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    Quote Originally Posted by sam View Post
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    Graham, please can we have our Christmas smilies?
    Meeee tooooo, all but 12 have gone down to the fluffit/woofit shop. Need to take more as they sold out within days. At the moment I am recycling some of last years cards. Not everybody on my C******** card list is going to get hand made ones though. It isn't that I am fussed about them not being appreciated, I just object to receiving a card from them that has come in a pack that obviously cost pennies for a pack of 50. They certainly haven't come from Poundland, they may be cheap, but they are decent quality card, unlike those flimsy things I have received from certain people in my family over the last few years.

    At least I know Barry down at the shop appreciates not only the cards, but all the other goodies I make. Stitching coin purses at the moment, two down, two to go.

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    I've made about a 100 to sell at the church sale next Saturday. Just got to get them packaged in cello bags.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chalet School Fan View Post
    I've made about a 100 to sell at the church sale next Saturday. Just got to get them packaged in cello bags.
    Ah yes, the cello bags. I think I have spent more time trying to flick off the bit you pull off to stick the bags down than I have making the cards! It is full of static and sticks to your hand.
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    Good luck....I hope your sale goes ok. X
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    Yes good luck to everyone making things to sell
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    At the moment I am lying on the floor of my office with the door which opens onto the car park wide open. Y10 girls are sleeping rough around the school grounds to raise money for the homeless charity Crisis and I get sponsored as well. I think I'd rather make cards in the warm to raise money, but at least I only have to sleep out one night a year, not every night!
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    My daughter packed all of mine in the cello bags. I hate that job.
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    Small tip with the cello bags - lay out a strip of tape (I use wide packing tape, but any will do), sticky side up - then touch the strips to that as you remove them. When the piece of tape is full, just roll it up and put in the bin, with bits all nicely tamed.

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    I've made 6 but they've only been made because I'm on a design team and some of the themes have been Christmas related. Usually I make mine about a week before the last posting date and I get very stressed because I've left it so late and it becomes a chore. I also don't get to use all the beautiful Christmas stash I've acquired over the years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pyjama princess View Post
    Usually I make mine about a week before the last posting date and I get very stressed because I've left it so late and it becomes a chore. I also don't get to use all the beautiful Christmas stash I've acquired over the years.
    This sounds like me. Although a week before the last posting date is pretty good going. I usually spend so much time faffing around trying to decide what design to go with and which tools and materials to use that I don't have any time left to actually make them. Must try that "get a few things out and limit yourself to using only those things" technique.

    There is a remote possibility, but only remote, that I will make a start on Sunday.
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