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The winners of this week's Comment Game are:
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Really lovely card Sue, so gorgeous. It's very opulent.
Congratulations to comment game winners.
Sounds anither wet and windy day. Like Cheryl I too spent the day crafting yesterday,, very peaceful.
June, your husband is priceless, what a lovely gesture with the computer, now I know he will say yes to Ally Pally. The computer sounds fab.
Maria, poor you, your eyes sound really sore, please be careful with them. I know it can strike at any age as one of my teammates had it last year and she looked like she had gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson. She had to stay off work for a week it was so bad.
Helen, you bad girl, you will cause more damage if you overdo it, please be careful, you have come this far but I know it's frustrating.
Elaine, I once deadheaded a geranium that my husband had been given by an old lady, to strengthen it and he thought I had killed it, he was no gardener. Love to Andrew, fingers crossed for tomorrow.
Carmen, I hope you get to see your family soon, what a joyous occasion that will be. I miss my brother George who is in the USA very much, there is only 1 year between us and we were always taken as twins when we were children, the only two red heads in the family, mum dad and the others had dark hair.
Patricia, hope you and Hazel have a good time with Norah, give her my love and best wishes, hope she really is feeling much better, I miss her lovely stories.
Hugs to all, especially our poorly and missing friends, such a lot at the moment, hope you are all well.
Morning Sue, a gorgeous card, congratulations to the lucky winners.
Nancyd xx
Sunday smiles coming your way Sue as is the sentiment. Now this is intricate,the detail of every die is bought to life with every shade you've used today. I know exactly what you mean about photography and our work, some photos work and some just don't do the card justice, but it has to be said, every piece of work you show will be wonderful in real life even if you're not happy with the stills. Congratulations to our winners today what a lovely start to your day - enjoy x
Sending my usual hugs Sue. Have a lovely day xxx
Good morning Sue. Stunning card, a little busy for my taste but I appreciate the work which has gone into making this.
Congratulations to this week's comment winners. Hugs to all. Sue xxx
Morning Sue
This is a real wow card so opulent, Thank You.
Congratulations to all the winners.
Take care and have fun Kitty.
A lovely card - in fact, it's delightful!
Hi Sue and fellow followers,
What jumped out at me was the Swiss border. I ordered it Saturday, and seeing it just now confirmed that I really wanted it. What is the rule of thumb -- that papercrafting should amount to about one day's pay per week? Oops, might have gone a bit over.
Make sure you get some peace and beauty today.
Morning Sue and all Wilsonettes, a lovely card today, lots of swirls and coordinating colours.
Pam I am jumping on your band wagon and reiterating everything you have said. Not got a yes yet, I will tell you when I do.
I am off to a craft workshop today and so have got to get lots of things ready, catch you all tomorrow.
Stay safe, healthy and happy, hugs, June Smith xxx
Love the Swiss Borders!
Beautiful card today and loving the corner die.
Morning Sue. WOW This is a very dramatic looking card, its gorgeous. The colours are beautiful. This is very much a girlie card. Congrats to all the comment winners.
Best Wishes.
Denise T x
Very ornate, a great card Sue, happy Sunday.
Wow Sue this is amazing and so in your face. Thanks for sharing, have a great day, hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oooh this is a very frothy number today, Sue, lots going on and love the colour choices.
All well said, Pam, so echoing again.
Well done to the three comment winners.
Hope you don't mind, Sue, but making a plea for more comments to be made, saw that yesterday's only had 98 - never known to dip below 100 in all the time I've been following. There used regularly to be around the 200 and of course far more at giveaway times. Please everyone who looks in but doesn't leave a message, would hate to think that this blog would ever be put at risk and we are all aware just how much much the support means to Sue - as she has so movingly said more than once.
That said, enjoy your day and hugs to all.
'P' in Wales
'P' in Wales
This is a beautiful card Sue, but just a bit too fussy for me. My Baked with Love dies arrived this week and I have had such fun playing with different colours and styles. Thank you.
Stunning card today.
Hi Sue, lovely card, very ornate.
Barbara V
Gorgeous lacy card today! I do like the colour combination on this one.
Congratulations to the three winners! Debra x
Beautiful card, congratulations to all the winners.
Hi Sue,
a very opulent card, I really love the Swiss collection - so regal somehow (I suppose it's all them little "crowns" in the design.
Hugs, Rose
Good Morning Sue and all. A stunning card this morning in beautiful colours .. Love how you created the style with the dies. Congratulations to the winners........ Wendy
Hi Sue Beautiful card love the colours and i love the Gillian die its so intricate and easy to use. Thanks Helen x
Beautifully lacy card today, love all the layers.
Congratulations to all the winners x
Good morning Sue,
I'm loving the intricacy of the dies in today's card, they give a wonderful lacy look to the design.
Congratulations to the winners.x
Hi Sue - the colours show up the intricate dies so well. It is an amazing card and I really like the colours you have chosen but it's a bit too busy for me. The Gillian die is one of my favourites and so too the Swiss border. Thank you for your never-ending amazing ideas and the time you dedicate to this wonderful blog. Congratulations to the lucky winners today. Sending best wishes
Morning Sue,
A truly wow card today, love the colours that you have chosen. I haven't got the Gillian die as yet as I wasn't sure about it. It keeps popping up on several of your creations, so I think I will succumb to buying it. Have a wonderful day.
Congratulations to the winners xx
Dawn Searle
Morning Sue. Beautiful lacy card but a little too busy for me too. Congratulations to your lucky Sunday winners.
Best wishes to everyone. Xx
This is a striking and dramatic card, I love this combination of colours. The Gillian die is gorgeous. Thank you Sue, and I am thrilled to be. Comment winner. Have a good Sunday. Xx
Great card Sue
Denise x
Good morning Sue,
Absolutely stunning piece of art work, this is more than a card it's very opulent & intricate. Congratulations to all the lucky comment winners. Yvonne xx
Good morning Sue today's card is gorgeous I love the design and the dies are just amazing. Congratulations to all the winners. Have a great day today. Take care. Hugs Jackie
Good morning Sue, another great card, love the colour combination.
It is just a bit busy for me, take away a little something!! for me and my style it would be perfect.
Congratulations to the winners, enjoy your gifts.
I am in earlier today, I am waiting for our 2 Grandsons wakening.
It will be all go, they have requested Pancakes, Bacon and Maple Syrup for Breakfast.
Have a fantastic day everyone.
Patricia xxx
Hi Sue
A very unusual colour combination but it works well the card is beautiful.
Congratulations to the winners.
Jan x
Hello Sue and all
Wow!! Great card and doesn't Gillian set it off so well. The colours are great too!
Congratulations to the comment game winners
Muriel x
Hi Sue, Beautiful card as always . love Jean Z xxx
Love the colour combination you have used here, Sue.
Anne (Northampton)
Hi Sue a lovely card love those colours you used id never have put them togather .congrats to the winnwes .
Catherine xx
Stunning card, a real keepsake.
Congrats to the winners.
So much intricate work, gorgeous, xxx
Hi Sue,
Just love the intricate details on this one and the colour scheme you have chosen is perfect to set it all off...
Congratulations to all the Comment Game winners!...
Good morning Sue.
Such an opulent card today in unusual colours and they work together nicely.
Congratulations to this weeks winners.
Marion S x
Hi Sue
A very striking intricate looking card, congrats to Barbara, Chris & Suemac x x x
Morning Sue,
A very intricate card, love the colour combination.
Congratulations to the winners enjoy your prize.
Well done to the winners!!!!
This is a bit over the top for my taste, and
I can't see any of the men I send to liking it,
but that's just my opinion.
Doreen x
Hello Sue
Not sure about this card I like the CAS ones sorry!
Well done to the winners!
Love Marg
Hi Sue,
A very intricate, opulent card. Love the colour combo and am thinking of other dies I have that might give me the same effect as yours.
Today is the fourth anniversary of my soul's other keeper's passing. It will be a quiet reflection day of the joy, pleasure, merriment and pride that my beloved Pete bestowed upon us with his presence, a force never to be forgotten.
Squashy warm ((((((HUGS)))))) to our friends who are in pain, discomfort or suffering a loss.
Love 7 hugs
Cheryl xxx
Absolute stunner
Morning sue these dies are just beautiful what a stunning card love it!!!!!
Thank you sue love always June horrocks
Congrats to the winners xxxxxx
Happy Sunday Sue
A very lovely busy card today , reminds me of the Spirograph i got for my Children years ago.
Well done to your lucky winners.
I have a birthday today and going out to lunch with my friend as we have put the family meal on hold until Andrew has finished his treatment .
The boys and families will be visiting this morning so i have to get a move on .
I hope you all have a lovely day and i will echo our lovely Pam once more .
Big hugs to all.
Elaine H X
Happy Birthday Natty Boots!
Have a nice lunch!
Love Marg
Hi Sue
A beautiful elegant card.
Thank you for drawing my name as a winner and congrats to the other winners. I'll email you my contact details.
B xx
A really lovely card, love the colour combination and dies used.
A very regal looking card.
Congratulations to all the winners, enjoy your gift from Sue.
