It's been a hard week and help is in need....

Hi Everyone,

Well its been a hard week this past week, a very good friend of mine lost her husband on Tuesday to a brain tumour, so much sadness, he had lung cancer 3 years before but after the op and the treatments, he was clear for 3 years, then all of a sudden he started to withdraw from life, so my friend, Anita took him to the Doctor. They started with a cat-scan and found this secondary brain tumour which was an aggressive one, that was on the 2nd August this year and just over a month he lost his batter with Cancer. So having lost my dear Uncle only last month and now this friend of 7years (his wife and I used to work together and give each other lifts to work), I will be saying goodbye at this funeral on Thursday. So another sympathy card to make! I have also told my friend that I will make her some thank you cards to send out to everyone who has visited, sent cards and flowers and travelled half way round the world to attend his funeral. He had so many friends and family, I am sure that Anita and her children will be well looked after. I think its the hardest thing, losing your partner.

So I am busy making cards and hope to put some on my blog once I have finished them. If anyone has any ideas of simple thank you cards and words that relate to this topic I would be grateful if you would let me know  in my comments, it would be a great help.

Better sign off and get to sleep, another day tomorrow to finish some cards and then its back to work on Monday. I don't seem to have much time during the week as I am sure we all suffer from.

Happy crafting and enjoy what is left of your weekend.

Debbie T

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Monday's card

Hi Everyone,
Well, with this wind outside, I am pleased to be indoors now! I have a card for you tonight that has the image from a 3D sheet from Johanna Sheen, Card blank and other papers/card from my stash, flowers from WOC and the dragonfly charm from Harrogate show and of course the saying stamp is Lilly of the Valley stamps that I bought at the GNPE over the weekend.

I have made this a tent card, its a nice weight and hope you like it as much as I have enjoyed making it.

 Enjoy you evening and stay safe from the damage that this wind can do.

:)
Debbie T

A visit to GNPE Harrogate

Hi Everyone,
Well, this week has been very busy at work, actually, the last month has been busy! Anyhow, I forgot all about the GNPE this weekend, only last night saw something on a blog referring to it, so this morning did my normal chores and then made a bee line to the Show. What a buzz! I went first to LOTV stands, I wanted to see Bev Rochester, but I could not see her anywhere, so went ahead and bought my first LOTV Stamps and die cut images, I have seen Bev use them and show them on her Blog, wow they are lovely and so many to choose from! I must have been there for at least 30 minutes at the stamp section, I ended up blowing half my budget on LOTV, 10 stamps and 12 die cut images, its so hard to get a good idea with everyone taking photos of the samples and also trying to shop, I have heard of Road Rage, wonder if there is such a thing as Craft Show rage!!! I went round the show and saw Sheena busy beavering away, then stopped at Anna Marie's stand and had a chat with her, such a nice Lady, got stash from her.... then stopped at Flowersoft and chatted to Noreen,  thanked her for such lovely TV shows, and such a great product and also the wine CD which always goes down a treat! Oh yes also stopped at Pokadoodles stall, just so busy did not get to say hello there. I got some lovely fine glitter from a sea of colours and soooo much glitter, I could not resist. And lastly got myself some tartan ribbon for my own Christmas cards, I have always tried to have a bit of tartan around at Christmas, years ago I had a large amount to tartan gift warp, and ribbon, even down to the coffee cups ... red tartan! really should be using the Cornish yellow (nevermind) The only downer was trying to get through that traffic light at the end of the road coming out of the Show grounds - enough to give you road rage!!!

So I hope to do some crafting tomorrow with the strong winds outside, I will have to stay in and craft!

Thank you for reading my blog
Have a great weekend and happy crafting

Debbie T
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