Thursday 26th May 2011

Happy to report new bread machine is great.

I haven't ranted about the lawn mower yet, have I?  It broke (yes we have had a succession of break downs recently, think I am next or it feels like that), and as it is a ride on we needed the repair man to pick it up.  That took 2 weeks and it is still with him, 4 weeks later.  As you can imagine the grass is quite long now and we do have a lot of it.  It normally takes about 2 hours to cut anyway in normal circumstances.

I seemed to have mislaid my camera so I cannot upload any images that could help you to understand better what I am going on about but never mind I am sure it will turn up.  I also have a picture of the hash tag and peridot earrings that I was commissioned to make.  They drove me crazy, so small, 1mm and 2mm pieces of 1.2mm thick silver that I had to make in to hash tags and then I had to set some small peridots in them ................ nothing more to say!

Hopefully I will find my camera and show you the results.

I have a full day today, more jewellery to make, cleaning, food shopping etc so need to get on.

Writing my blog when I should be off to work ............

I have applied to exhibit some jewellery in the Platform Gallery Clitheroe, part of their Open Craft Exhibition this summer.  Hopefully I will hear from them!

I have finally managed to start a commission for Liz who owns the Flower Bank in Hornby.  She has had a faceted aqua marine stone for many, many years, tucked away in a box and she has finally decided to so something with it.  I recently made a ring for her daughter  which she loved and I think it prompted her to do something with her aqua marine.  As she has had it for about 25 years I don't think there is a rush but I like to get on with things once I have been commissioned.

We went to see Dylan Moran last night at the Opera House, Blackpool.  He was great, not laugh out loud to me but very humorous rants.

I think I have mentioned that my bread machine gave up the ghost about 2 weeks ago.  I have made a loaf every week for years with the machine that my mother in law bought me (she was good at giving my domestic appliances for birthdays and Christmases, some of which I was glad about).  Well I finally received my new one from Morphy Richards.  Of course my old one had been discontinued so I got an equivalent one, basic but I only use it to mix and rise the dough in.  I take it out and beat it up and get it to rise again and bake it in the oven, I don't like the shape of the machine ones.  Anyway I have prepped it as instructed and this Sunday will be its first session so I will report how it goes .... life is just so exciting sometimes.  The point of this being that Morphy Richards gave me a great deal on it, I looked at their website and then phoned them up.  As I had already owned a MR product I got a good discount but even if I hadn't they would have done a good deal, always phone them up before you buy and try haggling, you have nothing to lose.

Added this image as my blog seemed word heavy ..... random image of part of my pond that is overgrown with weeds but has quite a lot of wildlife hiding in it so I am loathe to do anything about it.

Now off to work in Issac's Jewellers, should have left 10 minutes ago .....