Fabulous card Sue xx love all the detail xx love Kim D
beautiful crd and I love the colour combination
Hi Sue
What a lovely card today, so many dies all working their magic. I love the colour combination too, I often use black with the gold and milk but the brown is much softer, I must try it sometime. Thank you for sharing.
Love Diane G xxx
Congratulations to all the lucky winners.
Cheryl sending you a big hug today xxx
Pam as always you are our star. Sending hugs xxx
Lovely card gorgeous colours angxx
Hello Sue, a lovely intricate card, great colours and combination of dies. Well done to the comment game winners. Have a great day all. Bx
Beautiful and intricate card using all those lovely dies.
Congrats to this week's winners!
Good Morning Sweet Sue, I bet that card took awhile to make all those beautiful layers I love your colour choice to. Its just stunning. hugs Shirleyxxxxx
Morning Sue a lovely very intricate card this morning. Sure the colours are stunning but my monitor is not doing them justice. Congratulations to all the lucky winners
love Hilary
Hi Sue
A beautiful but very intricate card, love the colours and you've reminded me how lovely the Gillian die is. Congratulations to Barbara, Chris and Sue on winning the comment game, enjoy your prizes
Cheryl sending you a special comforting hug today
Elaine happy birthday enjoy your lunch with your friend
Pam as usual echoing your lovely comments
Love and hugs to everyone
Morning Sue, very intricate card today, just a little busy for me personally, loving the colour combination.
Wedding Anniversary for us today, don't know where all the years have gone, we are going out for dinner tonight, something nice to look forward to.
Congratulations to today's winners, enjoy your gifts ladies.
Take care everyone,
Jess xxx
Hi Sue
I love the colour combo on today's fabulous card. Thanks for sharing.
Congratulations to all the winners.
Have a great day everyone.
Good morning Sue, not too sure about today's card, a bit too busy for me maybe.
I like the colour combination though.
Congratulations to the comment game winners.
Rosemary xx
gorgeous and elegant Sue
gr karin
Hello Sue
I love the colour combination but it is perhaps a bit too fussy for my taste. Congratulations to all the winners. Cheryl extra hugs today. Elaine a very big happy birthday what a celebration it will be when Andrew finishes his treatment wish him luck for tomorrow.
GM Sue. So filigree and lovely. Great card.
Lovely frilly card. I notice that a few have said it's not for them but I can think of a few of my friends and relatives who would drool over this! Thank goodness we are all different.
Doreen R
Good morning Sue
I hope the weather is kinder where you are as it is wet and windy here in the north east!
Today's card is a very elegant design and I love the colour combo
Congratulations to the comment winners... enjoy!
June x
The colour combination works great. Love all the dies you used. I'm still amazed at how intricate the dies are these days. Your die range always cuts beautifully.
Annie P
Hi sue.
Love the colour combo and I like what u have done but it's too busy busy for me sorry.
Congrats to the winners
Happy birthday Elaine h
Thinking of u Cheryl xx
Love to all xx
Hi Sue, I am sorry but unusually this one is not for me. I love the colour combination and the dies used but it is just a bit too busy for my taste.
Cheryl - thinking of you on this day of reflection.
Elaine - Happy Birthday to you! Enjoy your lunch with a friend.
Jess - Happy Anniversary, I hope you share a lovely day.
'P' - I agree with you it is sad to see the numbers going down so much and Sue's position in the crafty blogs table fall. I know everyone leads very busy lives (some Wilsonettes are in bad health and can be excused lol) but it only takes a minute to leave a short comment and surely Sue is worth that at least.
Congratulations to this week's comment game winners - Barbara Gosden, Chris Curry and Suemac, enjoy playing with your prizes.
Hi Sue, a gorgeous card. Lots of very intricate lacy detail. Congratulations to the lucky winners.
Hi Sue, sorry I've been absent, pain pain and more pain, all the cards of the last few days have been glorious todays being no exception, I love it the colours are lush as are the dies.
Pam keep up the good work you speak for us all, Cheryl a silent pray for you, congratulations to the winners, hugs Johanna
Hi Sue
Lovely card.
Congratulations to the comment game winners.
Lovely card Sue x xhazel
Hi Sue
Nice card, but a bit too busy for me.
Margaret xx
Good morning Sue
What a stunning card! Congratulations to all the winners!
Hugs x
Heather T
Hi Sue
Gorgeous opulent card,really like what you have done,
Thank you
Congrats to winners
Best wishes everyone
Karen M
Hi Sue so lacy and a delightful colour combination love from Jackie xx
Hello Sue.
Great Card. Lovely die combination. I think this has a very rich look to it. The colour combination looks good. Thanks for sharing.
Congratulations Barbara Gosden, Chris Curry and Suemac.
Best wishes
Hi Sue,
Very beautiful and extremely opulent card this morning. Congratulations to the very lucky winners - enjoy your prizes . Cheryl thinking of you today and sending you a hug. Love and hugs to all, Alison xx
What a very complex-looking card, so much to look at - bet it's fab in 'the flesh'
A beautiful card. Thrilled to be a comment game winner.
Hi Sue another elegant card . Looks like intricate lace .I have fallen in love with your Gilliam die.. Thank you for sharing . Congratulations to all winners. Gloria (sidcup ) xx
Hi Sue and everyone
A nice card and I love all the dies you've used, but maybe not all together on one card. So sorry, but have to be honest. The colours work great though, especially for men's cards.
Pam, I consider myself told off! I have learned the hard way so will be more careful. X
Carmen, I'm not disappointed you're not a Brit! It's good to have all nationalities on this blog to share a common interest and to learn what certain sayings or expressions mean in different countries. X
Maria, thanks for your comment. I will be pain free sooner if I do as I'm told! Hope your MRI goes well on 28th so they can decide what they need to do about the calcium build up. It must be pretty miserable for you st the moment, with painful shoulders and poorly eyes. Thinking if you and sending hugs. X
Nattyboots, Happy Birthday. Enjoy you lunch. X
Jess, Happy Anniversary enjoy your dinner tonight.x
Congratulations to the comment winners. X
Love Helen xx
To My Wonderful Dear Friend Sue,
I Love Today's Card, I Truly Love It When Experiment With Different Colour Card Combination
And Your Outstanding Cutting Dies And You Get A "Truly Remarkable Card"
Products Used Today:-
"Milk, Mocha, & Antique Gold Foundation Card"
"Swiss Borders & Corners Set"
"The Exceptionally Opulent Gillian Die Set"
"The Zurich Die"
"Gold Paint Pen"
Today's Stupendous Card:- "You're Delightful" (Straight Back To You)
Sue, You Started Today's Card By Cutting Four Of "The Swiss Borders" Out Of Your "Milk Card"
You Glued Them To The Edges Of A Piece Of "Mocha Card" You'd Cut To The Size You Required.
The Colours Look "Quite Outstanding" Together, Then You Cut Four Of The Matching Corners From
"The Swiss Borders & Corners Die Set" Cutting Them Out Of "Milk Card" You And Matting In "Milk Card"
Sue, You Added A Little "Mounting Foam" Then You Placed Them Onto The Four Corners Of Your "Fabulous Card"
Sue Then You Cut A Piece Of "Milk Card" To The Size You Required, For The Centre Of Your Card You
Added A Thin "Antique Gold" Mat, Sue Then You Took "The Exquisite Gillian Die" And Cut It Out In The
"Antique Gold" Then You Cut It In Half (Once Again Transforming Your Luxurious Dies) You Added This
To The Sides Underneath Your Matting You Then Attached This To The Centre Of Your Card With A Piece
Of "Mounting Foam" For Dimension.
Sue, Then You Cut Out "The Zurich Die" In "Mocha" (A Beautiful Colour) And Glued It Down To The Centre,
Then You Cut Out "The Gillian Die" Out Of "Milk Card" With An "Antique Gold" Backing And Placed It In
The Centre Of Your "Zurich Die" Sue Then You Stamped "You're Delightful" Sentiment And Cut It Out Using
The Centre Die From "The Gillian" You Added A "Thin Mocha Mat" To Your Sentiment And Added A "Gold Pen"
To Edge It. Attaching This To Your Mat/Layering Of "Milk/Mocha/Antique Gold" Few "Pearls" Here And There Also
Your Signature Piercing. Sue I Love "The Gillian Die Set" Its Extremely Exquisite, Elegant Opulent, Rich
I Love All The Detail, If I Could Ever Duplicate A Outstanding Card Like This I Know Lots Of Recipients That Would
Just Adore It...
So Many "Outstanding Dies" I Wish To Purchase But I Keep Promising Myself Not Until I Arrive Back From My Holiday
But I Don't Think That Will Last Lol!
Sue Thank You For Sharing "Today's Masterpiece" You Inspire Me Greatly I Truly Appreciate Everything You
Do, Thank You So Very Much.
Sue Take Great Care
Wonderful Warm Fond Wishes To Colin And Heather
Sue Lots Of Love And Huge Hugs 🤗 For Yourself
Love From Sam xxx
Congratulations To This Weeks "Lucky Comment Gift Winners" Enjoy.....
Hi sue, what a beautiful card today, love the colour, crafty hugs Julie laz xxx
Hi Sue
Lovely card so elegant.
