I had the most gorgeous surprise with my post today. After a week of brown envelopes I found a white, hand-addressed one on my mat. When I turned the envelope over I was surprised and thrilled to see that it was an RAK from Sara, aka Fairy Princess on the Crafts Beautiful forum. Sara, if you’re reading this, thank you again for making my day! It is so beautiful - just look:
I’ve made a couple of baby cards for Freehartz, one of the ladies on the CB forum who lives in Canada. She had asked for donations to help her with her special children’s charity. I wanted to make more, but I go on holiday on Sunday and have so much to do before then. Here are the cards I’m sending:
These are really just very simple cards, using embellishments that I got with a kit a while back. The yellow and green one uses some lovely sunshiney eyelets that came with my Crop-a-Dile. I haven’t made any baby cards before, so this was a nice project to tackle.
My amaryllis is in full flower on my conservatory table at the moment. Actually, it’s the second spike that is in bloom now, for some reason I forgot to photograph the first one. The bulb was a Christmas present three Christmases ago from a lovely lady who is no longer with us, but the flower is doing better and better by the year and always reminds me of her. Here are some pictures of it - it’s just so gorgous, sort of iridescent and waxy looking, but so soft and silky to the touch.
The second two pictures are taken using the micro setting on my camera - I find the centres of flowers fascinating. So beautiful in their compexity - I can see the individual grains of pollen on the original pictures, so I hope this comes out okay on this blog.
Having got the bug again for taking pictures of flowers, here is one of a lovely cream gerbera that forms part of a bouquet of flowers that Alan bought for me last week. The rest of the bouquet is a little past its best now, so I didnt take a picture of the whole lot, but these are so beautiful:
