Seems ages since I wrote to you now. And then your lovely card has arrived. Thanks so much. You are so talented with the cards.
How are things with you anyway?
I had another flu jab. The swine flu one this time and felt really achy and tired afterwards. Am only just beginning to feel better. Think I may have gone a it mad on ebay because presents keep arriving that I forgot I ordered! People are going to be getting some extras! Have also wrapped up quite a few already and am trying to be organised but the cards which I had printed by Rodney are not written yet and I seem to have booked in 3 different shopping delivery orders for over the holidays. Will have to cancel at least one of them or we will have food flowing out the door. My bruv is coming down weekend of the 19th for the night so that will be nice.
Anyway hope to hear from you soon and that all is well.
Oh good I'm glad your going for coffee and cake with your Em. You seem happier when Em is around. Has she got a car since she passed her test by the way? I was feeling fed up with the weather today myself. It was so rainy and windy and gloomy looking outside and I just want sun sun sun! We didn't even get much summer did we. Usually I don't notice the winter weather until after Crimbo but this year it seems to have got bad early as well. Floods and all sorts of storms going on everywhere. If it wasn't for Dickens hating being left I'd be very tempted to go somewhere hot for a week at the moment.
I'm going for a flu jab tomorrow. I don't usually have them but my breathing has got so dodgy I am quite afraid of getting flu. Not that I am sure the flu jabs work but I suppose it might!
Anyway hope you enjoy your book and have a good relax.
It must be awful for you then, knowing what this time of year brings for you and dreading it. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers and I will continue to send positive healing energy to you.
Glad you're all snuggled up for the evening with a good book - enjoy!
Lovely to hear from you. Seems like a while now but the time flies by so quick. I'm glad you like winning your prize which I have sent by bank transfer by the way. Sorry things have been more down than up for you. I do read the Facebook stuff so have seen some news from you at least. I don't seem to find time to do much on FB tho just read it now and then. It's lucky I can't connect to the games you play on there or would be addicted. It's weird the people who turn up on there tho isn't it. My neice added me and so did a boy I used to work with when he was in care. He is now 40! Plus an old school friend and all sorts.
Anyway better go and try and get some sleep although as usual I will probably not get to sleep for ages.
No apologies necessary. I'm sorry that you are struggling with depression issues. This time of year is always difficult for people. My son has severe problems with SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and he hates the Christmas holidays, which is SAD for me!
I hope you have a really good time with your daughter tomorrow. My daughter went to Florida (which is 2100 miles away!) in June 2008 right after graduation. She lived with her boyfriend's family but things went sour while she was there. His parents got a divorce, the house went into foreclosure, they were living on food stamps, his Dad is disabled and they were caring for him and didn't feel like they could leave him. Finally a friend of his Dad's is buying their house and allowing him to continue to live there and they will help care for him. This allowed the kids to move here to Colorado where the unemployment isn't as severe as it is in FL and at least they have a good family and friends support system here. They are living with my parents because we don't have room in our tiny little ranch house for them, especially now that Jim and I both work from home. Jackie wanted to go shopping on Black Friday and I wasn't too thrilled with going out on the craziest shopping day of the year but we went and had Mother/daughter time and it was wonderful. We haven't had M/D time since at least spring of 2008. We actually found some good bargains and enjoyed our time together immensely. So, I hope your M/D time is wonderful, too!
Wishing you many blessings and sending healing thoughts and big hugs to you.
Hi Mandy,
Thank you for comment on the bowl, I agree somethings just cry out to be touched, wood is very tactile.
We were meant to have gone to fair today at Oxford but Bob is still unwell and didn't think he could cope with the drive, he was worried we would get there and him not feel well and be stuck in Oxford, he was soo disappointed, but its not worth making himself more ill. Hopefully we will be able to make the one in Cambridge, its not too bad of a drive and he know where we are going, so keep your fingers crossed!!!
Hi Mandy,
I know all to well the complications of not getting into email or internet :O) Thank you for your comment. Trying very hard to stay well, because I dislike the alternatives... staying warm is most important for me and it gets hard to do sometimes :O) Trust you have a wonderful blessed holiday season.
