A few pics below to share with you.. was nice to get away, but so nice to get home.

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Thank you to everyone for the well wishes and Get Well cards, I appreciated them all, they cheered my up no end xxx

Won't post the scar pics on here... think I will leave that to your imagination ..lol

Many people ask where the name Fee J comes from - the answer is quite simple,my first name is Fiona & my middle name is Jane, when I was younger my dad shortened it to Fee J and there was my pet name was created and it has stuck over the years. My Dad was always supportive in what ever I did, even when I gave up a well paid job in advertising to put myself through university to get my degree in graphic design. He was a fantastic artist and gladly helped where he could. Sadly after a long battle with Cancer he passed away in June 2007 - so I take great comfort in still hearing the name Fee J.

Craft/ art & being creative have always been a passion of mine and from an early age, from making pretend magazines and papers (spookily I ended up working for a newspaper in the advertising department) Designing CD's all started of when I bought a card making kit - the papers were Ok, but I wanted something a little more special, I wanted something I had not seen before with the wow factor ... which is when I sat down and designed my first lot of backing papers. After making lots of great cards with what I had designed I thought there must be like minded crafters out there just like me looking for something that little bit special & different too ...which is when I designed my first CD - It sold amazingly well and a few months later Fee J Designs was born.

Now I have my dream job - creating designs that people can use to make their projects come to life. I just love to see what people make from the CD's and love to receive all the fantastic pictures my customers send me along with a mass of hand made thank you cards - which are all hung in my office to spur me on when I am having a day where my imagination does not run freely.

At the ripe old age of 40 on the 10th November 2007 I finally took the plunge and got married. Crikey how scary is that to do? Good job no one could see my legs under my gown as I was shaking like mad. Got a bit tongue tied when it was time to say "I do solemnly" took 3 attempts to say solemnly before I got it right, gave everyone a bit of chuckle including the registrar. My customers were amazing sending me lots of handmade cards from papers on my CD's - that was really cool & so special. Just a few pics to share with you below from my wedding.

Me getting out of the car, looking unusually lady like

Quick kiss under the bridge before heading of to the reception

My daughter was bridesmaid and looked super stunning, my tom boy all gone and transformed into a beautiful young lady, very proud of her that day

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Single handed I run Fee J Designs, there are no teams of designers, a team that packs your orders, a receptionist who takes your phone calls & orders ... It's all down to me - Customer satisfaction is my number one priority, so I am glad I am able to offer that personal touch when you contact me ..without happy customers this would all end ...  Thank you to you all for your support, emails and suggestions.

What do I do in my spare time .. ha ha what is spare time?  No I do occasionally get from behind the PC - I guess my main passion besides my family, home, my little hairy baby ...Poppy and Fee J's  .... is my motor bike.

This is hairy baby when she was 12 weeks old ...awwwwwwww

   My now husband always had a motor bike since we met and I used to go on the back with him .. but he went to fast for my liking... one day I said joking " I will learn to ride a bike one day" ..guess what I got for my next birthday !!!  Bike riding lessons....Mmmm what happed to diamonds are a girls best friend.  To cut a long story short, never ridden a bike before in my life ... took lessons and passed my test ( 4th time I will admit - well it's hard to ride a bike and put your lippy in the mirror, the examiner didn't understand a girls just gotta look good on a bike)   I would recommend learning to ride a bike to anyone - great way to blow the cob webs away and just get out with out a reason ( you never need a reason to go out on the bike)   Girls it's not just for the fella's, If you can craft you can ride a bike.  I now own a pretty stunning Triumph Daytona 600 and I am always praying for a fine day so I can get out on it.

I think I have rattled on long enough now ... better stop before you fall asleep.  Hope that has given you just a little insight into who I am  and what Fee J's is all about.

07/07/2008

Thank you so much for your e mails and phone calls - I will try and up date this page occasionally keeping you up to date and may be letting you into a little more of what I get up to :)

Ahh where did we go on Honeymoon you have been asking .. We had a slightly belated Honey moon and went at the end of Feb 2008 to the Maldives. 

What a beautiful place ... one draw back for me was ... there were things in the water ..well to be precise fish & crabs.  If have one phobia it's being in the water with fish, Stu tried always to get me in the water snorkelling ..and I did try... really I did ... but it was no use there were fish in the water ..lol  I spent the rest of the Honeymoon while in the water floating on a lilo ..it was nick named the lurf ( sort of a surf board but more of a lilo) It became a bit of a laugh with a group of people we met there that I was going lurfing ...lol  Below is one of the baby sharks that were in the water ..they were not to bad ... BUT WHERE WAS MUM !!!

 28/06/2010 ...Seems so long ago since I added to this ... Life just seems to fly by at the moment.  Since starting to film on Create & Craft TV show in Feb 2009 it dosn't seem like 5 minutes since my first show and yet a year and a half ish later my feet still haven't touched the ground.  I still can't thank all my customers enought for loving the CD's I designs and giving me my dream job.  I am always open to suggestions for Cd themes, so if you have any ideas please feel free to tell me.  I will try and up date this a little more often than I have, time these days just seems to get away from me.

Today 14/11/2010 finally managed to get a little time to do a bit of updating on the web site.  New guest book added and more cards in the galleries. This year has been such a busy year and seems to have gone wayyyyyy to fast. Me & Stuart have just celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary, dosn't seem a year since the above pics were taken !!, it will soon be time to get the Christmas tree up and over eat yet again on too many chocolate and turkey.  The NEC for November 2010 is now over and done with, it was so nice to meet all of you who have been buying my CD's for the last 6 years, It's nice to put faces to the names I have been seeing on the orders over the years.  I will be posting some pics of the November 2010 NEC show in the Craft Show section some time soon. 

I don't seem to be doing very well in keeping this section updated on a regular basis, may be one of my new years resoloutions should be to update the blog on a monthly basis, think trying to do it weekly would be a tall order for me ..lol