GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Je suis heureux que vous appréciez les vidéos de cours pour débutants. C'est amusant de savoir que vous êtes d'apprendre d'eux, même si vous ne comprenez pas mes paroles. Je vous remercie de me laisser savoir. C'est formidable de vous avoir en tant que membre de la communauté.

Merci beaucoup pour votre envois, c'est trés gentil a vous de me faire profiter de ses videos. J'apprend beaucoup à voir les videos, même si malheureusement je ne comprend pas ce que vous dites, puisque je ne parles que le français.

Merci beaucoup
Françoise
France

GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Hello, Thank you very much for your mail is very nice of you to make me enjoy his videos. I am learning a lot to see the [beginners course] videos, although unfortunately I do not understand what you say, since I only speak French. Thank you very much. Françoise

Thank you so much for the kind words. It's so great to hear about all of these wonderful International locations.

In regards to your question about Drywall Sandpaper… this is a product that you can buy at home improvement stores or hardware stores. It is an abrasive mesh used to sand poly-filla or drywall mud (plaster) that is use to smooth out the seams between interior wall board. In North America we call this drywall.

For more info about drywall sandpaper here at the blog, use "drywall" as the keyword in the search box. There is a search box at the top of every page here at the blog.

GENERAL INTEREST INFO: For everyone else's sake, I am posted some general info about your fascinating part of the world (source: Wikipedia):

Réunion (French: Réunion or formally La Réunion; previously Île Bourbon) is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.

Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas départements of France. Like the other overseas departments, Réunion is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic with the same status as those situated on the European mainland.

Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and, as an overseas department of France, is part of the Eurozone. Due to its location in a time zone to the east of Europe, Réunion was the first region in the world where the euro became legal tender.

By the way, thinking of it, could you tell me what a drywall sandpaper. I just cannot figure out what it is normally used for. I tried to find it here with no success. Thank you for the (one more) tip.
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Your farm sounds lovely Polyanya! It is such a pleasure having you around this site. Thanks for your comments!

The animals mean we can't really take off when we like, so the annual holiday (I don't mean Christmas) doesn't happen anymore. What kind of fish farm did you have? Was it salmon?

So glad to have found you all. Claying isnt as big in Britain as it is in the States, don't quite understand why but then neither is patchwork and quilting (another of my passions). I've spent months researching polymer since I stumbled upon it and I visited your site loads of times before I took the plunge and subscribed. I'm really glad I did you're the best!

**PHOTOS ADDED: The following link will take you to a Spotlight Article featuring some pictures of Polyanya's beautiful work: Faux Raku Polymer Clay and Kaleidoscope Canes

Though I'm sure there are moments when the animals cause a ruckus and it's not so peaceful at all! Plus having had a fish farm myself, I know you are burdened with a fair amount of hard work. But being in the country does have its calming effect.

Love it that we can connect, from half way around the world. Happy you're here!

I am a crofter too, we live in an old croft cottage, have 14 acres of not too brilliant grazing and we keep a cow and calf, ewes and lambs, geese, ducks and my favourite – chickens, One has to be very self reliant and be able to turn ones hands to anything, which is lucky because I can.

You said you are from Shetland. First of all I just wanted to confirm that you are in fact referring to the Shetland Islands situated 100 miles north of Scotland and 200 miles west of Norway. Wikipedia tells me these islands are situated up on the 60th parallel… which is way farther North than most of us here in Canada at the 49th. Did I get that right or is there another Shetland that I don't know about?

The other thing was, you referred to yourself as a 'crofter' from Shetland. Since this is a 'crafty' blog, I would have normally assumed the 'crofter-crafter' thing was a typo. However, I discovered that a Crofter is someone "…who owns or is a tenant of a small farm in Great Britain." From the other posts you have contributed to other articles here at the blog, I can tell that you are definitely a 'crafter'. But please enlighten me (and everyone else reading)… are you a 'crofter' too?