Becki’s Ramblings

This is the card I made for Uncle Tony’s 75th birthday. I’m really pleased with it..

 

Ooh, I’ve felt better today! Yesterday I had a horrible headache and the shivers - thought I was coming down with a bug of some kind - but today I feel great. Had a good night’s sleep last night, which helps.

I’ve finally finished the card I was making and I’ll post some photos of it tomorrow. Next project is Mother’s Day (can’t believe I’ve left it this late!). I feel something pink and opulent coming on.  Maybe some scrunch-embossing if I can get it to look right..

Alan and I are looking endlessly at estate agents’ websites. I rang one agent today. only to find that the house we had seen was, in fact, sold. Another amazing-looking one is so in need of modernisation it is unmortgageable - no bathroom at present. Hmph! Ah well, our dream house is out there, we’ll just have to keep looking. It’s so exciting to plan and dream….

I decided that I couldn’t keep all the wedding magazines and brochures we got from the wedding fair on Sunday. Yesterday, I spent a happy hour or so cutting out pictures that I wanted to keep, and I’ll start putting together a Wedding Ideas scrapbook. Then I can recycle the rest.

There’s an Ideal World Craft Day on tonight and tomorrow. I’m broke so decided to avoid the temptation and have been TIDYING my stash. One of my friends has very kindly donated all her - empty, sadly - chocolate and biscuit tins from Christmas. Is my obsession with storage really so obvious? I’ve been having a great time organising and reorganising various crafty bits and pieces, and finding just the right box / tin to store them in. Aren’t Chinese takeaway tubs useful? Our local one uses plastic ones, rather than the foil and cardboard that most places seem to do - amazing for putting away little bits and pieces, and see-through too. Bonus!

We went to our first wedding fair today! Got there really late ’cause I was having one of my tired days and couldn’t wake up properly this morning - so lots of the stands were closing as we went round, but there were some fantastic ideas!

I’m now brimming with ideas for flowers (do I have the confidence to try doing these myself? I want to have silk so can do them ages before the Big Day..) and for jewellery (again, I want to make my own). I tried on some gorgeous tiaras and one amazing contraption that was really more of a fascinator than a tiara, all teal feathers and twisty spirals of silver wire - just GORGEOUS!!!! Couldn’t look at the wedding dresses for ideas though, the display was at the top of some steps and there were too many for Alan to try to haul my wheelchair up so I could look. Events organisers - please remember that ladies in wheelchairs get married too!!

The rain set in this evening so Alan left to go home at about seven. He has an hour and a half’s drive home and a very early start in the morning for work. It seems really strange when he’s not here. Rosie (my cat) and I snuggled on the sofa after he’d gone and I was treated to the best of her “mummy I love you” purring. Made me feel much better..

Wow. A whole empty blog page all for me! How exciting!!!

It’s almost ten days since Alan asked me to marry him - I’ll certainly never forget my thirty-ninth birthday! No exact plans yet, but we’re thinking in terms of may next year for The Big Day. I can’t wait!! I’ve been married before, once. Briefly. And a VERY long time ago. This feels totally different and how wonderful it is knowing I’ve finally found The One.
 
I’m SO looking forward to all the planning and preparing. We’re waiting longer than we would have really liked because, with me having M.E., we never quite know how much I’m going to be able to do or cope with from day to day. This way, we should be able to get everything organised in a much more relaxed fashion. And I’ll have time to make the dress. Oooh - I can hardly sit still, I’m so excited!

Times of change all round. My house has been sold, so I don’t know how long I’ll be here for. And not a hundred percent sure where I’m going to go, which is an interesting prospect. Alan and I have been looking at estate agents’ websites but I would doubt we will be able to get anything in time to move in when this is sold. Interesting problem to solve.. Ah well. Flexibility - that’s the key.

I’m going to put up a picture of the Valentine’s Day card I made for Alan. It turned out really well and I’m very proud of it. This way I can look at it whenever I want, even when it’s no longer on the mantelpiece. The thumbnail has chopped off the top and bottom of the card, so you need to click on it to see it properly.