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9 months since my last post...
Well... here we are at the end of November... My last entry to my blog was February ... how ridiculous is that? I actually think that February was perhaps the last quiet moment I had .. since then it has been a complete whirlwind of events ...The facebook page has taken off to extreme levels and I've made some amazing customers that I would like to call friends ... We have a chat in the day time and a laugh in the evening and it certainly keeps me going during busy and stressful times.
Since September I have been working really hard ..... June was crazy for "Apple for the Teacher" keyrings and October went bonkers over Poppy pins .... after selling so many poppies .... I was really proud to donate £100 towards the Peterborough British Legion Poppy Appeal... It was lovely to visit them at the Paston and Gunthorpe Community Center and see all the hard work that went on for such a lovely cause... Next year we will start early and I intend to up the donation to 10% for each poppy sold....
After the poppy appeal came the Christmas rush or should I say "The Slinky Rush" .... after the Slinky Santa and Slinky Snowman ... a group of Slinky Characters popped up ... I've not had a count up yet but I will.... and oh BOY will there be a lot!!!! The Rudolf is my fave ... but by far the Slinky Santa is the most popular.... How are we going to top that next year?
A big welcome last month to Rhian ... my Glam Glassistant that comes and helps on Saturdays and one evening during the week.... On her first week I was so nervous about her cutting herself on glass and had a HUGE PILE of plasters on hand ... I was later to discover that she was in fact allergic to plasters and did finally cut herself on ... wait for it ... the tape gun!!!! ........Although I do not understand her taste in music (who are these bands... am I old?), she has settled in really well and no trips to casualty have been needed (YET!).
So in a nutshell.... a fantastic year for us ... I can only thank my lovely customers from the website and my facebook page for being such stars.... for the chatting, for the banter, for the orders and for most of all ... for putting up with my lack of admin skills due to lack of time spent on the computer and too much time making lovely glass.... As we grow, I hope this will change but for now ... I thank you for your shouts, nudges and pokes....
Next year ... I want to be bigger and better but still be approachable, affordable and always here for a natter and a pinot at the end of a hard night .... big hugs from me..... xxxxx
I’ve been in crypto for a few years though not a complete beginner, but definitely not a pro. Over time, I built up a decent portfolio, mostly stablecoins like USDT, spread across Ethereum, BSC, and occasionally Tron. I knew enough to move things around confidently… or so I thought. One night, I was transferring $180,000 worth of USDT from my Ethereum wallet to what I thought was my Binance Smart Chain wallet. I copied the BSC address from Trust Wallet, pasted it into MetaMask, and hit send. Gas fee confirmed, transaction successful. Then it hit me. I had sent ERC-20 tokens to a BEP-20 address—same string, sure, but completely different networks. The USDT was gone. Not stolen, not failed—just stuck. Sitting on the Ethereum blockchain, locked in a wallet address I couldn’t access on that chain. And since it was technically a valid transaction, there was no way to cancel or reverse it. I spent the next two days in full crisis mode on Reddit threads, YouTube tutorials, random Telegram “experts.” Most people said the funds were unrecoverable. A few hinted at some complicated “maybe” solutions, but none of that gave me any confidence. MetaMask couldn’t help, Binance said it was out of their control, and even a few friends of mine said I was probably out of luck. Then someone in a crypto dev group mentioned a company called SpyHost Cybersecurity Company. I’d never heard of them before, but the way they talked about them—it wasn’t like your typical “we recover your funds” type of service. This sounded more serious, like real professionals. From the first interaction, it felt different. They weren’t asking dumb questions or throwing out vague promises. I was assigned a case manager. And very possible—if handled right. Turns out, since I controlled both the Ethereum wallet (that sent the funds) and the BSC wallet (where I intended to receive them), they could use that to construct a custom recovery transaction. SpyHost had built their own internal tools to deal with this exact kind of issue—cases where tokens are trapped between chains but tied to the same address. And after about 72 hours, just like they said, the USDT hit my wallet( The full $180,000) What impressed me the most wasn’t just that they recovered the funds—it was how they handled the entire process. Professional, secure, detailed. Since then, I’ve recommended SpyHost Cybersecurity Company to anyone even remotely involved in crypto. Whether you’re a trader, investor, or just holding some coins for the long haul—if you ever find yourself in a mess like I was, these are the people you want in your corner and they can be reached out to through their official E-mail address which is (Spyhost@cyberdude. com)
