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As sad day in the basin. Europe and Dragonfly were towed away by BW to be sold/broken up. Joe's time was finally up and it is the end of Second City Cruises.

It has been such a lovely day and the Last of the Summer Wine group were out in force, drinking and chatting on the pontoon (and watching a young couple on a bench by the lock. I hope her father doesn't know what she gets up to!

Andy Denny on Granny Buttons gave me a lovely "puff" on his blog on Sunday (even though I messed up the links on my blog and directed everyone to the wrong place). Since then I've had loads and loads of visitors. So welcome. Hope you like my blog and please leave a comment. I'd love to hear from you all. ... and thanks again Andy.

A birthday card for Pete (on the right) from Alan (on the Left). The picture was taken a couple of years ago while they were decorating Dragonfly for the Boat Light Parade. To make the card, I first stamped the flowers and butterflies in grey ink and then on top with black ink so that it looks blurred (no I really wanted it to look blurred!) I made a faux ribbon with red card which I cut with scalloped scissors and blue card. I added dots and dashes to the card. I then matted the phot0 onto blue, silver and red card and made the sentiment on the computer and matted that on blue, silver and red card.

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I have opened a new shop on the Web. It is at artymiss.co.uk/barter and you can reach it here. It is just like Ebay but for papercrafts. My cards can be purchased from there using PayPal. Please take a look - any comments (good or bad) will be welcomed.




This Caraboat arrived yesterday. It is the first one I have seen for real. Andrew Denny on Granny Buttons often mentions them.

It is quite cute, but I am not sure if it isn't a bit of a pig in a poke and neither a boat or a car and looked even tinier than the little Otters.

This is the new baby card I made for a boy. I used another hair band only this time a white one and just added a sentiment at the bottom.

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The wall that holds up the gate and keeps the "yobs" out at night was hit by a boat today. I didn't see it, but it must have been going pretty fast - or it is a rubbish wall.














I suddenly noticed I didn't have any new baby cards - so here is a new one. Pink ribbon down the right hand side. A silver mat behind a pink bear and pink marabou feather (it was originally a hair band). I then added a tag with a pink organdy ribbon.

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On Thursday BW turned up to remove the large skip which had been sunk in the basin by a couple of drunks about 2 years ago! Two drunks to push it in and 5 men and 2 boats to remove it.

The gentleman seemed a bit surplus while I decoupaging it - so rather than waste something (or safe money - skinflint!) it just stuck him to a green card with sticky fixers.

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Damn!! I managed to miss the skinny dipping early Sunday morning. David said that he was quite a large lad. Damn! Damn!

I caught the end of the Veterans' Parade on Sunday and managed to catch this. I thought it was only the French Army that set out to make their soldiers look silly. Here they have put the tallest and the smallest next to each other. The poor girl was almost running and taking extra long steps to keep up, but still couldn't keep in step.

Alan bit off everyone's head while he was here last week and he asked me to make a card to say sorry. They are his words.

I got some clip art and printed it onto shiny brown paper, stuck it to cardboard and cut it out before adding it to the card with sticky fixers.

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Birmingham's answer to the "Last of the Summer Wine". Who knows what they were trying to achieve.

We had lots of excitement yesterday. Around 0930 we got a call from Lyons Boatyard to say that they had had a boat stolen. Ian gave David the details and as he was letting everyone on the pontoon know the boat actually came up through the lock. David asked them to stop and phone the boatyard, which they did, but then they set off again. The next thing there are policemen and a police helicopter above chasing the boat down the Main Line. The people on board were apprehended and we await further developments!!

I made this card using backing paper, fancy edged scissors, a peel-off and two photo corners I cut from my CraftRobo. Nice and simple.

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I think this one got left behind after the jollies of Saturday night/Sunday Morning and this picture was taken at 10am!

This morning we had another casualty in the lock - several Asian boys this time. One didn't make it across and hurt his feet.


Lovely weather, David has finished painting the boat for a bit. Tom turned Galley Boy" around and polished the other side.


Alan is visiting from Hockley Port and Marston has gone off to Alvechurch.




Another card for the boys. A decoupage again. I just stuck her down onto a buff coloured card and then added lots of cut out spanners and nuts around the bottom.