Barbara Gray Blog

Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Thought I would just wish you a great May Day Weekend and give you the heads up on a couple of importants things: firstly, our Rosie – aka Rossella – is on TV tomorrow. HOCHANDA SKY 663 (24/7)   FREEVIEW 85 (24/7)   FREESAT 817 (24/7) 7am 11am and 3pm. 7am ! Poor woman!  That means she has to be there at stupid o’clock to get ready. Pergamano Essentials at dawn! Then Groovi Essentials at eleven, and finally, Claritystamping Essentials…

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Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Talk about hit the ground running! It’s certainly been a whirlwind year thus far! Sometimes I feel I have lost myself a little in the business of Clarity, the day to day holding on to the reins of the company and steering it in the right direction.  So today, I thought I would take it right back to basics. Keep it simple. Make a card using old techniques which I used for many years,…

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Hi there, Thanks for joining me today. I often get asked how I come up with something to write about every day. Not hard; I pretend I’m talking to a friend, which isn’t hard! And I’m a right chatterbox when I get going! I am mindful of what I say, because I hate to offend anybody.  But that’s how I try to handle life.  On the way to work this morning, alone in my car, I was wrapped up in…

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Hi there! Thanks for joining me today. It’s late I know. Long catch up day at the office, and then when I came up here to chat to you,  what should I find, but some pots of Inka Gold to play with… Old Gold Haematite These two spoke to me, Old Gold and Haematite together. Now I know you can rub this lovely metallic wax on all sorts of surfaces, from wood to canvas, from card to glass. I know…

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Hi there. Thanks for popping in. All back safe and sound. Packed planes, wedged between big guys on both the flight from Albuquerque to Dallas, and then Dallas to Heathrow, (which would sound quite appealing in any other setting except American Airlines Economy!) Good to be home, I can tell you! We had a little fiasco at Albuquerque Airport. Never had an issue there before, they’ve always been pretty friendly there, but the guys we dealt with this time had…

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Hiya! Thanks for popping in. Suitcase packed, left Nancy at the house as we waved bye bye until the next time. Sitting outside the coffee shop blogging to you  before we head to the airport. Just wanted to tell you about yesterday. It was quite amazing. The three of us headed up to Acoma, Sky City. The natural rock formations leading up to the pueblo are out of this world. No small wonder they chose this place to settle. We…

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Howdy! Thanks for joining me again on our trails through New Mexico. Picture the scene right now. She sets the alarm for 6am, wraps up warm, because it is chilly here at the crack of sparrows, and sets off to the coffee shop to blog, having been told it is always open at 6am. Is it? Is it heckaslike! So she parks up outside near where she know the modem inside to be, and tries her luck. Bingo. We have…

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Howdi. Greetings from Mountainair, New Mexico. Steve and I have already taken a tour of the pueblo ruins El Quarai, and I shall be stepping it up again there with my dear friend Nancy (she who built her tyre home, remember?) later this afternoon. It is just the most beautiful circuit, and while I’m fulfilling my pledge of 10,000 steps every day for the love of Jayne Nestorenko, why not do it in a place of outstanding natural beauty? I…

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Hi there! Greetings from America! The weather’s here, wish you were lovely! Only kidding…. Remember the postcards quips when you were a kid? I’m a monkey for buying postcards, even writing them,  then forgetting to post them! Mostly end up handing them to the recipient when I get back! One of you called this blog a postcard blog yesterday,  which I thought was very cool. Found a corker today at White Sands. Here’s the road runner, strutting his stuff across…

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Howdi!Thanks for popping in. What a jam packed day we have had today! This is a wall hanging in the zoo we visited which  I fell in love with : We started out with a long walk around the Living Desert Zoo. First thing I saw was a great quote on the wall: In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks, – John Muir We strolled around the park in the hot desert sunshine. Saw so much,…

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