tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73468280994227701542024-02-20T09:09:38.939+00:00A Fenland Beary BlogFenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-1011227004032960852011-08-01T07:38:00.001+01:002011-08-01T07:39:58.859+01:00A Harvest Widow...........................................................<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Well the wheat is under way!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>For the past 5 years I have been a lorry drivers wife,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>before that I was a harvest widow.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It's long hours but hopefully we will manage to save</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>some money for that newer car.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I have to say it's been a rude awakening, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>followed by dull realisation. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My mind had dimmed my memory of it all.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It takes me a few weeks to get into the swing of things</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>but I am sure I will get used to it soon.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It has meant that I went clothes shopping last week</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Am I terrible, his first bit of extra, went on clothes for me.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In my defence I have not bought any clothes in a year and</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>the last thing was a pair of shoes.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>As a mum on very little funds I always made sure </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>my daughter had new things and some how you just get</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>out of the habit of buying for yourself...............</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>.....................I bet you are the same??</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is what I bought............</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeeHWgGXk4rz_LY4fb7gZ89XJ5JhhnaZpAHX5qx_78kgP7CueEa9973OOieNWbNOvg08_oYKdLBPx1Ep8U-BGowZPfIvui2_g5lxw8xvUFdivZ3F5c5HzHryz86pZaZDmsIA9ailIUU8/s1600/necklace_top_magenta1305772045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeeHWgGXk4rz_LY4fb7gZ89XJ5JhhnaZpAHX5qx_78kgP7CueEa9973OOieNWbNOvg08_oYKdLBPx1Ep8U-BGowZPfIvui2_g5lxw8xvUFdivZ3F5c5HzHryz86pZaZDmsIA9ailIUU8/s200/necklace_top_magenta1305772045.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy1kxyOn8uVL490O6iNqAFJdBdoNNh7ZFBmyISI1OPfJ-J0IsXSc4Zj7vykiy7An67ZKHRo1qUmll2b5kKqb9fFaHrru2gWbXEyqacOQWZ_41g6R-NXRDKFX4C-cJryWlCkhOuzqu_a1k/s1600/tie_front_shrug_black1308012961.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy1kxyOn8uVL490O6iNqAFJdBdoNNh7ZFBmyISI1OPfJ-J0IsXSc4Zj7vykiy7An67ZKHRo1qUmll2b5kKqb9fFaHrru2gWbXEyqacOQWZ_41g6R-NXRDKFX4C-cJryWlCkhOuzqu_a1k/s320/tie_front_shrug_black1308012961.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and I got myself some black linen off ebay to make a skirt</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I have to admit I am a bit of a haphazzard</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>seamstress but the result is not half bad,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>even if I say so myself LOLOL</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_g-tO98TC_9wmfGBzOXNht9YX_5u0cyfvtMzjklIznlDzpSj9hij9WB-dKDzfdMQTUh_kPCOxyJRMcPL_vn2bB__Ur0u_j12ajKkaODQES7_dYBWKa71I7hPwAI96TtrZPh0r5OSBZ8/s1600/IMG_1500.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_g-tO98TC_9wmfGBzOXNht9YX_5u0cyfvtMzjklIznlDzpSj9hij9WB-dKDzfdMQTUh_kPCOxyJRMcPL_vn2bB__Ur0u_j12ajKkaODQES7_dYBWKa71I7hPwAI96TtrZPh0r5OSBZ8/s320/IMG_1500.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDRS6_TI3nffnV2zZWvystaNtToTOYYqKG6KGkuZdHLMB27d0XWtuzofj2fXme9w_ho4liJHamaN7qhZg_hYfK7OEwXt8wQgv19dCYcY81G2pWIBjEzUecnNXMjOswSGdrX8BIyZRSrg/s1600/IMG_1501.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Today is the start of a new era, a new life…………………………………….no longer am I a slave to disorganisation, poverty and chaos!!!!</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I know at this point my fellow blog fans you are wondering if I have lost the plot, I haven’t (well just a little, maybe)</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The first was a chance conversation with a work colleague about buying cars and the second was reading a truly wonderful blog by <a href="http://shabbynest.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-notebook-organizing-my-bloggy.html">The Shabby Nest </a></strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>My mind is a whirlwind of ideas and hopefully I will be able to explain in a bit more detail over the next few weeks.</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I have made a blogging calendar, only from Microsoft office but my plan is to put that at the front of a folder and organise my blogging. Are you like me? You have great ideas for blog posts then they are stolen from your mind, never to return. I have so much happening that I could write loads on all sorts of things but I end up sat in front of blogger with a blank mind…………………..well no more!</strong></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Cars, we have one good one and one not so good, as some of you may know my hubby changed his job after we got back from our holidays and needs to travel to work again. We have an old Jeep that does about 2000 miles a year (it tows our caravan too) It is getting on a bit and needs replacing. </strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Money, that dreaded thing, is always an issue on these matters, so after my chance convo with that colleague, it got me into thinking how much money would I need to buy a non-too-old replacement. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>£6000……………………….yes £6000 would get us a 5 year old diesel with lowish miles. Ok PANIC setting in here, not a cat in hells chance, I thought. I have to say it niggled at me all afternoon, so much so I worked out that I would need to save £181 a week to buy the thing on the 1st March next year. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Now your saying “not a cat in hells chance” LOL</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I have a plan…………………………………………..I created a little spreadsheet (I love spreadsheets) and each square is worth a pound, save a pound, colour a square.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I figured that if I reach for the stars then I may end up in the clouds.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">On the beary front I have listed 2 new girlie bears on my website and I have plans a foot….</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">………………………..but I am keeping mum at the moment,</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>hopefully I will be launching one of my projects at the end of July, beginning of August LOL.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT0qzg9xrJiIDWTU0TBHqr6IFDLU2lIU-FFDEYb9_A0rLOwIHb6luWPrHQalkYw_lIfKpee3NwbO2g0_BC1-4hD2N0t9rS7MqUDpMyDNjQpbaO2vYUAyRZoqAmfxRFJRiUW_1qvAvCS1Y/s1600/IMG_1473.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT0qzg9xrJiIDWTU0TBHqr6IFDLU2lIU-FFDEYb9_A0rLOwIHb6luWPrHQalkYw_lIfKpee3NwbO2g0_BC1-4hD2N0t9rS7MqUDpMyDNjQpbaO2vYUAyRZoqAmfxRFJRiUW_1qvAvCS1Y/s320/IMG_1473.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b> <span style="font-size: large;">So Beary hugs for now</span></b></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sue xx</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-19744748515355060552011-06-09T14:11:00.002+01:002011-06-09T14:13:33.031+01:00Uni's, life and cheesecake....................<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, as ever, I have been a busy bee. After the sucess and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hard work that went into our bedroom I did expect a </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">quite week......................................(devilish laughter)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was not to be!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So far I have re-sorted Lincoln University..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.........and student finance.......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">........finished a commission bear....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...put together several other bears....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">....drew a new drew pattern...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.....booked my holiday.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.....had a fight with 3.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...then had another fight with a collection agency...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">......had blood tests........</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.........um think I may have missed something,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh I know, cooked, cleaned, been a taxi and done a full time job</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let me start at the top, one's darling child didn't check if </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">her already gained ucas points would be accepted at university </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">if she chose to do a full time degree at Lincoln. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hence the reason for opting for part time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She suddenly had a brain wave about it and I had to call them, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">not expecting to get a positive result, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">you can imagine my amazement when they said yes, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the full time entry requirements are the same as the part time ones !!!!