Fresholi | Melting Pot Café

Just wanted to stop by and say hello before I spend hours browsing through all the interesting posts! I'm Lilli and I live in Accrington, a small town in Lancashire in the north-west.

I've been crafting all my life - I've done cross-stitch and scrapbooking but my favourites are knitting, crocheting and making jewellery. Recently I received some handmade soap and hand cream as a gift. I loved it! I did some research, loaaads of reading and that's it....I'm hooked  ;D

Looking forward to 'meeting' and sharing ideas with you all........

Lilli   :buttrf:

Hi and welcome

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Hi Lilli and welcome. Another addiction ;) :D.
We would love to see some pics of your creations, we lurv pics (Honey love pics, please oblige :mwaha:). The more you post, the more boards will open for you. Also, there is a wealth of info in resources, well worth reading. So, when are ya going to soap, huh huh!?

Eire

Hello

I'm not so far from you  ;D

You'll love it here  :buttrf:

Hello Lilli - welcome.

We have never managed to get a FAQ together so if you can't find out what you want to know in the oodles of topics and resources (there's such a lot it's not always easy to find what you want) just give a shout.

Hi Lilli

I am not far away either - Liverpool. Welcome to the boards.

Thanks for the lovely warm welcome  :)

ElaineJ - Thank you, no doubt I'll be shouting for help loud and often!

Eire - I will get some pics up soon, promise! When will I be soaping? Well.... I've got a dissertation due in on Friday (which I'll finish tomorrow if I can tear myself away from here - last minute Lilli, that's me!), two exams next week, one final exam on the 7th of June, a week's holiday in Turkey on the 15th June, then I'll be free to soap all summer. Yayyyyyyyyyy  ;D

Hello Lillie - welcome.

I was born round the corner from you in Burnley

 :)

Me too! literally, Edith watson unit at burnley general  :mwaha:

Hi Lilli, welcome. You'll love it here,

Being nosey, what are you studying?

Hi, Lilli - welcome!
Glad polly was nosey first, I'm curious, too  :mwaha:

Oo, I'm a Burnley girl too! I must be a lot older than you though as I was born at Bank Hall Maternity Hospital, on Colne Road. I'm not sure but I think it may be a Care Home now. 'Tis a small world..... 

I'm coming to the end of a BA Joint Hons English and Sociology. I've been offered a place at Lancaster on the MA in Social Work next year and I'm waiting for an interview for a place at Blackburn on the PGCE in the Lifelong Learning Sector. I don't know which I want to do yet. To be honest, I'm really fed up of studying now (and working nights every weekend to help fund it). I want to be a housewife and cook and clean and craft every day :)

Hello and a very warm welcome!

Well done on getting a placement and good luck with your studies. I'd love to be a housewife and craft all day (and pay someone else to clean and cook  :D)

Welcome aboard, I'll join the queue to craft all day!

Welcome!!! Hope you enjoy it here... do I know you from Twitter by any chance? Your ID name is soooo familiar to me but I just can't place it.

As said (and I'm apparentely the unofficial "photo" obsessive) we love pics so whenever you've made anything, you must show us... we like the cute ones and the ugly ones too.  The more you post the more boards will open up for you ... and you'll find that you think you've read everything and then realise there's a ton more!

Welcome aboard... I am NOT from Burnley as it happens  :mwaha:

I recognise the name from Folksy (I think).

You sound a busy bee Lilli - phew!!

Hi and a very warm welcome to the boards.  Do keep posting because you will get to see much more, the more you post  ;)

I hope you enjoy it here  :buttrf: :buttrf: :)

Bingo! I have just registered on Folksy but there's nothing in the shop yet - I've got loads of things waiting to be photographed, as soon as I get the time.

I was born in 82 :) lived in Padiham most of my life though, the only thing I know on Colne Rd is santas pizza  :mwaha:

'82? Good gravy...

'82? I was born in **cough, **'60 cough, splutter**

My brother lives in Hapton, he loves Santa's Pizza!

Practically neighbours  :mwaha: santas does THE best garlic sauce.. and it doesn't hurt that they sell Haagen Dazs too.

Welcome, we love pickys  :popcorn:

Hello and welcome!  :hi:
Yep, pics we like.

Welcome Lilli  ..

This lot might have jumped on the topics of study and employment but me - I'm all about the holiday in Turkey!!  :jealous:

I'm also all about soaps n lotions and bath and body potions, so sing out when you have question and I'll do my best to help (or enable) ..  :mwaha:

Still a baby.

Is their a website on the way????

Eire

Hello Lilli  :buttrf:

Hi everyone *waving madly*

Eire,

There is a website on the way - not for soapy things (yet  ;) ), it's for my jewellery and handknits and crochets.

Ah, thought it when browsing domain registrations. Looking forward to pics of your jewelry and knits. :)

Eire

Hey Lilli.

Thank you Clear, you don't know what you've let yourself in for - there'll be loooooadsa questions when I get going  :mwaha:

Hi and welcome Lilli, I know what you mean about things getting in the way of crafting!!!!

Hello Izzyfranny, Akua and Avril * waving*

It's all wrong isn't it.....life is so short and we have to spend so much of it doing things that we don't really want to do! But then again, that makes the times when we are doing what we want to do even better  ;)

Hi Lilli! :)

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