Finally

A friend of mine from my school days (we started infant school together) recently got in touch.

It was great to hear from her after many years.  We had an awful lot to catch up on and then came her surprising news – she was getting married!!  My first words were “congratulations!!” and then she surprised me again by saying that I knew her husband to be.  It turns out that he was one of boys we went to school with, way back when, and it truly is the stuff that fairy tales are made of.  They should have got together when we were at senior school but both were to shy to do anything about it.  Years later, they met again, discovered they felt the same way about each other and finally got married in July – great eh?

A good excuse to try my newly learnt Pergamno skills on a wedding card!!

Best of times and worst of times

As I mentioned yesterday, my absence from the blogging world has been the best of times and the worst of times.

Best:

DS passed his final exams – yipee!!

DH & I passed our silver star dancing exam (with quite good marks, I’m pleased to add)

DS got accepted at the uni he wanted to go to.

Worst:

My dear friend & neighbour (the lady in the previous post) died suddenly at the end of June.  She was only 57!  She has left a gap in our lives, which will take some time to learn to live with.  I have some good memories of our friendship and I am lucky to have known her.

It’s been a while

My poor, neglected blog readers – it’s been too long and not through choice but I am back and over the next few weeks I shall post pics of all the recent (and not so recent) makes.

Where to begin.  It has been the best of times and also the worst of times.  My recovery from having pneumonia took longer than expected and proved to be quite a frustrating time.  To ease my frustration I decided to have another go at Parchment craft, with the idea of making an anniversary card for my dear friend (& neighbour).

I was quite pleased with the result and even more pleased that my friend liked it.

A few days later, we were talking over the fence (as you do) and my friend produced a bag full of Pergamano tools & papers and asked if I would like them.  Apparently, she had tried her hand at Pergamano and found that she didn’t like it.  I was thrilled to bits and have spent the summer teaching myself the different techniques involved in this beautiful craft – have I been successful, well you can judge for yourselves as I blog my attempts.