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Note to oneself, always, always check the facts!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She has now been accepted to study Law and Chriminology </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">full time next year and she needs 160 points (2 C's)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By the way she is 20 tomorrow :O</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have also just finished this sweet little bear, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">sorry about the picture, it was taken in a hurry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She is a keepsake for a new baby and is called Harriette.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have booked the hols, we are off to Haltwistle, Northumberland</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It should be really good as it has 22 ringed walks from the site</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and Hadrian's wall is only 3 miles away............you won't recognise me </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">when we come back, I will have lost so much weight LOLOL I wish</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dieting I seem to be stuck at the 17 stone mark, which is a loss of 1 st 8 lbs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I blame Baked and Delicious myself</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LNUj6Py_af7vlau44efhzsWbu4Viym5yJjLqfJpDbNlP3J3vATbu3xuwQU5zKNKp1akZuDMx_7kJBvVl6c2DbfrytQjp7vdLm3_UVreqy0AG3otBSpXg_FCoHFU-2eCKYM8Pwqctx-k/s1600/IMG_1437.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LNUj6Py_af7vlau44efhzsWbu4Viym5yJjLqfJpDbNlP3J3vATbu3xuwQU5zKNKp1akZuDMx_7kJBvVl6c2DbfrytQjp7vdLm3_UVreqy0AG3otBSpXg_FCoHFU-2eCKYM8Pwqctx-k/s1600/IMG_1437.JPG" t8="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is their cheesecake, which I have repeat made several times since</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am busy getting ready for Kelham, which is on the 26th June</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a selection of bears, who are waiting for dresses</div><div style="text-align: center;">and aging, plus noses</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZvzMkDUYbydT7IZWWpu0akCTvszMU9qQsjpJy3m6msFOYtmRnVg60SQ3meiKmKN2rrZEQNPuFJ2dJCZhRyhm3QjvPHca_Z6usiO04K5UD-2_B76qmVJuLW2X7NgywNtHJPEih-_4NZA/s1600/IMG_1450.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZvzMkDUYbydT7IZWWpu0akCTvszMU9qQsjpJy3m6msFOYtmRnVg60SQ3meiKmKN2rrZEQNPuFJ2dJCZhRyhm3QjvPHca_Z6usiO04K5UD-2_B76qmVJuLW2X7NgywNtHJPEih-_4NZA/s320/IMG_1450.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">................and here is some gorgeous hand dyed mohair, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yummy isn't it, that is currently being stitched into little ones</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2giIC98aEfFaSGIiqRxTYZYv1udQjDqQpOJNN-sS32aff3jYr6GmJsseFUU2dMHCAjsH_C1GEbw3aMSlcZlSarh3I_L6ot1o1TZO8n5L8cw3bFuq-HRCH9qlfrXjIy5W3-IUoRyLIPY/s1600/IMG_1451.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2giIC98aEfFaSGIiqRxTYZYv1udQjDqQpOJNN-sS32aff3jYr6GmJsseFUU2dMHCAjsH_C1GEbw3aMSlcZlSarh3I_L6ot1o1TZO8n5L8cw3bFuq-HRCH9qlfrXjIy5W3-IUoRyLIPY/s320/IMG_1451.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Will tell you all about my heroic stand against 3 another time.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">................vat returns are waiting</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beary hugs for now</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">xxx</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-33285817237204893652011-05-31T14:13:00.001+01:002011-05-31T14:15:15.247+01:00What a difference a day makes..................................<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Horrible isn't it, this is my bedroom or was!!!!</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JD3IAEkSjs55PysEFwGAh0hJcUL3seeU9Dksq5eGlyxxX8tzI9AACYFhqs5PVaZtzvLH2zvExcbqJ1qwxGeRmRNb8Fia7zjdhnhh9JJhGOYTSK5wJwGp_Dsocokzm4dzN34JAW-figk/s1600/IMG_1442.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JD3IAEkSjs55PysEFwGAh0hJcUL3seeU9Dksq5eGlyxxX8tzI9AACYFhqs5PVaZtzvLH2zvExcbqJ1qwxGeRmRNb8Fia7zjdhnhh9JJhGOYTSK5wJwGp_Dsocokzm4dzN34JAW-figk/s320/IMG_1442.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">A chance conversation with my other half led me to </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">believe that this monstrosity had been painted</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">You can imagine my face when I came home </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">friday to discover that it had not been painted and </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">how on earth did I think that it would be when we have no paint!!! </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I ask you, he says LOL</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say I was gutted, when funds are limited </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">there are certain things that have to go by the way side </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and decorating is one of them.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Due to very pouting mouth and near tears, </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">he promised to go out the very next day and get some paint, YAY!!!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We have lived here for 10 years and have not done a thing </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">exept the odd lick of paint. So the house is well neglected.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say the draw of buying mohair does tend to </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">overshadow all else in this house.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway, paint chart in sticky mitts, off we pops to Homebase.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Along the first isle was a trolley with some wallpaper in it,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">not expecting to find anything nice, I gave it a cursery glance,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">hubby, on the other hand, delved right in. He loves wallpaper</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and is very opinionated on the subject, even down to the colour!!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">(our very first argument was over wallpaper LOL)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">You can imagine my surprise when he found </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">8 rolls of Arthouse, vintage paper at £1.50, even better they were</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">having a 15% day so it cost £1.27, you can't beat that.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is the result</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2PYSuBw5i70God_CnsVhvi2WrZWuLH5-0L8FHItTLsEHiaRLiTqzhYik6NmBN5zU92egYbsfBmJQuB2tJmI1g6NAC9_BIlOGE8zXs_k57NcyQfFDOSzfxwP3-enTwDkJcm2YaRipwVg/s1600/IMG_1443.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2PYSuBw5i70God_CnsVhvi2WrZWuLH5-0L8FHItTLsEHiaRLiTqzhYik6NmBN5zU92egYbsfBmJQuB2tJmI1g6NAC9_BIlOGE8zXs_k57NcyQfFDOSzfxwP3-enTwDkJcm2YaRipwVg/s320/IMG_1443.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What a difference, amazing, in one short day </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">we have treansformed the room</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cost ........</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.......wallpaper ...............................£8.89</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.........curtains ................................£9.99</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.......crystal (plastic) chandelier........ £16.00</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...........red cushions...................... £3.98</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">........total .......................................£38.86</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">..............the throw I bought about 6 years ago and refused </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">to use until I had a nice bedroom </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">A bargain all round really.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">As for bear making I only had time to finish a little commission,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">so me thinks I have a bear making weekend coming next weekend</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you like it..........................and the moral is,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">you may be poor but you can have a nice house</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">(I hope your reading this hubby LOL)</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-87182322632169187862011-05-17T13:42:00.002+01:002011-05-17T13:48:21.307+01:00A commercial dilemma.........................<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought I would share a few thoughts about this topic; it’s a subject that sits uneasy in my lap.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I started making bears 4 years ago and my inspiration for making them came from two very diverse bears, a sweet fluffy modern bear and an aged old style bear!!! I know opposite sides of the coin. The first few bears that I made were certainly in the more modern category of puffed cheeks and lots of fur. I loved them but my heart would just twinge, a pang of something was missing, do you get what I mean. So I tried my hand at an old style one……………………………..Nutmeg was his name and as I looked at him my heart skipped a beat. I still had lots to learn but my heart had found its place, I continued to dabble with the sweet trimmed cheeks or should I say wrestle, LOL. After awhile my hubby said to me why do you continue to make these bears, if all you ever do is moan about them? That stopped me in my track and at that point I decided to follow my soul. