tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64030851435453892632024-03-24T17:47:45.811+00:00maximum RABBIT designsx vInTaGe VioLeT xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413071196735582651noreply@blogger.comBlogger274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403085143545389263.post-44030174530193042152017-04-01T20:23:00.000+01:002017-04-01T20:23:08.951+01:00embroidery revival!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I seem to have re-awoken my embroidery mojo! Since our slow stitching workshop I seem to have had a needle permanently in my hand, feeling very creative and enjoying the relaxing qualities of hand stitching. Last weeks applique and embroidery workshop has buoyed me up even more, so feeling full of positivity, I finally made a start on my first crafty swap in a very very long time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I had been tempted by Ali of <a href="https://veryberryhandmade.co.uk/">very berry handmade</a> 's Mini hoop swap and signed up to join in. . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">inspired by Heather's use of recycled denim in last weeks workshop and having found it a lovely background to work on, I chopped into and old skirt and got stitching. . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I got a bit carried away! I found it very hard to know where to stop and every time I decided to even up my stitching the background got smaller and smaller until eventually . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">. . . there was no background only stitching! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I hope my swap partner will like it, I loved doing this and I've decided I'm going to offer a version of this design as a class in the workshop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">here is my attempt at being more minimal with the design, it is a very small area so it is hard not to get carried away, maybe I will make a larger piece for a class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I actually really love this but as you can see minimal is not really for me but I love the busyness of this design.</span></div>
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x vInTaGe VioLeT xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413071196735582651noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403085143545389263.post-26473421912157043142017-03-27T21:52:00.004+01:002017-03-27T21:52:50.809+01:00Embroidery workshop with Heather Everitt<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This Saturday was the long awaited workshop with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heathemb/?fref=ts">Heather Everitt</a>, this workshop sold out within 48 hours of it's release on the Facebook page! Sometimes I really wish my workshop was a tiny bit bigger {who am I kidding I'd like it twice the size} so that I could accommodate everyone who wanted to come to my classes but never fear Heather has agreed to come along very soon to teach another lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a lovely relaxed lesson, with a really lovely group of ladies who had all come along to different classes before including our youngest student who was only twelve years young, she was an absolute star and actually finished first and what an amazing job she did too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the workshop we learned how to use Bondaweb to apply silk fabrics to the denim base and then we embroidered on top of the applique, such an effective technique. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here he is at the end of my session, what with tea making and cake serving duties, serving customers and a visit from my friend Barb who brought some samples in for a brand new workshop coming soon the poor little chap is barely feathered!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I'm so pleased with how he has turned out and I'm really looking forward to our next workshop with Heather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So the day of our first slow stitching workshop finally arrived, I was nervous and excited at the same time. I plan and arrange workshops several months in advance so there have been weeks of anticipation for this class. I prepped the goody bags nearly two months ago and they've been in the workshop waiting area that whole time all sewn up so I couldn't faff about changing my mind about the contents!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Last year a lovely and very talented friend came and taught some dressmaking lessons in the shop. Anna previously worked in costume design in television and film, she now designs and makes beautiful wedding dresses from home. I asked if she would be interested in teaching some hand sewing classes, partly due to studio buddy Tracey wanting to try her hand at quilting and me wanting to get back into embroidery, happily she said yes, so we have devised a series of hand stitching classes, slow stitching, English paper piecing and we will also be doing a make do and mend class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I really enjoyed this workshop it was a lovely gathering of ladies and a really relaxing class. It was also really nice to continue the project the next day, i think i will be picking up this project and adding to it for weeks to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have been having a lot of fun in the workshop lately making little beds, there is something very satisfying for me, making things with no real function, and these definitely fit that category! After a lot of trial and error and fiddling about I came up with this little willow twig bed, I made a little quilt for it {used as a mattress} and it has a handkerchief sheet, a wooly blanket made from a lambswool tartan scarf and a doily bedspread, I have made some other layers of bedding too not pictured, there is a crochet granny square blanket from my massive stash of unfinished crochet projects and a blanket made of . . . well a blanket!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next bed I made was a lot smaller and even cuter with even less functionality, it is too small to even fit my smallest of dolls! I love it though, so sweet, it even has a tiny ladder so whoever sleeps there can scale it's heights. I have supplies to make some little mattresses for the bigger bed, some wool and vintage French ticking arrived in the post last week, no time to make them yet though due to meetings about workshops and big plans for the very near future, more about that next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I started off by making little charm bottles containing crystals and herbs that I gathered together - the jars are for lots of different things - luck, love or protection for example. These little charms can be worn as a necklace, kept under your pillow, carried in a pocket and of course opened up and the contents held in your hand. I have always loved crystals and also tiny bottles and jars so making these little charms was a lot of fun for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Having had so much fun making the charm jars and doing a lot of research into the crystals and herbs I became very interested in Wiccan practices and read about modern witchcraft, of course when we think about witchcraft we think of ugly old crones in pointy black hats but in truth Wicca is about living in peace and harmony with the natural world drawing good