Congrats to the winners
Hugs to all
Annx without an "e"
Hello Sue,
First of all I'm sorry I didn't comment yesterday but I have two grandchildren with birthdays this weekend and they were all here yesterday and by the time they'd gone I needed an early night! We had a lovely day though and lots of fun.
I loved yesterday's card and watched the video too. I received the Die set either Thursday / Friday but haven't played with it yet! It's the little details you think of that makes the card or 3D basket made so special. Like the little tab at the handle and the space to insert a gift card if needed! Love the choccie bunnies! May I have the dark ones? Lol
Congratulations to my good friend Saba on winning yesterday! She is excited ! Lol
Congratulations to today's winners too. I hope you enjoy using your prizes and that you are excited too!
Today's card Sue, isn't one of my favourites but I that doesn't stop me admiring it and all the work which has gone into it. Like the colours very much.
I haven't read what everyone is up to - so may I jump on your wagon Pam!! I never knew you had red hair! Now I have to adjust the picture of you in my head!! X
Love to Jess - Happy Anniversary!
Love Myra xxx
Hi Sue, a pretty card, but a bit to busy for me, but a a great colour combination.
Congratulations to all the lucky winners.
Hi Sue
What a lovely card, a real lacy look, fit for anyone.
You give us a lot of inspiration Sue.
Have a lovely Sunday, with you and yours.
Love Dorothy
of Baldock
Another love LTD! Congratulations to this week's winners I saw "Barbara" and started to get exceed theenrealized it wasn't me! Happy for the right Barbara though!
Call me...Fingers and Toes crosse and wish me.luck. TFS!
A very opulent card. Loved the Easter basket full of chocolate bunnies! Just didn't get chance to comment yesterday - sorry!
Congratulations to the comment winners.
A very busy card. Sorry to say that this doesn't 'sing' to me like most of your others. x
Hi Sue,
Fantastic card!
Thank you for sharing.
Véronique L
Very different card, interesting choice of colors. Congrats to the winners.
Wonderful card Sue, I love it.
Annette x
Yes, these colors are very pleasing on this card. The first thing I noticed was the many layers you added to this design. You certainly have a way with combining your lovely dies for a fantantic design.
I like the colour combination. I agree with others above tin that it is far too busy for me. I would like to see it without the corners.
Hi sue and lovely wilsonettes x
I love your card today sue x beautiful colours and love the dies you have used x sorry I didn't comment yesterday but the bunny card is so cute and must congratulate saba x its been a year today since my nephew passed so been trying to keep myself frantically busy x
Congratulations too to todays winners x
Cheryl sending a prayer and a hug x
Take care everyone x
Theresa w xxx
Hello Sue
Wow so many Gorgeous Dies used on this card I love the colour's you have used
A very opulent & beautiful card. Thank you for sharing this work of art Sue.
Love & Hug's Lynda Brock xx
Thinking of you Elaine happy birthday. Hope Andrews treatments goes well.
Hug's xx
PP hope your well & Laine too missing you both extra Hug's on there way.xx
Pam well said again you are a treasure Big Hug's xx
Tina & Nanna Tina thinking of you both & hope your ok Big Hug's for you both.
Hug's for all my blog buddies please take care xx
Great colours on this card. Congrats to my sister, Chris, winning the comment game.
Hello Sue,
I have to say opulence abounds with your card today from the design to the colors. It really does show your dies off well. I too find that some photographs just don't show off a card to it's best advantage, I imagine there is some secret to this but I just haven't found it yet.
Congratulations to all the lucky card winners.
Have a nice day Sue.
Hi Sue
Love the colour combination on today's card. Especially love the Swiss Border.
Congratulations to the comment game winners.
I seem to have missed the Easter cards from yesterday. Loved them all. Congratulations to Saba on winning the card giveaway.
This card is amazing such fun looking at all the dies used.xx
Oh so very pretty again Sue, love the mocha card, brings out so many colours....it also highlights all the different die cuts you have , so pretty...thank you Sue...luv Ursula xx
Hello Sue,
Gorgeous card you are showing us today, Love the colour combination,
Theres certainly a lot for the eye to take in, Its very opulent cooking..
Hope you have had a good weekend, Love Brenda xxx
Love today's card Sue. I only have the Gillian die but will try with similar shaped dies. Thank you for sharing this with us. Thinking of you Cheryl, Happy Anniversary to Jess and Happy Birthday to Elaine. Echoing Pam's comments. I used to be a red head as well. You didn't know that did you Myra.
Good evening Sue. A bit fussy a card for me, yet I like what you have done with those dies.
Cheryl thinking of you and your family today. Jess I hope you and Ronnie have a lovely meal out. Elaine happy birthday you also enjoy your meal with friends. I hope Andrew gets his treatment. Pam thank you for your opening summery each morning.
Oh congratulations to the comment winners.
Hazel x
Good evening Sue
Lovely I colours you have chosen today for today's card I regret to say this design is not for me but not to worry you cannot please all of the people all of the time, that would be so boring would it not.
Many congratulations to today's winners enjoy your prizes ladies and have fun with them.
Cheryl thinking if you today my dear.
Pam as always may I echo your thoughts, I don't mind in the slightest if you are a red head! lol although I did not imagine you as one.
Margaret xxx
What a lovely colour combo Sue. Pretty design.
Good evening lovely Sue and her crafty crew!
Today's card has caused a bit of a stir on the blog with some feeling that it is too fussy...personally, i think its difficult to judge it without seeing it in the flesh, so often the computer screen doesn't do the colour or design justice and i have a feeling that this may be one of those occasions...when i had the pleasure of seeing a large number of your samples at Ally Pally i was amazed at how the blog pictures didn't do them justice, they were amazing! It is a rare day when i cant find anything i like or could use from one of your cards, i just appreciate all the hard work and dedication you put in to your designs, boy it must be so difficult thinking of something fresh and original on a daily basis, i certainly know that i am not up for the job:-) Where can you find a cute chocolate bunny basket one day and an opulent explosion the next? Only here!
I have read P's comment and feel terribly guilty that i havent been as regular on the blog lately as i have been in the past....and so i should because Sue doesn't take a day off because she's sick or feels a bit down so neither should I. The first thing i do every morning after my breakfast is check out the card for today and comments on this blog, i usually don't have the time to comment...given the length of my comments you can appreciate the time issue:-)....choosing to do so later on in the day when my brain cells have sufficiently roused from their slumber. However, this can pose a problem when i am either too tired from the days activities or rudely interrupted by nuisance phone calls...yes, i mean you Yvonne:-)....then i end up missing the day altogether. I agree that it doesn't take long to comment, unless you are like me and tend to waffle on then finding the time to read all the comments AND create a lengthy response becomes an issue. It takes me on average a good hour to read all the comments and type my own, ridiculous i know, but true! So, rather than missing a day because I'm pushed for time, i promise to do my bit and comment, however briefly, just to let Sue know that I am actually bothering to visit and really do appreciate her hard work. Its so sad, as P pointed out, that the comments have dropped because i know that Sue cares so much about the blog, i hope that missing members and new members join us soon....
Thanks for all the well wishes and enquiries about Yvonne, i had the "pleasure" of speaking with her on Friday when she told me that she has been plagued by an ear infection and basically bedridden, on her back....a position she is well used to....for the past week unable to raise her head through dizziness. She is on the mend and will hopefully be back with us soon and thanks you all for caring...yes, i pretended that we'd actually noticed her absence figuring that she was on a low ebb:-)
Elaine, happy birthday, hope you enjoyed your meal out with your friend.
Jess, happy anniversary, hope you enjoyed your meal out too.
June, so jealous of you going to a craft workshop, wish i had one close by:-) I hope that you enjoyed yourself and manage to persuade hubby to chauffeur you to Ally Pally.
Carmen, do i need a lawyer present? Why do i feel like ive done something wrong? And there was me going to welcome you with open arms to Ally Pally in September....rather hasty of me it seems! I was even going to let you have a shot in my wheelchair being pushed by a topless young man(Yvonne's son George), however if you're going to read me my rights.......:-)
Maria, aww, you poor soul, i do hope the eyes clear up soon and that the calcification on your shoulder can be helped....my Mum had it and it was so very painful:-( Take care honey.
Hugs to all my besties, especially Saba who so deserved her win yesterday:-)
Congrats to today's lucky winners too.
Crafty hugs
Hi Sue
What a splendid card!!! Looks so detailed!!!
Hi Sue Lovely card the colour combination is lovely too I have the Swiss border it is beautiful
Congratulations to the three winners
Elaine I hope you enjoyed your birthday Its my Sisters 70th birthday tomorrow so Ive been busy finishing off a scrapbook of photographs for her hope she'll like it!
Sending good wishes to all
Hello Sue,
A very opulent and intricate card today, I love the milk, mocha and gold combination, it's so soft looking. The Gillian die makes a beautiful focal point. It's one of those cards that draws your eyes in to all the details you have put into it. I couldn't stop looking at it and I think it would wow any recipient.
Jess Happy anniversary, you got a good one in your OH. Hang onto him!