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fast forward about 3 ½ years to today and as I look back on that decision I have to wonder was I committing commercial suicide. All around us we are faced with such choices in size, colour but most of all style, the rise in popularity of Charlie Bears…………………………yes we have a few in the house, my daughter loves them and I too think they offer great value and are pretty cute………………………………well it makes me wonder, should I have been swayed by the market forces and continued my more modern design. I see fellow artist who make these types of bears sell frequently and sell well, eBay and facebook being a popular venue for them. Older style bears seem to be out of favour, selling at often below price and less frequently. It does test your convictions, while the bills mount and stock dipleats, should I be making the more popular "Charlie Bear" style? Whilst I pondered this issue over the weekend I completed two bears, they aren’t old tattered ones or modern fluffy ones but delightful traditional bears which will have clothes and I adore them…………………………..I have found my comfy slippers, my home.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for their commercial success, who knows, I love them and hopefully that love will shine through……………………………………. and yes I did make the right decision, even when times are lean I still love a good old fashioned bear, fads will come and go but a traditional bear will last forever.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a sneaky peak of them; they are for my new autumn collection (hark at me, the designer).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I was given the idea by my daughter after a chance comment from a collector at a show……………………..the idea then just grew.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdeS9qHzshJPzcz3usSaqw7S0pDD9XjoUFXY_G7P2YPKqazyZyo3k9aylH3eGUeUm2-CQcX4Px9E6_AnoucxyAd7COq2HyCffa9AJMFcvE3_Uuxs9sbtlTUQEFfAXl1j-fgpmqFJEGbNw/s1600/IMG_1422.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdeS9qHzshJPzcz3usSaqw7S0pDD9XjoUFXY_G7P2YPKqazyZyo3k9aylH3eGUeUm2-CQcX4Px9E6_AnoucxyAd7COq2HyCffa9AJMFcvE3_Uuxs9sbtlTUQEFfAXl1j-fgpmqFJEGbNw/s320/IMG_1422.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see we have no noses and they are un trimmed, LOL </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">( I always tremble at that bit) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and they are naked.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope, like me, you have the courage to follow your dreams.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beary hugs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sue xxx</span></div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-24377675754275263892011-05-09T07:38:00.002+01:002011-05-09T07:40:33.803+01:00The Devil on my shoulder……………………..<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">……………………….Do you have a devil too?? I do, my devil’s called “insecurity” I am cursed, like most artists with a one and mine is not a wee little monster but a huge one. Let me explain, when I am getting ready for a show I am all guns blazing for about a month, no time to think or stop, so my devil is kept at bay. After a show however he starts to flex his muscles and whisper in my ear. The things he says can be very hurtful, for example he tells me that I am not really that good at this bear making lark, he pops out at the most opportune moments and asks “what are you doing”, “what’s the point”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This weekend he has been very conspicuous and asked just such a question as I sat drawing out a new bear for a series of bears due for release this autumn.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> I told him to get lost but he persisted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joking aside I have been making bears for 4 years now, how time flies and I am still as insecure about myself and my bears as I have ever been, why??? I can only imagine that each bears is made with some of my love and soul placed in them and as such they are from my heart.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Like most industries in a recession, we, in the bear world are experiencing a drought, after all bears are meant to be a luxury, money is tight. I know it is for me, with rising costs for food and huge increases in petrol, I have seen my paltry bit of spare money disappear completely, so my head tells me it’s ok collectors do love your bears, they just haven’t any money at the moment but my wee devil says "nah, they don't like 'em". </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What's a girl to do, my motto is if in doubt sew and explore other avenues to display my bears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I have joined etsy, I know its a bit hit and miss but you have to keep trying, don't you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you are a fellow artist, who feels this way, at least you know you are not alone. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you are a collector, we artist understand</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is my new etsy shop </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/FenBearyFolk">Etsy</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgyNku2QYfxVvf-gX9GSIJVWDxGg800rt7GHN1djgWFlI0srmUsIh4E_uEeuxgH4cUY7oE2d6UhfLY_lUlAKHB5b3-gVZIPkcgfZKcNHcwnw56hElvkeIt8FhKm4eW1SCwVaTUN5YcnM/s1600/IMG_1367.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgyNku2QYfxVvf-gX9GSIJVWDxGg800rt7GHN1djgWFlI0srmUsIh4E_uEeuxgH4cUY7oE2d6UhfLY_lUlAKHB5b3-gVZIPkcgfZKcNHcwnw56hElvkeIt8FhKm4eW1SCwVaTUN5YcnM/s320/IMG_1367.JPG" width="310" /> </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is Olive, who is available on my <a href="http://www.fenbearyfolk.co.uk/availableoldstylebears.htm">website</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beary hugs for now</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sue xx</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-56230081027514893602011-05-03T14:12:00.001+01:002011-05-03T14:13:59.302+01:00A Grand Day Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Sunday we went to the Peterborough Truckfest, they have various events through the year around the country. I bought the tickets for my husband as a Christmas present, as each year, when the event comes round we always say we are going but funds usually mean we can't, so this year I was determined to go.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have alsorts of things going on and celebrity guest.................Alex from Ice Road Truckers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say i is not my cup of tea but the Custom Trucks do make it worth a visit, these things are amazing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivTuIp2Is1oNbn0FuVtE9DqGg3pdHll5Nn57ylVAFAjLLq6g93QGHwjndPjPVy45ZVAmAJ4m8AFZPnavzOOKSiN4rozHaJ-CsZBtW5Gf-WAxUGm1ybd45314KwkkgPHsYm56gydaDCH8k/s1600/IMG_1382.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivTuIp2Is1oNbn0FuVtE9DqGg3pdHll5Nn57ylVAFAjLLq6g93QGHwjndPjPVy45ZVAmAJ4m8AFZPnavzOOKSiN4rozHaJ-CsZBtW5Gf-WAxUGm1ybd45314KwkkgPHsYm56gydaDCH8k/s320/IMG_1382.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my favourite, as you can see its a pirate themed truck, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with "Stand and Deliver" written on the front</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVrtdnRs3YzFT4qoaqQbE_9bC8n7qutkPr0xOMku8Ltb8HLGMrGg5FIj8w9w-OzVP5dI24WBRrKzZibfnuJUY4QblBk52zbydwBGAcjkyu9zjZLKoQd8jioDEdJ2pwRBxGfB8Y9ZmATfk/s1600/IMG_1388.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVrtdnRs3YzFT4qoaqQbE_9bC8n7qutkPr0xOMku8Ltb8HLGMrGg5FIj8w9w-OzVP5dI24WBRrKzZibfnuJUY4QblBk52zbydwBGAcjkyu9zjZLKoQd8jioDEdJ2pwRBxGfB8Y9ZmATfk/s320/IMG_1388.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is from the film "Ghost Rider" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18fjxMGljpPZzrY48oYEMpCcWJr_N6qqt6K-9WWA9qW96idaebGlyGT27oWxDDQz0w3U_We-o9L1PTaDqabSN-MHmi-P-FZrpajVJfdwE8Sg-tOE0U8qUWmsonIc7MXBIsk7rrYoViM4/s1600/IMG_1408.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18fjxMGljpPZzrY48oYEMpCcWJr_N6qqt6K-9WWA9qW96idaebGlyGT27oWxDDQz0w3U_We-o9L1PTaDqabSN-MHmi-P-FZrpajVJfdwE8Sg-tOE0U8qUWmsonIc7MXBIsk7rrYoViM4/s320/IMG_1408.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">..............and Shrek</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV6SbTu1wT7mXjCqz4DRx6MBvm1k2woDvxmDuD3ODpNUVj4Egd0okaK8c5LTUqu71U2XxJn9fbMgLRjBwZOpss_ElTjbcqj4oSo2cSizsuypGscJ96taFG52UwzX42tYz8fg1Z1sNl-U/s1600/IMG_1413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMV6SbTu1wT7mXjCqz4DRx6MBvm1k2woDvxmDuD3ODpNUVj4Egd0okaK8c5LTUqu71U2XxJn9fbMgLRjBwZOpss_ElTjbcqj4oSo2cSizsuypGscJ96taFG52UwzX42tYz8fg1Z1sNl-U/s320/IMG_1413.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9dK3pa3INaL_ol4XVBTTBAxulJ87TtwLqwGpYbAFw8kLy06GOgLrtiUn1UStCC6LS0z5w1gwmj1dX6OZ9cMX8gjVIK2gXu81OEIJ1LMjLX5_sp6kYFx4rInRUufkZ-S5c_2LF5YX1Dbs/s1600/IMG_1418.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9dK3pa3INaL_ol4XVBTTBAxulJ87TtwLqwGpYbAFw8kLy06GOgLrtiUn1UStCC6LS0z5w1gwmj1dX6OZ9cMX8gjVIK2gXu81OEIJ1LMjLX5_sp6kYFx4rInRUufkZ-S5c_2LF5YX1Dbs/s320/IMG_1418.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">.....Alex from Ice Road Truckers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPisPLSvT_WEfAOulGTvEVEIZq5eyFzr-ziNJZw91jdohZYoxshSTQNxuMjvhZa0UAhal0_ryrz00xtjumqsBfUMiJKcgm2Hhj0m8syY6KEVroFgCkj89emCe5tQsG5yJgQocvZZYH2jo/s1600/IMG_1420a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPisPLSvT_WEfAOulGTvEVEIZq5eyFzr-ziNJZw91jdohZYoxshSTQNxuMjvhZa0UAhal0_ryrz00xtjumqsBfUMiJKcgm2Hhj0m8syY6KEVroFgCkj89emCe5tQsG5yJgQocvZZYH2jo/s320/IMG_1420a.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The weather was a real treat, sunny but with a nice breeze, needless to say we all got a touch of the sun, including my hubbies head (I may be going grey but I STILL have plenty of hair unlike some, LOL)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They were truely amazing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My only gripe was the cost of food, I had taken some supplies so it wasn't too bad.......................even the ice cream was £2 each!