Hi everyone my name is Carol, I am 57, live in Benfleet Essex with my partner of 11 years David who is an accountant. .I have 2 sons Tim who is 36years and is in the Air Corps( he is off to Afghanistan in August please God keep him safe) and Paul who is 34. Both are married and I have been blessed with 2 wonderful Grandsons, Jac and Louie. I started making cards about 4 years ago and was hooked from day 1. My sister now crafts with me and we enjoy what we call Craft crawls (used to be pub crawls lol). We buy stock and then sit looking at discussing what we are going to do with it put it away then get it out and look at it again. I have 2 cats Billy a chocolate Burmese and Fatty a blue Burmese( just lost my 3rd Ellsa, she was 17yrs). I no longer work and spend most of my time crafting or gardening (with the occassional bit of housework!). I have just done my 1st craft stall at Jac's school and it was fun so will hopefully get organised enough to do some more selling. I make all my family and friend cards and couldn't envisage buying another one. Well I think that's about it anybody on the forum nearby? , would love to know x