tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26025798470738860452024-03-21T08:38:31.559+01:00Mistress of the Messy DeskLife in lovely Toulouse, SW FranceToulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-71400168542958546902012-12-24T06:16:00.001+01:002012-12-24T07:10:46.143+01:00More Drink, not Less!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The recipe at <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.fr/2012/12/week-99-100-recipe.html">Less is More for weeks 99 and 100 is DRINKS</a> This card is for my daughter Lydia who sure does love her cocktails!<br />
It is probably a bit 'more' than less but there is plenty of white space! The gradient glitter cardstock was part of a pack and I remember wondering what on earth to do with it, it is perfect for this card! I also entered <a href="http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/12/simon-says-merry-christmas.html">Simon says stamps - Merry Christmas</a> and <a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.fr/">Papertake # Anything goes as previous challenge</a><br />
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I would like to wish my lovely followers and visitors who have left lovely comments which I <i>really</i> do appreciate , a Merry Christmas and a Happy and healthy New Year or as the French say: <br />
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Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-8977689469997993442012-12-20T10:19:00.002+01:002012-12-24T06:24:03.235+01:00Black and Gold Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At <a href="http://thedynamicduoschallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/12/dd33-gold-and-black-with-option-of-music.html">Dynamic Duos</a> this week the colors are Gold and Black, not my first thought for Holiday cards but I have now used the combo for several cards and love it!<br />
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Stamps: SU Happy Hour heat embossed in gold, cardstock, mesh, brad from stash.<br />
Other challenges: <a href="http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/12/simon-says-merry-christmas.html">Simon says stamp - Merry Christmas</a>Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-61625785964987902722012-12-09T17:10:00.003+01:002012-12-24T06:22:31.346+01:00Happy Hour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Christmas cards are my favourite cards of all. I havn't got very far with making my christmas cards for this year, I spend too many hours looking at the many lovely designs to CASE on Pinterest !! I havn't entered any challenges for ages until today. I saw the sketch on <a href="http://mojomonday.blogspot.fr/2012/12/mojo-monday-270-contest.html">Mojo Monday (Mojo270)</a> which I love. I stamped the SU images in gumball green, lined them all up with the stampamajig, I am getting a lot better at stamping now I have one. I cut the drinks out of glittercardstock I have had for EVER. I love the little finishing touches in the set and can see me using it a lot (nothing to do with hubby with in the wine trade of course LOL).<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">I want to replace my E-Craft, (oh I I hate that machine :-( ) with something that does not cut different every time, DOES need a mat to stabilise it, chew up my expensive paper etc. It takes hours to get even a simple cut right and as for anything intrikit, forget it! I had an old Cricut and SCAL 2 which cut better. I love SCAL 3 and want a machine that will run it, no cartridges, less expensive blades and mats that last a while! perhaps one that will print and cut accuratley?? If any of you ladies can help me choose I would be very happy :-) I wish I had read reviews of the E-Craft before I bought it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">I am dropping hints to Santa! and one last thing, it has to be available in the UK or France.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Please let me know what you think of your own machines. I have been looking at the Silhouette and the Sizzex Eclips.................. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Eclips with Ecal it is! it arrived the other day and I love it allready.</span>Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-88508705929734510852012-10-30T12:30:00.000+01:002012-10-30T12:37:06.191+01:00Happy Anniversary - Glad you made it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was our 6th Anniversary on the 28th of October. We got married soon after we moved to France in 2006. On his way to the airport to work in London for a few days last week, a woman in a VW Polo did an illegal 'U' turn without checking, right into Tom on his motorcycle. He fell on his head but amazingly apart from being knocked out having no idea where he was going and why, for an hour or so until he got to A&E , a cut lip and some grazes on his face and a sore neck he was otherwise ok. He was very lucky that the traffic was moving slowly and it was winter so he had his heavy jacket and trousers on. I did have to stop him going swimming when he got back from the hospital and he was a bit out of it for the rest of the day! The bike is a write off but at least he didn't miss our Anniversary :-)<br />
