples for "Quick and Easy Cards for Christmas" class which will be displayed on the website soon. So if your interested in coming along on November 5th, 10-12, you can book a place online. It's just £8 for 2 hours of crafting with everything supplied.

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