Sunday September 9th.
Well here we are, mid September already - what a horrible thought. This year seems to be going by so awfully fast!!!
Now.. what to write about. Goodness only knows, because frankly, I haven't been doing anything that's worth writing about. Except for a curious incident yesterday evening.
I had a telephone call from one of those absurd machines that dials you up, and tells you you've won something. Well I was a bit bored at the time, so I called it back - to be honest I'm a bit of a sucker for those 'you have won' type lines. I know I shouldn't be - I really do know that, I know no one ever wins on these things, but I have that sort of everlasting hope about them. I'd love to be the unexpected recipient of a large cheque. Well who wouldn't?
So as I said, I phoned the thing. I put in the neverending series of numbers , press this button for that etc - that's how they make their money of course, by keeping you hanging on to a premium charge telephone number. But in a way I sort of feel that's what makes me believe in them - at some point, they have to hand something over to someone, in order to be within the law. Anyway having pressed all these buttons, the machine finally told me I'd won a holiday - I was pretty much expecting this, I never 'win' anything that I'm really interested in. Only this time, of course, it is. Promising me something interesting that is, it's telling me I've won a holiday in Venice.
Venice. One of the places I've always wanted to go to! So against my better judgement I'm investigating this a bit further. I'll write off and send them the 'standard sized envelope' (they very cleverly don't tell me what a standard sized envelope actually is, so if nothing turns up, well that's their get out clause right there) and they promise they'll send me the details. It's bound to be that I have to take it probably before the end of April 08, because I haven't enough annual leave to take a week off before then, or there'll be some other catch with this. There has to be because people like me don't win things like a free holiday in Venice. I mean just imagine wandering around St Marks, or the Doge's Palace - and more than that, simply the back streets. All those opportunities to take photo's of fabulous architecture - I'm not quite so sure about the gondolas. I'm not really built for a gondola!
Anyhow, I'll keep you posted as to what happens next. What the eventual get out clause they have that will prevent me from seizing this by the teeth and pocketing it!
Anyhow, on top of all this, I've been busy working away. Lots of extra hours here and there, extra shifts when I can fit them in to my rota - which isn't often. I have to make do with a few hours here and there. But I've been doing my own work too - I had some simply lovely extra big bookmarks arrive from my supplier in Australia. Great big squiggle shaped one's, six inches long!
This one's a standard sized silver tone metal bookmark, with a wonderful bronze flower charm hanging off it, with two fabulous leaf charms - also bronze tone, and with wonderful veining. I got them from Etsy a while back, part of a whole pack of leaf charms I got. Excellent for bookmarks!
This is a fantastic necklace that I'm aiming to put onto Ebay in the run up to Xmas - its made from fantastic handcrafted beads from one of my favourite Etsy sellers, Chickadee Beads. These are just fabulous mottled purple blue glass beads, hung on silver plate chain with a dangle of small Swarovski Crystal bicones.