SU DSP, digi glasses color with Promarkers & glossy accents. Embossing folder, Kraft card and .bakers twine from stash. This is the 2nd card I made as the first one has the SU motorbike on it............:-)<br />
As there is some dry embossing I would like to enter <a href="http://doyoustackup.blogspot.fr/2012/10/dysu95-embossing-wet-or-dry.html">DYSU #95 - Embossing</a><br />
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Edit: just noticed that <a href="http://craftyalisoninlyon.blogspot.fr/2012/10/bon-voyage.html">Alison</a> has posted a very similar card today - great minds think alike!Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-60178490977266012212012-10-29T11:26:00.000+01:002012-10-29T11:55:23.831+01:00Lydia 18th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Soon my 'baby' will be 18. She would only wear shades of purple, and the more velvety and flittery the better! If I dressed her in anything else off it came and on when the purple dress, purple socks, purple cardi... <br />
I made the little shoes from a svg I made ages ago for a card for my elder daughter Sophie. It does not show too well but they are made from a scrap re-cycled of velvetely brocade paper I found in my stash, I think it was originally from a doll dressing up pack. Black glitter cardstock, bows and ribbons, bling, rub-ons from stash. Brocade embossing folder. SU punch out of purple plum cs, nestie and I made a key SVG and cut it on the e-craft. It is bit fussier than usual for me but Narelle on FMS did say she likes layers and 'fullness'!!<br />
Challenges: I used the layout from <img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiruhkL-i0sJla2zEXAewJIWwqo9eZbbYHEQQlQqapGE_Od7QKiQTqi526WwVRZC84qJlHi1QLnZ2cuSTdEyp_zsgscLBcpm_vluADIN732hc2bWsxmVSuqQwmGJ7n8TGrt_ct5pshlPXX3/s200/FMS+Final+58-001.jpg" width="143" /><a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.fr/2012/10/freshly-made-sketches-58-sketch-by.html">Freshly made sketches #58</a><br />
<a href="http://unstampabelleschallenges.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/unstampabelles-challenge-16-recycled-or.html">Unstampabelles # recycled</a><br />
<a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/10/october-challenge.html">Sir stampalot October-challenge - Punch Away</a><br />
<br />Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-7290460419968453822012-10-19T18:32:00.001+02:002012-10-29T08:37:49.189+01:00Mum's birthday<br />
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A bit fussier than my usual style, but my Mum will love it! It is a horrid day here today, 95 km per hour winds, tiles falling off the roof, wheelie bin blown 100mt in the orchard!<br />
I do think this Penny Black stamp is teriffic. Coloured with Promarkers.<br />
Flowers from Wild Orchid<br />
E-craft die cuts and SU punches and sentiment. Paper and ribbons from stash.<br />
Challenges: <a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/10/penny-black-saturdayoctober-challenge.html">Penny Black Saturday - sketch</a><br />
<a href="http://cr84fncolorchallenge.blogspot.fr/">Cr84fn Colour challenge - pink, tan, cream</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNR3QePLUwq6_a4_M7aVpa3NFjxO1hImpFjD6VNbYTJ0ElMkk1uWw-ZQWkOHzM86eQLQ0wGMLXDypejxC9jHbnYrXhCw0m43jlsSl9Xxk_szG7uOy8CWXP9r3grjY8TW3I4bwlYnYlh79-/s1600/CR84FN65+Graphic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNR3QePLUwq6_a4_M7aVpa3NFjxO1hImpFjD6VNbYTJ0ElMkk1uWw-ZQWkOHzM86eQLQ0wGMLXDypejxC9jHbnYrXhCw0m43jlsSl9Xxk_szG7uOy8CWXP9r3grjY8TW3I4bwlYnYlh79-/s200/CR84FN65+Graphic.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
<a href="http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.fr/2012/10/challenge-139-anything-goes.html">I Love promarkers #139 anything goes</a><br />
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I can't get my head around it being October... nearly Christmas! My family have most of our birthdays in the Autumn. Even Ella the 'puppy' was one year old on the 10th, same day as my 23 year old Sophie. I have made a few cards over the summer but not gotten to post them. This card is for my dear Sister and best friend Louise. She is very 'crafty' and as sewing was easier on a card than crochet... !!<br />
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Sketch from <a href="http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.fr/2012/10/freshly-made-sketches-56-sketch-by-rita.html">Freshly made sketches #56</a><br />
Theme from <a href="http://theribbonreelchallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/10/challenge-38-damask-delight.html">Ribbon Reel: NEUTRAL PALETTE in the photo and include A DAMASK PATTERN, LACE / RIBBONS</a><br />