Bev
Well it is the last day of our Happy 2nd Creative Cafe Birthday week and you are the winner of our Cheer Up Competition today! That is for all your friendly cheerful comments not just this year but since we opened 2 years ago. You have spent time reaching out and communicating and being a great member of Creative Cafe and for that you deserve to be a winner now. Your prize is $5 which I will send you soon. Thanks for all your contributions to Creative Cafe Mandy.
Yes, it has been a long time, hasn't it? If I'm thinking correctly (and that isn't something that happens frequently enough!) you should be heading into summer now, right? And here we are headed into what promises to be a long, cold, snowy winter! We got our first snow the last day of summer. And have had several heavy snows already even before Halloween.
Thank you for your kind words about my blue felted bowl. I love how it turned out and need to dye up more wool skeins and make more of them. So much fiber...so little time!
Life is treating me very well and the animals are all doing great. Our 29 year old mare looks incredible this winter. Everyone who sees her cannot believe she is that old, so I guess I figured out the right feed schedule and regimen for her because she's sassy, as well as snappy looking!
I always feel so welcome and part of a wonderful artistic family here on Creative Cafe and I'm glad you're a part of it all! Happy Birthday to Creative Cafe! Thank you to Jill for creating such a warm and welcoming group!
Hope life is treating you well. Warm hugs and many blessings to you!
Thank you Mandy for your wonderful comment on Autumn Pleasures..I was in a very precarious spot when I took it on the mountain as I don't do well on heights. I stepped as far out as I dared and made a quick shot :O) Hubby was very proud of me!
Yeah they fixed our cooker on Thursday after getting more parts. I have even enjoyed cooking a bit on it since then as the microwave and takeaways were getting dull.
It is Liam's birthday today and they have all been over but the new baby isn't feeding well and has lost more weight than he should so things are quite tense. I don't think Liam has been enjoying his birthday much so far.
Are you saying they are holding up your Dad's place in a care home that would suit him because of money? That is a scandal. I see all these millions and billions they spend on bankers and wars and other useless causes and think that it is a criminal waste what goes on.
Hope you enjoy your time with Debs and also the fireworks. Not sure when you are going or maybe have gone by now but enjoy yourself anyways.
Yes two years has gone by in a flash hasn't it. I think I've learned a lot doing the caf really. But I'd also like more people involved in running it. More like a co-op. I've got Azzi and Peter and Tony and my bruv as trustees who help in the background and with any techno stuff. Like Peter fixed my IE which kept crashing today. But they don't really want to be involved in the running side of things. Twould be nice to have a group of us doing that but maybe that will happen more in the future. One thing I have learned is that things don't happen as fast as I imagine they will.
Yeah it will be good if you can do a card stall before Crimbo with Em. I am so pleased with the cards you sent me. You have got such a talent with them I am sure any you make will sell like hot cakes. Whatever hot cakes are i am sure it means they will sell fast!
Hope you have had a good time with the goats. And enjoyed your lunch. The man is coming back to fix the cooker tomorrow and I hope they do it properly this time. Am fed up with microwave and takeaways.
Your cards arrived today. And very lovely they are as well. I am very very very pleased with them and will have to get Azzi to give me the butterfly one because I want to keep it! Also arrived in the post today a remote control Darlek I got on ebay for one of Azzis grandchildren thinking it is little and it is HUGE! Have given it to Azzi to play with and he has fallen for it! Also some knitted friut to go in one of Louise's wooden bowls I got as a pressie. Also a remote control Dinasaur for one of Azzis grandbabies. So this room is now full of packaging. At least I am getting some pressies sorted early this year. The time flies by and I worry nothing will be ready.
Anyway thanks millions for the cards they are brilliant.
Good on you for doing swimming and excercise. And for thinking you'll cut down smoking. I wish I could give up completely but just can't. I'm glad your Em is going with you as well. She always seems to be good for your mood.
Anyway we suddenly have 4 new members to approve today so I'd better go and check them out.
I had a temperature of 103! Drank some whisky tonight as well as took numerous pain killers. Fell asleep and woke up feeling light headed but less fevourish. So I conclude whisky is the best medicine!