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This morning, true to form, for those that read my blog regularily, I have had a banking mishap!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Non of my doing, I awoke to find a company I had paid on the 18th had taken the money again, or so I thought, ha....................I am but a fool.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Actually they have taken it upon themselves to alter their policy and not told anyone. They had taken money for a service in advance of that event...............a whole flippin month in advance, instead of paying when due. They have promised to refund but I am to be denied that service this time or they keep the money and I get the service.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can only begin to describe how angry I am, I have supported this bear frim the past 3 years, I have encouraged others to support them too. I have never once not paid even when things have been really tight financially and this is how you get your rewards. If it wasn't for the fact I would be cutting my nose off I would have told them they could stick it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On that sour bear note, I am off to sew, at least bears don't stab you in the back</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beary Hugs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sue xxx</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-2397639977434391772011-04-27T19:10:00.002+01:002011-04-27T19:13:06.066+01:00Nottingham Bear Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaRXxwbk7shjW3RzD_mJWvzJNsFiCN8rpe2Di1uEoT1XQhx90X37uze17kAh8J1g6pU_WHWqHkjdFv4rNWEh5OZ1GxQnnUKbfXk29jtOXL3KnJbHXhVTB-6ZIkMwybkZuijV-vEOwNmQ/s1600/IMG_1364.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaRXxwbk7shjW3RzD_mJWvzJNsFiCN8rpe2Di1uEoT1XQhx90X37uze17kAh8J1g6pU_WHWqHkjdFv4rNWEh5OZ1GxQnnUKbfXk29jtOXL3KnJbHXhVTB-6ZIkMwybkZuijV-vEOwNmQ/s320/IMG_1364.JPG" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What a glorious day it was................a little too glorious, if you know what I mean.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It was a little worrying that collectors would head for the sea and sand but we had nothing to fear.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It was a really good day, lots of bags seen.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I, as always, made too many LOL and came home with a few.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Uncharacteristicly I have been all efficient and listed them on my website</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I have also decided to have a special offer until the end of April</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>This offer is available to anyone on my mailing list </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(you can join and take advantage LOL I don't mind)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-58258248867335189922011-02-02T08:19:00.004+00:002011-03-07T19:21:14.708+00:00The Diet................................Week 3<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Well last week was a bit of a wash out, I was really good all week then blew it on a piece of lemon cheesecake.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It just goes to show what small amount can upset the apple cart, I didn't loose any weight. So this week I have renewed determination.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The thing that was lacking was willpower, it's a very funny thing this will power lark. With it you can conquer the world and without it you stagnate, vegetate and slip into oblivion LOL It takes willpower to do all things, some things only take small bits of it and others things are monumental in effort. Dieting is strange, in that, it can be effortless and at other times it can be of epic proportions. Last week was one of those epic moments. When I first did this diet years ago, my willpower was rock solid, I had been so heavy for so long it was really effortless to stick too. Now I find that its so hard mentally to keep on track..................................its all too easy to say "just the one, it won't hurt" but it does, every little cheat, every little bit of extra mounts up and then you easily slide into a spiral of downward hate, hate of the diet and hate of oneself for not being good at it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The key is to give yourself a break and say "you know what it's ok, think of the bigger picture" in this case the bigger picture is a long term goal and will I really remember that this last week I messed up..............I don't think so.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I have always been a determined little soul, over the years this has been strengthened over the years through various issues I have dealt with, a very wise man once told me "focus on the solution not the problem" Eh???? It took me years to work that one out in my head but it so true, sometimes we can be looking so hard at the problem we close our minds to the solutions.............................in this case DON'T CHEAT !!!!!! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you are following this diet then you need to add dairy, in the form of yoghurts this week...............good luck</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Beary Hugs</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sue xx</b></span></div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-48997175883832393942011-01-28T08:11:00.003+00:002011-03-07T19:21:35.582+00:00Smelling the roses............well daffodils at this time of year!!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Today I have decided my life is too full of rush, rush, rush</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So I am going to stop and smell the fresh air, it maybe spring air that's coming but I suspect its really a bit of north wind blowing across the fens LOL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It all started last night when I had a call from my mother................would I like to meet for a coffee at lunch today........................I hate to say it my first thoughts were that she wanted to tell me something aweful, all manner of things flitted through my mind.........is she ok, my dad??? No she assured me, she just thought it would be nice. It was when I put the phone down I thought to my self, what am I doing, running around all the time and not enjoying life, to be fair to myself my life is all drama and tears sometimes so I can be forgiven for thinking the worst BUT it did make me think, so I am going to meet regularly for coffee, I am sure she will be so delighted as I really don't see enough of her.</b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Doesn't it look frilly and frothy!!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>No bears I am afraid, I am waiting on steel shot :(</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Beary hugs</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sue xxx</b></span></div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-28694782969954262462011-01-24T19:17:00.001+00:002011-03-07T19:22:06.407+00:00The Diet..........................Week 2<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Just a quick post to let you all know how I am getting on.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It been a bad week for I have sinned..............those chips just lept into my mouth honest</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In all seriousness this diet really needs no cheating so I feel a bit of an idiot but I literally had no money to buy stirfry mid week..........LOL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I hit the scales with some manner of dread this morning but am happy to say I lost 3lbs</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I am now below the 18 stone mark at 17 stone 13lbs</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So for week 2 and the delights of fruit enter the regime, now if you are joining me your fruit needs to be apples, pears that kind of thing. Tropical/Berry fruit is a bit of a no no as the fibre content is a bit lacking.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>You never realised that apples are soooooooooooo sweet</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Beary hugs</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sue</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>PS ........beary news later this week, I have great news.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-82806036214138335742011-01-17T07:51:00.000+00:002011-01-17T07:51:55.998+00:00The Diet......................Week 1<div style="text-align: center;">Well its been a bit tough, to say the least but I made it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to confess I cheated, I had a hot chocolate each day of the weekend and the results reflect that, you really have to stick with this one and don't cheat</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ok the all important stats</div><div style="text-align: center;">Weight..............18 stone 2 lbs</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bust..............47 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Waist..............42 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hips..............54 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">So that's a 6 lb loss, previously I have lost 9lbs in the first week and although I am off to a flying start, I do feel gutted and annoyed with myself, its silly because its a great loss and I am sure reading this you will not understand but when you expect something and it doesn't work out it's only human to be disappointed, so forgive me. I am surprised though that I dropped 3 inches on the hips and waist each</div><div style="text-align: center;">What have I eaten......................eggs, low fat cheese, salad and stirfry with fish/chicken (I hate veg)</div><div style="text-align: center;">So onwards to week 2 and the diet remains the same for this week except for the hot chocolate!