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Post by corinne11 on Jun 23, 2018 5:43:30 GMT
I'm going to add this one to my watch list, thanks for the recommendation. I'm sure I've seen it mentioned on threads here, even recently, but I can't find anything in search either. Pretty sure I saw it on Netflix the other night because I remembered it being recommended here. I'm in the midst of watching Hinterland so I am planning on watching Killing Eve during my holidays. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 22, 2018 13:01:26 GMT
I love these books. I use their sketches all the time but am looking forward to titles /quotes and journaling ideas. I definitely feel its and area I have not done as much of as I used to when I first started scrapbooking 18 years ago! I will definitely be ordering/downloading this over the weekend. Thanks for sharing. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 16, 2018 3:16:52 GMT
Remember all those "frappuccino" style bottles of prima flowers. I had to have them all. Dozens of bottles, every color of flowers. Only to later realize, how much space all those bottles took up. Dumped all the flowers into one big container, and threw away the bottles. Oh man, I remember them costing quite a lot here in the UK and knowing that I was probably going to buy them all, but I couldn't just buy them all at the one time cause that would be a massive outlay. I would just buy one at every crop and then spend ages choosing which colour I would choose to buy next time lol! Then my friend and I wised up and would buy a bottle each and split them I still have 6 - the only ones I bought and they have about an inch missing from the top of them. I actually have and still do use them on my layouts but I am sure they are multiplying by themselves as there never seems to be a major decrease! Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 16, 2018 3:12:42 GMT
I have a lime green ATG gun that I use all the time! It matches my Scrapbook room and is lovely! Wait??!! there is a lime green one? I have the original red one that is getting very sticky and hard to clean- my craft room is lime green and white. I think I could be persuaded to buy another one- just for a spare of course!! Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 12, 2018 12:27:22 GMT
One marriage- married in Fiji - July 2 years ago and spent 3 days on a cruise, 4 days in a fancy 5 star hotel then 2 weeks at our favourite hotel down the coast - in a suite overlooking the ocean for our honeymoon. We are heading back in 5 weeks time to celebrate our 2nd anniversary - this time the same cruise for 7 days then 2 weeks at our favourite hotel. What can I say? we love Fiji and we love the familiarity of going to the same places. This will be our 5th trip so far.
Of course we eloped so we didn't have the expense of a big wedding or reception.
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 8, 2018 8:45:40 GMT
Fancy Pants Take Note There is the Paper House "Wild Things" collection which could be really fun if she has a use for it. Oh, and Shimelle Box of Crayons would be fun to use too.
I was just about to order this paper- BIG fan of this book! (even made my own Max costume for Bookweek!) BUT luckily read reviews. The paper pack is only one print on all sheets- so probably more suitable for party invites etc I guess. What a shame- I was so excited to think someone made a scrapbook paper pack. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 4, 2018 7:47:43 GMT
I read a lot of the books and while I enjoy them I always feel that they are a bit "short" on details.
I really enjoyed the series and didn't even know it was Dexter until near the end! And because I have never watched it the accent was okay for me.
I love British crime shows (this was a French/British collaboration) and really hope they make more- the books have good storylines.
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on May 23, 2018 7:12:19 GMT
Orange Sky was the first one of these here in Australia. These guys do a great job of bringing simple dignity to people- we take having clean clothes for granted. We also have a few barbers/hairdressers going around in vans providing hair washing/beard/hair cuts.
From their website - Orange Sky Australia is the world’s first free mobile laundry service for people experiencing homeless – an idea founded in a Brisbane garage by two 20-year-old mates. Nic Marchesi and Lucas Patchett installed a couple of washing machines and dryers in the back of their old van, visiting parks in Brisbane to wash and dry clothes for free. With an aim to improve hygiene standards and restore dignity to people doing it tough, they stumbled on something much bigger and more significant – the power of a conversation. Now facilitated by more than 1000 volunteers, Orange Sky has expanded to 20 services across Australia and generates over six tonnes of laundry every week. Most importantly, Orange Sky volunteers have engaged in more than 100,000 hours of conversations to date, helping to dispel myths about homelessness and positively connect communities all around Australia.
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on May 5, 2018 1:41:09 GMT
I will admit it- usually I am not such a big fan of brightly coloured hair. (and am totally too chicken to ever get it done!) YOURS HOWEVER, looks absolutely fabulous! The colours are very pretty and really suit you and your hair style. Definitely keep it. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on May 5, 2018 1:23:16 GMT
I made my costume following a You tube video and love it so much! I think I might start wearing it to school once a year on May the 4th! I positively adore you as Princess Leia! Thank you! I grew my hair long that year in preparation for Bookweek in September so I could have the "real " hairdo instead of fake buns.
