Larissa is 3 today

Happy Easter everyone, whilst you are all opening your Easter eggs I wanted to share with you the card that I made for Larissa our 3 year old Grandaughter. Just like all the little girls I know I just love pink so I chose various shades of Stampin' Up cardstock in pink for the card it is A5 size.

This is a larger version of a Cake shop window card that we were shown as a Make & Take at Monica & Bekkas training day.

Cardstock
Blushing bride
Melon Mambo
Whisper White
Pretty in Pink
Ink
Pretty in Pink
Melon Mambo
Rich Razzleberry
So Saffron
{ Stampin Write pens used to colour two colours on one image }
Tools
Oval Punch
Scallop Oval punch
Scallop Border punch
Word Window Punch
1/2" Circle punch
3/4" Circle punch
Stamp  ma jig
Stamps
Crazy for cupcakes
Just Perfect Alphabet
On A Pedestal
Pretties
Melon mambo Polka dot ribbon { Now retired }




I know that Larissa had a lovely day she went on a picnic with all of her cousins & some of her friends, the pictures that her auntie & Mummy took were lovely of them all & most of all the day stayed sunny for them.

Where did October Go?

Where did October go?

October thankfully has gone & we hope for a better November with more highs & less lows. Its always a hard month for us as a family as we have the anniversary of both my dad & Pauls dad. Then Pauls Birthday he turned 50 this year and we went out for a lovely family meal to one of our favourite restaurants mambo Jambo's.

Earlier in the month was a definate high when I did a day retreat with Dawn and made some lovely projects.
Then we had the low of my Mum being rushed into hospital, she had been in hospital for 4 days before anyone contacted me so you can imagine how I felt & only when she had to sign the consent form for major surgery did she tell them I was her next of kin. So a trip to Reading to see her & try & get to the bottom of what was happening, all of this was just 2 days before the anniversary of my Dad, so the train journey was filled with apprehension. Thankfully she is now hme from Hospital & is recovering as expected, hopefully the battles with social services over her care are now sorted & she will continue to make progress.

Then we did manage a few days away at Hopton but sadly during our few days away we had the news that Pauls uncle had died, this affected Paul badly as he is now the oldest male member of the family at 49, so we came home from holiday early.



Half term was lovely as we had Abi's Boyfriend Jakee visiting & Pauls 50th Birthday. On the Saturday after half term Jake went off to make his first run on the drag strip in the Camaro, he said it was an amazing experience & once Abi had spoken to him she stopped fretting.


Twins




Last Sunday we went back to Bracknell to visit my Mum & try to sort out her care package. Whilst we were there we had a lovely family lunch with James, kerry & the boys & pauls cousin Louise who had come all the way from Australia for the funeral.



Wednesday saw us back to Bracknell again for the funeral which thankfully went without a hitch & gave us a chance to catch up with family & friends.




So all i can say is I am glad it's now November & hopefully back to somewhere near normal. You never know maybe the next post may actually contain a craft project or two, I think I will need a map to get to my craft room.

A whole week

I cant believe it has been a whole week since I last sat and updated my blog properly. Well today is my day off and it is grey and raining & I have to go to the dreaded dentist, so not a good start to my day.
We had a lovely weekend with the grandchildren we took them to the East Anglian game & country fair, it was an excellent day out & they got to see & try all sorts of things, my grandson Bradley had a go on the archery & he loved it.

Bradley then got suited up to try his climbing technique on the clibing wall, I think he did well as he's only small.

We did take a picnic, but there was no need as you could eat your way around the show, with speciality food & drink from every corner of the globe.

I wasn't feeling at my best on Saturday & nearly didn't go as I awoke at 4.20 am with a migraine & was woken again at 6.30 by two little people playing on the trampoline in the garden, which is under my bedroom window.


I dont seem to have had any time for cardmaking so I must finish the new baby welcome to the world card I started for my new grandaughter,I stated it on Thursday after we got the news of her safe arrival, but it is quite time consuming, I decided to make a chipboard book from scratch that spells the word baby.

I had a sad phone call last night that my daughter in laws dad had died, when she was here at the weekend we talked about her Dad & I didn't realise that the end was that close, but looking back her words were very similar to mine when my dad was in the late stages on cancer. So i have to make a couple of sad cards today, I have known my daughter in law since she was just 2 years old, so we will go down for the funeral as well.

Then a happy card Bradley is 7 on saturday so I must make his birthday card & get that in the post. Although it will be a hard day for them having just lost grandad.

New Arrival

We have a new arrival in the family ~ Larissa Katy-Lynn arrived at 1.03 am weighing a tiny 5lb 9oz and 48cm long.
Emma & Larissa are both fine.