LEST WE FORGET

 Hi Everyone

Many thanks for all your lovely comments on my previous post, you are all so very kind.  

I desperately need to get some Christmas cards under my belt, but the first card today was about remembering those who lost their lives, or had their lives changed for ever, whilst in conflict.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them

and here is my card to say thank you to all of those who have fought so bravely for our country .. .. ..

 This used:

Image:  Sunset Poppy Fields Clipart from TheClipArtStudioX (via Etsy)
Backing Papers:  Honeysuckle Collection:  Crafters Companion and polkadot paper from the snippet box!
Sentiment: LOTV Embossed Labels (via Etsy)
Corner Rounding Punch
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I hope the coming week is kind to everyone and I will catch you again soon .. ... fingers crossed!

BIRTHDAY LOVE

Hi Everyone

Once again huge apologies for being such a bad blog owner, and many thanks for all the enquiries as to whether all is OK in the New Home of Hearts .. .. you are all so very kind.

Life here has been (and still is) very hectic on many fronts and has seen me wearing many, many, many hats .. .. .. not many of which have involved the sheer pleasure I get from crafting/creating. 

I have to admit that I have never known life to be so busy, worrying, stressful, disorganised and yet exciting all at the same time!  

My new little crafty pod is now completed, at long last, and I am really happy with it.  Mr Heart has  constructed IKEA furniture for me whilst I have been busy with Mum.  I am now trying to get all my craft treasures organised (and then remember where I have put everything .. .. which is the hardest part).  

Progress has been mega slow in reaching this point though, mainly because Mum has needed me more. I have been spending a lot of my time with her, including spending three weeks camping on her settee .. .. .. due to a mixture of her not being well with a chest infection and her emergency alert call system not working! 

But let’s face it, in the grand scheme of things, she is way more important than anything else.  Decorating, housework, crafting and organising will always be around, but my Mum won't .. .. .. so I need to make the most of spending time with her while I can.  She was a whole 94 a few weeks ago and this was the card I managed to make for her .. .. amongst all the chaos.

This used:

Digital Download:  Floral Alphabet : AmeliaDigiArts
A snippet of pinstripe design paper
ProMarkers
Snippet of Ribbon
Gems for the daisy flowers and a big sparkly button

Things are progressing really well with me and everyone is telling me I am looking much better recently.  So that is good news, and my appetite is returning which will please my Oncologist. Not many people are encouraged to have what has been described to me as a "see food diet" .. .. .. "see food and eat it .. .. whatever it is!!"  LOL!! 

I am desperate to get back to some serious crafting, but dread to think how far away those days actually are.  But with Christmas looming at super fast speed I am going to have to really get a wriggle on there!!

The exciting news though is that we have finally got our bedroom decorated, carpeted and furnished .. .. .. (so we are no longer sleeping in the living room LOL!!), and in an ideal world the living room will be sorted by Christmas, fingers crossed. 

As everything but the base card and button on my card came from my snippet collection I am heading over to the Snippets Playground Challenge where we are encouraged to use up all those odds and ends of creative materials we all squirrel away. 

Take care everyone.  I sincerely hope that everything is running smoothly for you all .. .. .. and you have more Christmas cards made than I have!