FABRIC AND THE ARTS - MY WAY

Lovely fabrics arrived for me today in various ways. These are all from the lovely Marian. She gets us fabulous fabrics from her market at the bargain price of £2 metre. Brilliant or what! Thank you Marian.

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These two Batiks I bought from John Lewis in Milton Keynes yesterday [Monday] when Annette and myself went over on the bus, Rebecca was at school. It was great, we didn't have to go in Build-a-bear. Yippee!

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This is a gorgeous fat quarter  from Irene, I organised a fatquarter swap on our Yahoo group, aren't I lucky this is just perfect Irene, many many thanks.

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Watch out here comes the Arty bit!!

I am going to 'play' with this to see what effects I can get, so you best watch this space...

Mmm mmm Valdani threads - this is how they arrive, all individually wrapped...

Then open them up and  -  Gorgeous aren't they...

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Again on our Yahoo group another swap - 'M is for - a great card very cleverly done don't you think...

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ARTY bit again...

I am doing a little Book making course online with Myfanwy and shall be using papers like this - pretty aren't they...

I am most definitely changing in my views toward the 'Art' style of things. I am really enjoying what I am doing with Myfanwy. These little Books and the Embellishing machine lessons. I still obviously love my Quilting, that will always be my first love, but this is really stretching me and you know what. I am enjoying it.  I seem to be learning a new language too along the way. I guess each craft has it's own language.

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Talking of language. Today was a pretty bad day regarding the hideous neighbours. I had opened my post and was trying to read the booklet about the Puff Paint. The dogs next door - one in particular - kept up a persistant bark bark bark, I just couldn't concentrate. Hubby went out cos we could hear 'her' next door, and shouted across the fence for her to shut the dogs up. Hmm, no response. Bark bark bark bark bark, it went on and on. You have no idea how annoying it was. Anyway, I flipped. I stormed outside and yelled, you do not want to know what, although I didn't swear, at her to shut her dogs up or I would do it for her. She shouted at me to ----Oh shut your ******* face -----. Now, if anyone swears at me or mine, that is like a red rag to a bull. I came in and rang the Environmental Health people---AGAIN --- the person I needed to speak to was out of the office but he will get the message passed on --AGAIN-- and will ring me sometime in the next 2-3 days. I am ready for that call. I have had enough. Over 15 years of sheer misery with that family next door. This time I want something done about them and the dogs they have. It is not much to ask is it. I know I am on a lose lose lose situation. It is just so unfair. The weather of late has been fabulous hasn't it. I bet you have all been sitting in your gardens if you have one. We can't, cos it stinks out there of dog urine or the other, it just chokes you and is unpleasant to say the least. So indoors we stay, well I do, hubby can bear it for a while, Rebecca too for a short time, then they have to come in. It is not right is it. An Englishman's or woman's home is supposed to be their castle, ours is a prison. I swear if today I had access to an axe I would have gone round there and committed a massacre, truly I would. I was so angry I am sure my blood pressure went way off the scale.

She did shut the dogs up then and each time they so much as whimpered, she was yelling at them to be quiet. You see, she can do it, so why doesn't she keep them quiet all the time.hing is you see, I have noticed of late I am beginning to hate all dogs and that is just not me, I love animals, it is the lat next door I can't stand. Oh I know it is not the animals fault, but quite honestly that line of thinking is of no help to me. One day I will flip too far and be locked up, either prison or the mad house. So if I go missing you know where I am.