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Post by corinne11 on May 5, 2018 0:36:53 GMT
I made my costume following a You tube video and love it so much! I think I might start wearing it to school once a year on May the 4th!
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 29, 2018 7:10:31 GMT
Thanks for the heads up! I don't subscribe anymore ,just occasionally buy a credit boost and I had $5 left so I grabbed a few things from my wishlist.
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 26, 2018 6:40:14 GMT
I have a Cricut and I was not computer savvy enough at the time to get a Gypsy or sign up for Craft room. Just recently I have thought about using it again, so I am glad I didn't go down that road after all! I have a Silhouette and love that but I still haven't used my Cricut cartridges as much as I would have liked so I am going to make the effort to get them out and working. Now, if only I could find a magical electrician to get my Slice working again I would be very happy- still love the MM fonts and would happily cut them out one letter at a time. I didn't use it for a while and now it won't start. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 18, 2018 5:59:42 GMT
We had gone back to live in my childhood home ( only home I ever knew- came to Australia aged 2) so we could save for our own home. When we moved out I knew once Mum sold it, it would be demolished to put 2 houses on the block. I absolutely love those random photos I took - my mums rose bush, the pawprint of our childhood dog in our cement driveway! Pictures of the wooden floorboards, original terrazzo bathroom floor, the skateboard track next door. My favourite- one day when I was driving down our street I remembered by best friend and I running down the road, trying to outrun the clouds covering the sun. I got my camera and took a beautiful late afternoon shot of the street. Enlarged it and put in my scrapbook- still makes me happy. If you cant make it to the house to take some picture google search it. I made a scrapbook of all the places I lived in during my 20's. I did have a lovely day driving around but also got some pictures from Google of ones I couldn't photograph- (gates locked etc) Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 7, 2018 7:11:53 GMT
A friend of mine did indeed find a dead mouse in a bag of mixed lettuce. It was small and looked very dried up as it had obviously been through the washing and drying process. She said she usually only grabbed a handful of lettuce ( only 2 eating) but on this day needed more and emptied the whole bag! I am guilty of only taking a handful out for my lunch- NOW I empty the whole bag, just in case!!
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 6, 2018 23:25:05 GMT
Swimsuits For All. I only buy cross back Longitude suits. I do water aerobics at least 3x a week and have big boobs. They have great sales lots of choices. I was recommended this website from here a few years ago. Love the suits I got from there! My favourite for snorkelling is a dress one piece which has lycra shorts built in which makes me feel so much more confident getting in and out of boats with other people- no flashing my bum! I did follow someone's advice about upsizing though- great quality, I'm heading off to Fiji again soon and will probably add another to my collection. Because I am big busted I buy the ones with moulded cups and they take longer to dry so I always take at least 4 pairs- hate putting on damp bathers. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 2, 2018 6:04:19 GMT
$618?? that would be a no from me!! If you have a petite frame it may look nice, but way too many pleats/tucks for me. I don't think you could wear anything substantial underneath it either. But if you like it, buy it! I'm sure lots of people think I wear strange clothes for a short, rounded 54 yr old!!! Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Mar 11, 2018 7:41:10 GMT
This isn’t really what you asked but I wonder what the next owners of this house will think if they dig up our animal graveyard. We’ve buried 2 dogs and 3 rats, all next to each other. We buried our little turtle Bob at our old house which was demolished after we left and we have buried our bigger 40 yr old Shelley in our current back yard. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Mar 10, 2018 6:24:38 GMT
I just found this meme today and was thinking of using it in a book display to encourage our students to READ the book first! I have an older cover and a new one and have already mentioned to a few students in my reading groups as a book to try. I loved the book as a child- re- read it a few weeks ago, still enjoyed it. I was hoping the movie would be good. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Mar 8, 2018 11:05:34 GMT
I've started doing an album of growing up in the 70's. I do have quite a few photos but have a whole Pinterest board dedicated to things I owned but don't have photos of. So far- dolls I owned the record player shaped like an UFO - yes I actually found a photo of the one we owned! vintage avon bottles terrarium in the shape of a hippo! toys and games we owned I wore a one shouldered black lurex top with red satin pants to a high school dance - found separate photos of very similar pieces and will journal about the night. I even found a copy of a novel my mum bought me for Christmas when I was 11! I just put in 70's to Pinterest and follow other peoples boards. Most of my photos are of things I had totally forgotten about! My best find- when I was 11 for some reason I wore a red, enamel turtle hair pin on one side and a yellow goldfish pin on the other. I have a blurry photo of me wearing them but managed to find some pictures of the clips.(for sale on etsy but sadly already sold- I would have so bought them!!) Luckily I have lots of 70 themed scrapbook paper so I can use that for the "only journaling" layouts I end up doing. Please do come back and show us some finished layouts! Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Mar 4, 2018 7:48:29 GMT
I love that orange! It is very close to the orange in our bedroom- however we only used it as a feature alongside antique white walls. My scrapbook room is quite small so I also painted it antique white- with matching blinds and light furniture. However, I chose a beautiful lime/avocado green for my feature wall and use green for a lot of my storage items.