Die cut with my e-craft the dress form, SU punches for <a href="http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/10/simon-says-dies-andor-punches.html">Simon says stamps : dies and/or punches</a> and <a href="http://www.pileitonchallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/10/pile-it-on-41-vintage-or-shabby-chic.html">Pile it on # vintage-or-shabby-chic</a><br />
Some lovely vintage seam binding, bits of gold mesh, embossing folder damask, little blue rose which I think came from Wild Orchid. Beads and bits and bobs from stash.<br />
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<br />Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-79836693877686064192012-09-21T09:21:00.000+02:002012-09-21T10:41:19.382+02:00Beach Wedding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This my first card for ages. We are going to a beach wedding on Saturday so I wanted to come up with a card with a 'beachy' theme! I cut out the palm trees with my E-craft which is working again, more or less. I used various embossing folders. I would like to enter: <a href="http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.fr/2012/09/little-claire-monthly-challenge-25.html">Little Claire Monthly Challenge # 25 'Stand Up Straight!</a>, <a href="http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/09/simon-saysemboss-it.html">Simon Says....Emboss It !</a> and a new challenge <a href="http://www.creativecuttingchallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/09/challenge-1-anything-goes.html">Creative cutting 1-anything-goes.</a>Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-20418644392236960562012-06-15T12:29:00.001+02:002012-06-15T12:29:17.307+02:00Flourish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week at <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.fr/2012/06/week-71-one-layer.html">Less is more #71</a> it is one layer week and add a flourish! After several ended up in the bin (the punch was sticking) I was left with these two. I had wanted the SU set 'Snow Swirled' for ages but it has never been in the UK catty so I got it off e-bay. The entire tree is made of flourishes and on the 2nd one there are even some on the ribbon. I quite like one layer week, I actually find it quite hard to be able to add layers now! LOL I have had a lovely time looking at the cards of the Limettes this week, I can't always comment as I can't type on the ipad thingy but I do look and admire :-)<br />
SU stamps and punch, ribbon, bling from stash, gold embossing powder.Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-38982408450849261322012-06-14T09:24:00.000+02:002012-06-14T09:45:27.070+02:00MOJO245 Engagement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I have been 'home alone' and recovering from having visitors. the fact that it hasn't stopped raining all week has given me the opportunity to get some cards made. <a href="http://mojomonday.blogspot.fr/2012/06/mojo-monday-245.html">Mojo Monday</a> is a challenge I often look at as I like the sketches but I don't think I have entered a card before.<br />
I used the colors from this weeks <a href="http://thedynamicduoschallenge.blogspot.fr/2012/06/dynamic-duos-6-regal-rose-and-basic.html">dynamic duos #6</a> I had a nice box of Stampin' up! goodies arrive from <a href="http://craftyalisoninlyon.blogspot.fr/">Alison</a> including the new Twitterpated DSP so I just had to use it! The heart and sentiment are highlighted with a sakura clear star sprarkle pen but it does not really show up on the picture. Seam binding, bling, grey cardstock & punches found on my desk! I would also like to enter <a href="http://www.ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/card-challenge-use-ribbon-or-lace.html">the ribbon girls</a> Challenge<br />
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At <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.fr/2012/05/week-69-recipe.html">Less is more</a> Week 69 <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; text-align: center;">We have a very simple recipe this week and that is simply to make a card which is</span><br />
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For once I am not uploading at the 11th hour! This card was a total accident, I have been trying to get the E-craft working i.e. not chewing up my cardstock and paper! I can never remember the pressure for each paper and although it is supposed to be 'matless' some kind of mat IS needed, I found a cropper hopper plastic 12x12 divider. I hardly use the e-craft as it takes so long to get a good cut. Don't even get me started on the crappy software it comes with, lucky I have SCAL! </div>
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Anyway enough of a ramble, I was using this svg file 'Hibiscus stencil card' (I cannot remember where it came from, there is no TOU and no name on the file. If anyone knows please let me know and I'll add a link.) I was using cardstock in colours I never normally use to test the machine. This was the 4th attempt..... the sentiment is SU. I used stick and spray to attach the red front to the yellow but then realised that the yellow cut outs were sticky ...Doh! so I had a brain wave and poured crystal glitter over the card and volia! a shaped card !!!<br />
