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Happy Thanksgiving to our friends in the US

Being in the UK I don't know much about Thanksgiving other than that it is a Harvest Festival in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. So I copied the following from Wiki about this holiday:Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. Traditionally, it i… Continue

Added by Jill on November 26, 2009 at 8:39am — No Comments

Brighton Craft and Design Fair finishes Sunday 22nd November

I'm late putting this up as it is the last day of the Brighton Craft and Design Fair tomorrow but some of our members… Continue

Added by Jill on November 22, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

November Rose by Azzami Bell

I love this photo of a rose that has been growing in my garden and still flowering last week in November. In fact I like it so much I have put it up as the side picture on my page at the moment. I think I have to resize the picture so more of the flower shows up though. Thanks to Azzami Bell for taking thi… Continue

Added by Jill on November 17, 2009 at 4:47am — 3 Comments

Happy 2nd Birthday Creative Cafe and Congratulations to our Winners.

Well we are now at the end of our Happy 2nd Birthday Week on Creative Cafe and are now entering our terrible twos! I do hope you will all take twice the trouble to be terribly active on our network and we will all have twice the fun in the year ahead. I know are first two years are going to be hard to beat bu… Continue

Added by Jill on November 14, 2009 at 6:57am — 2 Comments

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Mandy Lawrence DAY 7 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

I couldn't let our Birthday Week go by without awarding Mandy Lawrence a Cheer Up Creative Cafe Competition prize. Not just this last year but since we opened Creative Cafe 2 years ago Mandy has been writing cheerful comments and befrie… Continue

Added by Jill on November 13, 2009 at 3:55am — No Comments

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Paola De Giovanni is DAY 6 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

Paola De Giovanni is Day 6 winner of our Crea… Continue

Added by Jill on November 12, 2009 at 3:31am — 1 Comment

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Brenda of Split Rock Ranch is DAY 5 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

Brenda of Split Rock Ranch is Day 5 winner of our Creative Cafe Cheer Up Competition in this our 2nd Birthday week. Brenda wins for her… Continue

Added by Jill on November 11, 2009 at 1:32am — 1 Comment

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Beverley Farrington is DAY 4 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

Beverley Farrington is Day 4 Winner of our Creative Cafe 2nd Birthday Cheer Up Competition this week. Beverley wins for her blog Autumn Ple… Continue

Added by Jill on November 10, 2009 at 3:23am — 1 Comment

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Rodney Yates is DAY 3 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

Thanks to Rodney Yates for being our Day 3 Cheer Up Creative Cafe Competition winner with his excellent blog Much ado at the Macaw… Continue

Added by Jill on November 9, 2009 at 3:02am — 1 Comment

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Kate of Omshanti Handicrafts is DAY 2 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

Kate of Omshanti Handicrafts whose adorable cat Loiosh is pictured above is Day 2 Winner of our Creative Cafe Cheer Up Competition. Kate is alw… Continue

Added by Jill on November 8, 2009 at 1:27am — 4 Comments

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CREATIVE CAFE Juliana RW is DAY 1 Winner of Cheer Up Competition

Juliana RW is our Happy Birthday Day 1 winner of the Cheer Up Creative Cafe competition. Juliana is always putting up lovely cheerful photos which you can see… Continue

Added by Jill on November 7, 2009 at 3:55am — 2 Comments

Don't forget our Cheer Up Creative Cafe Competition. Enter NOW!

Time flies by and it is our 2nd Creative Cafe birthday the 2nd week of November. That means prizes will be awarded for our Cheer Up Creative Cafe competition with $20 and 20000 Entrecard points to give away. So don't forget to enter with some cheerful blog posts, comments, photos, jokes, music or videos that… Continue

Added by Jill on November 4, 2009 at 4:30am — 3 Comments

Ethical Superstore Gift Guide

The Ethical Superstore have a range of Fairtrade and Organic gifts you may want to look at on their website this year. Last year I bought some of their Fairtrade Orchids for my aunt who had a stroke and is in a nursing home and these have kept flowering all year. I have also bought eco friendly toys which wo… Continue

Added by Jill on November 3, 2009 at 3:51am — No Comments

Happy Halloween

Card by Mandy Lawrence. See more of her great cards HERE. Hope you all have a Happy Halloween. Continue

Added by Jill on October 31, 2009 at 3:31am — No Comments

Laughter is the best medicine article.

Comedian Gareth Berliner tells the story about how laughter saved his life I think this article is pretty interesting. Is it true that laughing every day will keep the psychiatrist away? You can also click on the website link

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Added by Jill on October 30, 2009 at 4:52am — No Comments

Where are all the people with disabilities?

I've written about this issue before in a blog called Where are all the Actors with Disabilities? and here is another important article critisising the fact that if a director wants a black c… Continue

Added by Jill on October 25, 2009 at 3:31am — 1 Comment

Lovely Scarf by Janet of LizzyT

http://creativecafe.ning.com/photo/915583:Photo:57615?context=user Thought I'd show off this lovely scarf I recently bought from Janet who runs LizzyT. It's even better in real life than it looks in th… Continue

Added by Jill on October 24, 2009 at 2:55am — No Comments

This is what I have to say to the BNP after Question Time on the BBC last night.

Read More HERE and UNITE AGAINST FASCISM HERE Continue

Added by Jill on October 23, 2009 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

Enter our Cheer Up Creative Cafe Competition & Win prizes on our 2nd Birthday 2nd Week November.

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Added by Jill on October 20, 2009 at 3:00am — 9 Comments

Blog for Climate Change and Eradication of Poverty this week.

Blog Action Day for Climate Change is on Thursday October 15th and Bloggers Unite on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is on Saturday October 17th. Here are the links for you to find out more and sign up to blog for these essential causes in the world today. For Climate Change:… Continue

Added by Jill on October 13, 2009 at 2:06am — No Comments