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 25, 2018 8:13:47 GMT
We have lost 6 cats during the past year or so Our vet send us lovely cards with cats on them and a handwritten message inside. They always enclose a little packet of forget me not seeds for us to plant. I haven't actually planted any yet but plan to put some in a pot in our back yard. I always smile when I see my mum's succulents growing so I know I will enjoy seeing flowers and thinking of all our little furry friends. Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 18, 2018 8:33:33 GMT
Do you use green bags? (the re-usable ones) Maybe it could be at the bottom of one.
We noticed a very bad smell in our pantry once - thought it was a bad potato. Turned out to be a pack of beef mince left in the bag when we put groceries away. We threw the entire bag out!
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 17, 2018 5:22:53 GMT
Cindy Lou LOVES chicken! I just opened the ziplok plastic bag on a roast chicken and she came running from the other side of the house to get a little bit of chicken. To be fair, she was abandoned and left alone in a yard with only a dripping tap over an old saucepan for over a month so she does tend to eat any kind of edible thing, but she really does love chicken the best, Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 16, 2018 11:06:07 GMT
I have paint (still good!) foam stamps, metal photo corners, metal plaques/words, ribbon packs, brads, eyelets, rub on letters/words.....just off the top of my head! Maybe a few pieces of paper? I just saw my beautiful box of matte, flat buttons and my date stamp in drawers next to my desk! I will participate- clearly I have the stuff! Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 10, 2018 5:42:37 GMT
I have a whole container of Twistel as a girl I know who ran a home business gave me LOTS as she wanted me to make a few layouts for her to display at craft fairs back in the day.
I used it for tags, to cover flat embellishments ( made a lovely sun which also had wire rays), and I covered lots of die cut letters in it. I gave my coloured wire and the tool that you used to wind wire around to make letters and shapes to my sister years ago - think I only used wire on about 3 layouts. Imagine my surprise to see that wire is BACK along with a very similar pegboard thing to make the shapes!!!
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 6, 2018 12:22:26 GMT
When I was a teenager I was stopped on the street, asked to answer 3 questions and ended up going into their offices and doing a "quick" survey. I was desperate to leave as I was actually meant to be working ( taking money to the bank) and got stuck there "waiting" while they processed my results. Of course I needed lots of " counselling" that needed to start the next day! I said I was leaving to go on holiday and managed to leave.
Stupid me- had given them my address. My mum continued to receive expensive, glossy brochures from them for many years- even tried to contact them and say I no longer lived there. I moved back into my old family home 15 years later and they were STILL sending me stuff even though I had never given them a cent of my money.
It has always made me wonder how much money they really have- they spent a lot of me with no return! I haven't watched the Leah Rimni shows but I did watch Louis Theroux movie on Scientology and I am quite intrigued by how people are taken in by them.
Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 4, 2018 6:28:41 GMT
I loved Kaisercraft Pawfect range- there was a cat and a dog one. The cats look like my real life rescue cats- scruffy and not so perfect. Lots of neutral colours and designs.
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 4, 2018 6:08:23 GMT
I was just throwing out all my old idea books - ones I couldn't bear to part with- Becky Higgins, Rebecca Sowers, every single Simple Scrapbooks magazine and my KI- Little book of Big ideas! I still have a lot of papers, embellishments and stamps which I still love and use. I love the busy patterns but my favourites were always the more subtle ones. Good luck, I will keep an eye out for your new products! Corinne
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Post by corinne11 on Feb 3, 2018 22:16:41 GMT
Love Gavin and Stacey! I have the Christmas DVD. As well as James Corden it also has Rob Bryden who hosts "would I lie to you?" (another great show from the UK)
I can't answer the Netflix question- here in Australia we had both shows on regular tv.
Corinne
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