Happy New Year

managed to find a minute between festivities to say Happy 2010.I hope your festive season is going well, we are almost through the mince pies, christmas cake and pringles- thank goodness! looking forward to getting back onto my diet and eating things that are a bit more healthy!.

Today we solved the mystery of connecting to x-box live, we have spent hours on the help line, followed the troubleshooting on the interweb, changed one wireless gismo as we thought it could be faulty and eventually after a visit from son's friend and the aid of a 25ft long cable we connected manually and then when the wire came out and the wireless gismo was plugged in it knew who we were and now eldest sons gaming life is complete and i can finally relax after wanting to throw it all through the window!.

Other festive happenings were a trip to the ikea sale - oh what joys, I bet those guys in the home delivery section have a few good laughs everyday watching poor souls trying to load too many purchases into a car- us included, we bought far too much so I enquired on delivery -( very expensive so DH decided he would squash it in - (that is a bed, matress, 3 shoe cupboards, a wardrobe, three tables, one stool, a desk and about a million christmas decorations!) after an hour I calmly went back in and paid the delivery charges! - it was not going into the car as we couldn't remember how to remove the dog rack- but how did the people next to us get a double wardrobe in a Daewoo Matiz! - still it wouldn't be a trip to Ikea without a good row!.

Looking forward now to getting back to the shop for a rest!!!!.

Happy Christmas & New Year

Just in case I don't get here before the big day - Happy Christmas & New Year from Polka Dot Crafts - thankyou to everyone who pops by the blog to catch up with what is happening and those of you who visit our shop your support is very much appreciated.

I hope santa brings everything on your list! and if he doesn't , do pop by on the 2nd of Jan and treat yourself as we have a BOGOF! - yes we do -buy one item from the sale wall and get a second item free (to the same value or lower). See you in 2010.

Getting Closer

to the big day, school finished today so no more early mornings for some. We have had more stocks of Staz on, Momento ink (perfect for use with copics), thin double sided tape, along with a few other things. The american delivery I think will be in after christmas now, at least a dull January day will be cheered by a box of goodies!. We have been busy making up Christmas goody boxes for gifts, remember that Monday the 21st will be our last shopping day until Jan 2nd if you want to purchase one, we can make up any value box to suit your budget and tailor it perfectly to your requirements.

Less than

two weeks to go until the big day, although the shop has a tree and festive things up the house is yet to be decorated- the decorations have now made it out of the loft onto the landing and that is where they have stayed- a job for this weekend I think!.

I have been preparing some things for christmas as it is our crop on Sunday I've been busy putting together festive treats for everyone, we have crackers, mince pies and other goodies to eat, a little gift for everyone and I have a game of pass the parcel ready to play!, it was going to a raffle but I thought party games played to carol's would be more fun!.The new class details are now on the side -booking is essential as places are limited, please let us know if you are coming as we would hate to have to turn anyone away on the day.
We have more new stock on it's way hopefully it is making it's way from the USA in time for the new year.

Christmas

before I forget as my head is becoming more sieve like day by day, our last day for shopping is Dec 21st and we will re-open on Jan 2nd 2010!. Remember we have lots of kits ready to go for christmas presents or maybe as a festive treat to yourself, we have gift vouchers for those who want to let peeps choose for themselves and we can also put together crafting boxes filled with goodies around a colour theme to suit any budget. The next class list is at the printers - so if you have requested a leaflet they will be posted out as soon as I get them, places will be limited so you will need to book early.

another box

of goodies awaited me this morning - it was like opening a rainbow - Prima Painterly Petals, sheets of Jenni Bowlin mini cardstock stickers ( these look great with the prima bloomin' retro ), lots of alphabet stickers from Basic Grey, new craft mats , lot's of little charms for your cards & more - we have also put out a bargain bin full of bits & pieces - well worth a rummage as everything is just 50p. We are having loads of techncal issues with the website which is ready to go but we have issues with access until we know everything is perfect it will have stay hidden - the wonders of technologhy eh?!, it is very frustrating.