I've had a self imposed little break from posting, for one thing I simply haven't made a thing apart from 3 layouts for an assignment. I've had a lazy uninspired Easter break. 2 Weeks ago my gran died, she was 97 and senile as well as practically blind and practically deaf, live wasn't fun or fulfilling for her anymore and she was in a great deal of emotional pain and stuck in a hospital bed in a care home. I'm glad she finally let go and died peacefully in her sleep in the afternoon.
We had her funeral on Friday, it was a time of great stress for me as I hardly know that side of my family and I haven't seen my father since I was 11. I was relieved to find out that he wasn't coming over from New Zealand and I didn't have to worry about meeting him again. In the end the funeral was as nice as these things can be.
Easter was quiet and uneventful, Joe managed to give himself a cracker of a bruise on his cheek by kneeing himself whilst trampolining, we were calling him chipmunk for a while whilst it was swollen, and its now turned all the colours of the rainbow but is still stubbornly hanging on.
Jess had a sleepover and decided to tackle her (her words now) bushy eyebrows, I came downstairs the next day and at first thought she had slept very rough as her eyebrows looked odd, she finally admitted to plucking them out a few hours later as I wouldn't let it drop. We had to make a trip into town to buy an eyebrow pencil to make her look human again - silly girl, i'm hoping shes learnt her lesson on that score.
I got my copy of The Scrapbook Magazine in the post today, I was asked to do a 5 layout article on photo corners. It was surprisingly hard to come up with 5 different ideas, a photo corner is after all a photo corner. I'm going to share a couple now:
This was taken just before Christmas, Jessica was giving her new step cousin a cuddle and actually enjoying it! I used ribbon and butterflies for this corner.
And this one of my family playing monopoly on the ipad.
So sorry to hear about your gran, even if it's time it's never easy x
ReplyDeleteI'd wondered where you had got to! Glad you're back x