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beary Hugs</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sue xxx</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-57223716220100511132011-01-09T11:10:00.001+00:002011-01-10T08:07:38.333+00:00The Healthy lifestyle......................preliminaries<div style="text-align: center;">Well No 6 on my list was to go back to my healthy lifestyle (diet to you and me but it sounds worse!!! LOL)</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I am standing on the edge of the obyss, looking forward, non to happily but determined </div><div style="text-align: center;">Some stats first...................................ouch, this is going to hurt</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Weight............18 stone 8 pounds</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bust............... 48 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Waist............. 45 Inches</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Hips............... 57 Inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Overall size.... 26+</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gee just say it quick and it doesn't sound so bad BUT needs must!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The healthy lifestyle I will try to follow is The South Beach Diet, now this diet is very miss understood and if you understand the theory behind it, it makes sense</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So here goes.........................its all about how we process sugar in our food and how ALL processed foods contain hidden sugar</div><div style="text-align: center;">.....................did you know that there was more sugar in a slice of bread than a teaspoon!!!! Shocking isn't it, so it matters not what you put in your sandwich cos you are gettting about 3 teaspoons in an average sandwich!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sugar is broken down and released into our bodies at various rates, the less fibre in the food, the quicker the sugar release, the quicker the sugar release, the bigger body high you get from it, the bigger the high, the hungrier you feel and not to mention the craving for more!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The idea is to eat high fibre foods so that the sugar release</div><div style="text-align: center;">is slow and controlled, </div><div style="text-align: center;">therefore less peaks and troughs and less craving</div><div style="text-align: center;">The diet, if used properly, identifies what foods </div><div style="text-align: center;">you can and cannot eat.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have you ever wondered why it is that you can eat sensibly but still not loose weight. Well for those, like me, who do not eat junk foods (crisps, sweets and chocolate) can never shift the pounds???? The answer is that you are eating a food or group of foods that does not suit your body.</div><div style="text-align: center;">How the diet works.............................for 2 whole weeks you eat nothing but vegetables, lean meat, a few nuts and eggs. It's a corker isn't it, really tough BUT don't starve,</div><div style="text-align: center;">eat as much as you can...........................</div><div style="text-align: center;">YES no potatoes, no dairy, no wheat and tea/coffee must be black.....................</div><div style="text-align: center;">are you over the shock yet???? LOLOL</div><div style="text-align: center;">The real clever bit comes in on week 3 when</div><div style="text-align: center;">you introduce a food group, </div><div style="text-align: center;">so in week 3 you introduce dairy and see what happens to your weight.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is individual to you, never introduce more than one food a week. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I will be posting every Monday on my progress and </div><div style="text-align: center;">you are more than welcome to join me, if you dare. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Just remember that if you have a medical condition </div><div style="text-align: center;">make sure you are ok to follow this</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Good Luck</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beary Hugs</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sue xxxx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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2. I am an accountant by trade but what you don't know is I failed Accountancy in first year of a Business Studies degree, met hubby and never went back. I tried again at 27<br />
3. I have a super strong sense of fairness, however much it hurts I always own up if I have done something wrong and I will always stand up and speak if someone is being miss judged.<br />
4. I allergic to wheat........................it makes me fat<br />
5. I suffer with long term stress, the bears have been my life saver<br />
6. I got married at 21 and am 10 months and 24 days older than my hubby, we have been married 23 years, this year<br />
7. I have always been creative, I nearly did a knitwear degree but the Business Studies won. By the time I was 17 I was designing and making knitwear for the shop my mum worked in, back in the 80's<br />
8. I love learning anything, from how wind farms work to how cars run. I am constantly researching anything and everythings<br />
9. I am an eternal optimist, am very rarely down but I am married to a pessimist<br />
10. I have been so poor at times I have struggled to feed us. I never have enough money to go round but have always just managed<br />
11. At 21 I opened my own clothes shop and ran it for 2 years until tragedy hit<br />
12. I love life and want to live forever<br />
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Gee that was hard, sorry its so dour but I have had a bit of sad life LOLOLFenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-65781789589817228642011-01-06T07:48:00.001+00:002011-01-06T07:50:01.029+00:00Our roof.....................!!!!<div style="text-align: center;">Our roof............................um, its needs replacing but now things have taken a different turn</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just before Christmas we noticed that the snow was still on the back of the roof and as the heat escaping had not melted it we wrong assumed that it was not too bad then !!!!!!! Little did we know.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Upon getting the Christmas decorations out of the loft, hubby shouted for me to come and see, I have to admit at this point I was not best pleased pre-christmas is a stressful packed time and me, heights and ladders DO NOT MIX. LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;">So up I go, head poking through the loft hatch, said in a terse voice "what!!!" </div><div style="text-align: center;">What, indeed, I was greeted with a gap that ran the full length of the rear of the roof :O</div><div style="text-align: center;">Several months ago our neighbours were re-roofed and as they had smaller tiles on the rear we were no longer "married" to each other, I was assured at the time that it had been secured down and a gully had been placed between the roofs to catch any rain water.......................NO, their roof may have been secured but ours had been left with a 2-3 inch gap all the way down.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I took some piccies and am now awaiting their reply...................will keep you posted.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It made me think, though, if it hadn't been for the need for Christmas decorations, we might not have known for months, allowing the rain and wind to get into our roof space.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to say that I am not impressed with them</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a piccie, sorry for the focus but this is me with head just poking out of the hatch on wobbly feet and ladder, LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDVblo7xhHgfj4J8ni5kIjJI6HVfjr8axRBOCR4fI4b9h32v7jxdgs3GxbbTxrDylB-Kj2QYqm2cIPITJiVkC-up7Gu6V-dPn9i2bqYfSV5xm5IWhoeQiEdOy_yPfLcZTZPnWY0Do-WA/s1600/IMG_1308.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDVblo7xhHgfj4J8ni5kIjJI6HVfjr8axRBOCR4fI4b9h32v7jxdgs3GxbbTxrDylB-Kj2QYqm2cIPITJiVkC-up7Gu6V-dPn9i2bqYfSV5xm5IWhoeQiEdOy_yPfLcZTZPnWY0Do-WA/s320/IMG_1308.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Sue xxxFenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-86663323561475555592011-01-01T09:24:00.001+00:002011-01-01T09:26:38.805+00:00Happy New Year<div style="text-align: center;">Well that is 2010 over, roll on 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;">I normally see out the old year with a retrospective, depressive look back.....................as is the way with optimists apparently LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;">This year I am surprisingly up beat, I have to say it is no small part down to my beary friends, both other artists and my collectors. Their support has been invaluable to me and I thank them from the bottom of my heart.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It has an up and down year, not great big troughs but there certainly has been some high peaks along the way, coming 3rd in the miniature category of The National Teddy Bear awards and being nominated in the The British Bear Artist Awards, as well as having a half page picture in The Teddy Bear Times.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The low point has to be the holiday in Moffat, the place was fine but hubby was not!!! Men. It did teach me a lesson, though.........................let him choose the holiday location!!!! LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am not into new year resolutions but this year I have decided to go for it, so here is my list.....</div>1. Save for Christmas, £10 per week.............that should cover it<br />
2. Get Morrisons saving stamps every week, boy was that Christmas shop expensive!<br />
3. Stick to my food budget, no matter how appealing my hubby looks, when holding a rhubarb crumble<br />
4. Save all excess monies above the budget! Oh this one will be a toughie<br />
