Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

Memory_Girl

Woah - loads of requests via PM as to where the dates we have considered are going to be. Here's a very rough plan, but anyone that wants us to come to their area sooner we can juggle stuff around and hpefully I will get back to work before February.

ROUGH PLAN #! Studen Survival Guide Training (webby stuff to follow)

FEB

5th St Andrews
6th Dundee
13th Perth
20th Stirling
27 th Glasgow

MARCH

6th Aberdeen
13th Inverness
20th Fife
27th Edinburgh

APRIL

3rd Newcastle
10th Carlisle
17th Leeds
24th Manchester

MAY

1st Liverpool


These are the dates that have been requested so far - does anyone else want me to visit their area and we can start throwing dates in the diary as needed.

Memorygirl

clairewop

30 pairs of earrings made another 10 to go thats 1st order done, and a pair of penguins and christmas angels to make for an order today.

can't do no more tonnight my elbow is killing and my hand has decided it don't want to grip anymore , its way of telling me its had enough lol.

MrsMoo2U

And you know the peculiar thing? Ever since I was small, I have loved writing stories. I am remembering that one of Mr Big's challenges was to think about what we did as a child and what we enjoyed.

Crickett, this was exactly what I always wanted to do. I even won competitions and was published a couple of times as a teenager. Lost my way, grew up, got on with life. I too get that tingle if I write something and somebody says they enjoyed it. The last time I got so excited was when I wrote a story about some flamingos in Cuba (I was inspired what can I say) and a friend offered to illustrate it for me, then I lost my bottle. You go for it if that is what you want to do.
Cheery I am off to google that website.
MG, I am cobbling together an email tonight and I will send it to all of my contacts (and I will steal some work contacts) and post on my facebook page too. Oooo I have butterflies from all the excitement. Thank you ladies for lighting up my life.

Claire, love the ducks - just post the picture on your site, if you dont sell any you havent lost anything.

OliveOyl_2

Where's Jo'burg? *insert confused smilie here* :rotfl:

I know you are concerned about the children comparing their Dad's affluent lifestyle with normal living.
How would you (and me for that matter) like to spend 24 hours in a township, experiencing tin shack life? That's our invitation!

Memory_Girl

OMG - first booking .................. and we are off

MG

Memory_Girl

OliveOyl wrote: »

Where's Jo'burg? *insert confused smilie here* :rotfl:

I know you are concerned about the children comparing their Dad's affluent lifestyle with normal living.
How would you (and me for that matter) like to spend 24 hours in a township, experiencing tin shack life? That's our invitation!

That sounds like quite an adventure

MG

OliveOyl_2

Memory_Girl wrote: »

That sounds like quite an adventure

MG

That is a "cool" response :rotfl:

On Tuesday I walked about 1km in Katlahong and I was stared at. It is unusual for white people to bother with the black areas - I feel quite strongly about this. 20 years after the end of Apartheid it should not be odd that there are whites in the townships - but it is. And it is sad, I have felt nothing but welcome there.

Tescodealqueen

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Website is pending - will be with us soon.

In the meantime Leeds is scheduled for Sunday 17th April unless you fancy sooner? I will come anywhere we can gather 25 students together remember.

MG

That is near me - will be looking out for that website:)

Crickett. That is a fantastic idea. By the way posted the CD today

Robsmum. I have read The Secret - do you still need a copy or have you managed to find one?

Memory_Girl

Just promise me you wll have a huge slipper on hand for any big spiders - I hate spiders.

DS1 is having a sleepover with his pal from school - with the beautiful nickname of Leonardo. I laughed out loud at your invitation - then had to explain to DS1 and his friend (who was born in Wales but who's family are Nigerian) about Apartiad and the continuing divisions in SA.

Thats a toughie for two ten year old best-friends. The realisation that they wouldn't have been able to be friends, or in the same school, or in the same bedroom like tonight has really sobered them up. Leonardo has practically grown up in this house ..................... and yet had I followed DS1's dad to SA his world-view would have been so different.

Sometimes you make the right decisons - even if you don't know it at the time, don't you?

Memorygirl

Memory_Girl

Tescodealqueen wrote: »

That is near me - will be looking out for that website:)

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I hope so Tesco. I hope when I am out and about that I get to meet as many of the people on here as possible, really get to know what their "hedgehog idea" is and then be able to connect-the-dots to help everyone have the most amazing 2011.

Look what we are doing together already - imagine what we could do when we really get to know one another.

Memorygirl