Good morning everyone


I didn't blog yesterday as I decided to have a very lazy do-not-a lot kind of day, but take a deep breath & read on because I make up for it today. There is going to be several photos including slide-show & the first is that beautiful sunrise I took on Boxing day morning standing at the front door still in my dressing gown.  I can never tire of looking at such beautiful sights.



I spent  the afternoon reading one of the books I had downloaded to my nice Christmas pressie - Kindle.  I had downloaded several classics - so the one I decided to start reading was "Cranford".  I found it really pleasant to read - it's been quite a while since I read a classic & sometimes the vocabulary & way of writing takes a while to get into - but this didn't.  Did you see the TV serialisation of it?  Judi Dench played one of the main character - Mattie - as I read the words she would have spoken you could almost hear Judi Dench - she really was a good choice for that part.


In the evening we had the family round for a New Years Day meal - which Bob cooked for us & was very nice indeed.  A very pleasant evening was spent afterwards with just general family chit chat. Gareth informed me that Amazon had some £1 books for the Kindle - so I popped in there quickly & bought 3 more books.  I have never heard of the authors or the books but the descriptions sounded good - so I thought I would try them.  I will let you know what they are like once I have read them.


Right!  Crafting is what we are about & rubber stamping in particular.  So what have I been doing?  I have a birthday card for my neighbour to show you - her birthday was New Years Day.  Sadly it is not stamped but produced from a craft CD I have.  The picture does not do the 3-d work justice.


Then also there are the pictures for the Christmas  present I made for my friend Veronica - which again did not have stamping.  I had intended to do some but left it a little too late to get my head around what to do.  So I put to good use the many papers & toppers I have collected during 2010.  It is one of those desk calendars that stand up & you flip each page over.  On the back of each month I had stuck a saying or little poem relevant to the month - it was good fun trying to find suitable ones - I really enjoyed that part.  Here is a slide show of the pages;




Today I am starting on making cards for the coming year & hope to make at least one a day - which means that I have to make 2 today because of not doing one yesterday.

Well! I think that is enough chat for now.  I look forward to chatting more tomorrow & to our club nights this month which will not take long to get here.  It will be so nice to see you all again.

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