Still thin on the ground as I'm out in my aunt's house on my day off each week. And no other photos, and still no time to select some French ones. Soon, I hope...
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| The cat is cut from black velvet paper, so very tactile. |
My header is one of the sculptures from the Sculpture in Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens last year.
I'll be along soon with photos from France, I promise. But when we got back, my aunt was in hospital and since then it's been a roller-coaster and merry-go-round of hospital, nursing home and then sadly a funeral. So there hasn't been much time for a lot else, and definitely not for uploading photos.
But I do have a few cards that I managed to make or had made ahead of time (C's birthday card: last year he got a saxophone for his birthday). Two pretty quick beach cards are included as a reminder that we did have a break by the sea in June.
Could it be that I took no photos last August? I couldn't find any - so the sunflower is from the Botanic Gardens in August 2021.
Thin on the ground, because we were in France for three weeks. But I had a couple made ahead for challenge samples...
France was good!
The blog header - hmm, I couldn't appear to find any photos from last July, which surprised me. But I guess I could have been pretty busy in work and tired, because someone else was away. The angel's fishing rod photo is from Fota House in Cork, July 21 - a COVID era holiday when we camped in my brother's garden.
are very thin on the ground, it was a low-energy month. I'm including one with an April watermark because it wasn't uploaded to Splitcoast till May.
The June header is taken from our trip to the Bambouseraie in Anduze last June. I feel so bad that I haven't done anything with last year's holiday photos yet. There never seems to be enough time.
I should be along in a few days with photos from our trip to Paris.
In the meantime, here are my favourite cards from April, along with a wistaria header photo taken in Farmleigh last May.
March was a good month for cards! Yes, this is my favourites, and not everything I made. The thank you card has a February watermark because that's when I created it, but it wasn't shared online till into March.
This month's blog header is a photo from our visit to Kilmacrurragh Gardens in Co. Wicklow last April.
I do have several cards I like for February, I think the longer evenings are helping. I'm going to attempt updating my header photo with one from the Botanic Gardens last March, but it may have to wait till I'm at the PC later in the week.
I should have stopped on the way home today,
but I thought that by the time I stopped, put my bike on its stand, took my gloves off and got my phone or, they would probably have flown away, so I didn't bother. We've had a fair amount of wind recently, and there are a lot of small branches on the ground. As I was coming though the park I saw a pair of crows who were stripping the soft bark if the branches, and they had their breaks full of strands of bark. Nesting time, for sure ...
The first card was for a challenge to use three, the card with the fern background was to use two. The Beetles card was to commemorate the first appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. That was wide open to interpretation and I'm always happy to make something with a yellow submarine or an octopuses garden, but I thought I'd use a couple of the stamps from a series by Pink Ink Designs. I treated myself to them after Christmas because the singer, used here, the guitar player and the sax player will all work for cards for C. Without a lot of spare time, two was as many as I could easily fit on one card.
Are not many - work continues to be busy. How did it get to be February already? I won't get to the PC till tomorrow so I can't update my header photo till then, but I thought I might as well get this posted.
As I suspected, the header photo has to come from February 21, I have nothing from last year. I actually edited two photos from Farmleigh in Feb 21 - having done the squirrel header I thought I might have used it last year (no, it was snowdrops), so I also edited a tufted duck, which I'll add as a footer to this post.
Can legitimately include a couple of Christmas cards...
No very exciting photos from January 2022 - knitting, baking and marmalade. So the header comes from January 2021 when we obviously had a very cold snap.
With wishes for good health, peace and contentment for 2023.