things from the Earth and all it's wonders, it is not about casting hexes and making mischief but about healing and helping yourself and others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I made some little tins full of whimsical witchery, they contain a number of ingredients relating to a subject, this little tin is all about LOVE, there are crystals for love and herbs for love, there is also jar of salt which is widely used in witchcraft to cleanse an area before you cast spells amongst other things, also there are candles to burn whilst focusing on the love you are looking for be that self love, to attract love to you or perhaps to maintain and encourage the love of your partner. Also included are some little bags to use in making charms, you can carry charms in your pocket or place them under your pillow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My best sellers in this range are my willow pentagrams, I make these five point stars and decorate each crossing point with crystals and botanicals that offer protection, these are pretty stars to hang in the house and also have a sprinkle of glitter just for fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have been busy chop, chop, chopping various fabrics in the shop for the last couple of weeks, so much so that I think I have got RSI from the rotary cutter! The massive textile stash is reducing though and that is a good thing, I have been feeling really weighed down by my possessions lately, like i'm drowning in my accumulated collections, so I have decided to take positive action, really I am never going to use all this stuff so it's time to share with my customers :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I started off with these mini blanket bundles, they contain six 6" squares of vintage wool blanket in beautiful soft colours, quite a few of these bundles went out in last weeks post and safely arrived at their new homes to join other peoples stashes :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I must say I have loved making up these bundles and they look so pretty, my blanket stash is really dwindling now and vintage wool blankets get harder and harder to find and more and more expensive to buy these days, so i'm not sure how long I will be able to offer these bundles so get 'em while they're hot! Here's the link to my Etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/VINTAGEhaberdashery?ref=hdr_shop_menu">VINTAGEhaberdashery</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After the success of the crochet lessons, I put a call out for craft teachers, looking for people who would be interested in teaching classes in my workshop and luckily for me a very lovely lady called Tracey Benton got in touch - Tracey is a needlefelting wizard and makes the most gorgeous little creatures, have a look at her Facebook page</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The first class Tracey taught was in March 2016 and not long after she took a unit in the Market Hall but after finding that it didn't quite suit her needs, I offered for her to come and share my unit. For someone who doesn't normally play nicely with others I think this has worked out very well for us with her having her own little workshop upstairs and use of my workshop downstairs when i'm not there. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Tracey has been a very good influence on me, she is a proper business lady and has a mind bursting with plans and schemes, it is quite infectious and I have been very busy scheming alongside her with new business ventures and plans for the business. She also has a very naughty sense of humour which makes her classes great fun and sharing my workshop full of fun and laughs. I'm looking forward to lots more classes with Tracey this year, more needlefelting of course but also some brand new crafts to The Magpie's Nest including wet felting and beginners knitting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I started off with drop-in crafty sessions for kids and it worked out great with one shop for the retail stock and the other {joining} unit as a workshop. I had been offering kids drop-in workshops in my previous two shops but this was so much better!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Of course I have a selection of lovely little guinea pigs to try out my ideas on, which is a brilliant way to assess whether my ideas can actually be achieved by my target audience and how long the projects will take. I soon realized that I had the most perfect space for workshops and of course I could keep an eye on the shop too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">In September 2015 we introduced crochet lessons with Robin Bray who I had met years previously online. We ran quite a few one off workshops and courses of lessons for about four months and Robin was a fantastic teacher and we added lots of new crocheters to the North Devon area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">It has been a long time since I last blogged but I have decided it is time I started again. My life has been busy and much changed over the nearly five years since I have had my shop "The Magpie's Nest". I am now on my third unit in Bideford Pannier Market, which have got progressively bigger each time and to be honest I have nearly outgrown this unit too! </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">When taking on my first shop my business plan was always to run craft workshops but I found that very soon I had used all the space up myself and there was no room for students! A little over a year ago, having moved into a double unit the workshops became a realistic possibility at last. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The needlefelting classes with Tracey of Benton's Menagerie have been a roaring success, we have made birds, hares, foxes, badgers, sheep, robins and snowmen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have been sharing my creative space with Tracey for several months now, she has a snug little nest upstairs in the shop, surrounded by bundles of wool and small wooly creatures are born there alarmingly regularly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Tracey is a lady of great creativity she is also full of grown up business advice and ideas burst out of her brains on a daily basis, she also keeps me supplied with tea and gossip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I am going try and blog regularly from now on so keep an eye out for more news from The Magpie's Nest, thank-you for reading :)</span>x vInTaGe VioLeT xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413071196735582651noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403085143545389263.post-82693765647232236122014-10-19T15:45:00.000+01:002014-10-19T15:45:49.677+01:00it's pumpkin time again . . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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i have been busy making pumpkins in the shop for the last couple of weeks</div>
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Making boy friendly dolls seemed daunting, until i thought of a peg leg pirate :)</div>
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giant Dorset Button!</div>
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my new obsession: </div>
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making large Dorset buttons with rags</div>
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after my first failed attempt </div>
