Last Saturday it was my 69th birthday.
How on earth have I become as ripe as an old cheese - though I do have to say I smell better than an old cheese.
I do not feel my age at all. In fact it startles me to see this old biddy looking back at me when I comb my hair in a morning.
I still feel like a spring chicken.
Had I known I was going to last this long I would have taken far better care of myself.
Himself bought me a very nice card(well for a commercially produced one that is).....roses, a poetic verse.....just what a card should be. No present though.
That really would have been asking too much.
Anyway it didn't really matter because over last week I had been watching a craft channel and they had a mew range of cutting dies out.....some essential shapes and some Christmassy stuff.
I knew himself would not be getting me anything so I splurged and bought a whole shed load of them.
Some of these dies arrived on Thursday....some arrived today....and there should be more coming over the next week.
I am in crafting heaven and the ideas that are filling my head are keeping me awake.
Sometimes what I think of in my head works out well in practice, other times it doesn't.
When it doesn't i can usually salvage some elements of the design to recycle.
So today I have been die cutting, stamping and glueing.
I will put pictures of my recent handiwork on here tomorrow...so watch this space.
There you go .....here are 4 that I made yesterday.
How on earth have I become as ripe as an old cheese - though I do have to say I smell better than an old cheese.
I do not feel my age at all. In fact it startles me to see this old biddy looking back at me when I comb my hair in a morning.
I still feel like a spring chicken.
Had I known I was going to last this long I would have taken far better care of myself.
Himself bought me a very nice card(well for a commercially produced one that is).....roses, a poetic verse.....just what a card should be. No present though.
That really would have been asking too much.
Anyway it didn't really matter because over last week I had been watching a craft channel and they had a mew range of cutting dies out.....some essential shapes and some Christmassy stuff.
I knew himself would not be getting me anything so I splurged and bought a whole shed load of them.
Some of these dies arrived on Thursday....some arrived today....and there should be more coming over the next week.
I am in crafting heaven and the ideas that are filling my head are keeping me awake.
Sometimes what I think of in my head works out well in practice, other times it doesn't.
When it doesn't i can usually salvage some elements of the design to recycle.
So today I have been die cutting, stamping and glueing.
I will put pictures of my recent handiwork on here tomorrow...so watch this space.
There you go .....here are 4 that I made yesterday.
