Spare a thought..........

...... for Esther and Milla. They are stuck in Dubai having been in Thailand for a holiday. Long story but they have been in Dubai since last Thursday. It is costing them a bloody fortune. £6 for a bowl of chips !!! Anyway to cut a long story short they were booked on a flight on Thursday to fly to the uk. Esther did this as soon as she got to the airport last week. She phoned today to double check it would be okay etc and they said she and Milla weren't booked on the flight. They were on a standby!!!! Now they can't get a flight until 13 May. We (that's Peter, me and Esther) keep ringing a number in Dubai to try and get them on any plane to the UK within the next week. She is holed up in a hotel (which she is having to pay for). Fortunately there is a cooker etc in their room so at least she can cook for herself and not have to eat out all the time.

I bet the poor girls heart sank when she was told she wasn't on that flight. I nearly cried so god knows what she did.

She is a teacher and was supposed to be back at work today (along with thousands of other teachers and pupils stranded).

It is all very stressful and I can't concentrate on anything.

I had my first workshop on Saturday. My friend Caroline and her mum came over. We covered a box in sticky backed metal with shapes underneath. Here is the one I did as an example. There is far too much on the lid but I wanted to show them what they could have and what it would look like !

Caroline and I went to the Craft Barn yesterday afternoon to do a copics class. I bought set D!!! That's them all now..........

I also bought Tim Holtz's pad called Shabby Vintage. It's absolutely bloomin' gorgeous. I also bought some felt pads for my alc. inks, some magnetic sheets for my nesties, some cut and dry and some Bo Bunny paper for my word book for Red... £100 gone just like that !!!!!

I apologise for the first part of the post. I appreciate there are hundreds of others in the same position. In fact at work we have one in New York, one in St Lucia and one in Spain. One of the docs at our surgery is stuck in Australia - so it could be worse.

Thanks for listening and popping by....

Burnice x

Answer to Tash's question on the word book.....

Okay now - the word "BABY" is a Bo Bunny word book. The link is me just googling! I got mine from QVC! These come in chipboard form. I trace round the letters onto mountboard so I always have a template.

The little words books/albums are More than Words key chain books from "Colour my World" (again I just googled!). These are about 1 1/2 inches high. They come in a set of about four. You get appropriate words for each theme - i.e. Birthday comes with PARTY, CAKE, FUN and WISH (I think!). I also have Wedding which has BRIDE, GROOM, AMOUR, CHURCH and may be I(heart)YOU. Can't really remember (I'm at work you see!). I do have another set with the words WISH, LOVE, HUGS and something else. Oooh the memory is not as good as it used to be. Anyway the Craft Barn sells them too.

Again I trace round the letters onto chipboard (mountboard is too thick to cut so intricately!).

I then cover them with paper and embellish as appropriate!

Hope that helps............

Burnice x