pelicanmum

@pelicanmum (16)

Australia • Age 62

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Prove It!

Jess @JJ4Ever (4693) • United States 27 Feb 08

As many of you know, I got engaged to the man of my dreams on Valentine's Day. I'm really looking forward to planning the wedding and spending the rest of my life with my best friend. Before I can get married, however, my parents...

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pelicanmum HI This is of interest to me coming out of my second failed marriage. I really see where your parents are coming from. I first got married at 24 and wwhen I think back realise that the reasons for this were wrong - being from a religious family they...

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I got the refund but found out.......

SageMother @SageMother (2277) • United States 8 Feb 07

I had a seller not send an item tht I ordered back in December and so I just now got the money back into my paypal account. While I was working witht he comoplaint, I found that this seller had opened a new ebay site under a new...

ebay

paypal

rip offs

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pelicanmum I buy ans sell all the time. I have only ever not gotten the item I paid for once and couldn't get a refund because it was below the threshhold. I think that the problem with this is that you are opening yourself up to liable. This sort of site is going to...

9 Feb 07

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Judge Judy and and an Ebay Scam

whiteheather39 @whiteheather39 (24403) • United States 8 Feb 07

Judge Judy at her mean best. Did anyone see the TV show the other day day where one Ebay buyer was suing the seller? The lady bought 2 cell phones for over $400.00 when she received the package it was an envelope with a photo of...

ebay

judge judy

scam

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pelicanmum I am an ebay seller and have quite high volumes. However, I try to do the right thing by my buyers. If people get stuff that is heaps over what I paid, I send an extra gift. I want repeat business.However, in defense of the seller, if the ad clearly stated...

9 Feb 07

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Digital Scrapbooking

indywahm @indywahm (808) • United States 8 Feb 07

I have always wanted to scrapbook so I have been searching the internet for info and pricing some stuff and come across digital scrapbooking! This sounds cool. Does anyone on here do it and how hard is it and how do people see...

digital scrapbooking

scrapbooking

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pelicanmum if you want to try a digital scrapbook, I suggest trying the new Creative Memories storybook. You do it online and from what I have seen from people I know it is easier to work and cheaper than a lot of the others. Delivery times seem to be great as well.

9 Feb 07

Best Scrapbook site? I'm always looking for new ones?

rlshaw @rlshaw (871) • United States 28 Jan 07

I love to scrapbook and I'm always looking for new sites to get ideas, I love this scrapbook site. IT has tons of free printables.. Please share your sites with me... http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/

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pelicanmum scrapshare would be my favourite. It has tons and tons of resources and ideas and layouts and challenges and so on.

9 Feb 07

How many of you have strict albums?

ScrappinHappyMom @ScrappinHappyMom (914) • United States 4 Feb 07

Yesterday I vendored at an all day crop for a MOPS group. The one thing I noticed was how stressed some of these crafters were. They kept talking about how far behind they have gotten and how they just have to get the baby book...

family

photos

scrapbooking

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pelicanmum I have theme albums and most of my albums are works in progress. I have an album each for the kids, a school album just for the special school stuff for each, my album, holiday albums, family tree albums. About the only album that gets finished is my holiday...

9 Feb 07

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Unique Album Ideas

payingforschool @payingforschool (678) • Canada 4 Feb 07

Other than just storytelling - what are some other unique albums you have done or plan to do? Myself, I did my wedding guest book with a 7 x 7 album. I had acid free pens, and each guest was asked to write their message on one...

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pelicanmum This is a huge project. I did a 60 page 12 x 12 for my soon to be ex inlaws for their wedding anniversary last year. But I have also given all of the family for christmas hjust past an album with calendar pages in it showing anniversaries, birthdays and...

5 Feb 07

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My Friend Wants To Commit Suicide. Shall I Act?

