Wishing everyone a peaceful new year, and as good health as possible.
My header is taken from a day trip my sister and I took on her birthday last January, to Castlefreke strand.
Cards include one I made for one of my aunt's good friends/carers/dog sitter, and the one I finally finished for C on Christmas Eve. The stitched toadstool was a purchase with money for making cards for my sister-in-law and her husband. It was way out of scale with the snowmen but I wanted to include it. came down with my third cough and cold in as many months the day after I finished work, so everything has been a bit of a drag.
The first one is by way of being a vintage depiction of a local attraction, so it represents the Phoenix Park with its gas lights and herd of deer. I just ordered, and am in the middle of reading, a book called "The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park", which is in part a general history of the park and more specifically the family which provided four generations of lamp lighters. The two elderly gentlemen I used to see are now retired from active service but I was told that they still help out in the workshop.
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