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51 mins to go! SU baby tees stamp taken off its wheel, odd bits of cardstock embossed and punched , promarkers, seam binding (it is rose pink but looks odd on the scan) I had to scan the card as my battery was dead :-(.<br />
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This week at <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.fr/2012/05/week-67-one-layer.html">less is more we are week-67-one-layer, 3 stamps</a> various distress inks, SU blossoms stamps x 2 happy birthday stamp from Blade Rubber, not quite navy SU cardstock and punch. bling from stash.<br />
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This is about my 10th try all the others either a) I forgot the white space b) inky fingers... c) Colitis cat sat in dirt then ink then on card, d) builder called me downstairs to review sanding of terrace table and I then knocked over a cup of tea. So 11th hour as usual! I do wonder how I ever managed to run a department when I can't even get a card finished with a weeks notice. That's what fibromyalgia (and brain fog, chronic pain, insomnia) does to you, it robs you of the person you used to be, especially when the weather is damp/cold. Everything takes longer and if you actually remember what it was you were trying to do in the first place, it is a good day. My 3rd sister who is only 35 and due to get married soon as just been diagnosed (2nd sister was 4 years ago) so I'm feeling a bit sorry for us all today. (normally i'm a silver lining, glass half full type) Darwin would probably have us all shot! I will feel better and more positive when this hellish Vent d'autan wind stops blowing, the hail stops wrecking my garden and the sun finally comes out again!<br />
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It has been abusy week here, Ella had her first 'toiletage'... I nearly cried when I saw how short her hair is now . She absolutly hates being brushed but her long hair really needed to be shorter for the summer. at least now I can brush her without a fight, hopefully by the time it all grows back for the winter she will be more co-operative! She likes to dig and roll and it was a nightmare keeping her hair from getting all matted up. </div>
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It has been a busy old week. 3 seasons in one day, this morning it was sunny and 18c, lunch time it clouded over and just now we had a hail storm with 1-2cm stones!<br />
this card is for my nephew Ollie's 3rd birthday. I used the SU cupcake punch with craftworks card blank and scraps from my stash. If you look really carefully you will see a tiny shrink plastic charm with a SU punch pals (I think?) stamped with stazon and shrunk. I did this last week for LIM 'charms' but didn't manage to get the card uploaded in time so i used it one this one.<br />
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Another 11th hour card for<a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.fr/2012/04/week-62-colour-challenge.html">Less is More #62 - three shades of green</a> My white space on this card is green!<br />
I have been on a bit of a paper flower fix this week, I was trying to made a hellebore/christmas rose like the ones in my garden..........<br />
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(this one is a bit dead after a day on my desk!) my three greens are: Artichoke chaud, old olive on the Paisley petals DSP border punch and dark green leaves from wild orchid under the flower. The petals on the flower are from the fab build a blossom SU punch, yellow liquid pearls in the center and tiny beads. I swiped the petals with ink and drew the lines with sakura gelly and stardust pens.<br />
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11th hour again for <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.fr/2012/03/week-61-lucky-dip.html">simply less is moore week-61-lucky-dip colour</a><br />
I have this week we have had, girlie puppy neutered, big dog ear drops daily at the vet (YOU try getting ear drops into an 8stone dog that does not like his ears touched! I had a fibro flare up and 2 days in bed getting my 'spoons' recharged.<br />
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New SU punch. Terrible picture inside my cave.<br />
Stampin! up cupcake, ,modern lable, word window punches, Ecraft and nestie dies, cardstock and raffia twine from stash.Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-1815872503701698142012-03-30T16:25:00.001+02:002012-03-30T16:25:39.993+02:00Less is More week 60<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week Chrissie and Mandi want us to combine 3 previous challenges. I have gone for Week 21 - Sketch 2, Week 55 - Punches or die cuts and Week 43 - a bit of bling. I used: Stampin up lable punch, DSP, cardstock and stamp, bling from stash. Papermanic embossing folder. I got the idea for the punch art purses/handbags from the web, I think there were several SU demo sites with similar. The double sided paper is perfect for them.<br />
