David's Special Birthday. . . . . . . . .

Good morning everyone. Hope all is ok with you and yours?

What a lovely week weather wise. . . . . . . . . .well, it has been here in The Pond lol!!!

Am I sad to take so much pleasure in seeing a line of washing bobbing about in the sunshine with a gentle warm breeze hahaha!!!

Managed to get some crafting done this week. Mojo has returned from its extended holiday so I'm making the most of it in case it decides to jet off again.

This week, I have also managed a grocery shop with Mr D, had a little pootle around Hobbycraft and yesterday, the lovely Nesta took me out to a local garden centre, where we had lunch and a gentle stroll around. It was smashing and great to be able to walk around without getting out of breath. These new tablets do have some side effects but thankfully breathlessness hasn't been one of them, so far.

On the subject of Hobbycraft, I bought some great 3mm off white pearls branded Simply Creative (they are part of Trimcraft) They are glued separately, so no having to chop them apart, 1080 in the pack all for £1.00. . . . . . . bargain!!! They do them in larger sizes too. I think that's the best deal I've had with pearls. Not often I can say bargain and Hobbycraft in the same sentence but hats off to them.

Now, today's card is one I made for Nesta to give our friend Davey (the guy who has more stamps in his passport than Alan Whicker) for his birthday in June. . . . . . .yes, I'm a bit behind lol!!! As it was a special birthday (sorry David, I've let the number out of the bag) he spent it in Australia and mounted Uluru. . . . . . . . . .no, that's nothing rude with that woman out of Star Trek, he climbed Ayres Rock lol!!!

Ingredients

White, french navy and sky blue card (8x8 sized card)

CE Linen embossing folder

SB Swirl Stripe Panel 

SB Fancy Tags 3 (2 different dies from this set)

SB Blossom 3 (Nestabilities)

Presscut rectangle dies

Mei Flower navy ribbon

Dovecraft teeny bling

Computer generated sentiment

I'll show you the card I made from me and Mr D next time. 

Well, Singapore GP this weekend. . . . . . . I can almost smell the chicken satay at Lau Pa Sat ummmmm!!! Been lucky enough to visit Singapore a few times, when visiting my family in Malaysia but not for the GP. Bet it would be amazing to see a night street race.

For those of you lucky enough to be going to Ally Pally this weekend, I'm very jealous and sad that I can't make it. Hope you have a wonderful time and get to say "Hi" to my mate Wendywoo (Spanish Crafter) who has come over from Spain to help out on the CE stall.

Also, for those of you who saw Elaine's (Nattyboots) comment on my last post, her son Andrew has been very ill but is hopefully on the road to recovery. I didn't like to mention anything before as I didn't think it was my place to as I wasn't sure how public the news was. Poor Elaine has also had a poorly leg to contend with too so big hugs to the Nattyboots family.

Anyhoo, that's me for now. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

TTFN

Ang x

Penultimate Lockers Sample Card. . . . . . . . . .

Good morning everyone. Hope you're all well and looking forward to this Indian Summer we are supposed to be about to have.

Apologies for being missing from posting (bit of a rough week) but I have tried to keep up my visits to your blogs.

Thank you you to June and Maggie for clicking the "follow" button. June has kindly been commenting for a while and Maggie (Silvercrafter Blog) was one of the lovely ladies I met when Darnell came over to the UK in July.

I must also say welcome to some new ladies who have commented and been very kind.

Now, I know we are in September and I'm still showing samples I made for John's May/June show and I know this is featuring August's Child but there is only one more after this, promise lol!!! I know you're a forgiving bunch so you won't mind, will you???

Ingredients

CE ivory and rich plum card

SB Swirl Stripe Panel

SB Fancy Postage Stamps die

Sue Wilson Ara Mini Gemini

John Lockwood Summers Child Stamp (sentiment)

John Lockwood Nasturtium Everyday Sentiments (swirly stamp at the bottom)

Mei Flower plum ribbon

Memento Dew Drop Sweet Plum ink pad

This is a simple card to layer up but it was one of my favourite samples.

I hope you don't mind but I just thought I would show these beautiful flowers that arrived at a point where I was feeling particularly sorry for myself a couple of weeks ago. I apologise for the picture quality but I snapped them on my tablet. . . . . . . . .

A huge thank you to my wee pal Kate (Cuilliesocks) for cheering me up no end.

Thank you to all of you for your kind, concerned and encouraging comments. Its always touched me that you take the time to visit and leave comments but during the last couple of months, its been appreciated more than ever. (I would have just said I was touched but I know that would leave the door open for Maureen lol!!!)

I hope it wont be so long until next time. Be good!!!

TTFN

Ang x

Update

Sadly, another spell in hospital as pulse went bonkers again last week and a couple of issues with the anticoagulant doing its job too well, so that's why I hadn't posted for a while.

Keeping everything crossed for things settling down.