Still have sore throat etc but am too drugged up to care. Better than last night when I felt really really really miserable. From one extreme mood to another isn't it.
Sorry about your shoulder. Is it from too much computering? At the old place before I had my laptop used to sit at the big computer for hours and got a very bad shoulder pain a lot. From the angle I was sitting at I guess. It's ok with the laptop because I move around.
Anyway I am not going to push my luck and am going off to sleep again soon.
Have just put your Happy Halloween card with a link to your cards as a blog. Hope you get some card customers.
I am really ill! Have bad cough, bad bad guts and high temperature. Also sore throat and other coldy symptoms. Have had about 6 baths today to try and stop the bad guts pain but it's really persistant. Also the coughing and stuff makes me feel really weak. So I'm not a happy bunny at all today! Think I am going to take a sleeping pill and try and sleep it off next. I was supposed to go for a flu jab tomorrow but have cancelled that for a laugh!
Anyway will be back with a proper reply when I have improved!
II got the name wrong on the game it's Bejeweled Blitz, great game I did look at the Mafia one but decided I'm hooked on one, don't have time for another!!!
Crusha is like your Suki, he never sits on your lap and wriggles like mad if you cuddle him, Daisy on the other hand loves cuddles and sits on Ez's lap while she is working.
Love the comment about Bob's shoes had a good chuckle.
If I remember right, did you have a fair to do quite soon, the one at the school or have you done it? How did it go?
Glad you have got your mojo back and being creative - this year has gone so quick, it doesn't seem that long ago we were getting ready for last Xmas fairs, - groan - getting older and older but not wiser!!
Thanks for the witch. I hope she can cast me some majic spells! have written you email about the cards. Am feeling quite lethargic even though still have a load of clicks to do. Whinge whinge. Moan moan. I better go before I really get depressing!
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Seems ages since I wrote to you now. And then your lovely card has arrived. Thanks so much. You are so talented with the cards.
How are things with you anyway?
I had another flu jab. The swine flu one this time and felt really achy and tired afterwards. Am only just beginning to feel better. Think I may have gone a it mad on ebay because presents keep arriving that I forgot I ordered! People are going to be getting some extras! Have also wrapped up quite a few already and am trying to be organised but the cards which I had printed by Rodney are not written yet and I seem to have booked in 3 different shopping delivery orders for over the holidays. Will have to cancel at least one of them or we will have food flowing out the door. My bruv is coming down weekend of the 19th for the night so that will be nice.
Anyway hope to hear from you soon and that all is well.
Bye for Now
Jill
Oh good I'm glad your going for coffee and cake with your Em. You seem happier when Em is around. Has she got a car since she passed her test by the way? I was feeling fed up with the weather today myself. It was so rainy and windy and gloomy looking outside and I just want sun sun sun! We didn't even get much summer did we. Usually I don't notice the winter weather until after Crimbo but this year it seems to have got bad early as well. Floods and all sorts of storms going on everywhere. If it wasn't for Dickens hating being left I'd be very tempted to go somewhere hot for a week at the moment.
I'm going for a flu jab tomorrow. I don't usually have them but my breathing has got so dodgy I am quite afraid of getting flu. Not that I am sure the flu jabs work but I suppose it might!
Anyway hope you enjoy your book and have a good relax.
Bye for Now
Jill
It must be awful for you then, knowing what this time of year brings for you and dreading it. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers and I will continue to send positive healing energy to you.
Glad you're all snuggled up for the evening with a good book - enjoy!
Hugs
B
xoxoxo
Lovely to hear from you. Seems like a while now but the time flies by so quick. I'm glad you like winning your prize which I have sent by bank transfer by the way. Sorry things have been more down than up for you. I do read the Facebook stuff so have seen some news from you at least. I don't seem to find time to do much on FB tho just read it now and then. It's lucky I can't connect to the games you play on there or would be addicted. It's weird the people who turn up on there tho isn't it. My neice added me and so did a boy I used to work with when he was in care. He is now 40! Plus an old school friend and all sorts.
Anyway better go and try and get some sleep although as usual I will probably not get to sleep for ages.
Great to hear from you anyway Mandy.