5. Learn to make bear clothes, real fancy ones<br />
6. Go back to my diet.............obviously all thorntons must be eaten first<br />
So by next Christmas I will be calm, slim and wealthy..................................miracles do happen you know, LOLOL<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">I have just managed to pack a few last bears into last year too, both of them pressies, one for mum and one for my daughter. Hubby is now complaining that he wants a bear but it will be awhile as he wants a natural bear!!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is my mums bear, whom she named Archie</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7IZHdT5-XppVUqKJets9fU8xadkYcjQUrpkh9zYxrGQDehaIeNW8a9D4Ijnknt_hkLX8CkJlYlA4SSSlDDboA-yU2OOeZVwk8WeuwA4ffUUX-iBbKUj_1EcIEg3fPLIABLfgkQ9OqkU/s1600/IMG_1315.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7IZHdT5-XppVUqKJets9fU8xadkYcjQUrpkh9zYxrGQDehaIeNW8a9D4Ijnknt_hkLX8CkJlYlA4SSSlDDboA-yU2OOeZVwk8WeuwA4ffUUX-iBbKUj_1EcIEg3fPLIABLfgkQ9OqkU/s320/IMG_1315.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaD4t5ucqdX_deNN0NZVHsHi1QqQFTNViTzNCJ39Fg3cdrFBKnzg5D4dP74z6Cv3-60hlAPTKTcw0un_xiwtb2lPcWGEkqYzyjPXs_oobWNZpDe947IhTvJbrIBnAelXBHNNZfdML8Amg/s1600/IMG_1316.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">and here is my daughters bear...........Scarlet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkh6KZlWPw84sLPDEqs8FEH0uDeI5wEu2wzhyfA0OZWtkkrtUtOJA3rb5liuQ6X2Thu6XswRPLlIKyzkfW4FsyY_tbFl444iwiuWuoHGNVNoJUNi57Fc84UQpc0vDczAhhNa5IkYT5NA/s1600/IMG_1319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkh6KZlWPw84sLPDEqs8FEH0uDeI5wEu2wzhyfA0OZWtkkrtUtOJA3rb5liuQ6X2Thu6XswRPLlIKyzkfW4FsyY_tbFl444iwiuWuoHGNVNoJUNi57Fc84UQpc0vDczAhhNa5IkYT5NA/s320/IMG_1319.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">So have a great start to 2011 and I hope this year brings you all that you want</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beary Hugs</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sue xxx</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-82395132139892414612010-12-16T07:40:00.000+00:002010-12-16T07:40:58.277+00:00NextOh dear, my week just keeps rolling on, I had to post to let you all know of my latest misdemeanour. Some of you may remember many moons ago I kick my credit cards into touch, it was about May 2009 and I had letters telling me I would now have to pay 40% interest, at that point I said enough is enough and had a bit of a tussle with them but ended up with 0% interest and a shot credit record!! Fast forward to a month ago and I had a voucher from Next for £10 off if I spent £20 with free delivery code, great one hat and scarf set and a cupcake mug, done deal. If ever you have had the occasion to use the Next website its a bit of an internet minefield, I just couldn't work out where to put the wretched delivery code and ended up with free delivery if you bought their catalogue (didn't want a catalogue), during proceedings I ended up on the confirm order page but as I was still trying to edit my delivery address (they don't deliver to a works address), my delivery code etc I didn't complete or pay, so I thought. An email then pinged into my in box saying thank you for your order !!!????? How, why and who was paying??? Going back to the Next account I discovered they had opened me an account with £150 credit limit..............what a surprise that was, I can tell you. All is hunky dory at this point, all I had to do was wait for Next to add the items to my account.............you wait and wait, you can't pay till you get a statement, you see. Oh well in the intervening time I then ordered a game, statement came through and yesterday I paid for the mug etc and planned to pay for the game next week. All is fine at this point, are you still following, it gets good!!!! While we were in Nottingham daughter saw a lovely cardi she liked so I thought I would be a lovely mummy and get her it as a surprise, order complete, email received. Then................................I just happened to notice credit limit ZERO............doh!!! whats going on 'ere then, a very confused middle aged woman looked at the screen in total confusion, never mind order went through, so it must be glitch............................yeah right NOT!!!!<br />
At lunch time I thought better ring them just to see what was happening and here is the conversation that ensued<br />
I said........I hope you can help me I am a little confused, my available credit seems to have disappeared...<br />
Next said.....I'll just check for you Madam.... <i>(nice tone)</i>......Yes your available balance has been withdrawn....<br />
I said.......Why??? <i>(very confused tone)</i><br />
Next said......We regularly check our customers and have decided that on this occasion we would withdraw your facilities............<i>(snotty tone)</i><br />
I said..........Why??? <i>(now feeling like an idiot)</i><br />
Next said......We credit score our customers every month and OBVIOUSLY you have failed.......<i>(very accusing tone)</i><br />
I said.......So let get this right, last month I was ok and now I am not........<i>(flabbergasted tone)</i><br />
Next said.............Well something must have happened to your score, we check it every month, we are responsible lenders..........<i>(clever tone) </i><br />
I said..............I can assure you that it hasn't ............<i>(slightly peeved tone)</i>........ So last month I had £150 to spend with you and now I have nothing.......<i>(annoyed tone)</i><br />
Next said...........Yes Madam......<i>(you are being difficult tone)</i><br />
I said............You call that being responsible, I could have spent upto my limit a week ago and you could have done nothing about it. I think it is me that is being responsible by NOT spending up to my limit, don't you <i>(really angry tone now)</i><br />
Next said..........Well there must be a reason why you have a low score MADAM...........Do you have an order pending........<i>(there's that clever tone again)</i>...................Ah yes you have we tried to ring you as soon as you placed the order and you did not answer................<i>(really snotty)</i><br />
I said..........I don't think so.........<i>(indignant tone)</i><br />
Next said..............Yes we rang you at 10am<br />
I said.............So you didn't ring me at 7am when I placed the order then, didn't think you did .....<i>(my turn for the clever tone)</i><br />
Next said..........Well Madam can always wait till next month and she if her score improves, if you are not happy you can pay your balance and close the account.............<i>(we don't want you tone)</i><br />
At that point I finished my call and told them I would think about it. So I now feel like a bank robber and am contemplating packing my suitcase and heading for the Costa Del Sol!!!!<br />
If its gonna happen, it will happen to me......................didn't want the flippin account in the first place!!!!<br />
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In my life I have met some very beautiful people and also some very evil ones, the latter I seem to attract in abundance..................why I will never know but I am an easy going person who just likes to be liked, maybe that is why people think they can do anything to me and I will just roll over and take their rubbish. I am normally an out going person, yet when I get hurt I shrink into myself and the melancholy me comes to the fore........................................so it was with great anticipation and delight that I headed off to Brighton for the British Bear Artist Awards. We had a bit of a car full with hubby, daughter and Chloe of <a href="http://www.je-suis-lugly.com/">Je Suis Lugly</a>. Boy was it a great day out, at the new venue of Brighton Racecourse, hubby was on best behaviour, bless him. Well until the awards had finished and he said "come on lets go" !!!!!!!! ER NOOOOOO! what ensued then was a hissed domestic, I could have strangled him, everyone must have thought I was upset about not winning an award, so if you hear anyone say I was looking po-faced or angry........................it was directed at hubby NOT the lack of prize LOLOLOLOL Men!!!!!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The bears were superb, how they managed to judge the awards I will never know, I have to say a huge congrats to Richard who won the</span> <span style="font-size: small;">newcomers award, to Marilyn for the Teddy Bear Times award, Sue Quinn and to our passenger Chloe for coming 3rd in her category.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was so nice to meet artists with whom I have an internet friendship but have yet to meet up with and those that I know</span> <span style="font-size: small;">already, Marilyn (Barling Bears) is a darling, she is the nicest person you would wish to meet and she is every bit as sweet as her bears.I also met Dawn (The Old Post Office Bears) I have admired her bears since I first saw them on ebay and they do not disappoint in the fur, well done to her too for her awards, she said the most kindest think to me about my bears, it really lifted my spirits after such a shocking week. I was able to catch up with Sue Quinn...............what a truly fabulous lady and oh I am so going to buy one of her bears ...........................oh oh and I want a Bisson</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Bear too. (sucks thumb whilst pouting)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The busyness didn't stop there as we had to travel to QMC at Nottingham the following day, gee was I tired last night, did a bit of retail shopping..............well I didn't (I am broke, again, spend my life being broke LOL) but daughter got a very nice handbag from River Island.................another one, she tells me that one can never have enough handbags, um thats me a fashion pariah then.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally I have listed my BBAA Nominee's on ebay, they deserve to be loved instead of sitting on my stuffy shelves, I know they weren't stars on the day but they are stars to me </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you have a chance take a peak and a punt...............................................