GETTING THERE!

Good morning folkies!  A few blog posts ago I said that I had to try and get various cards done, including a New Home card, and a New Baby card.  Well, the New Home card was done (and blogged) a couple of weeks ago and I have finally got round to doing the New Baby card.  Wth a little moggy around things seem to take at least 3 times as long and I have to pick my moments - ie when I *think* that Misha is asleep because otherwise everything gets sabotaged by 4 paws!  I have discovered the true meaning of the phrase *cat nap* because Misha seems to have an amazing ability to be fast asleep and dreaming of mice one minute and then bouncing around like something on springs the next.

At the moment, Misha aside, things are frantic.  Tonight we are driving down to Kent to take daughter to a hospital appointment tomorrow.  She became seriously ill over Christmas and it has taken them this long to finally get down to the cause of it.  This year has been a huge round of hospitals and more hospitals, with a bit of messy art thrown in for good measure!  I think that getting messy is my sanity check but at the moment the chances to do that are a bit few and far between, and when I do have the space I don't have the oomph.

Anyhow, enough whinging!  Here is the New Baby Card.  I really don't like the way that colours scan in, as they either look washed out or too dark and this card is neither.  

TFL until next time!

Mandi xx

IT JUST AIN'T EASY!

It just ain't easy ... crafting with a cat!

I wanted to play with some Heartfelt Creations dies and stamps but was somewhat hampered in the process by Misha who insists on eating all thing to do with paper.  If she was not chasing a pen-lid round, she was chomping on the cardstock.  I eventually managed to put this ...........

....... together, which is the heartfelt creations hydrangea die and petals.  I had to cut out 24 of the stamped petals to layer on to the card.  The scan doesn't really do justice to the colours.  All this was interrupted by *thunderpaws* ... aka Misha as demonstrated below!

NEW HOME CARD

FINALLY managed to get round to making a New Home card ... which is not at all housey!  It hasn't scanned in very well as it is so bulky but the background has got lots of home-associated words on it.

I used my Heartfelt Creations die, and cut 6 lengths, which I then glued together and scored at 1/2 inch intervals.  I then glued these together, and made them into a rosette to fill an 8x8 card.  The sentiment is from Lily of the Valley stamps, and finished off with card candy.

TFL!

Mandi xx

WHERE DID I GO?

Disappeared ... that's what!  Disappeared in a sea of journeys to and from Kent, March and London ... oh, and the vet's!  Misha Moo is now very much a part of our lives and has managed to take over most of the downstairs rooms in the house, as well as our travel plans!  We can no longer *simply* get in the car and go ... we have to delicately plan every detail which also has to revolve around Misha!  The latest escape has been a two week trip to Cambridgeshire with Bex, which is normally quite a simple process but not any more!  Having decided that Misha would not cope with the journey to Kent from London, and then from Kent to Cambridgeshire, we had to do it in two stages ... all very precisely planned.  No longer do we simply pack a weekend bag, but cat litter, food, toys, feeding bowls, litter tray, scratching post, worming paste ... and cat has to come too - with an overnight stopover in the middle!

I have only tried paper-crafting once with Misha around and for me, it was not a happy, stress-free event.  For her, however it was a small piece of heaven ..... chasing screwed up paper balls around the house ... remnants of a project gone wrong.  On occasions such as these I wish that she was a dog.  At least she might bring the darn things back after chasing them!  The house is now strewn with little balls of paper, mini tennis balls, ping pong balls by the bucket load ... and pen lids which are her latest fad!

I MUST make a new home card, a new baby card, and a birthday card within the next week ...... or maybe I will just go to Tesco's and buy them!  Let me go and ask the cat what she would prefer!!!!!

I will TRY and be back soon!

Mandi xx