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So our 'new' puppy had her brother round to play a couple of weeks ago. He is the beautifully brushed one! Next thursday Ella is booked in at the vets to be neutered, I can't believe she is 6 months old so soon! Toby is again having problems with his ears and diet, he has re-gained weight on the new joint mobility food back to 47 kilo (103 lbs) so is back on obesity diet food. Tom has just taken him back to the vets to get his ear drops in, when a 100lb dog does not want ear drops it is a 3 person job to get them in! Ella is just over 8 kilo so much easier!Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-61093412363275068792012-03-23T22:53:00.003+01:002012-03-23T22:53:37.931+01:00mask....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mr D came home with yet more A4 plastic drawer things this week. so I have been<i> trying</i> to look like I'm actually moving mess rather than planting seeds all week, this self sufficiency stuff does not happen by its self you know!<br />
. This week <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.fr/2012/03/week-59-theme.html">Less is moore #59 theme</a> is Masking...................... OH **** well I DO own a mask, it has remained in its cover until today, it is a trellis pattern... this was a real disaster, I would like to claim that my 'new' eyes' are at fault but sadly, no, it's my inky fingers where disaster lurks! Anyway as I need to get my Nephews card in the post tomorrow (I was my sisters birth partner so NO excuses about remembering the date! hard to get my head around that slimy little 6lb baby being 6 years old all ready....where does the time go?)<br />
I get an eye test in 2 weeks and new reading glasses now that both eyes are different prescriptions, I would like to think my cards will improve but I suspect not.<br />
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This is my card for <a href="http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2012/03/week-58-one-layer-script.html">Less is More ~ week #58 one layer-script</a><br />
Tomorrow I <i>finally</i> get my right eye lasered, a month after the left which finally seems to have responded to treatment. I will be so glad when I can stop tripping up/down stairs etc as my brain is so confused and does not 'know' where the floor is in relation to my feet! <br />
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I printed out the Pink Petticoat script onto the card blank and then stamped the SU christmas tree then heat embossed it in gold. Seam binding from stash.Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-17959684674479415652012-03-09T18:55:00.000+01:002012-03-09T18:55:42.995+01:00Brown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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more later!Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-83085671995998275462012-03-09T18:38:00.000+01:002012-03-09T18:38:36.049+01:00Way to make money out of rubber stamping!You really could not make this up! God help the disabled if A4E are in charge of the work placements the disabled, sick and more than 6 months terminally ill prognosis 'Working related activity group' (WRAG) will be forced to do once the 'Welfare Reforms' are law. <br />
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Whistleblowers reveal damning new claims about Back to Work Tsar's job training
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People who have worked for A4e paint a damning picture of a company whose former
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the A4e office in Bradford, one whistleblower alleged staff went to Staples, the stationery store, to buy ‘make-your-own’ stamp kits to use on paperwork staff filled out if they found someone a job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Every ‘clunk’ of these rubber stamps — in the names of genuine local companies — would ‘show’ someone had been found a job at that firm, and trigger a bounty payout from the Government to A4e.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The form was known as Employment Verification Templates (EVTs), and without it, A4e could not claim money from the Government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 2em;">'A whistleblower there said he had resorted to such forgeries under pressure from managers to reach quotas for finding jobs for the unemployed'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘On the EVT form, a stamp or compliments slip from an employer was required to get the job through,’ says the 37-year-old whistleblower. ‘You had to have something to show a client had been found a job. We were told, "Come what may, you have got to get the EVTs in. If you need to get a rubber stamp, then get a stamp and get them done." They told us to go down to Staples and get a rubber stamp with a genuine company’s name.