Remember the other day that I as moaning that my hand-painted goblet that I painted myself was not going to sell on ebay....well it did....for the princely sum of 99p!!! But its not the cost....it was the feed back left by the lady who bought the godlet...

...and I quote!!!

******** exquisite handcarafted goblet. Well packed. speedy arrival. Thanks A+++*******

I sent her a special message thanking her for such a delightful comment!!

Its realy nice to know that there are people out there who apprieciate, rustic hand-painted glass art!!

*so happy dances around the living room*

I have a Masonic tea light holder listed but I dont honestly thing this will sell..........

We shall see...

love Vix

My ecclectic tastes in all kinds of music almost confuses me!!!

As a child my first love (if a 4 year old can fall in love, apart from Jon Pertwee!) was the aewsome Marc Bolan from T rex!!!(I have a thing for guys with curly hair and still have) I adored him!! his music, costumes and make up, and a true showman, which is rare to find...On holiday in Weston Super Mare in about 1972, I was sat with mum and dad in the hotel lounge, which had a juke box and on came T Rex playing "Metal Guru!"....well I jumped up and started dancing around the lounge in the style of Marc (much to my mum and dads embarracement I think) and I did not sit down untill the record ended, only to recieve a round of applause from the other hotel residents!!!!!!! About an hour later, the hotel manager came to our table and thanked me for entertaining his guests, and presented me with a Sindy Bathroom set!! (wish I still had it as the thing would be worth a fortune now on ebay!) and I was only 4 and a half...when he tradgically died I cried my eyes out but Mum told me that God liked Marc's music too and wanted him to play with the Angles!!
This consoled me a lot!!
Crikey I have just realised that I am realy showing my age here!!! *hides*
As a grew I became a real "trainee Rock Chick" and adored bands like Ranbow, Deep Purple, Saxon, Metallica, Whitesnake and countless others!! But my favorite by far was Rainbow!! Here is a clip of the awesome Ronnie James Dio (in my view Rainbows finest vocalist)....I even once named a Budgie "Dio" in his honour!!



Stargazer is my favorite Rainbow track, and I feel that some of the lyrics have Masonic undertones...its almost about building a Temple!!
Hope you enjoy!!

In other news my ebay sales have gone into the "Twilight zone!" This economic downturn is effecting ebay so badly hardly anyone is bidding on anything....In fact I have a Troika tall vase worth about £300 due to finish today, and I will be lucky to get £110 for it!!!!!!!!!!! I have no choice though, because of the Vienna trip!! I would love to see an opera while I am there (pref Mozart) and I will be gutted it I can't afford it!
I have taken up glass painting again in an effort to sell some on ebay (NOT) and my garage looks like a bomb site as I routing around for things to sell....I feel I am in Steptoe & Son mode at the moment!!! LOL!!!

SEE YOU SOON LOVELY PEOPLE! x x

Normally my days are spent quite peacefully: Checking my ebay sales, working on my stained glass, and walking Sirius! as well as the nornal house keeping duties....but just recently, about a month ago things have got rather hecktic here!!!
I am talking about brain work, rather than physical work, although there is a lot of that involved too. I am trying my very hardest to learn my Masonic Obligation off by heart before my next Lodge, and its a long piece of text, with many pieces in old styled English which makes it quite difficult to understand. Needless to say its going slowly, and I have only learned by heart about half of it so far...Also I can only do this when I am alone as I repeate it out loud, and no non Mason is allowed to hear it!!...I have even been learning it in the bath, whispered to myself, its like I am obsessed!!! LOL!!! Secondly I have to make money for my trip to Vienna (which is very difficult with the economy at the moment) and although I have made a little, its not nearly enough, as to what I need!! My Ebay sales are slower than a snail on acid!! and even if I do sell somthing, there is lots of last minuite bidding going on...At the moment I have listed a stained glass goblet that I paineted myself!!
its here!!!





Which took me about 4 days of hard work and the glass paints cost a fortune............and I have ONE WATCHER!!! is no one interested in hand painted art anymore??? or is my work just crap and I am kidding myself???? If it goes to the last day I may well remove it from the listing because I realy dont want to let it go for less than £15, becuase of all the hard work that I put into this 22cms high Goblet!!!
In other things I have had to part with some Troika which was heart breaking, and one of the vases I sold had a complaint about a hairline crack I had not noticed!!! So needless to say I have now had to get a new pair of glasses too!!!! (should have gone to speck savers) costing over £220!!! Also the power pack on my lappy packed up and that meant another £50 layout, which I cannot aford but is nessisairy!!!...oh and I have ran out of tea candles!!! tut tut!!!!
Well today I have to hand wash some delicate clothing that I need for certain upcoming events, then get on the pole for half an hour, and walk Sirius AND drum into my brain the next section of my Obligation...its all go here at ther moment, chaps and chapesses!!

love vix x

No...this isent going to be some sad attempt at one my my silly sci-fi stories but this is the only way that I can describe what happened to me today!!

Firstly let me explain about my chill room...its not a cold room or anything, its just a place with a comfy Futon to "chill" and read a book or somthing as its nice and quiet. This room was actually my old office when I was a homeworking travel advisor, but I got sick and tired of answering my phone just to hear someone say "which part of India are you from?" This is the culture of call-centres!! At the time I was working for Teletext Holidays and most clients were convinced I was a call centre in India...now I can be a patient person but one day I got so annoyed I yelled down the phone "Do I bloody well sound Indian!!!!!!!" and slammed the phone down!! Needless to say I dident work for them for very long. Anyway with all my office equipment removed by the teletext people after I threw in the towel, my old office "regenerated" into my chill room, infact a 4th bedroom with futon to chill out and relax. Recently, however, I have been very busy and my chill room has degenerated into my laundry room which also includes my sewing machine and various craft project. Several days ago I knoticed a horrible smell in there and could not for the life of me figure out what it was. My laundry doesnt smell that bad, because I bath everynight! Well today I decided to give it a bit of a tidy up and was absolutly horrified when I moved a table from near a radiator under the window, only to find massive fronds (like alien fingers) growing about 8 inches high, buried in my carpet!!!!!!!!!!!
I actually jumped back with shock, as part of my brain was saying "fungas" and the other half was saying "alien hands growing out of my carpet!!!!! Holding my nose because of the smell, and calming my nerves I had a closer inspection and it turned out to be caused by a nasty leaking radiator!!....warm water was seeping from the radiator and onto my thick piled carpet and the fungas bugs must have thought "hay!!!! Party time!!!" and grew like wild fire into these weird and very spooky shapes. So not only do I have a leaking radiator, but I had to scrape up the horrid stuff with a knife onto a sheet of cardboard!
Later I phoned Derek and asked him to pop into Tesco for my white port and a huge bottle of disinfectant!!
"what do you want the disenfectant for?" he asked, stupidly
"Well I realy fancy a drop of disenfectant with my port tonight!!!" I replied in my most sarcastic voice!
I was quite annoyed at the time as I had to walk Sirius, make a spag bol for dinner, sort my washing, learn my obligation lines...while ballancing a tea tray on my head and singing "Do wah diddy!" (last bit just sarcastic realy)
Anyway we now have to get someone in to fix or replace the leaky radiator (more expence!!!) or I could end up with my very own muchroom farm!!

Good grief!!! what a day....I am REALY looking forward to that Port tonight!

Vix x