Elaine Happy Birthday, hope its been a good one. Good luck to Andrew for tomorrow, well all be thinking of him.
Congratulations to the three lucky ladies, Barbara, Sue and Chris, enjoy your prizes.
"P" let's hope Sue's hard work starts to bring in more comments, she deserves them so much.
Cheryl sending you my love, hope today you had some happy moments remembering Pete.
Theresa, anniversaries are so hard to bear, I wish I could say more to comfort you but can only send you a caring hug instead.
Craftynanna hope you are soon more comfortable.
Maria hope you are in less discomfort with your eyes too.
Laine thank you for the update on Yvonne. Can I have a go in your wheelchair too? With George of course!
Love and hugs for all
Saba xxx
Nice colours Sue! Very vintage
Congratulations weekly winners
Big hug
Julie Elli
A deightful card which has a lovely softness about it.
I shall have to try this colour combination
Thanks again for sharing
Wowzers! This is so pretty and there is so much detail.
Hi Sue,
Nice card, very ornate maybe a little bit too busy for me. But I love all dies you used and I wish to have them all. Thank you for sharing.
Congratulations to the lucky winners.
Pam – I am a red head, too ...when I dye my hair.
Elaine – Happy b-day! Good luck to Andrew for tomorrow. My daily hugs for all of you.
Jess W. – Happy Anniversary!
Barbara M.- Wish you luck in the next draw!
Laine – First of all, thank you for the update on Yvonne. She is really missed here. BTW you couldn't notice her absence because you weren't present either.:)
I intended to add "for another day" but I decided not to be so generous ... Happy to see that my words had had the desired effect ... you pleaded guilty!Actually you "feel terribly guilty that" you"haven't been as regular on the blog lately". You are forgiven. Welcome back! Poor George, does he know what do you plan for him? I'll bring a t-shirt for him, September might be chilly.
Cheryl & Theresa W. – Thinking about both of you.I found this on the net and wanted to share with you and everybody who has time to read it: "Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed and very dear."
'P' in Wales, Frances, Saba – Well said. I agree 100% with everything. Sue gives us so much: beautiful cards, lots of ideas, great tutorials, you name it. Out of respect for Sue's work all you have to is to leave a comment. I love long comments but I read the short ones as well. Sue needs our support and we need this blog!
In this note, hugs for all of you,
Still a newbie to Craft / Not longer the newest and the only across the pond Wilsonette
Gorgeous card, really opulent. Love the colour combination. I'm the oddball who doesn't do black on cards but I love the gentler brown shades especially with gold.
Congratulations to the comment game winners.
Elaine, hope you enjoyed your birthday lunch. Hope all goes well for Andrew.
Jess Watson, hope you enjoyed your Anniversary meal.
Gentle thoughts to Cheryl and Theresa W.
Take care everyone.
Hi //sue,
Stunning card, love the colour, Beautiful dies , beautiful lacy card.
Di B. x
Very intricate and opulent card today Sue, but then it's more than a card- it's a piece of artwork. Loving the colour combination.Not one to send to a man, though, methinks. LOL!! How do you think up original designs on a daily basis?? However it is you do it, thanks for all the inspiration, videos and demos.
Hi Sue
Gosh this looks rich and intricate. It would be good for a man despite it being fussy. A good friend of mine said we should not assume men don't like fancy things and I have taken that on board when I make cards for men.
Warmest regards
Jan from NSW (Australia)
How lovely Sue. Really good for a New Home card - or even Get Well. X
Your delightful too sue, crafty hugs Julie laz xxx
Sue this is amazing,so detailed and intricate.
Totoally love it.
Hi Sue,
Beautiful card, so much work, it is stunning. it is a work of art. Colours are gorgeous and don't know what else to say, I was blown away when I saw it.
Di B. x


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Daniel Radcliffe proves once again that he's put Harry Potter way behind him.
In his new indie drama, Kill Your Darlings, he plays the late gay Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1944 when a murder brings him together with fellow writers and college classmates William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).
Radcliffe has more than one sex scene, but it's the steamy man-on-man action that is most memorable—and had most people talking about when the John Krokidas-directed film premiered last night at the Sundance Film Festival.
"It was something new," Radcliffe laughed at the Kill party at the Grey Goose Blue Door lounge. "But you know what, we shot that whole scene in maybe an hour and a half so it was incredibly fast-paced. I didn't really have time to stop to think and worry about it."
He added with a laugh, "John was very helpful in furnishing me with a lot of graphic detail of what I would be experiencing at the various stages."
Instead of an actor plucked from a casting call, Krokidas asked a friend to play the sailor who Ginsberg sleeps with in the scene. "We were able to hang out a little bit on set and get to know each other a little bit, which I think is important when you're doing a scene so intimate," Radcliffe said. "You have to feel like you're both in it together."
When I mention that a straight female friend of mine gushed that she was "turned on" by the scene, Radcliffe ran over to Krokidas to tell him. "I told you," Krokidas said. "I told you girls were going to be into it."

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Ohio's texting-while-driving ban takes effect Friday
Warnings, no tickets for six months
People who text or fiddle with other hand-held electronic devices while driving anywhere in Ohio will be breaking the law beginning Friday.
That's when Ohio's statewide texting ban for drivers goes into effect, but police and state troopers will issue just warnings - instead of $150 tickets - for the first six months.
Teen drivers must especially take heed: While texting behind the wheel will be a secondary offense for adults - meaning they have to be pulled over for speeding or some other offense before they can get a ticket for texting - it will be a primary offense for those 18 and under, so they can be more easily ticketed.
The law, which was passed by the state legislature this year, restricts juvenile drivers from using cellphones, iPods, laptops or other electronic devices. They can't make calls or browse the Web while driving.
"We believe the biggest impact will be in the public awareness that this is now against the law," said Jay McDonald, president of the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, which supported the measure. "It's going to be a law that's going to be hard to enforce, but we're hoping people will now realize it's against the law, and the deterrent that comes with that will lead to a decrease in the people who do text and drive."
Ohio becomes the 39th state in the country to ban texting while driving, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. Many Ohio cities already have their own texting-while-driving bans, and the state law won't trump those ordinances if they are tougher.
The measure does allow all drivers to text and use their cellphones in cases of an emergency and when the vehicle is stopped and off the road. Other exemptions include using a hand-held device for navigational purposes. Hands-free devices are allowed, but they can't be manipulated while driving. Adults can still talk on the telephone while driving, but juveniles can't.
Ebony Johnson, 35, of Cincinnati, said she was aware that the law was going into effect and thinks it's a good one.
"I don't text while I am driving," the mother of seven said. "I have babies, and you never can be sure what other drivers are going to do. You have to stay alert all the time."
The law makes texting while driving a misdemeanor, with possible fines of $150. Minors can be fined $150 for the first offense and have their license suspended for 60 days. Repeat teen offenders can be fined $300 and have their license taken away for a year.
The Ohio FOP would have preferred that texting be a primary offense for all drivers - not just teens - because it would have been easier to enforce. Still, the group likes it because it gives officers an avenue to investigate whether texting has played a role in a traffic accident.
State Rep. Rex Damschroder, one of the sponsors of the bill, said he plans to introduce legislation in the future that makes texting while driving a primary offense for adults, too, not just juveniles.
Mary Allen, 38, of Cincinnati, said she thinks the same restrictions should apply to adults.
"Adults can make the same mistakes as kids, if they are texting and driving," she said.


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If you've got debt and a main job that covers your regular monthly expenses, aim to apply earnings from side hustles directly to your debts. Flexible side hustles that are
If you've got debt and a main job that covers your regular monthly expenses, aim to apply earnings from side hustles directly to your debts.
Flexible side hustles that are worth your time do exist (and we're not talking about pyramid schemes or online surveys). There are legitimate options to help pay off debt. And the extra income can be meaningful: Pay an additional $250 per month toward a $10,000 credit card balance with a 20% annual percentage rate and you'll save over $9,000 in interest and pay off the balance almost seven years faster.
Here are some ideas and tips to get started.Rideshare drive or delivery
Potential monthly earnings: Up to $300 or more, depending on location and how many hours you work.
Flexible hours make rideshare driving with Uber and Lyft a popular side hustle for people who own or have access to a car.
Uber drivers earned an average of $364 a month, while Lyft drivers made $377 each month, on average, according to a 2017 study of thousands of online loan applications by Earnest.
If you aren't comfortable driving strangers, an alternative is to use your car to deliver items with companies like Roadie, which matches drivers with stuff bound for their destination. Pets, furniture and lost luggage are just a few items that can be delivered.
Earnings range from $8 to $650, depending on the trip distance and size of delivery, says Marc Gorlin, Roadie founder and CEO.
Delivering packages via Amazon Flex could be a lucrative side gig, with drivers earning $18 to $25 an hour, according to the company, and it operates in about 35 regions nationwide, including some major metro areas plus smaller cities.Tutor or teach
Potential monthly earnings: $200 to $1,000, depending on experience.
Tutoring can be an option for teachers, professors or those with expert knowledge they can share. Startup costs are typically limited to books and other supplies.