</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Tallulah dragonfly</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5CUJH3XtS_tW_paRHqnAakIazgBolFiN82coPfSb8VHy-AMzpxRVHZ6GMtYdHLfv8rOy7EKfMLzg48I8qRmyG5G-GxuBiL6XeoMdMo0rtxYJ8LZ0wTxoqDOGwzo5MC4uEFfbDbQUwRI/s1600/IMG_1206a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5CUJH3XtS_tW_paRHqnAakIazgBolFiN82coPfSb8VHy-AMzpxRVHZ6GMtYdHLfv8rOy7EKfMLzg48I8qRmyG5G-GxuBiL6XeoMdMo0rtxYJ8LZ0wTxoqDOGwzo5MC4uEFfbDbQUwRI/s320/IMG_1206a.jpg" width="320" /> </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and Caledonia Brae</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beary hugs for now</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sue xx</span></div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-57720279936455713712010-12-03T19:44:00.000+00:002010-12-03T19:44:04.507+00:00Community spirit, Ruby and Amethyst<div style="text-align: center;">Well its been a week, of snow, snow and more snow.....................now in the scheme of things, to be honest, we have not had the likes of Yorkshire or Scotland BUT we have had enough to halt proceedings. I am sure as you get older you become more aware of the dangers and more scared of what will happen. Twice I have had to drive in extreme snow, not just a few inches but serious getting stuck stuff, I would not have done this except for getting to my daughter, to make sure she was safe, was my priority. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I was watching the news the other night and was struck by the fact there are still a good community spirit out there. Years ago we lived in a tiny hamlet and I have to say our neighbours were great, we all got snowed in badly one Christmas and the two local farmer took turns in their tractors fetching supplies, my husband worked for one of them and they would go and get a shopping list from every house, regardless of who they were or how grumpy they had been in the year over mud on the road etc....................anyway back to those news reports, midwives getting lifts on tractors, a lady taking shopping to an elderly lady, an gentleman clearing paths, two young kids digging an old man's car out...........the list goes on. I felt really sad when the reports finished, in fact quite tearful. Why.........................I had forgotten how lovely it was to be part of a community, all be it, a very small one. Where we live now, we are all in our own isolated little worlds, so near yet so far. You never realise how good something is until its gone.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not being able to get out without risking life and limb has meant my cupboards are now bare, empty....................starvation is knocking on my door!!!!!!. I no longer have those neighbours that check if you need anything. All was nearly lost tonight I had a last few sausages in the freezer and had planned pasta with sausages in pasta sauce. I opened the sauce and it was rank, still in date but air had got in...........................so panic set in till I found a tin of potatoes and some rice. We will have to attempt to get out tomorrow, we literally have nothing left to eat. Luckily hubby will be driving.</div><div style="text-align: center;">As for the week itself, apart from the usual guilt on not being at work, I have had a very very good beary week..................I have sewn 4 bears and finished 2 of them. They are Ruby and Amethyst.........</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is Amethst, she is now on my website</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fenbearyfolk.co.uk/availableoldstylebears.htm">FenBeary Folk</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAy_3uD-UR6V6a080ymFNFyHfX8FjVeiPCae-SMO4uUvcOQsw4FpZ7x2hdEJQ15JsYleXMwiiqo8uNQusO2rJcF08PIDEsQc_mhOtuPIYTYEJKrAJZkacbEqQELqhnLDSKo6c-nENNAX0/s1600/amethyst0001_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAy_3uD-UR6V6a080ymFNFyHfX8FjVeiPCae-SMO4uUvcOQsw4FpZ7x2hdEJQ15JsYleXMwiiqo8uNQusO2rJcF08PIDEsQc_mhOtuPIYTYEJKrAJZkacbEqQELqhnLDSKo6c-nENNAX0/s320/amethyst0001_1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> and this is Ruby, on the same page</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDJ-JtZYQBM_17_efaKbrqLG4RC96zgDKeQpaCmIKzXilB0e94CNQRO78SPeD3Eu7PnaMTv0nPYkJBUmdaWiFSWjDRxcQ49O_GJSiToTuk928hY2Xa3Gu9-e-ASgSg4KXF_rBPIszyPI/s1600/ruby0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDJ-JtZYQBM_17_efaKbrqLG4RC96zgDKeQpaCmIKzXilB0e94CNQRO78SPeD3Eu7PnaMTv0nPYkJBUmdaWiFSWjDRxcQ49O_GJSiToTuk928hY2Xa3Gu9-e-ASgSg4KXF_rBPIszyPI/s320/ruby0001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have also found time to add Page to <a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250736772665&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT">Ebay</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7y_pz2wZb6tRzc6dUhyjt3PanjGeXP1CLxmJFlyZ7TkOh-ne8hOFBbuDXZAl1Vg9gf_owvVAxIII7J_HghG-f_ai3zaVZyx2aIr5ZTb8lqB2Auve2c7WPKt0mCVSkkbjZoSJKiAvFtIg/s1600/page0001_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7y_pz2wZb6tRzc6dUhyjt3PanjGeXP1CLxmJFlyZ7TkOh-ne8hOFBbuDXZAl1Vg9gf_owvVAxIII7J_HghG-f_ai3zaVZyx2aIr5ZTb8lqB2Auve2c7WPKt0mCVSkkbjZoSJKiAvFtIg/s320/page0001_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have added a new page to my blog.................Available Bears and worked out how to add a shopping cart. It will take me awhile to add my bears but don't forget to keep an eye out for additions. I have given my website a well needed update.......................I have also realised that it takes as much time to market ones bears as it does to make them!!!! I really need to win the lottery, pay the mortgage off and live this life all the time but with milk, potatoes, bread.......etc LOLOLOL</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beary Hugs for now</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sue xxxxx</div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-35698512677426902162010-11-29T18:47:00.000+00:002010-11-29T18:47:58.105+00:00Winter blues!! Not likely<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVqN53lx7tRKnBYlR_37f8r3wiGg1zpESOlu1Uw7Wiv2Glumt5o9aqt829yxKaGEaTthW2DEcYl0WlGOepufMb0My7vcLIknqy5Ydd2NxhrpZaMlU5Pds1GVNxr524NUjChoQMh4jMmQ/s1600/IMG_1280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVqN53lx7tRKnBYlR_37f8r3wiGg1zpESOlu1Uw7Wiv2Glumt5o9aqt829yxKaGEaTthW2DEcYl0WlGOepufMb0My7vcLIknqy5Ydd2NxhrpZaMlU5Pds1GVNxr524NUjChoQMh4jMmQ/s320/IMG_1280.JPG" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my world, it was taken just before another downfall at midday</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say I am very very lucky that I have a boss who doesn't believe in his staff</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">risking their lives and he does live in a rural location, which means </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">he is aware of how dangerous it can be. I do feel for anyone</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">who has a less than understanding boss...........................it is just not worth the risk, is it?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been busy, taking the opportunity to update my website, send a mailing list email</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and cut out and sew a big bear.......................oh to just have one day a week just for the bears</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yeah I know I spent all weekend finishing two commissions </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">while my poor hubby did the housework!!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But to make bears full-time (big sigh) I would miss my day job though LOLOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Any way onto the bearies</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is Ruffles</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxW8zVCHnAaeqEeBbrTQ-wVATr-8_XKfKRNDTDK0v9YXJaWVf_Iq0c4imkbuL9ZU-7RmRtGYi_zq0vSwSLKuznV10zihRwsZj0Ww_NgTu6jOM6pWKu4nWGi3KKfMUK3r8_uEJYxwvIp0/s1600/ruffles0001_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxW8zVCHnAaeqEeBbrTQ-wVATr-8_XKfKRNDTDK0v9YXJaWVf_Iq0c4imkbuL9ZU-7RmRtGYi_zq0vSwSLKuznV10zihRwsZj0Ww_NgTu6jOM6pWKu4nWGi3KKfMUK3r8_uEJYxwvIp0/s320/ruffles0001_2.JPG" width="263" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He is available from my website</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fenbearyfolk.co.uk/availableoldstylebears.htm">Ruffles</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">................and this is Benjamin..............</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPU-dZr8AfgSlC0EuaATrkniz5H7dCqiqtdY03T6PYki9LtQvoXKqz3R5usw3Q0rRAUHLHlKxgvAgao1kUBJ058AR9abz1EkDYcZW5oxQm_Z5QmImJeEr8UtE_lMSTY9868xzWWdmkNA/s1600/benjamin10001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPU-dZr8AfgSlC0EuaATrkniz5H7dCqiqtdY03T6PYki9LtQvoXKqz3R5usw3Q0rRAUHLHlKxgvAgao1kUBJ058AR9abz1EkDYcZW5oxQm_Z5QmImJeEr8UtE_lMSTY9868xzWWdmkNA/s320/benjamin10001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">available from my website</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fenbearyfolk.co.uk/availableoldstylebears.htm">Benjamin</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have also listed a few more, just in time for Christmas </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fenbearyfolk.co.uk/availablegirliebears.htm">FenBeary Folk.......Girlie bears</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fenbearyfolk.co.uk/availableminibears.htm">FenBeary Folk Mini bears</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fenbearyfolk.co.uk/availableoldstylebears.htm">FenBeary Folk Old style bears</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have also listed Phoebe on ebay</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfio9jCR56YE7TtPxcerfhZoSbGdunhfCJZFRPRtsWPzIz8lR84gK_lqmbdwswbY42RCaA2dcqntnm_ocfhfGR_WCaOn_B-SUwxFw37WnXUiBUFbt67q2Hd25-uh-RnHiKbRkNHSP36rE/s1600/phoebe0001_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfio9jCR56YE7TtPxcerfhZoSbGdunhfCJZFRPRtsWPzIz8lR84gK_lqmbdwswbY42RCaA2dcqntnm_ocfhfGR_WCaOn_B-SUwxFw37WnXUiBUFbt67q2Hd25-uh-RnHiKbRkNHSP36rE/s320/phoebe0001_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250734257756&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT">Ebay</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway, stay warm, stay safe and remember is it really worth getting hurt for !!