Welcome, Jac-Ber aka Gill!

"Happy Birthday to you ... May all your wishes come true :) Amy www.zibbet.com/Amyjoscreations Handcrafted for Style"

"We've been advised to keep away from the sea and off the beaches. Otherwise all is well"

"This hurts my heart I can hardly comprehend it!   The waves got to NZ this morning - we've been told not to go to the beach today.  "

"Yay Barbra!   A great opportunity to get rid of anything you made with love and might have fallen out with becasue it's been hanging around too long (I have some berets like that to send along)  Remember it's coming up winter…"

"Hiya. It was in New Zealand in the South Island. Looks pretty awful on the news just like the pictures we see from overseas! The TV has constant news about it at the moment, people are dead and others trapped in buildings.  They've been…"

"Hope the southerners are all ok, looks pretty bad down there"

"Sandra, that's very cool - thanks :-)"

"I usually spend time two or three times a week having a look to see what everyone is writing about.  I follow loads of blogs, some people only update them weekly. I tend to comment if I have something I want to say, this seems to increase…"

"Cool shop Elinor :-) I had a visit to see if I could adda NZ flag to your shop, someone had beaten me to it! :-)"

"As well as the blog, I also occassionally facebook and tweet I try to make sure that I comment on other peoples blogs that I follow, and try to chat in the forums I have my links in the signature of my personal e-mail address I pay a couple of…"

"It's so beautiful! What amazing pictures and stories. I'd like to be in that cool/cold for an hour or two just to get away from the humidity that's here for a little while :-) Hope you're all keeping nice and warm - great for…"

"Oh hello up there.  I'm in New Zealand and have bought and sold to the US I'm pretending to be upset that Judy didn't have me on her list :-)"

"Since seeing what you guys have bought I've been shopping again and ordered a keychain from Dusty Newt. And it also reminded me to get business cards for my other shop from Judy at Portable Graffiti"

"Apart from some wonderful business cards from you Judy? :-) Also these lovely ear sweeps, I got one in silver as well from Jade Dragonfly "

"It was a great article! It's so good to know the background and history of why we do things I had a read yesterday and left a comment"