Bye for Now
Jill
No apologies necessary. I'm sorry that you are struggling with depression issues. This time of year is always difficult for people. My son has severe problems with SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and he hates the Christmas holidays, which is SAD for me!
I hope you have a really good time with your daughter tomorrow. My daughter went to Florida (which is 2100 miles away!) in June 2008 right after graduation. She lived with her boyfriend's family but things went sour while she was there. His parents got a divorce, the house went into foreclosure, they were living on food stamps, his Dad is disabled and they were caring for him and didn't feel like they could leave him. Finally a friend of his Dad's is buying their house and allowing him to continue to live there and they will help care for him. This allowed the kids to move here to Colorado where the unemployment isn't as severe as it is in FL and at least they have a good family and friends support system here. They are living with my parents because we don't have room in our tiny little ranch house for them, especially now that Jim and I both work from home. Jackie wanted to go shopping on Black Friday and I wasn't too thrilled with going out on the craziest shopping day of the year but we went and had Mother/daughter time and it was wonderful. We haven't had M/D time since at least spring of 2008. We actually found some good bargains and enjoyed our time together immensely. So, I hope your M/D time is wonderful, too!
Wishing you many blessings and sending healing thoughts and big hugs to you.
Brenda
Thank you for comment on the bowl, I agree somethings just cry out to be touched, wood is very tactile.
We were meant to have gone to fair today at Oxford but Bob is still unwell and didn't think he could cope with the drive, he was worried we would get there and him not feel well and be stuck in Oxford, he was soo disappointed, but its not worth making himself more ill. Hopefully we will be able to make the one in Cambridge, its not too bad of a drive and he know where we are going, so keep your fingers crossed!!!
How are you doing?
Love Louise xx
I know all to well the complications of not getting into email or internet :O) Thank you for your comment. Trying very hard to stay well, because I dislike the alternatives... staying warm is most important for me and it gets hard to do sometimes :O) Trust you have a wonderful blessed holiday season.
Bev
Don't you want to talk on Creative Cafe any more?
Richard
Well it is the last day of our Happy 2nd Creative Cafe Birthday week and you are the winner of our Cheer Up Competition today! That is for all your friendly cheerful comments not just this year but since we opened 2 years ago. You have spent time reaching out and communicating and being a great member of Creative Cafe and for that you deserve to be a winner now. Your prize is $5 which I will send you soon. Thanks for all your contributions to Creative Cafe Mandy.
Hope all goes well at the moment.
Jill
Yes, it has been a long time, hasn't it? If I'm thinking correctly (and that isn't something that happens frequently enough!) you should be heading into summer now, right? And here we are headed into what promises to be a long, cold, snowy winter! We got our first snow the last day of summer. And have had several heavy snows already even before Halloween.
Thank you for your kind words about my blue felted bowl. I love how it turned out and need to dye up more wool skeins and make more of them. So much fiber...so little time!
Life is treating me very well and the animals are all doing great. Our 29 year old mare looks incredible this winter. Everyone who sees her cannot believe she is that old, so I guess I figured out the right feed schedule and regimen for her because she's sassy, as well as snappy looking!
I always feel so welcome and part of a wonderful artistic family here on Creative Cafe and I'm glad you're a part of it all! Happy Birthday to Creative Cafe! Thank you to Jill for creating such a warm and welcoming group!
Hope life is treating you well. Warm hugs and many blessings to you!
Brenda
Yeah they fixed our cooker on Thursday after getting more parts. I have even enjoyed cooking a bit on it since then as the microwave and takeaways were getting dull.
It is Liam's birthday today and they have all been over but the new baby isn't feeding well and has lost more weight than he should so things are quite tense. I don't think Liam has been enjoying his birthday much so far.
Are you saying they are holding up your Dad's place in a care home that would suit him because of money? That is a scandal. I see all these millions and billions they spend on bankers and wars and other useless causes and think that it is a criminal waste what goes on.
Hope you enjoy your time with Debs and also the fireworks. Not sure when you are going or maybe have gone by now but enjoy yourself anyways.
