E Bay

What a day--Ive been in the bedroom all day long today!
Measuring , photographing and loading everything onto Ebay. Ive had a massive sort out of clothes and am now going to make room for some new ones!
I cant belive how long its taken me--Ive been flat out since 7.30am til now.Ive got to getmy stuff ready for tomorrow market yet but not until Ive enjoyed a large Voddi and tonic and put my poor feet up for a while-

We are off to Scotland!

We have been busy planning out holiday to Scotland next month.
Ive never been further north than Blackpool and Bill has been to Scotland loads of time when he worked as a long distance lorry driver , but never had chance to stop and enjoy it!

We are going to have a whole week touring around and I cant wait!

We are stopping in Carlise on the way up over night, then going on up to Montrose the next morning where we will be staying with some great friends for a couple of nights.
Then we are setting off to Dumbarton where we will stay overnight and the next morning setting off for Dumfries.
We are stopping there overnight and then heading for Kendal the next morning where we are staying for 2 nights, so we will be able to have a good look around the Lake District.
It should be beautiful-the trees will be changing colours and the scenery will give me loads of inspiration for more paintings.
My dear friend Jean is moving in here to look after the livestock while we are away-she really enjoyed herself the last time she came to parrot sit-and so did all the pets! They were spoiled rotten!

Daves Wooden Art

While we were at Bishops Castle today we found Dave Bytheway, son of one of my friends.He creates the most amazing wooden sculptures using a chainsaw! He also had this beautiful gypsy caravan that he has renovated-he hand painted it all and used real gold leaf on it.

He makes some beautiful stuff-there is a life size grizzly bear in a garden just down the road from us that he has carved!

Bishops Castle Michaelmas Fair

We have had a lovely day today,first of all we went to Leominster Boot sale-we haven't been for weeks because of doing various craft fairs and also the weather. It was lovely to wander around and pick up some bargains-like a new cd system which sounds just brilliant and has been set up in the kitchen!I also bought some lovely jewelry for myself! As if I need any more!

I did also buy a lovely stand to hang necklaces and earrings off as well, so will be able to keep the new stuff tidy!

Then we went off to Bishops Castle Michaelmas Fair-we have never been there before and what a great event it was.

Bill was in his element-loads of steam engines, tractors and lorries on display.

All of the streets were buzzing with people and stalls.There was loads to see.

The morris dancers were very entertaining-how they kept it up with the dancing with it being so hot I don't know--but the funny thing is neither of us noticed the spotted house in the background when we watched them! Its only now when I was putting the photos on the computer that I 'spotted it!'

We went into the craft tent and got talking to one of the exhibitors who makes soaps of all description's from goats milk.We bought some coffee soap which removes smells from your hands-handy when Ive been cleaning brushes and some nettle soap which is great for dry skin.

She gave us all the imformation for next year and hopefully we will be doing the fair ourselves.

It had a lovely atmosphere and we really enjoyed ourselves there.Its not many miles from home , cant understand why we havent been to it before!

E Bay

Ive spent a few minutes updating my ebay 'Me' page.
Ive now added all the details of my classes etc-take a look -now all I need to do is sort out just what else Im going to sell on there!
Ive got to have a massive clothes sort out this week-so I expect a lot of clothes will be going on there as well as some of the knick knacks that have been gathering dust!

http://cgi3.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=dianetheartist

Latest Commission

I have spent quite a few hours working flat out on the latest commission, I have got the base layers on, various shades of reds and black--the top picture is the colour of it now, as you can see its started off layers of quite orangey reds, but that is just to build up depth in the finished painting.

As more layers go on it deepens and gets more depth.

The white blotches on the top picture is not paint, but a special impasto medium that will allow me to create the texture of the poppy petal.

Tomorrow I will start to add the 20 odd coats of coloured glazes, each one having to be thoroughly dried in between-a tedious process but necessary none the less.

I am emailing the pictures as I do each stage to Rachael who has commissioned this piece, she can have some input into the painting, if she wants the centre smaller or redder I can do it.

It works very well. I am very pleased with it so far. Its always interesting to see how each one develops-they turn out different every time!

Tomorrow we are off to take the paintings to Stoke on Trent to The Art Bay gallery.So may get to do some Christmas shopping too !!

E BAY

This was posted on ebay today, but has now been taken off--no sense of humour!!!!

Item number 290184203092
This was the listing... bidding was at £72! LOL
Here we have two CD-R's for auction. They are not blank, but seem to have some sort of database written to them. I found them in my local courier firm's sorting office, addressed to
"Her Majesties Audit Office - Child Benefits Section" and marked
"Sensitive HM Government Information - DO NOT LOSE - ENSURE THESE DISKS DO NOT FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE CRIMINAL FRATERNITY"
They were obviously surplus to requirements.
I haven't read the data myself. The database appears to have approximately 25 milion records in it, but is password protected, so it is impossible to read it and it's definitely impossible to extract any bank account data from it.
Any information that you might discover (should you be lucky enough to win the auction for these useful items and read the database thereon) must be kept in the strictest confidence.
0.99p start and no reserve, so grab yourself a bargain. All profit from these items will be donated to Sue Ryder Care.
Cash on collection ONLY please from Portsmouth PO8, since we wouldn't want these to get lost in the post!
PLEASE NOTE: Government departments should contact me by email before bidding, since they will have to be vetted for competence before entrusting such items to them

E BAY

I spent the morning carefully packing the clothes to post that I sold on E bay over the weekend.

Its very satisfying to try on and discover that things have got too big since the last time I wore them!

Of course the bonus is that I get to go out and buy some more!!

Im amazed at what they have fetched on there, and it will keep me busy for a few more weeks putting things on there as well as buying some more.

I just have to wait for one more payment and thats this weeks ebaying done till friday night!