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beary Hugs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sue </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">xxxx</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-43735492280635477872010-11-15T18:46:00.006+00:002010-11-15T19:26:00.530+00:00Stand by your fair!!!<div style="text-align: center;">Well that's the last fair for the year, all but a memory now and I have to say it is a sad one, when it should be a happy one. I only do 5 fairs a year, this year I did 6 with the addition of Bears to Collect Huntingdon one. I adore them, to go chat, laugh and catch up with both artist and collectors is such a joy, this last one though has left me feeling morose and sad. You see my husband won't let me travel too far, not sure why, I can only imagine it's because its a big bad world out there and the wolves would ravish me in a second if I stepped out of his comfort zone!!!..............yeah I know I am 44, a wife and mother, have experienced the worst that life can throw at me and came out smiling not to mention that I did go half way round the world at 19 to Australia, all by myself, I rest my case, you honour!!<br />Why the sadness, well its because of the lack of visitors. I'm not talking about buyers, just good old fashioned browsers. I have never really seen fairs as sellers dream, many collectors including myself can't just buy what we like when we like and we have bills that mostly take our hard earned cash, so buying loads of new darlings to take home is a mere dream. Often I will flag an artist who's bears I would like to own and save for one. Fairs are and were never about selling, they are a shop window into our world, they are about who you are and what you are currently making. I know in the age of websites, forums, facebook and blogs fairs seem a tad old fashioned but you can't beat a bear in the fur. Don't get me wrong we all like to sell bears, its a way of knowing that you are doing good but every bear sold is a bonus.<br />I know that there are a lot of things that influence attendance from the weather to what else is on at or around that time but you don't have to buy, just visit. We are in fear of loosing those fairs that have been going awhile, they may seem jaded compared to the bright lights of a new fair but they are still great days out. Many years ago there used to be lots and lots of shows up and down the country, I hear bear artist reminisce over the good old days, those fairs were lost for one reason.......................lack of attendance, it becomes a vicious circle, as visitors fall by the wayside so do artist. Make 2011 the year when you say I may not be able to buy but I can support this industry by attending fairs<br />Here is my stand, I hope you like it<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6LltcUEZXzm5snWQG3PzNEmzMpKvjL31VZwOvh2Sncd8T9GGBaVAoVuiqnkpBEhhLWo0-R9M-8Hwcs9JgwutDuS4wCsrHsnEeMGFjqQofDm0mv9kOducjsqJ58MHPkZB3NOWjwdWVOI/s1600/kelham1411100001.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 355px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6LltcUEZXzm5snWQG3PzNEmzMpKvjL31VZwOvh2Sncd8T9GGBaVAoVuiqnkpBEhhLWo0-R9M-8Hwcs9JgwutDuS4wCsrHsnEeMGFjqQofDm0mv9kOducjsqJ58MHPkZB3NOWjwdWVOI/s320/kelham1411100001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539859238322265570" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is Phoebe<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgyTwIF5xOBgNUR2KMZpEddbCrsAi48aGfiGMb4MVOxE8GjIdnYijGjtZjs36ZyQr63JTSzurp7ZrDyw_c7lwMaMHnk2UPrMSB0zZrHrxPuovvSmWRx8M2_omfYl_mq9iayhfmr57J2jE/s1600/phoebe0001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgyTwIF5xOBgNUR2KMZpEddbCrsAi48aGfiGMb4MVOxE8GjIdnYijGjtZjs36ZyQr63JTSzurp7ZrDyw_c7lwMaMHnk2UPrMSB0zZrHrxPuovvSmWRx8M2_omfYl_mq9iayhfmr57J2jE/s320/phoebe0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539859242968132946" border="0" /></a><br /><br />and this is Ruffles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2t_Y3OKjJsHgk1zzYQprV1eGdajBYj2cAXJJ-Ot_vHZnMB58j2VMaSE-E3ZO6DlmtAbsHBYQKQ0g9C7LPPYFHLM3OprUwHN8sUYsM8nFmorgHkBvYIWIEgSKlP5NVssVsgW7HLkgoUm4/s1600/ruffles0001.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2t_Y3OKjJsHgk1zzYQprV1eGdajBYj2cAXJJ-Ot_vHZnMB58j2VMaSE-E3ZO6DlmtAbsHBYQKQ0g9C7LPPYFHLM3OprUwHN8sUYsM8nFmorgHkBvYIWIEgSKlP5NVssVsgW7HLkgoUm4/s320/ruffles0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539859248514231922" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Beary hugs<br />Sue<br />xxxFenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7346828099422770154.post-62835454465251774352010-11-02T07:18:00.001+00:002010-11-04T13:38:33.855+00:00Bears, cars and more bears<div align="center">What has been happening in the Pemblington household since I last posted<br />Well I have, as ever, been very busy with stuff</div><div align="center">as well as bears</div><div align="center">The car was taken for its annual mot, not a big thing you understand</div><div align="center">but major for me as I have what can only be described as a phobia over it..............</div><div align="center">..................years ago when my daughter was little, our car failed 3 times and was kept on the third attempt, so I do get very jittery.</div><div align="center">Anyway it failed, only on a few small things but it soon mounts up</div><div align="center">and wouldn't you beleive it, it took just slightly more money than I had to my name!!!!</div><div align="center">Story of my life, that one, LOLOL.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">My husband was involved in an accident, he was shook up but fine.........</div><div align="center">and as much as he is a pain I do love hime dearly......in fact</div><div align="center">he has made me both very angry and proud this week!!!</div><div align="center">The accident was not his fault, as a ven decided to squease in front of him to trun left</div><div align="center">and he was going straight round the roundabout to the next exit.</div><div align="center">As per usual a van had tried to out run the lorry, to nip in front......</div><div align="center">so if ever you are tempted....don't, he really thought he had </div><div align="center">crushed the van as it disappeared below his windscreen.</div><div align="center">I, myself have been to the docs. It started awhile back with pain in my ear</div><div align="center">and has just continued, it feels like I have water in it and it aches.</div><div align="center">At night if I lie flat by 2am it is throbbing so much that it wakes me up.</div><div align="center">So off I goes, not a frequent visitor, you understand....................</div><div align="center">................that in itself should make the doctor sit up and take note!!!</div><div align="center">But no he was perplexed when he found no wax, dismissed half my symptoms</div><div align="center">and told me that he supposed I "could" have fluid in my middle ear, no kidding.</div><div align="center">Upon getting home and doing my own research on the internet </div><div align="center">(don't like those medic sites-they put the fear of </div><div align="center">god into you and should have a health warning themselves)</div><div align="center">I found that symptoms did fit a middle ear infection </div><div align="center">and the throbbing at night was the fluid </div><div align="center">pressing on my eardrum, because I suffer nasally, </div><div align="center">my synuses were filling up and making it a whole lot worse.</div><div align="center">Really if I don't see another gereatric doctor in my life I would be happy...........</div><div align="center">.....................at one point I thought he was going to pat my knee and give me a lolly pop.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Enough about me and my continual woes, here are some new bears that I have been working on</div><div align="center">The first is Bethany, she has been the subject of some debate over her name but I think Bethany suits her.</div><div align="center">She is 14 inches tall and her outfit was made entirely by myself.</div><div align="center">I am so thrilled with her, due to my constant lack of time I always felt that</div><div align="center">I could do more in the way of clothes, so this time I was determined<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGfwxJIIEWI0YU2dUkAV5YjOjoKOrKfSTdr6wb2zXp_xp5lfkNaE2n7lQ13OBu0ISNrEs5JiwHb9H9srnPtj8Hlg3kElyZ0s248My4f8Izgx8hVbbTzcALSs3dbRC-7h9YANRKbfNWXrk/s1600/IMG_1224a.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 380px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 357px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534848843124892066" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGfwxJIIEWI0YU2dUkAV5YjOjoKOrKfSTdr6wb2zXp_xp5lfkNaE2n7lQ13OBu0ISNrEs5JiwHb9H9srnPtj8Hlg3kElyZ0s248My4f8Izgx8hVbbTzcALSs3dbRC-7h9YANRKbfNWXrk/s320/IMG_1224a.jpg" /> <p align="center"></a><br /><br />This lady is Patience and she is even bigger at 17 inches<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeQWm6xId-S2E_OU_ejo2aldMNFhgOYIiIvHFR5sMcgNirdZNT5JjDvtdWgb_DdQ85wVeJy_vWR88IhuFsez7UtRQSsU40IFByU5ssUfU9SkP0JGX97KZnpTNTjhgckl6dnFyl3SAVEM/s1600/IMG_1220a.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 419px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 458px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534848863393720338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeQWm6xId-S2E_OU_ejo2aldMNFhgOYIiIvHFR5sMcgNirdZNT5JjDvtdWgb_DdQ85wVeJy_vWR88IhuFsez7UtRQSsU40IFByU5ssUfU9SkP0JGX97KZnpTNTjhgckl6dnFyl3SAVEM/s320/IMG_1220a.jpg" /></a></p><p align="center">They will both be making their debut at <a href="http://www.dollysdaydreams.com/welcome.htm">Kelham Hall </a>on</p><p align="center">14th November 2010<br /></p><p align="center">Please come and say hello</p><p align="center">Beary hugs</p><p align="center">Sue xxx</p>FenBeary Folkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142820999602746355noreply@blogger.com0