Bye for Now
Jill
Yes two years has gone by in a flash hasn't it. I think I've learned a lot doing the caf really. But I'd also like more people involved in running it. More like a co-op. I've got Azzi and Peter and Tony and my bruv as trustees who help in the background and with any techno stuff. Like Peter fixed my IE which kept crashing today. But they don't really want to be involved in the running side of things. Twould be nice to have a group of us doing that but maybe that will happen more in the future. One thing I have learned is that things don't happen as fast as I imagine they will.
Yeah it will be good if you can do a card stall before Crimbo with Em. I am so pleased with the cards you sent me. You have got such a talent with them I am sure any you make will sell like hot cakes. Whatever hot cakes are i am sure it means they will sell fast!
Hope you have had a good time with the goats. And enjoyed your lunch. The man is coming back to fix the cooker tomorrow and I hope they do it properly this time. Am fed up with microwave and takeaways.
Hope you sleep well and have sweet dreams
Jill
Your cards arrived today. And very lovely they are as well. I am very very very pleased with them and will have to get Azzi to give me the butterfly one because I want to keep it! Also arrived in the post today a remote control Darlek I got on ebay for one of Azzis grandchildren thinking it is little and it is HUGE! Have given it to Azzi to play with and he has fallen for it! Also some knitted friut to go in one of Louise's wooden bowls I got as a pressie. Also a remote control Dinasaur for one of Azzis grandbabies. So this room is now full of packaging. At least I am getting some pressies sorted early this year. The time flies by and I worry nothing will be ready.
Anyway thanks millions for the cards they are brilliant.
Good on you for doing swimming and excercise. And for thinking you'll cut down smoking. I wish I could give up completely but just can't. I'm glad your Em is going with you as well. She always seems to be good for your mood.
Anyway we suddenly have 4 new members to approve today so I'd better go and check them out.
Hope to catch up again soon.
Jill
An offer I cannot refuse!
I kissa your ringa
Don Frog
I had a temperature of 103! Drank some whisky tonight as well as took numerous pain killers. Fell asleep and woke up feeling light headed but less fevourish. So I conclude whisky is the best medicine!
Still have sore throat etc but am too drugged up to care. Better than last night when I felt really really really miserable. From one extreme mood to another isn't it.
Sorry about your shoulder. Is it from too much computering? At the old place before I had my laptop used to sit at the big computer for hours and got a very bad shoulder pain a lot. From the angle I was sitting at I guess. It's ok with the laptop because I move around.
Anyway I am not going to push my luck and am going off to sleep again soon.
Will hope to catch up again soon.
Bye for Now
Jill
Have just put your Happy Halloween card with a link to your cards as a blog. Hope you get some card customers.
I am really ill! Have bad cough, bad bad guts and high temperature. Also sore throat and other coldy symptoms. Have had about 6 baths today to try and stop the bad guts pain but it's really persistant. Also the coughing and stuff makes me feel really weak. So I'm not a happy bunny at all today! Think I am going to take a sleeping pill and try and sleep it off next. I was supposed to go for a flu jab tomorrow but have cancelled that for a laugh!
Anyway will be back with a proper reply when I have improved!
Take Care
Jill
OK - so I've joined Facebook.
I've signed up to "Mafia Wars"
I am now named "Don Burton".
Swift progress is required.
What do I do?
Richard
II got the name wrong on the game it's Bejeweled Blitz, great game I did look at the Mafia one but decided I'm hooked on one, don't have time for another!!!
Crusha is like your Suki, he never sits on your lap and wriggles like mad if you cuddle him, Daisy on the other hand loves cuddles and sits on Ez's lap while she is working.
Love the comment about Bob's shoes had a good chuckle.
If I remember right, did you have a fair to do quite soon, the one at the school or have you done it? How did it go?
Glad you have got your mojo back and being creative - this year has gone so quick, it doesn't seem that long ago we were getting ready for last Xmas fairs, - groan - getting older and older but not wiser!!
Take care - cuddle to Suki - Louise xx
Thanks for the witch. I hope she can cast me some majic spells! have written you email about the cards. Am feeling quite lethargic even though still have a load of clicks to do. Whinge whinge. Moan moan. I better go before I really get depressing!
Sleep weel sweet dreams.
Jill
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