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The DIY stamps would then be used to validate the EVT form. The former employee added: ‘We would take the stamps off the premises in case there was an audit. It was common place.’ In High Wycombe, Bucks, there were also claims of DIY stamp kits.</span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><br />Read more:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111872/Emma-Harrisons-A4e-Damning-claims-Back-Work-Tsars-job-training-firm-revealed.html#ixzz1odkqoRkB" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111872/Emma-Harrisons-A4e-Damning-claims-Back-Work-Tsars-job-training-firm-revealed.html#ixzz1odkqoRkB</a></span><br /><br />
Full Story: <br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/"><span style="color: blue;">www.dailymail.co.uk</span></a>Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2602579847073886045.post-15954425349804233082012-03-09T16:51:00.001+01:002012-03-09T16:51:59.400+01:00Ability Disabled - by Sue MarshDisabled people in the UK are facing a terrible, frightening time. I am really angy about this. I won't go into the ins and outs of my personal case history here but I am lucky, I have an amazing 2nd husband who met me before my illnesses really got a hold. <br />
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Sue Marsh is an amazing woman :<br />
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<a href="http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2012/03/ive-been-trying-to-pin-down-hazy-idea.html?spref=bl">Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: Ability Disabled</a>: I've been trying to pin down a hazy idea that's been floating about in my blog-head for a few weeks now. Disability. <br />
People greater and way better informed than me have struggled with definitions of disability for decades, so I won't pretend to analyse social models or medical models or biopsychosocial pseudo-science.<br />
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I'm thinking about our lives. And the way that they've changed since around 2008.<br />
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I never ever thought of myself as a "scrounger". Far from it. I had a terrible illness that limited my life in thousands of ways. Crucially, I was never given any cause to.<br />
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My Blue Badge was the thing that improved my quality of life the most. It literally made the difference between leaving the house and not. If I can park right outside the door of the supermarket or the school or the hospital, I can go, if not, I simply can't manage.<br />
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Yes, I can walk. I can just about get round a small supermarket without feeling so exhausted I have to sit on the floor. Before I had the Blue Badge, I regularly had to sit down in a shop and put in an SOS call to my husband. I became more and more insular, less able to enjoy the things everyone else took for granted.<br />
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When I decide to go to a shop or a school concert, I know that the rest of the day will be a write off. How does the act of over-riding my disability affect everything else that I do? My energy and ability are limited (see The Spoon Theory for a wonderful explanation <a href="http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory-written-by-christine-miserandino/"><span style="color: #ea4200;">http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory-written-by-christine-miserandino/</span></a> ) and for me, managing my disability means achieving as much as I can, every day, with the limited <i>ability </i>that I have.<br />
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I could have given up. Many do. I could have gone to bed and said enough was enough. Given up the daily struggle for a degree of normality.<br />
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I could give up on food (it disables me more than anything else) and accept a permanent feeding tube. But I like food. I refuse to give up on something so fundamental, so entwined with social interaction and pleasure, just because it hurts and makes me vomit and keeps me on the loo all day.<br />
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I could have chosen not to have children. Some might legitimately argue that I should have done. But imagine the joy I'd have missed? The love that fills the places where pain lurks. The shiny little faces that make me <i>be </i>more, <i>do </i>more every single day. Sometimes (well, often) it's all way too much, but they keep me going, always more important than my various symptoms or dark, dark, days.<br />