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i read the tutorial properly and succeeded </div>
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i really like them :)</div>
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i wanted to make one since i first saw one on Dottie Angel's blog</div>
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it is such a happy sunshiney piece.</div>
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i'm now scouring the charity shops for more ratty old lampshades to recycle!</div>
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i actually sewed in a zip!!!</div>
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it even open and closes!!!</div>
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I made myself a little pouch/purse/bag thingy :)</div>
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so it's a bit rough and ready but i'm very pleased with myself!</div>
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deer pom-pom wreath</div>
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revamped vintage baubles</div>
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recycled linens/doileys to new tote bags :)</div>
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there are more photo's and info on my shop's facebook page </div>
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Merry Christmas everyone </div>
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So here is my first attempt at a fascinator!</div>
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I was approached by a Mum from school about making her a hat for a fancy dress party, she sent me a photo of a crazy sea themed fascinator and asked if i could make something similar for her. Admitting i was rather nervous to take it on having never done anything like it before we emailed a few times and met up to discuss it further. </div>
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I decided that yes i could do it and got my teeth thoroughly into the project!</div>
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here is the start</div>
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i used loads of beads and shells all stitched on individually</div>
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wearing my first ever fascinator!</div>
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Louise added some fish to the veil.</div>
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I think it definitely fitted the theme</div>
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I loved making this fascinator, so i bought a bunch of millinery supplies and already have my next order from my daughter, who is by the way 18 years old on Wednesday, now how the hell did that happen?!</div>
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watching movies with my boy :)</div>
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I love going to have a look at the re-cycled sculptures at Teignmouth</div>
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finally decided on a name!</div>
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perfect description of my mind!</div>
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I'm in my new shop and it's changing by the day!</div>
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I'm like a little kid playing at shops - i'm so pleased to finally have my own space - i can leave my stuff all over the place - buy new stock and have an excuse - and best of all play with buttons for several hours a day!!!</div>
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Since i took these photo's "the man" very kindly bought me a gert big worktable so i'm just waiting for my sewing machine to come back from the menders and i'll be ready to "make"!!!</div>
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Come and visit me :)</div>
<br />x vInTaGe VioLeT xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413071196735582651noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403085143545389263.post-42089543312020906012012-06-11T14:14:00.001+01:002012-06-11T14:14:29.156+01:00first steps in world domination!Hello sorry i've been so quiet lately but i have been planning my first steps in world domination!<br />
I have applied and been accepted to take on a shop unit in my local market - i'm really excited and just cannot wait to get started! I take over the unit in early July so am now trying to source suitable furniture and fittings to make my shop pretty :)<br />
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Here is a link to the markets facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.236319186464834.51139.223967987699954&type=3#!/Bidefordpanniermarket">Bideford Pannier Market</a> please go and have a look and maybe like the page if you do. There are lots of brilliant small businesses in the Market building, potters and woodcarvers, a stained glass workshop, a sweet shop, a mini art gallery and lots of shops and stalls selling "lovely things" :)<br />
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Here is a photo of the market during the Jubilee celebrations, it was really lovely up there and there were lots of childrens craft workshops there, me and my son went to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Golden-Bear-Belts/103660349733472?ref=ts">Golden-Bear-Belts</a> amazing studio and made leather crown shaped pendants. If you have ever seen French and Saunders sketch of middle class mummys trying to do crafting with their children you will understand why Louise the owner suggested i make my own ;)<br />
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My unit is in the main market hall and is quite a little shop - i wonder how much stuff i can squeeeeeze in to it?!<br />
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I will be opening in early July and will be keeping you updated with developments {probably boring the pants off you} i'm sooooo excited!!!!x vInTaGe VioLeT xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413071196735582651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403085143545389263.post-47737018346788217012012-04-24T23:47:00.002+01:002012-04-25T00:02:05.448+01:00Crafter...oo Magazine - issue 3 - OUT NOW!!!<div align="center"><a href="http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc327/pennydogaccessories/blogbuttoniss3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 200px; height: 327px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" border="0" alt="" src="http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc327/pennydogaccessories/blogbuttoniss3.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center">follow the link below to find out how to buy</div><div align="center">ISSUE 3</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.crafteroo.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,8757.0.html">http://www.crafteroo.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,8757.0.html</a><br /><div align="center">there are 18 great projects in issue 3</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">plus lots of great features</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">also a recipe for </div><div align="center">"tangerine sweet rolls"</div><div align="center">which look delicious</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div></div>x vInTaGe VioLeT xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16413071196735582651noreply@blogger.com0