My name is Matthew Krueger, a 42-year-old software engineer from Seattle. Life was steady until June 2025, when a guaranteed high-yield trading platform lured me in. Slick ads on social media promised 20% weekly returns on Solana (SOL). Desperate to fund my daughter’s college and surprise my wife with a dream vacation, I poured in 12,000 SOL, my entire savings from years of freelance gigs and overtime. The app showed gains at first: 500 SOL, then +1,200. My heart raced with hope. Then, silence. Withdrawals failed. Support vanished. The site went dark. I’d been scammed 12,000 SOL, worth over $2.4 million at peak, gone. My wife, Emily, found me sobbing on the kitchen floor. We trusted together, she whispered, holding our 16-year-old, Lily. Guilt crushed me, I’d failed them. Friends distanced, shame isolated us. I scoured forums, but recovery experts demanded upfront fees, only to ghost me. Despair peaked when Lily’s college acceptance letter arrived, tuition mocking our ruin. In late July, on a crypto recovery subreddit, a post caught my eye, Alpha Spy Nest saved my ETH real forensics, no BS. Skeptical but broken, I emailed them. Hours later, they replied: Matthew, we’ve seen this scam’s signature fake DEX with wallet drainers. Their team of ex-NSA analysts, blockchain wizards, and lawyers dove in. They mapped the transaction hash, revealing funds laundered through mixers to an Eastern European exchange. Using social engineering, they infiltrated the scammers’ Telegram ops, pinpointing a lazy mule account. Legal hounds filed freezes under EU regs, forensics unraveled the obfuscation. Weeks blurred: daily updates. August 12th, my phone buzzed: 10,000 SOL secured. Transferring now. I collapsed, weeping. More than money, they restored us, trust, laughter, future. Today, I mentor scam victims, crediting Alpha Spy Nest for our miracle. If shadows fall, light finds a way. Reach out to them via: whatsapp:15132924878, email:alphaspynest@mail.com, website: www.alphaspynest.org
My name is Matthew Krueger, a 42-year-old software engineer from Seattle. Life was steady until June 2025, when a guaranteed high-yield trading platform lured me in. Slick ads on social media promised 20% weekly returns on Solana (SOL). Desperate to fund my daughter’s college and surprise my wife with a dream vacation, I poured in 12,000 SOL, my entire savings from years of freelance gigs and overtime. The app showed gains at first: 500 SOL, then +1,200. My heart raced with hope. Then, silence. Withdrawals failed. Support vanished. The site went dark. I’d been scammed 12,000 SOL, worth over $2.4 million at peak, gone. My wife, Emily, found me sobbing on the kitchen floor. We trusted together, she whispered, holding our 16-year-old, Lily. Guilt crushed me, I’d failed them. Friends distanced, shame isolated us. I scoured forums, but recovery experts demanded upfront fees, only to ghost me. Despair peaked when Lily’s college acceptance letter arrived, tuition mocking our ruin. In late July, on a crypto recovery subreddit, a post caught my eye, Alpha Spy Nest saved my ETH real forensics, no BS. Skeptical but broken, I emailed them. Hours later, they replied: Matthew, we’ve seen this scam’s signature fake DEX with wallet drainers. Their team of ex-NSA analysts, blockchain wizards, and lawyers dove in. They mapped the transaction hash, revealing funds laundered through mixers to an Eastern European exchange. Using social engineering, they infiltrated the scammers’ Telegram ops, pinpointing a lazy mule account. Legal hounds filed freezes under EU regs, forensics unraveled the obfuscation. Weeks blurred: daily updates. August 12th, my phone buzzed: 10,000 SOL secured. Transferring now. I collapsed, weeping. More than money, they restored us, trust, laughter, future. Today, I mentor scam victims, crediting Alpha Spy Nest for our miracle. If shadows fall, light finds a way. Reach out to them via: whatsapp:15132924878, email:alphaspynest@mail.com, website: www.alphaspynest.org
My name is Matthew Krueger, a 42-year-old software engineer from Seattle. Life was steady until June 2025, when a guaranteed high-yield trading platform lured me in. Slick ads on social media promised 20% weekly returns on Solana (SOL). Desperate to fund my daughter’s college and surprise my wife with a dream vacation, I poured in 12,000 SOL, my entire savings from years of freelance gigs and overtime. The app showed gains at first: 500 SOL, then +1,200. My heart raced with hope. Then, silence. Withdrawals failed. Support vanished. The site went dark. I’d been scammed 12,000 SOL, worth over $2.4 million at peak, gone. My wife, Emily, found me sobbing on the kitchen floor. We trusted together, she whispered, holding our 16-year-old, Lily. Guilt crushed me, I’d failed them. Friends distanced, shame isolated us. I scoured forums, but recovery experts demanded upfront fees, only to ghost me. Despair peaked when Lily’s college acceptance letter arrived, tuition mocking our ruin. In late July, on a crypto recovery subreddit, a post caught my eye, Alpha Spy Nest saved my ETH real forensics, no BS. Skeptical but broken, I emailed them. Hours later, they replied: Matthew, we’ve seen this scam’s signature fake DEX with wallet drainers. Their team of ex-NSA analysts, blockchain wizards, and lawyers dove in. They mapped the transaction hash, revealing funds laundered through mixers to an Eastern European exchange. Using social engineering, they infiltrated the scammers’ Telegram ops, pinpointing a lazy mule account. Legal hounds filed freezes under EU regs, forensics unraveled the obfuscation. Weeks blurred: daily updates. August 12th, my phone buzzed: 10,000 SOL secured. Transferring now. I collapsed, weeping. More than money, they restored us, trust, laughter, future. Today, I mentor scam victims, crediting Alpha Spy Nest for our miracle. If shadows fall, light finds a way. Reach out to them via: whatsapp:15132924878, email:alphaspynest@mail.com, website: www.alphaspynest.org
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