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I could use a wheelchair, I very often need to. But then I become more disabled. My muscles waste a little more, my heart would get a little weaker, my blood, already sticky with inaction would clot a little easier, potentially bringing on stroke No2.<br />
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I could stop bathing or washing my hair or getting myself dressed. Sometimes those simple things take me all day. Sometimes I can't do them at all. But then who am I? What is left?<br />
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Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was the extra money to acknowledge all of those things. It meant I could buy food that didn't make me as ill. It meant that I could pay for some help in the bad times. It meant that I could get my children to school in a taxi on days I can't leave the toilet. It meant that I got a Blue Badge.<br />
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As we all trawl through the criteria for the new benefit to replace DLA (PIP or Personal Independence Payments) it becomes clearer and clearer that is designed to <i>disable. </i><br />
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<i>If I can make a simple meal using a microwave, if I can get dressed and wash myself, if I can walk more than 50 metres, whatever it costs me, I am no longer disabled. It no longer matters what those things cost me, their effect is irrelevant. If I can clean up my own incontinence, incontinence is no longer disabling. If I can chew, I am not disabled, never mind the carnage that the transit of that food causes. </i><br />
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So, if you are disabled - and make no mistake, I mean disabled in any way at all - deaf, blind, paralysed, mentally ill, or if you have a "fluctuating condition" like mine - if you can leave the house, care for yourself in the most basic ways and stumble through a semblance of "life" you will not qualify for PIP. If you give up, stop trying, stop fighting for every minute of every day, you might.<br />
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The same is now true of social care. As councils up and down the country attempt to save an eye watering 25% from budgets, "moderate needs" no longer exist. You must simply struggle through "moderate" until the daily effort pushes you towards "critical" <i>Then </i>the skeleton remains of state assistance will pick up the damaged pieces. And those pieces will be <i>more </i>damaged, will cost the NHS <i>more </i>money.<br />
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The message on disability is clear and is ringing out loud and true across every town in the country - "Give up, don't fight, don't try to be the best you can be, don't cling to pleasure - it is not for the likes of you.<br />
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Don't you dare EVER have good day, take a holiday, and God forbid, throw caution to the wind and risk days of pain for a moment's joy on a water slide. Don't stay active, don't keep your disability at bay for as long as you can. Don't try to avoid costly medical interventions. Don't let your neighbours see you in the garden or hoovering the lounge. Don't cook a beautiful meal, eat microwave meals and be grateful. Don't be so selfish! How DARE you think you deserve a partner or children and if you do, expect that they will become more exhausted, more neglected as they are expected to become "critical" themselves just caring for you.<br />
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It is a terrible, sinister shift. Possibly not designed to be so - who knows? I could no longer say for sure if this is utter ignorance and a lack of understanding of disability, or a sinister attempt to ensure that disability becomes <i>more </i>marginalised, <i>less</i> visible and in the end.... well in the end what? What <i>will </i>become of us?<br />
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The Government think we will all buckle down and get jobs. I still cannot imagine in any way at all what makes them think we didn't try that already - in some cases, mine included, until it brought us to the very brink of trading our lives for a pay cheque.<br />
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We are talking about millions of lives, not just a handful. Half a million people losing DLA - half a million!! Many more losing ESA. Yet more left to sit in their own filth, eating when a neighbour knocks to check, for want of a little social care.<br />
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Once again, I ask whether we need to wait for this terrible, inhumane bomb to explode across our news bulletins or whether we think again. Now. Before it is too late.Toulousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927788074641171020noreply@blogger.com0