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Neave,
Oooh, you really have!  <3  I look forward to finally doing this.  The colors are mesmerizing, and the looming itself looks like so much fun!  <3
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

i'm happy just knowing i've inspired you

Neave,
I don't see how they can't be inspired! 
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

let's hope so

Neave,
You're so welcome!  <3  Good inspiration can be hard to find, so I hope people will see your work and get inspired.  <3
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

thank you

Neave,
Terrific...you did great!  I seconded telling everyone to look at your albums.  <3
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

well that's helpful i'll look later

Neave,
I completely agree!  <2  Keep your friends close...the enemies will do their best to hurt you, so it makes no seense to keep them closer.
Your wedding does sound lovely...so glad you could do that!  <3
BTW, we've created a new area in the Community, in the non-stitching crafts area for the loom bands.    It's easier to post, no timeouts if you take too long...and you can add pictures right in your messages there.  <3  Feel free to post there, as much as you want! 
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

exactly and they say keep your friends close and your enemies even closer yeah i'll keep shay,charlie,their kids close but not the enemies and our wedding was lovely it was just shay,charlie and their kids,me,nicky and calum it was done at midnight in a candle lit service that was the way nicky wanted it 

Neave,
I'm sorry you've been dealing with so much, though I do think you're doing all of the right things for yourself.  <3  Family will screw you faster than anyone else, unfortunately.  (Been there, done that way too many times.)  It sounds to me like you've found a very healthy way of dealing with them (though I'm sure they'd disagree).  And trying to split you two up...grrrrrrrrrr, that's horrible too. 
I think you were smart not to have them at your wedding.  Your wedding was the day for the two of you to enjoy, not have to put up with family tension and BS.
Sometimes it's best to cut people like that out of your life altogether than to try and keep a bad relationship going.  There are people who talk about how "great" family is, but those are people who have never had family that backstabbed them.
So keep up the good, healthy work!  <3  Better to make up a family of your own from non-blood relations than to be leeched off of by blood-related parasites.
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

mom knows i will never forgive her ever for it and my relationship with dad is just as bad as it is with mom he tried to split nicky and i up when we first got together when we were 10 and he tried setting me up with a guy that he's been friends with the guy's family for years i wasn't having none of that and told dad to go to hell and fry i won't even let mom and dad into our house or speak to them if they are at shay's when we go up to sligo to see shay,charlie and their kids i walk out i wouldn't even have them at mine and nicky's wedding i told them straight if they turned up at the church i'd have the cops arrest them it was shay who gave me away when nicky and i married on 21st june last year after 26 years together we've been together since nicky's birthday 9th october 88 he's a day older than shay and i lol

Neave,
I'm so sorry...that sounds absolutely awful.    And it's so unfair to you for them to have made you do it, instead of letting you make whatever choice you wanted.  That's very wrong.
Sadly, some parents do that...I used to know a guy who had become an accountant because his parents discouraged him from his dream, which was to join the navy.  Ultimately, he quit his accounting job, but I think he may have been too old for the armed forces at that time.  He was very, very resentful of what his parents had done.
It truly is unforgivable.
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

good luck with your mission the discipline wasn't the problem for me i hated army life because i never wanted it i had it forced upon me by mom because her dad and grandfather had both served and none of my siblings had choosen to so unlucky for me i got the short straw and was forced in and i've never forgave mom for that and i never will

Neave,
I'm so sorry...that must have been rough to be in the British Army.  I think any kind of armed forces would be rough.  Some people do like the discipline (my friend's ex-boyfriend joined the navy to "grow up" - even though he never did grow up), but I think more people have trouble with it.
Thanks for all of those fantastic links!  <3  Oooh, that Alpha Loom at the rainbow loom site looks amazing!  I WANT! 
The two closest places to us are Target and Walmart.  I never knew they carried so many loom band products!  I'll look for what they have in the stores...it's easier to get things that way than to order them online.    It's especially good when they have a clearance sale on an item.  They can be very inexpensive that way.
Thanks again!  <3  Can't wait to get out there!  LOL, I'm a woman on a very important mission. 
Melanie  (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=

melanie i've looked online for you to see where does loom bands and the kits 
http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=loom+bands&category=0%7CAll%7Cmatchallpartial%7Call+categories&lnk=snav_sbox_loom+bands
 http://www.justinstoys.com/
http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=loom%20bands
https://www.rainbowloom.com/
http://www.toysrus.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=loom&keywords=loom&origkw=loom+bands&sr=1
http://cra-z-artshop.com/shimmer-n-sparkle/
hope this helps u in your search for the looms and bands
 
 

yeah we'll stay in dublin it's nicky's home town he's lived in dublin all his life apart from the 2 years he was in england at leeds on his soccer apprenticeship as a goalkeeper he loved it which is more than i can say for the 8 years i spent in the british army i hated every minute of the 8 years