Geoas @ashjoe76 (1422) • India 4 Feb 07

I thought it was just for fun, but my friend talks all the time about committing suicide, the different methods that can be used for it, and so on. She even writes a lot of poems about death. I am not sure whether she means it,...

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pelicanmum Talking like this is a cry for help. THis person is saying that they are feeling unloved unwanted undesirable and so on. If you examine her behaviour you will probably find lots of other signs to indicate that she is feeling low and has low self esteem....

5 Feb 07

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Is Kissing OK?

dragonstar13 @dragonstar13 (1465) • United States 4 Feb 07

First let me explain my family, part of it anyway. I have three children, my oldest daughter has one daughter, my son has 2 boys, my youngest daughter 3 girls. The four granddaughters have all lived with me at one time or another...

behavior

family

relationship

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pelicanmum At 5 he just needs to bu guided in how to behave appropriately with relatives. He sounds like the role models he has had are less than admirable and he just needs someone to guide him through the complex maze of family relationships and behavious. If his...

5 Feb 07

mylot isn't one of those scams is it?

johnnyz_xr6t @johnnyz_xr6t (753) • Australia 22 Sep 06

will we get paid?

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pelicanmum I have only been on here for less than a day. How do you find out how much you are paid for whatever? I just can't find it in the FAQ's.

2 Feb 07

Does an engagement ring have to be a diamond?

Bee1955 @Bee1955 (3882) • United States 1 Feb 07

I chose a 1 caret Emerald that had some diamond chips on each side in an 18 caret gold casing as my engagement ring. Some of my friends were horrified - they insisted that diamonds are for engagements, other wise its "just a...

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pelicanmum I agree. For my first engagement ring, we had a huge bit of Jade with a few diamond bits at the side. He is Asian, and was superstitious that this was lucky. For my second, I recycled. I git a friend to make a ring to my design using the diamonds from my...

2 Feb 07

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Our weekend scrapbooking crop!

Bev1986 @Bev1986 (1425) • United States 25 Jan 07

Twice a year I go to a full weekend scrapbooking crop that a Creative Memories consultant puts on. We arrive Friday evening and leave Sunday afternoon. I like to go to these because I get a TON of work done! I try for at least 50...

scrapbooks

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pelicanmum I went to my first crop last year. IT was a great weekend away. I only got to stay for half of it as I had a commitment on the Saturday that I had to keep. Despite this, I still got to do over 30 pages. The secret is to be organised before hand. I...

1 Feb 07

Do you only make 12x12 albums?

ScrappinHappyMom @ScrappinHappyMom (914) • United States 31 Jan 07

Do you only make one size of albums or do you venture out. I have made albums that are 4x4 pocket books, 6x6 mini books, paperbag books and of course 12x12. I am love working with all different sizes and shapes, currently I am...

albums

new

scrapbooking

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pelicanmum I like to use different sizes for different purposes. For my general albums I like the 12 x 12 because I can fit so much in and they are really versatile. FOr my faithbook albums, I like to use 7 x 7's. I also use small ones as gifts to people. Different...

1 Feb 07

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Child's health or religion?

lonewolfnan @lonewolfnan (4366) • Canada 31 Jan 07

In BC, the government returned 3 of the sextuplets born recently here.The 3 were taken away on the weekend as they needed blood transfusions to have a chance to survive(they were all small and these 3 were the weakest).The parents...

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pelicanmum There are no winners in a situation like this. Most religions believe that children are covered by their parents faith, so being baptised is not really relevant. However, a parent has the inherent right to decide on medical treatment for their children....

1 Feb 07

myLot Reputation

myLot! @myLot (127) • Kansas City, Missouri 9 Jan 07

We are pleased to bring you more exciting innovation from our team here at myLot! We have developed a new algorithm that now ranks a myLot user’s reputation. The myLot reputation rating takes into account various factors...

reputation

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pelicanmum I think this is a great idea. Every other site has the same thing so you see who uses it and who just lurks. It gives you an idea of the quality of the response.

1 Feb 07