My Happy Place: February 2013

Here I am again wishing you all a Happy New Year, only this time it's in Chinese. Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year - the year of the snake. (Known a few in my time, but enough of that).

I made the following card to give to my very good neighbours who happen to be Chinese. They own a takeaway and every year they honour me by putting the card I make for them on display. I hope they like it,

the year of the snake

hope you like it too. I found it quite hard to design a nice card with a snake in it as snakes are so often seen as fearful creatures, but this one looks like it is smiling.

I am just getting over the dreaded lurgy namely 'man flu', which my husband gave me - generous to a fault. Needless to say I just got on with things, took my medicine and suffered in silence - except for the barking cough that is. My turn to annoy him all night - revenge is sweet!

I am looking forward to having a few days off work this weekend as it is the mid term holiday. I have a list of jobs written already, but my main task is to de-clutter the en-suite (20 years of make up) and the main bathroom, in preparation for getting new fittings and decor. We got a load of brochures with some very fancy designs, looked through them all and basically chose the plainest suites in the books. Typical, but at least we both agreed on the same style for once.

I have been busy making special cards for people at work, for the birthday club, for retirals and for my display box and here are a few of them.
I have also discovered digi stamps - aren't they just great. I loved this wee boy in his boat and the gardening one will come in really handy, and they don't take up any space in the craft room!