Teachers have a leg up in tutoring for tests like the SATs, since they already know how to prepare students, says Gabriel Kaplan, founder of Wealth Habits, a financial planning firm in New York.
Telecommuting can expand your potential customer base. Remote tutoring jobs are listed on sites such as FlexJobs and SimplyHired.Freelance
Potential monthly earnings: $200 to $500 or more, depending on experience and clientele.
Freelance blogging, proofreading or editing are popular gigs for wordsmiths, while graphic design and music composition may appeal to artists.
If your passion is photography, income opportunities may include taking pictures at weddings and graduations and doing family portraits.
These side hustles can be found on job boards such as Indeed, Remote.Co or ProBlogger, or at freelance sites such as Fiverr.
Startup costs and time requirements could be on the higher side with these gigs. You'll need the right equipment, a strategy for getting clients and ideally a website to market your services.Rent or sell your stuff
Potential monthly earnings: Up to $1,000 for short-term home rentals in popular travel destinations; $100 to $300 or more for car rentals, depending on location.
Things you already own can create passive income. For example, you can rent your car via sharing marketplaces such as Turo or Getaround, which operate in many larger cities.
You can rent your home, apartment or a guest room through Airbnb or HomeAway. Check local laws because some cities restrict short-term rentals.
Sell unused items on eBay, Craigslist or specialty sites like ShareGrid, where you can rent or sell camera equipment.Side hustle considerations
Set debt repayment goals. Seeing how much interest you'll save by repaying debts early can motivate you to continue your side hustles. Track your debts on a spreadsheet or a budgeting app and check your progress monthly.
Match up skills to the hustle. Find something you're good at and enjoy, says Chad Rixse, co-founder and financial planner at Millennial Wealth, in Seattle.
Don't jeopardize your 9-to-5 job. Consider the time commitments of the side hustle, and check if you have a noncompete agreement, which may prevent you from working a gig in a similar field.
Obtain permits or licenses. For example, contractors may need a business license to work on houses, while fixing up and reselling items online may require a sales tax license, says Dwight Dettloff, a CPA and financial planner for Winding Trail Financial Planning, in Lafayette, Colorado.
Get insurance. You may need liability insurance for side hustles where there's risk of being sued, Rixse says. Short-term house rentals and renting equipment are a few examples. You may also need rideshare insurance if your car insurance policy doesn't cover it.
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You have dozens of different flavors of tablets to choose from, and now you have two more to add with Apple's new iPad Mini and the surprise fourth-gen iPad.
Each tablet has different price points, storage capacity, screen sizes, configurations, and so forth. It's kind of confusing, and sometimes choice is overwhelming. So we've boiled it down to the basics, to make your decision as easy as possible. Below you'll see the breakdown.


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The prosecutor who put Illinois' two previous governors in prison has been tapped by the current one to clean up the Chicago area's mass-transit agencies.
Gov. Pat Quinn issued an executive order Thursday creating the Northeastern Illinois Public Transit Task Force to investigate fraud and suggest reforms in the wake of the latest scandal at Metra. Among the appointees to the 15-member group is former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the Operation Safe Road and Operation Board Games investigations that led to the imprisonment of former Republican Gov. George Ryan and Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The order came hours before a fifth Metra Board member stepped down since allegations arose that it paid its former CEO up to $718,000 in "hush money" to keep him from going public with allegations of political patronage hiring.
The resignation was unrelated to the developing scandal, but joins two recent resignations on the Regional Transportation Authority Board and questions that have arisen regarding a Quinn appointment to the Chicago Transit Authority Board.
"It's clear that the mass-transit system in northeastern Illinois is not working for taxpayers," Quinn said in a statement. "This task force is a step forward to make our transit system worthy of the public's trust."
Quinn's executive order sets a deadline to provide initial recommendations to state lawmakers before the late October start of the fall veto session, and a Jan. 31 deadline for its final report. The task force will focus on all four mass-transit agencies: Metra, Pace and the CTA, and the umbrella RTA that has financial oversight of them.
Among the task force's members is a McHenry resident, Don Tantillo, a retired Wheeling High School teacher and debate coach who drove a CTA bus while earning his degree. He said he is unsure how his name came up, except that he filled out a form to volunteer to make things better upon Quinn becoming governor when Blagojevich was removed from office.
"I feel tremendously honored. What can I say? I hope that my ability to listen and think critically can help in some way," Tantillo said.
This latest Metra scandal began when the Metra Board in June approved a generous severance package for former CEO Alex Clifford with eight months remaining on his first contract – the sole opposing vote came from McHenry County representative and Metra Board Treasurer Jack Schaffer. As lawmaker outrage grew, Clifford alleged he was forced out because he would not turn a blind eye to patronage requests, some of which lead to powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Clifford accused former Metra Board Chairman Brad O'Halloran and board member Larry Huggins of wanting him gone for refusing a request by Madigan to give a raise to one employee and to hire an unnamed person for another job.
Clifford also said he refused to fire employees at O'Halloran's request and opposed contracting decisions by Huggins that Clifford called inappropriate regarding the Englewood Flyover rail bridge on Chicago's South Side.
The Metra Board hired Clifford in 2011 to clean up the agency after the scandal surrounding former CEO Phil Pagano, who led the agency for two decades. Pagano killed himself in 2010 near his rural Crystal Lake home by stepping in front of a Metra train hours before the board was set to fire him for collecting $475,000 in unauthorized vacation payouts and other fiscal irregularities.
Both O'Halloran and Huggins have stepped down in recent weeks, as did Kane and DuPage counties' representatives on the Metra Board. Cook County Board Chairwoman Toni Preckwinkle, who gets one of the 11 appointments to the board, asked for and received the resignation of member Stanley Rakestraw for not meeting the residency requirement.
The Chicago Tribune discovered that he has lived for the past two years in downtown Chicago, and not in suburban Cook County as required for the seat.
Calls to overhaul the mass-transit boards began with the Pagano scandal and are escalating with the Clifford scandal and unrelated resignations at other boards. One RTA Board member resigned after a review concluded the law forbade him from holding a board seat and his seat on the Illinois Human Rights Commission. Another resigned after it became public that a judge ordered him to repay a $91,000 state services grant.
Quinn himself drew fire for a contentious appointment to the CTA Board. Critics blasted Quinn's appointment of Frank Zuccarelli, a who would have added the $25,000 salary that comes with the seat to his six-figure job as supervisor of Thornton Township. Zuccarelli, who dropped out Tuesday, is also a Democratic precinct committeeman.
State Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, filed a bill earlier this week that would close the loophole allowing township officeholders and appointees to "double-dip" as appointees to the four mass-transit boards.
Quinn appoints task force to clean up mass-transit agencies
Former U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald, McHenry resident among the members
The prosecutor who put Illinois' two previous governors in prison has been tapped by the current one to clean up the Chicago area's mass-transit agencies.


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People who are struggling with sin in their lives, or who wrestle with various addictions constantly quote this verse (or I should say, "misquote it"), as a sort of mantra against returning to the behavior they hope to resist. But what bothers me most about this isn't semantics. It's the true spiritual reality that is lost whenever people think they're quoting the scripture but are in fact totally missing the entire point.
What the misquote does is to reinforce the myth that you and I are left alone to resist temptation and to overcome our own sinfulness. This is absolutely not the message of the Gospel. God never urges us to rely on our own ability or strength to rescue us from sin or temptation. Not ever.
Let's look at the actual verse and hopefully we'll all understand this a lot better.
"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up." (James 4:7-10)
The differences may appear subtle at first, but trust me, the differences couldn't be farther apart in meaning and substance.
In the actual passage found in the fourth chapter of James, the message is that we should first "submit (our)selves to God". How can we leave this out of the equation? Worse, how can we tolerate anyone else who hopes to eliminate God from the process? We need God. Without Him we are toast. Newsflash: The Devil is not afraid of you. He is not fazed when you resist him. You are a sheep. Without the Good Shepherd protecting you the Wolf will eat you and your lunch. Therefore, submitting ourselves to God is probably the most important part of this verse.
I look at this way; picture yourself in the center of a number line. God is on the right and Satan (or temptation) is on the left. If you begin by submitting yourself to God – by moving as close to Him as possible and laying your life down at His feet – then you will notice that you are – at the same time – moving away from the devil. Both actions are the same. However, if you only resist the devil and if you do not also turn and run toward God, then you are sitting in the same place and trying on your own strength to resist the gravitational pull of the Enemy. Without turning your face to God and submitting your life to Him, you will eventually grow tired of resisting and you will get sucked into the vortex, just like everyone else who tried to do it all alone.
We cannot create light by resisting the darkness. Only by embracing the light will darkness ever be pushed back. Go ahead and try it yourself. Go into an empty room that's dark and start resisting the darkness. How long do you think it will be until your resistance eliminates all that darkness? But flip on the light and see how quickly darkness flees. Darkness isn't overcome by our resisting it. It's overcome when you turn on the light.
So, if you find yourself in a place of weakness or temptation, please do not simply resist the devil. He will not flee from you. Instead, focus all your attention on submitting your life to Jesus and trusting the One who would rather die than live without you. He is the Good Shepherd. He is the Light of the World. In Him you will find rest and peace.


