The Craft Fayre update.

Well, it's official - I'm rubbish at craft fayres and won't be bothering in the future!
I took about £30.00 but £15.00 for the table brought that down quick as you like and the remaining £15.00 only slightly offsets the other table charges where I took nothing at all!


Still, look on the bright side - I have a plentiful supply of gifts for the next twenty years....! LOL!


I've been a bad blogger the last few months, because of the fayres, too but I hope to be back to  what passes for normal for me in the New Year as I'm sponsoring a couple of challenge blogs.


My old stomping-ground C.R.A.F.T Challenge blog are up first. A great bunch of people on this team - really friendly and helpful.  This challenge blog also originated on Trimcraft, my 'home' forum and is mainly comprised of Trimmies, so I'm pleased and proud to be asked to sponsor them!


These are the C.R.A.F.T dates.

C.R.A.F.T

12th of January

12th of April

19th of July

11th of October

The second challenge blog is a fairly new (to me) one called Southern Girls.

Another top bunch of peeps with a great sense of humour and their dates will be 

29th March 

 26th April 

 7 June 

 16th Aug 

 27 Sep 

 22 Nov

I'll be providing a prize for the winner on each of these dates and the winner gets to choose which digis they want too, so that's not too shabby, is it?

I hope you'll pop over to their blogs and have a lickle shufti!

Look forward to seeing you there!

Hugs

Ei

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Craft Fayre Tomorrow at Lark Lane

I really don't know why I bother to do these because the ones I've not been too poorly to attend on the day, are peopled with non-buying browsers. 


I don't understand this because the items on offer from the other stallholders range from 'lovely' to 'exquisite'!  I think we stallholders account for 98% of sales.....to each other!


If this one doesn't bring any results I shall give it up as a bad job! LOL!


I've made some new items for tomorrow's fiasco. I really hope they sell because my house is looking like an Aladdin's cave  - and I don't mean the Christmas deccies either!




Her are my brooches and rings made from strong card & paper.

and my latest metal jewellery makes.

I love these little charm bracelets and hope they'll go to good homes for Christmas stockings tomorrow!


Have some more to show you soon!


Hugs
Ei
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Lickle verse for a child to his/her Mammy

Over on my home forum, Trimcraft, one of the Trimmies said they were having trouble finding a verse for a two year old to his Mammy so I put my keyboard to use and came up with this.


Feel free to use it as you wish (change the age/gender if you like..!). If you publish on the net or otherwise I'd really like it if you could just give a small credit 'verse by Eiglas'  or something.




For Mammy
When I was younger I remember the feelings,
arms warm around me, keeping me safe
and those soft spoken words, 'Mammy's here Darling,' 
making me happy and I knew it was you.

Then I got bigger, was up on my own feet,
Sometimes I'd fall over and land on the ground,
Then those soft spoken words'Mammy's here Darling' 
Making me happy and I knew it was you.

Now I am talking, a little bit anyway,
I'm trying to tell you, what you want to hear,
those soft-spoken words, 'I love you Mammy'
making you happy, 'cos I'm only two. 


Hope you enjoy it!
Hugs
Ei
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Sorry, not been around so much......

...but real life has got in the way a bit over the last couple of months and eaten into my crafting time.
Not just one thing but several - one of which is our BichPoo pup Lola's toiletting routine!


We've had about ten dogs, plus fosterlings over the years and I have never had such a hard time potty-training a dog before! This pup is the giddy limit! 


I'll be out in the garden with her at some unearthly time of the night/morning freezing my butt off and acting like a loon when she finally does something worthwhile, only for her to run back indoors leaving me like a lemon in the garden and by the time I get back in, she's left a message in the hall!

I blame those damn puppy pads they use these days - they seem to give the pup the idea that it's okay to toilet indoors, but last year when the pups were born we had the 'big freeze' in the UK and I just couldn't contemplate putting such tiny pups into the snow to toilet them - it would have been like aversion therapy! LOL!


Mind you, if Charlie, Lola's Dad, had not been a naughty boy, we wouldn't have had the problem of Winter pups....grrrr! 


She's been fine for a few weeks now and, to all intents and purposes, seemed to have got the message at last. Then she did it again! There's no rhyme or reason!

She was one last month so let's hope she gets the idea soon or I shall be tempted to make a pyjama case out of her...!

Crafting coming soon....I hope!
Hugs
Ei
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Crafty CardMakers - Ch 54 - Cute, with a dark twist....

Although not a full-time member of the DT any longer, the team at CraftyCardMakers have been very kind and asked me to contribute when I can so, for this week's challenge, I've especially created my little kitty, in this case, in the guise of 'Count Catula' the vampire kitty!


He's available from my Eiglassing site and I've made a digital card with him  this week but I will try to make a 'real' one in the next few days too.


Here he is:-

All the elements (apart from Catula) were made by various digital artists including L.Schmidt.
Hope you like him!


CCM's generous sponsor this week in the lovely Joanna Sheen, so make sure you pop over there and join in the fun!
Hugs
Ei
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My very good friend's birthday...

It was my very good friend Kathy's 50th birthday last week and to celebrate we went out for a meal at our favourite Italian restaurant The Olive Tree at Penny Lane in Liverpool.


The food was, as usual, succulent and very more-ish, although their serevings don't really allow for 'more' - you're usually stuffed before you get to the desert, which you have to ease down your gullet with a shoe-horn!


I haven't enjoyed a night out so much in recent memory, although, to be fair, I don't really 'do' going out - it interferes with my crafting too much! LOL!


I was, however, a bit stuck for inspiration for the card. 
It had to be a bit special, you see, Kath being one of my all-time favourite peeps and it being her 50th, but she's not a 'Tilda' girl and I couldn't think of a starting point that didn't involve a coloured-in flower or something equally ordinary.


I wanted something amusing, as she's as mad as a box of frogs (think of a posh Victoria Wood and you're on the right track), but it had to be classy too as she's a very classy lady.


So, I came up with this. Hope you like it!

I had a similar conundrum with her present.
She has more perfume and 'goodies' than Debenhams so I decided to make her a one-off necklace and bangle set as I know she loves jewellery.


Kath is THE original Pink Lady. She even has apples of that name for her lunch!
So, there was no other colour I could use!

She absolutely adored it. Hope you like it too!
Hugs
Ei
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Just to let you know.....

I'm having a lickle half-price Sale of my digital paper-kits over at Eiglassing this week so if you fancy any of them, you've until Midnight Sunday 09/10/11 to tell me and then they're back up to normal on Monday!


Go fill yer boots!
Hugs
Ei
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