Good afternoon friends, and a lovely warm
sunny day it is here I am pleased to say.
Hope it's as good wherever you are too !
I have my usual 'Less is More' card to
share with you today. So busy yesterday
with the 'littlies' so no time to make it until
now, more about that later though.
It's a 'recipe' this week over at LIM
and...............
SOMETHING SHINY
This is what I came up after a bit of
thought.I layered some vellum after a bit of
stamping. Soft shades of blue/green,
a touch of silver for the 'something
shiny' & a few clear sparkly sequins.
Anyway come and have a closer look......
The usual ps. bit is below my card today
as it goes on forever lol. Ok to just see
my card instead ;)
White Linen card
White vellum
Silver card
Lawn Fawn 'Let's Bokeh' stamps
Clearly Besotted sentiment die
Mama Elephant inks
Neat & Tangled Clear sequins
Vellum glue dots
ps. I decided to do a 'dinosaur' day for
our grandchildren yesterday ;) Any
excuse really lol !
I printed out lots of dinosaur pictures/
games, bought loads of dinosaurs
(rubber or plastic). Cut out dinosaur 'feet'
and left a trail all through the house.
They each had a dinosaur name,
Charliesaurus, Alexanderapter and Lanatops.
and crocodile 'hats' from the good old £ shop.
The children loved it, I renamed their
play tent to 'Dino Den' ....although Charlie
said it was a pirate tent still after the
last pirate day ;)
I left a trail of dinosaur cards for a garden
treasure type hunt which went down very
well with them. Each had their own initial & a
number on the back and they had to bring it to
daddy to check of a list.
The prize was a dinosaur each, ( wrapped in
layers of newspaper so it resembled a
large egg). Charlie was disappointed it
wasn't chocolate though ;)
After a few more dinosaur memory games
they had 'monster' stilt feet to walk in. Then
their most loved game the 'dinosaur obstacle
course'.
They had to pick up a small coloured ball
(dinosaur egg) cross a chair, walk on
'dinosaur' eggs ( cut out of card) without
touching the carpet.
Then over a bench and through the 3 part
tunnels ( bought for last 'do'...so popular
with them that!).
The naughty daddies and granddad tried to
catch them as they went through the tunnels
and pretended to be dinosaurs lol.
Then they had to deposit their 'egg' into a
large bowl and start all over again. It proved
so popular with them they used the 8 'eggs',
they I quickly replaced them again and again
so the game could continue lol.
Those boys move sooooo fast now,so much
laughing.... it was all a blur. I think I lost
several lbs in the process and it tired the
boys out.....for a while too ;)
They each got a kinder egg at the end, so
Charlie was very happy. It was also a celebration
for our eldest son's birthday (2 days earlier) so
Charlie loved helping put candles on the cake.
He helped daddy to blow them out too ;)
Cake is Charlie's passion so he had a piece too
along wth Alexander and Lana....silence prevailed.
I won't mention the 'bones' I made and cooked
using a salt dough recipe. I hid them in damp sand
for a fossil dig.
Disaster!!!! Alexander flicked sand in his eye and
Charlie put sand everywhere.We gave up after that.....
I found out later all the hard 'bones' had gone soggy
in the sand overnight so I threw them away!
Ooh sorry this goes on forever.......well done if
you read it all lol. I am already planning a
'jungle' day next. With vines and big leaves and
monkeys hanging from them.
Yes I am mad!!!
What would I do without grandchildren now??
It's week 72 over at 'Less is More' and it's atheme this time which is...............Something Shiny I made this quick card,...... I think my mojo has vanished completely for the moment. I almost didn't bother making a card this time, but I haven't missed one LIM challenge so far so.....Anyway here it is,Pink Petticoat dp ( silver?), silver butterfly ( Cuttlebug die),PP sentiment.Clear gemsfrom stash.The tiny clear stones I used in the display here all spilled onto the floor, the whole container full !!!the second time this has happened , I should just take a few out each time to use & NOT leave the top off ( note to self).ARGHH!!I thought this sentiment was 'speaking' to me today, read belowto understand that.
Sorry personal stuff below,and it's very long... ok to skip this bit !
ps. It was my brother's funeral yesterday, a very emotional day for us all.The church was packed as we knew it would be, he was adored by many and such a lovely gentle man. Still can't believe he is gone, .......still can't believe I have lost two brothers in the space of three months!His three children wrote and read out their own lovely poems dedicated to him...so very moving.This brother also read out a poem he had written for our other brother at his funeral only three months ago.I made commemorative bookmarks for everyone there and to give to others who didn't attend.( See pic below)My brother wrote poetry, and my other brother and my mother ...all used to write poetry. The poetry writing gene stopped with me though alas !, but at least I made and chose poetry for the bookmarks !The poem was read out at the funeral too as my SIL loved it so much when she saw it.My SIL read it out too, she was amazing. It was a long 5 hour journey there and the same back all in two days. So tired today,the traffic gets worse each time.Not a good day today,............. I hope time will improve things as it always does. Thankyou to everyone for all the support, emails, comments etc.It has kept me goingthrough the last few difficult months.Bless you all .hugs Viv xx