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Women are not a niche.
In addition to being the majority of the population, they also constitute 9% of all billionaires worldwide. They also refer their advisors to others at four times the rate of male clients. They tend to favor the fee-only wealth manager model at a 2-to-1 rate over the broker or money manager model.
Women control 80% of U.S. household purchases, 50% of private wealth, 40% of businesses and more than 48% of estates worth more than $5 million. They will inherit 70% of the estimated $40 trillion in intergenerational wealth transfers expected over the next 40 years.
In sum, women control over $9 trillion but fewer than 20% of women use a financial advisor. The "female economy" represents a major opportunity for advisors, but they are also underserved by the advisor community.
These were just a few of the takeaways delivered on Saturday by Heather Ettinger (left), co-author of the Family Wealth Advisors Council (FWAC) study of high-net-worth American women, at the FPA Retreat 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif.
Rebutting Sigmund Freud's famous question, Ettinger, managing partner at Fairport Asset Management in Cleveland, said that "women know what they want," particularly when it comes to financial advice, and especially those "women who have gone through a significant transition," such as divorce or widowhood.
Since women tend to be more "kinesthetic, more visual learners" who "don't want to be told what to do," Ettinger suggested that advisors act more as educators than experts. "Give them a couple of scenarios" on what they can do in financial planning, including the one that you think is most appropriate. When it comes to what is most likely to "put a financial plan into a tailspin" for women, in her experience it's one of two things: illiquid real estate (not limited to women) and "supporting adult children in crisis." Women of every wealth level continue to be the primary caregiver not only for their children but their aged parents, and Ettinger said that 72% of long-term care insurance claims goes to women.
About widows, Ettinger said the median age for when a woman is widowed in the U.S. is 59, and there are 8.7 million widows age 65 or older in the country. Pointing out that in the U.S. 700,000 women a year experience the death of a spouse, particularly nonworking women view the death of a spouse as a major financial risk. Ettinger then dove into suggestions on how advisors should advise widows, many of whom may well fire their existing advisor following the death of their husbands.
"Widows lose all their short-term memory," Ettinger said, suggesting that when advisors hold an initial meeting with a widow that the woman bring a friend with her to the meeting to take notes. Otherwise, says Ettinger, "She'll forget everything."
Serving Widows and Divorcees
For new widows, Ettinger suggests advisors hand them a simple spreadsheet that lists a prioritized transition plan for their new life that includes the assets and approximate value of those assets, the beneficiaries of those assets, and who is responsible for managing them. Include as well a simplistic cash flow spreadsheet that she can refer to that will show her how much cash she has to spend.
In the initial meetings with a widowed client, she suggests a male-female advisory team is best, and to "watch the body language" to see whether the widow prefers to work with a male or female, younger or older advisor. Since women tend to value more a "quarterback" advice approach where the primary advisor coordinates with a network of professionals, make sure you highlight that approach. Finally, remember a particular fear of women. "Every widow," says Ettinger, regardless of their level of wealth "is convinced she'll become a bag lady."
To best serve divorcees, Ettinger suggested that advisors consider attaining the certified divorce financial analyst designation, as she has, since it will "give you credibility" with divorce attorneys and helps establish you as a valuation expert. As with all women, make sure your role is an educator in addition to being an advocate, she said, and show sensitivity to the expenses a divorcee will continue to feel responsibility for, particularly in the areas of future education and medical expenses for her children.
As for married women, Ettinger argues that as with other female clients, it's important to educate, particularly using anecdotes and case studies, and to make time in client meetings to get questions answered in a safe environment while acknowledging the complexity of the married woman's needs and her family's. For working women, many of whom are worried about their career prospects, in her own practice she brings together female clients for educational and networking events, which she says have been well received by her clients.
Reiterating her most important points, Ettinger said women tend to make financial decisions based on their values and priorities—such as children's education—rather than on current "hot" investing strategies. Building trust through regular education, using visual and anecdotal cues, will help advisors to attract female clients and keep them satisfied with your offerings.
Read Desperately Seeking Women: IRI Research Explains Advisor Gap on AdvisorOne.


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With no heed of a debt crisis, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to help more veterans find work, help more injured vets to gain reproductive health services, and to pay caregivers of seriously disabled veterans who left service befor
With no heed of a debt crisis, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to help more veterans find work, help more injured vets to gain reproductive health services, and to pay caregivers of seriously disabled veterans who left service before 9/11 a monthly stipend plus expenses.
How to cover the $12 billion cost of these initiatives, over just the next five years, is still to be determined, conceded Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), committee chairman. But he promised colleagues to try to find the money.
More proposals than these were approved in the catchall "omnibus" bill, S 944, forwarded to the full Senate for further debate and amendments before passage, and later, reconciliation with more modest House plans.
One initiative having no cost would grant "veteran" status to more than 200,000 Reserve and Guard retirees -- those who have served 20 years or more to earn retirement at age 60, but didn't serve at least 180 days on active duty to be viewed as a veteran under current law.
Proponents of this measure say these retirees don't seek more VA benefits. They simply want to be able to answer "yes" when asked if they are veterans, or to rise at public gatherings when veterans are asked to stand and be recognized.
Other initiatives in S 944 would:
-- Require public or state-run colleges and universities to charge veterans who use the GI Bill their lower in-state tuition rates.
-- Require VA to report publicly once a quarter on disability claims processing goals and how those stack up against actual claim decisions.
-- Make it easier for veterans traumatized by sexually assault in service to gain VA disability compensation.
-- Increase veterans' access to alternative medicine, chiropractic care and other new approaches to care delivery.
Rep. Richard Burr (N.C.), ranking Republican on the committee, was the lone voice opposing all provisions "not paid for," he said, "so we won't continue to saddle future generations of Americans with continued debt."
He opposed Sanders' provision to expand the VA caregiver program, now limited to caregivers of seriously ill or injured post-9/11 veterans. The program pays a monthly stipend and also caregiver needs for counseling, training, respite periods and travel expenses.
The committee agreed by voice vote to extend the program to caregivers of any severely injured veteran. Before the vote, Burr noted the $8.5 billion cost over the first five years, and urged Sanders to find offsets elsewhere in the budget before the full Senate votes on the measure.
"You're right," Sanders told Burr. "This is an expensive piece of legislation. So is giving tax breaks to millionaires. So is having one out of four corporations in this county not paying a nickel in taxes."
After delivering his slap to Republicans who oppose any sort of tax hikes, Sanders went on to promise to do his "best to find the funding" to be able to help more caregivers.
Burr also opposed Sanders's proposal to offer new incentives to employers to hire vets and to renew for two more years the popular Veterans Retraining Assistance Program enacted under the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011. Burr offered a less costly jobs package, saying Sanders package would cost $2.5 billion over five years and shouldn't be passed unless spending cuts are identified to pay for it. He also noted that the Government Accountability Office in 2011 urged consolidation of 47 existing federal employment and job training programs to save billions of dollars. Forty-four of these plans overlap with others in some way, Burr said, again citing GAO.
"To be consistent," Burr said, he also opposed Sen. Patty Murray's (D-Wash.) provision to improve VA reproductive assistance to severely wounded, ill or injured vets and spouses. It too is unfunded.
Defense officials estimate that injuries from improvised explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan left almost 2000 veterans, male and female, unable to have children without special medical intervention, for example in vitro fertilization. That type of treatment is available on active duty but not usually from the VA after vets leave service, Murray said.
All of these provisions cleared the committee by voice vote despite Burr's opposition. Burr quietly changed from black hat to white on the issue of veteran status for Reserve and National Guard retirees.
For a third straight year, the House has passed The Honor America's Guard-Reserve Retirees Act, this time including the bill language in the fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill. It would grant vet status to those who served long enough to be eligible for reserve component retired pay.
Most of the impacted retirees served during the Cold War when it was commonplace to serve full careers with no active duty except for training. These retirees often are surprised to learn they aren't veterans for lack of a DD Form 214, "Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty."
They can't claim veteran preference in applying for federal jobs. Yet at age 60 they draw military retired pay, can use TRICARE and shop on base.
Burr had blocked Senate committee action on this issue for the past two years, fearing it would lead to expansion of benefits and higher VA costs. His resistance held even after language was added specifically barring a change in vet status from qualifying these retirees for more benefits.
This week, however, Burr accepted a fresh compromise, which now virtually assures passage by year's end. The revised language would confer veteran status on Guard and Reserve retirees under a general law provision rather than under Title 38, which governs VA and access to VA benefits.
It's an extra layer of protection against the possibility that these retirees, sometime in the future, will press for benefits that Congress intended as rewards for serving at least 180 days on active duty.
- Syndicated columnist Tom Philpott has covered the military for more than 35 years. To comment, write Military Update, P.O. Box 231111, Centreville, VA, or email email@example.com or twitter: Tom Philpott @Military_Update


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Your TE has a aluminum catcher doesn't it? how about attaching a thermistor to it and using a temp controller to keep it just a little above freezing? does the heater run on 120 Vac? maybe a variac and lower the voltage going to it might also help?
