Ring out the Old...

...Ring in the New

Thank you, Lorraine - your gift was perfect to use to make a card on Monday to ring out the old year and ring in the new. It was such a dark gloomy day that I didn't manage to capture the sparkle on the leaves and the gloss on the berries.

Merry Christmas

Wishing a peaceful Christmas to you all.

We went to Wild Lights on the 21st - more photos to follow whenever I get a chance.

This year's Bûche de Noël

November favourites

Despite November being a month which, for various reasons, left me with far less time to stamp than usual, and less energy, I found that I had plenty of favourites at the end of the month...

I've been collecting various "on the way to work" photos, I just haven't found time to upload and edit them yet but hopefully that will come soon.

The first card uses one of the first stamps I bought - and I'm thinking it must be 25 years ago as the Knitting & Stitching show celebrated its 25th anniversary this year - the little palette stamp. 

I was nearly going to use a photo from the Wild Lights at the zoo last year (we booked for this year, with an ocean theme, as soon as the booking opened), but in the end I went for a sunrise one December morning last year as I waited for the bus to work. 

October Favourites

I think I was starting to feel a bit better after being off work for a week in September...there certainly seem to be more cards I really liked to show for October. The last one is a 9 "x 7" (ish) canvas, and all the flowers and the bird were cut from assorted scraps.

There weren't many photos from last November to choose a header from - a few from the bird reserve in County Wicklow, and a few from a frosty day in the park - so I went with the reed beds in the reserve.