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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.

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.

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.

John and Edward

How annoying is it that John and Edward are still in the XFactor and poor Ricky got sent home - Ricky has talent and John and Edward are definitely very average. I really don't know what is wrong with the British public voting them in every week because they really are not a match for the others in the competition. We're not doing them any favours keeping them in either - let them get on with their lives.

In the other extreme - WELL DONE JENSON BUTTON - World Champion at last, you deserved that. And it goes without saying - WELL DONE MAN UTD for your win at the weekend.

Got to knit like crazy today and tomorrow as I have to knit a scarf for a customer plus we have Scrapbooking Club tonight at the shop this evening so do come along if you're in the area it starts at 7pm and finishes when we're ready to finish. It costs £1 with tea and bikkies and is very entertaining(usually).

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

It's a new world

This is a first for me and for the past week I have been catching up with technology. First I have gone on to Facebook much to my children's amusement. However, here we are with the start of a blog.

Why am I doing it? Well, I love to talk about the things I love ie crafting, knitting and more recently scrapbooking. So if you feel like replying at any time that would be great.

It has been quite exciting over the last week as we have had new companies come and see us which means we are now stocking 7Gypsies, O'scrap and Chatterbox at the moment with more to come. We've also had some really lovely and some funny decoupage sheets on the papercrafting side.

We have also been unable to stock Sirdar in the past but I love Sirdar patterns and Yarn and at last we should be having a delivery this week so this will make our yarn selection complete (until I find more yarn that I would like to stock).

So you can see why I am excited my brain is on overdrive, if only we had more hours in a day. Well I must go and sort out some classes that are coming up. If you would like to see what is planned for the future just check out our website.