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16 May, 2010 — Gilad Atzmon Writings
The Israelis indeed internalised the Shoa experience. Very much like notorious Ivan the Terrible from Treblinka who reportedly unleashed his dog against camp inmates, the IDF Border Guard employs dogs against Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli political opposition.
Ynet reported today that Security forces arrived near the village of Dir Nizam accompanied by the Border Guard's canine unit. "They chased us with vicious dogs," one of the protesters said.
Israeli security officials say the new tactic helped spot and detain stone throwers. "The dogs help us apprehend people without hurting them. They are not attack dogs – they are patrol dogs trained to use their sense of smell and vision to conduct short chases, pinning the suspects to the ground until the soldiers arrive."
As usual, the Israeli official lies. Watch this film and judge for yourself.
The Border Guard's Dog Unit includes a small number of fighters and Belgian Malinois Shepherd dogs, which are purchased in Europe and go through a prolonged training period alongside an assigned officer. At the end of the day, Israel insists on becoming a qualified EU Member. Maybe using European dogs is indeed the way forwards for the Israelis.
One protester told Ynet. "The IDF wants to set dogs on us, which reminds us of a dark time in the history of the Jewish people." I may as well mention that nothing in Jewish history is as remotely cruel and vicious as the current Israeli barbarism for the brutality performed by the Jewish state is a collective affair. It is committed by a popular army in the name of the Jewish people.


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Over the next several weeks, we're sure to hear plenty about Microsoft's attempt to buy Yahoo. Yahoo released a statement on Friday indicating that its board would indeed evaluate the deal seriously, saying that it would evaluate Microsoft's and any additional offers closely.
How does Google feel about all this? Moments ago, Google's top counsel, senior vice president David Drummond posted Google's first official response to the proposed deal, and it has some bite. Drummond asks some questions that are clearly meant to sketch out a dark future should a deal go through:
"Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies—and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets," he writes.
It isn't an understatement to say that Google apparently opposes this deal. Going for the jugular, Google's Drummond instantly suggests that the Redmond giant could (would?) use unsavory tactics for unfair advantage, ultimately harming the Internet and the very open and innovative environment that's driving it.
Yet Drummond doesn't explain just how Microsoft could accomplish this. While we all know that Microsoft utilized special OEM pricing deals for Windows to influence those very same OEMs, for instance, it remains unclear on what basis Google sees this threat taking shape online. Where is their new leverage stemming from in this deal?
Drummond goes on to worry about specific threats, asking if a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage could result in Microsoft extending "unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet" or if the combination of two webmail and IM giants is unhealthy.
"Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' e-mail, IM, and web-based services?," Drummond asks. "Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions—and consumers deserve satisfying answers."
Google is right to raise these issues, but beginning the discussion with a veiled accusation that Microsoft could unfairly limit the abilities of users to use competing services is a bit strong in the absence of any illustration as to how Microsoft could accomplish this. It's no small feat to hijack the Internet, e-mail and IM, yet Google's Drummond seems to be suggesting that when we think about Microsoft-Yahoo, that's what we ought to be thinking about.
Is this a reasonable response, or fear mongering? It strikes me as more of the latter, to be honest.


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My little girl has been madly in love with the television show In The Night Garden (and all the characters therein) for some time now. So when we were deciding on a theme for her second birthday party, the choice was obvious.
I decided that whilst I didn't mind spending a lot of time on the decorations for her cake in advance, I really wanted the cake itself to be pretty quick to sort out on the day. So I decided to ice it just with buttercream, rather than messing about with sugarpaste - plus I figured the buttercream is what people really want to eat anyway. And it turned out pretty well, the only problem being that some of the figures (all handmade a couple of weeks in advance from sugarpaste) had to be shoved down quite hard onto the buttercream so that they would stand up (I nearly had a cardiac - twice - when Iggle Piggle decided to do a backflip off the side of the cake onto the table. Luckily he was unharmed). Next time I do figures this top-heavy, I shall be inserting a wooden skewer or something up their... um... bottoms, so that they are more stable and less stress-inducing.
Anyway, the Muffin loved her cake, a good time was had by all at the Night Garden party, and she was thoroughly spoilt with all the lovely presents she received (thank you everyone who came!)
I can't wait for next year! : )
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INDONESIA: Running From Reebok's Hypocrisy
Right till the end of January, Dita Sari was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask today in the admiration of assorted do-gooders and celebrities mustered by Reebok. The occasion is the 13th annual Human Rights Awards, overseen by a board that includes Jimmy Carter and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo.
Make no mistake, the folks who get these awards all have been fine organizers and activists, committed to working for minorities, the disenfranchised, the disabled, the underdogs in our wicked world.
But Dita Sari's plan was to accept the airplane ticket from Reebok, go to Salt Lake City where the world's winter athletes are now assembled and then, when offered the human rights award, reject it. Now, this annual ceremony isn't up there with the Nobels or the MacArthur grants. Despite the company's best efforts, it's definitely a second-tier event. Nonetheless, it has paid off for Reebok. Says Jeff Ballinger, a anti-sweatshop activist who has organized with shoe workers in Indonesia the past 13 years, "With this kind of ceremony, Reebok gets its name into respectable company. When they give a prize to someone like Julie Su, a lawyer for immigrant workers in California, people who wouldn't be seen dead in Nikes are impressed."
Dita Sari was picked by Reebok's judges because she defied her government on the issue of independent trade unions. In her own words: "In 1995, I was arrested and tortured by the police, after leading a strike of 5,000 workers.... They demanded an increase of their wages [they were paid only $1 for working eight hours a day].... This company operated in West Java, and produced shoes for Reebok and Adidas." She got out of prison in 1999. Since then, she has been building a union of workers in plants across Java.
Reebok's flacks can brandish armloads of studies, codes, monitoring reports, guidelines and kindred matter attesting to the company's dedication to the fair treatment of anyone making consumer items with the name Reebok printed on them. But nothing has really changed.
"We've created a cottage industry of monitors and inspectors and drafters of codes," Ballinger says, "but all these workers ever wanted was to sit down in dignity and negotiate with their bosses, and this has never happened."
Due in large part to the efforts of the workers and Western allies such as Ballinger's Press for Change, the daily wage in Indonesia rose more than 300% between 1990 and 1997, at which point the Asian economic crisis struck. Inflation wiped out those gains. Workers' daily pay is now half what it was before the crisis hit.
These were the points Dita Sari was going to make when she got to Salt Lake City. Then she learned that Reebok intended to schedule her and other recipients for public events before the awards ceremony. Rather than let the company benefit in any way from her presence, Dita Sari pulled the plug and, at last word, is in Jakarta raising money for workers left destitute by the worst flooding in decades. She has sent the speech she was planning to give in Salt Lake City:
"I have taken this award into a very deep consideration. We finally decide not to accept this.... In Indonesia, there are five Reebok companies; 80% of the workers are women. All companies are subcontracted, often by South Korean companies.... Since the workers can only get around $1.50 a day, they then have to live in a slum area, surrounded by poor and unhealthy conditions, especially for their children. At the same time, Reebok collected millions of dollars of profit every year, directly contributed by these workers. The low pay and exploitation of the workers of Indonesia, Mexico and Vietnam are the main reasons why we will not accept this award."
But with its awards, isn't Reebok at least trying to do something decent? The way Dita Sari sees things, the attempt is a phony. All the awards in the world, all the window dressing with celebrities such as Desmond Tutu, Carly Simon, Sting and Robert Redford don't alter the basic fact that workers in the Third World are being paid the minimum to make a very profitable product. According to Ballinger, the labor cost of a $70 pair of sneakers made in China, Vietnam or Indonesia is $1 or less.
Dita Sari sees the world a lot more clearly than the celebrities and activists massed at events such as the one organized by Reebok. Dita Sari turned down $50,000 from Reebok and will go on organizing against corporate exploitation and government harassment. Do-gooders should study her fine example and stiffen their spines.
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You can't fail to have seen the "Star Over London" helium blimp floating around the last couple of days. It's quite a sight as it soars over Greenwich Park. I wish they'd make it a permanent feature (but perhaps without the Wife Beater logos on the side). Tickets are a rather steep £185 – £360, depending on the length of your flight, and can be booked here.
Perhaps Boris will decide to subsidise it, and we'll all be able to commute to work in a flock of TfL airships using our oyster cards?
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Just to be clear, I haven't abandoned my "I Cook the Beatles" project. In fact I'm hoping to incorporate some of it into the Vegan Mofo 2010 thing I've got going on this year. But that may just prove to be a little too much intersectionality, even for me, so for now I'm not even going to pretend to have a theme.
This is my first VeganMofo, by the way. Despite having kept track of my vegan food expliots for many, many years on the internet (see: VeganMania, Kreeli's Tasties, Hey Christa What's for Dinner?, this blog and various and sundry vegan food topics on various and sundry message boards – both vegan and non-vegan) I have somehow avoided the whole vegan food blog craze. I kind of took myself out of the "vegan online" loop back in 2004/2005 when I quit participating on pretty much any message board that had veganism as a focus. I quit in a huff. I was a flouncer. I will talk about that more another time, but suffice it to say, I was completely disillusioned with the online vegan community, especially as my own my own feelings about radical anti-oppression politics expanded and grew. So, when I quit my once beloved Veggieboards, and Kittee implored me to join the PPK, I declined. I was still too burnt out and too stung. I was also in the very early stages of starting up my own vegan food business, which took up enormous amounts of my time and energy. After working on that all day, plus homeschooling my two kids – I had very little left for online shenanigans.
