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anyone interested in a midlands crafters circle?

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meridian · 18/01/2008 15:25

so who is stull up for a get together live and in person? any suggestions as to where? when?

I know there aren't that many large enough craft shops but I could call around some coffee and tea shops to find somewhere to house us.

I'm near Derby and if my house wasn't so small I would gladly have it here. But I will bring homemade cakes and cookies!

anyone intrested

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Gingermonkey · 26/01/2008 19:38

whoo!

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meridian · 28/01/2008 13:36

Swedish Crafts Day
5th of Feburary 2008
11 ish

shall we meet at the entrance to the resturant? for easy acess to cups of tea/coffee or at the store enterance?

DH thinks I've gone a bit nuts, asking what we are going to do, I said drink hot drink, eat meatballs, and most likly tell our children off while talking shop (er crafts)

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lucykate · 28/01/2008 14:21

just need dizzy to confirm if she can make it, then we could prob do with emailing each other with mobile numbers/descriptions of each other so we know who we're looking for

dizzyday07 · 28/01/2008 15:36

I'm coming!!

dizzyday07 · 28/01/2008 15:37

I shall be carrying a copy of the Financial Times and have red carnation in my buttonhole

Otherwise

I'll be shouting "Heather!!" a lot

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meridian · 28/01/2008 16:10

dizzy- ooohh financial times eh? erm I have a picture on facebook, or on myspace...that i can e-mail the info for... no not really that sad dont really use either but to keep in contact with a few people.. honest.

I shall be shouting "Harrison" a lot.. and occcasionally using the voice of doom.. and making that Marge Simpson noise at my son... laundry calls

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Gingermonkey · 28/01/2008 16:28

I look a lot like the dark haired space man doll on my blog (no, honest, I really do) and DS is small and ginger, probably either asleep or carrying a taggie blanket thing and most def with a dummy in his mouth (yes, I am one of those mothers)

lucykate · 28/01/2008 16:43

snap gm, i'mds is also a dummy user, and will be carrying a green blanket with him too, he answers to the name 'oy, stop doing that'

Gingermonkey · 28/01/2008 18:15

phew - I'm not alone!!! I know how the evil pacifier is seen on here (it's almost as bad as a fruit shoot)

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meridian · 30/01/2008 13:26

shall we bring crafts to do.. or just to pretend to do whilst we drink drinks eat meatballs and shout at our children?

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Gingermonkey · 30/01/2008 18:32

I probably won't because DS is prone to disappearing when he knows I'm distracted with the needle. I'm going on the train to Manchester friday (going to some crafty thing at G-Mex with my friend), I'm going on the train so I can do some sewing on route - I have a couple of doll skins to sew faces on, and a couple more needing legs. If I get a chance beforehand I'll make up a few more to take. I thought I'd do that next tues too....until I remembered I'd be in the car - duh!!!

lucykate · 31/01/2008 11:35

have just emailed everyone with my mobi number for tuesday

Gingermonkey · 31/01/2008 11:39

Very sensible. I'll email you back...

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meridian · 31/01/2008 15:02

will email as soon as i can... ds being a pain right now...

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meridian · 04/02/2008 10:41

tommorow... ever so excited and nervous... did I mention I'm a bit shy? I'm not a complete freak well not quite so much anymore but sometimes I do have trouble with eye contact and eter talk too much or not enough...

roll on tuesday

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Gingermonkey · 04/02/2008 11:11

meri - me too , so I will probably waffle on and on! And I have been known to get very nervous around short people (sorry LK!!!!!) - being tall I feel freakish...but dizzy is tall too, so I'm hoping I won't get all nervous and peculiar. But I will waffle on. Or I'll be silent. Oh dear.
And I was supposed to have my hair cut and coloured in the week, but my hairdresser cancelled, so I hate my hair which makes me even worse (it went an awful colour last time and is a bit ginger at the front where it should be just dark brown )

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meridian · 04/02/2008 11:43

gm-- well i'm sort too.. well short side of average and round too... i need to sort my hair out too, but if in doubt I shall wear a hat, very good camo for hiding

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Gingermonkey · 04/02/2008 12:02

Meri - my short person fear comes from school, I think. All the short girls were hard as nails, I was like a dozy giraffe, (in really bad glassses and with a dodgy perm, despite having curly hair!) lolloping about with them like lionesses snapping about at my heels. Blooming petrifying. And they always got the boys. I didn't . Every Valentines the short girls would be there with a million cards each, I never got a single one (apart from once, in Infant school)
So all you need to do tomorrow is say boo, or growl and I'll be a mess!

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meridian · 04/02/2008 12:49

well i never got cards either... and i was a total geek anyway, glasses big hair dark clothes for the most part. my nose always stuck in a book, or maniacally scribbling in a notebook.... had a bad Steven King phase when I was around 11 ish, so really not cool at all, everyone else was reading my friend flickka and there I was at recess with my nose to the page of The stand or IT... tragic... oh and I used to have a speach impediment too when i was small... I always wanted to be thin and tall not average and busty...

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Gingermonkey · 04/02/2008 13:21

lol! I was a geek too (DH says I still am...and he reckons I'm getting worse in my old age - even DD thinks I'm a geek! )
Anyway - geek is chic (that's my argument). I remember reading Lord of the Rings at 8yrs old it was my first 'proper' book after having to read the Enid Blyton and Swallows and Amazon types before that. My dad lent it to me, and I didn't put it down until I finished it. I was always in the library - it was the biggest treat to be able to go and sit there all saturday morning. Not surprising I wasn't one of the 'popular' girls, is it realy? ha ha!

lucykate · 04/02/2008 13:29

i was one of the 'in crowd' at school either, but then at my school, the popular girls were the ones who were devoid of any morals, if you know what i mean

don't worry about your hair gm, mine is in desperate need of colouring, it's dark blonde naturally but i colour it to hide the grey, i usually use a light brown dye but as it fades, it just seems to go redder and redder

and i will wear heels, and sit down to hide my smallness

Gingermonkey · 04/02/2008 13:37

yes LK, those girls were always the popular ones, weren't they? I saw one recently when I went home. Blimey, she hadn't aged well!!! She was stunning at school (as I remember it - but in reality she was probably not that amazing), she looked really plain now, and quite dull. And was still single, doing a job she hated. I felt quite smugly proud, as did my best friend from school (divine retribution, methinks!)

lucykate · 04/02/2008 13:42

oh balls, meant to say wasn't one of the in crowd, not was, oh you know what i mean!

Gingermonkey · 04/02/2008 13:48

yep

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