WOYWW #621

 WOYWW - All the deets on how to link up etc. and, more importantly, why you should, can be found at the top of the page.  Thank you Julia for hosting another week of fun and mayhem.

I am trying to catch up with all that must be done, my Blog has appeared on the scene and has now been 'fitted in'.  Expect to see me featured a bit more often although not so many photos.

My desk this week has been covered in Butterflies . . . . the brightly/pastelly painted type!!

I found every die, almost, that I have and diecut them out.

I found some pretty paper while I was clearing out, so much but these two sheets would be perfect.

So, do I hear your ask, what will you do with all those butterflies?  Well, several have already flown away, some are waiting to fly and the rest are settled in a box for future use.

Sad but pretty . . . .

On a brighter note . . . .

Look what I have found . . . .

Given to Peter by our own MaryAnn way back in 2016 . . . . a really joyous find!

Follow me new button

As the 'follow by email' links will no longer work soon, I have added a Bloglovin' link.  Hopefully I have done this correctly so that when you click the link your name will be added and you should receive all my future posts in an email from Bloglovin.  Any other Blogs which you follow under the Bloglovin' banner will also appear in this single email.

I prefer to use this banner and every morning, I settle down with a coffee and read my emails all contained in this one place.

So 'click the link' and continue to be amazed by my artworks, laugh at my silly adventures and applaud my hard work.  

Above all continue to enjoy!

Hello

 I'm still here, living each day as it comes. . . . . .

I don't seem to have the patience any more to mess with my laptop AND blogger so I am ignoring them both.

I will catch up with my cardmaking, ATCs and my adventures . . . . . yes, still having adventures . . .  they're nearer home for now though.

Hopefully, if the good weather continues, I may get out into the garden.  I have plans for the greenhouse, not for growing tomatoes but plants that I really like!!

By the way . . . . the island does really look like this now . . . 

Easter Day

 

Six Months

 Six Months to the date - 3rd

Six Months to the day - Saturday

Six Months of loss, pain, tears, need I go on.

Six Months of fighting HSBC to obtain access to my money

I am really trying to go forward.

I keep hitting hard patches and want him here 

To help me out

To sort it out

To do it for me 'cos I can't

I didn't know it was going to be like this.  When we spoke of being the one left behind, which we did often, we saw only the greenness

We would have all the room in the bed . . . . . .the big empty bed

We would have all the quilt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . on the big empty bed

We would eat what we wanted . . . .  . . . . . . .  even though it has no taste

We would get up when we wanted  . . . . . . . . .but what for

What fun we would have

On our own

BUT

It's not like that at all

It's not like that at all

I know that life goes on

I am trying to embrace it

Trying to remember I am very Blessed, I have so much . . . .

and Jesus loves me

Why? I don't know

WOYWW #614

 WOYWW - All the deets on how to link up etc. and, more importantly, why you should, can be found at the top of the page.  Thank you Julia for hosting another week of fun and mayhem.

Good morning!

It's pouring with rain and a gale is blowing round the bamboo . . . . . but I don't care . . . ..  it's WOYWWednesday and I have the time to link up  . . . . . . when  I can get a 'new post' page (10mins today!)

The desk

I am creating my swap cards and ATCs for March.  There are several with the theme of Spring or colour yellow.  While pondering what to do I found these stamps on the Chocolate Baroque

website so what could I do?  Chocolate Baroque was introduced to me by HelenH back in the days of 'broken chocolate' . . . .

After sorting out several different cards and papers, I am having a great time, whether my partners like the cards . . . . different matter!!  lol

Fx is here today, so lots of colouring and reading and watching Thomas and jigsawing . . . .  busy, busy.

Have a good day and enjoy no matter what the weather.

A tale from Springtime

Once upon  a time there was a little boy who went to playgroup at his local Church.  He used to do lots of activities there, painting, sticking, bead threading. . . . even planting.

One day in the wintertime he brought a polystyrene cup home from his playgroup with a label saying 'with love'.  The cup was half filled with soil and he told his Mummy to leave it until Spring when she would see what he had planted.

Come the springtime a small shoot appeared and over the next few weeks it grew into a very pretty flower.  The little boy insisted that it stayed in the cup and so it did. . . . every year small leaves of green and white appeared above the surface of the soil followed by a purple flower.  Every year the Mother smiled to herself as she thought of the little boy.

Eventually the soil and small flower was planted into the garden of the house where they lived.  The Mother told no-one but every springtime the little flower popped its head out of the soil and warmed the Mother's heart.

The little corm has multiplied and now there are three flowers popping up to tell me that Spring will be here soon . . . . 

There are even more signs in the garden now, the clematis and other climbers will need to be pruned back soon.  Their green shoots belie the fact that it is soooo cold still.

The Auriculas are freshening up, their tiny buds will soon start to appear and the Sambucus Nigra, Black Lace, also feels that Spring is coming as it puts it small maroon shoots into the sunshine.

Such an exciting time of the year, each day brings hew hopes and expectations.