Things have changed a lot for me over the last five, six years, though. My kids are both in public school. My business grew and grew and grew…and then I stepped away from it. I still don't regularly participate on an vegan-ccentric message boards (though I have signed up at the fledgling abolitionist board on Gary L Francione's site); but I surely do appreciate the vegan food blog culture that has arisen as a result of them and I am feeling ready to jump into that particular fray. As far as spreading the good vegan word, talking about the food we eat is definitely the safe, least controversial way of doing it and it's something that we can all relate to. Also, food is my passion. I love to eat. And coming from an art school-cum-housewife background, creating delicious, enticing and family-friendly meals is a way for me to at once take care of those I love, and express myself creatively. So here I am…one more Vegan Mofo to add to the list of 700 of you out there. I feel so grateful that so much good information is being shared about vegan cooking and food so easily nowadays. When I first started, waaaay back in the mid-1990s, the pickins were slim online and there weren't a tenth of the commercially available cookbooks we can buy now. Way to go, fellow MoFos, way to go. I'm really excited to be taking part.
Without further ado, I present to you my family's vegan Dia de los Muertos feast.
We enjoy a Mexican feast of this calibre every year around this time. I normally try to prepare it on November 1st bur this year neither my daughter nor I felt well enough to enjoy such luxurious magnificence, so we delayed it by a day. It turned out that the actual Dia de los Muertos was November 2nd this year, so it was probably our ancestors way of telling us we were doing it wrong to begin with.
I have been making vegan enchiladas for years but they aren't particularly authentic. First, I have a hard time sourcing corn tortillas locally. Second, I use a tomato-based sauce, knowing full well that real enchilada sauce has no tomato whatsoever, but derrives it's red colour from pure chili peppers alone. In some ways, you could almost call these a casserole dishes filled with non-traditional ingredients my attempt at making a Mexi-style lasagna. But you know what? I'm not Mexican, nor do I have Mexican heritage. I also put tofu in my "ancient grains" hippy tortillas.
We're not going for authenticity here, folks – and that may be for the best, since I'm not super fond of pork fat in my beans.
I am, however, fond of guacamole on my pseudo-enchiladas.
Adding to the non-authenticity are these incredible polenta fries.
Polenta isn't Mexican. But it sure is delicious! Especially cooled, cut into sticks, baked until crispy and then dipped in a chipotle-Vegenaise aioli.
And since we have gone all over the globe procuring ingredients and flavours from several different cultures, I figured why not bring the Germans into it, with this delicious coleslaw.
By far, my kids favourite part of the annual Dia de los Muertos feast we prepare is the Pan de Muertos (literally translates to "Dead Bread") and the spicy hot chocolate I brew up for us to dip it into. Normally I make up a big loaf, shaped into a skull, with little bread "bones" stuck all around the edges, but this year we decided to try something new and made, instead, 16 individually-sized skull-shaped buns. It was a fun way to get the kids involved in preparing the meal and we got some very creative skull-and-bones bread sculptures out of the oven. The only sad thing was, I realized too late that the yeast we were using in this batch of bread wasn't filled with the joie de vive that I needed it to feel and the bread didn't really rise. Oddly enough, it still produced some very edible and dare I say delicious – if dense – little skull biscuits, that tasted juuuust fine. Especially dipped in our cups of chili-and-cinnamon laced thick hot chocolate.
There were no actual complaints; though the perfectionist in me was sorely tempted to chuck the whole batch out and start anew, even if it meant we wouldn't be eating dessert until 3am. This is progress for me, people!
This year I skipped making the molé; normally I do that up with some Mexi-rice on the side, but I kept the gathering low-key since my husband was working in the evening and I wasn't going to be feeding as many people as we usually do. As it is, I've got an entire tray of mixed enchiladas in my freezer just waiting for the next evening I'm too wiped to prepare something from scratch. Anything fiddly like that, that involves a lot of rolling and stuffing, I try to make extra of. It's the housewife in me – she knows that it's the chest freezer, and not Valium, that's really mother's little helper on the roughest of days.


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Southern Hognose Snake, Puff Adder, Hissing Adder, Spreading Adder, Blow Viper, Hissing Sand Snake
Scientific name: Heterodon simus (LINNAEUS 1766)
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* scientific names used through time
- Coluber simus – LINNAEUS 1766
- Heterodon simus – HOLBROOK 1842
Description: Average adult size is 14-21 inches (35.5-53.3 cm), record is 24 inches (60.9 cm). It has a thick body and sharply upturned, pointed snout. Adults are light yellowish brown and may be tinged with orange-red, with dark blotches on the back and smaller blotches on the sides. The underside of the tail and the belly are the same light color of sandy gray. There is a dark line extending from the upper jaw through the eye. The scales are keeled, and there are 25 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juveniles are grayish with dark blotches.
A. Side of the head
B. Top of the head
C. Front (face view) of the head
D. Keeled scales
E. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
Range: Uncommon to rare, but occasionally found throughout northern Florida south to Lake Okeechobee. Outside of Florida, it is found from southern Mississippi east to North Carolina.
Habitat: Occurs in sandhills, scrub, high pine and turkey oak woodlands, hardwood hammocks, and dry river floodplains.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). See comments under Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platirhinos).
It feeds mainly on spadefoot, southern, and oak toads. However, occasionally it may eat other frogs, lizards, and small rodents.
The Southern Hognose Snake lays eggs. Breeding takes place between April and August. Males often follow the female around for several days prior to courtship and copulation. They lay between 6-14 whitish, thin shelled, leathery eggs, which hatch in 55-60 days. Hatchlings are 6-7 inches (15-17 cm).
Comparison with other species: The Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platirhinos) has a light belly and underside of the tail, and a less upturned snout, and the Pigmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius) has a blunt nose – it is easy to distinguish between the harmless Hognose Snakes and Pigmy Rattlesnake.


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Football, tango and dance, Argentina's ostentatious culture is matched only by its wild and uncontained terrain.
To hear the word Argentina conjures images of a colonial past, fervent revolutions and modern glamour. The torn history of Buenos Aires lives on in its colonial era facades – beautiful buildings of old that give this country its European flavor. Today, the attraction of Argentina's urban life is almost impossible to resist, with engrossing football matches and cool cultural arts to get caught up in. But Argentina's natural side is no less rivetting, with rugged towering Andes and roaring Iguazu Falls to explore.
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Let the sleepy urban centre of Mendoza be your stop off point for excursions to the countryside. Right at the foothills of Mt. Aconcagua, the area is a thriving wine region.
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- Belgium: not required
- Germany: not required
- Ireland: not required
- Netherlands: not required
- New Zealand: not required
- South Africa: not required
- Switzerland: not required
- United Kingdom: not required
Citizens of Australia, the US and Canada are granted visa-free access after paying a reciprocity tax. The amounts are as follows:
- Australians - US$100 (multiple entry for up to 1 year from date of issue)
- Canadians - US$92 (multiple entry for up to 5 years from date of issue)
- Americans - US$160 (multiple entry for up to 10 years from date of issue)
This fee can only be paid online through the following website:
For instructions on how to process this payment please visit:
A receipt for this payment must be produced at every border crossing into Argentina.
Tipping is generally expected in restaurants so it's good to add 10% to your bill. For other services like taxis and hotels, staff don't expect as much of a tip, so a few pesos should do.
Internet is readily available in all urban and suburban areas, with plenty of free Wi-Fi in public places and cafes. However, there may be less coverage in remote or rural areas.
Argentina has good mobile phone coverage in all major centres, however service is less reliable in remote or rural areas. Ensure global roaming is activated with your provider if you wish to use your phone.
Argentina has a mix of modern flush toilets and simple squat toilets, depending on where you go. It's a good idea to bring toilet paper with you as it often isn't provided in public toilets.
- City bus/subway fare = 1-2 pesos
- Bottle of beer in a bar/club = 10-20 pesos
- Glass of wine in a restaurant = 15-20 pesos
- Simple lunch = 25-30 pesos
- Dinner at a restaurant = 50-100 pesos
Tap water in Argentina is safe to drink unless otherwise stated. For environmental reasons, avoid buying bottled water and take a canteen or bottle that you can refill yourself.
Credit cards like VISA and Mastercard are readily accepted in major cities, but they aren't always used in small towns and rural areas. Cash is preferred in these places so be prepared to carry some with you.
Argentina has plenty of ATMS in major cities and urban areas but fewer in remote and rural areas. Be prepared to take cash with you on excursions to the country.
Yes. All peregrine passengers are required to purchase travel insurance prior to their trip. Your insurance details will be recorded by your leader on the first day.
For more information on insurance, please go to: http://www.peregrineadventures.com/how-we-can-help/our-services
For a current list of public holidays go to: http://www.worldtravelguide.net/Argentina/public-holidays