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This is April and looking good for a good summer!

Well Easter week-end is over and what a good one it was. The sun is shining today , the wind is mild (for down here)and life is rosy. There seem to be a more holiday makers down at the moment - obviously with the school holidays - and its nice to meet up with some customers we've got to know over the years.

As for crafting - if you look at our website we are having a grand sale of all things from Design Objectives or DOCrafts. The reason being we want to bring a bit more variety into the shop and online.

Our knitting clubs and scrapbooking club continue and are a real pleasure as it gives me time to do mine.

THE DATE HAS BEEN SET - The General Election is on May 6th just before Flora Day. Television, news and newspapers are going to get extremely boring. I know it's important but I would rather hear/read about what they are going to do not about what the other Parties are doing wrong. Anyway we shall see how this progresses.

Is anyone watching "Flash Forward" on TV. I'm absolutely addicted and can't wait for the next episode. What with that and "24" - gives me time to sit and do my knitting - it's heaven.

Must go and do some work now, so bye for now

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.

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"

Very British!

Isn't it very British to talk about the weather - well it is shocking or great depending on which way you look at it. At the moment it really is a spectacle - there are loads of people around Porthleven with their cameras out, walking towards the beach and pier ready to take the spectacular sea. If you're around this area it is well worth a look. Doesn't do much for trade though!

What will you do this evening whilst not watching XFactor like me? - I'll try to do some knitting and watch Merlin and Strictly instead.

Crafting?

Not well enough to craft at the moment - that in itself is killing me. But have watched quite a bit of daytime TV. Why is that people need to go TV to air their grievances with others - yes I'm talking about Jeremy Kyle - I love it but could never take part myself - how embarrassing. It is a fascinating watch though. I found myself getting annoyed this morning when I had a visitor right when Jeremy was on - tragic. And then there was "This Morning" - that was good too as Callum Best was on. I loved his father and had posters all over my bedroom wall, I could forgive him anything!! but what a sad life he led.

It is now afternoon and I have a sales Rep coming this afternoon so I don't know if I'll be able to make sense to her but I will try.

Well I must go now to watch "Loose Women" - another good watch. I think I'll have to give up work!!

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!!

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!!

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