Down the 'handmade gift' road again - I do think I like this detour!

I had a moment last year - probably Kirsty Allsops fault - when I 'needed' to make some cookie mix jars. I decided to make them this year for Adam and Lucy but have yet to fill them as I want them to last a while!! So, these are prototypes! think I need to do something about the writing on the back of the label - my writing is shocking! I've yet to decide on the contents and would have like to have road tested the recipe but I don't see that happening as I think time has expired on the baking side of this year! Now these I do keep taking a peek at, they are adorably cute!

Last Minute Quick Makes!

Well, after viewing a friends cards for this year I had a sudden panic attack when I realised I'd not only forgotten to make Adam and Mark cards but My parents, my sister and brother and Marks sister cards. These are some I quickly made tonight. I keep checking them to see if I actually like them. I do love the mulberry trees. I now have Marks and Adams to pull off before the end of the week when I go away. Eeeeeeek, no pressure then. Oh, I have just come up with a fantastic idea for a card for Mark - I love it when creativity hits like lightening - don't you! Watch this space.

December 1st, the date my parents married!

Can't believe they have been married for 48 years
that is one scary figure! When you say those words
'until death do us part' 48 years just doesn't sit there on the radar does it? I've done 25 next year and that is scary enough, especially since I am still a teenager!!! How can I have been married for longer than I have been alive - child bride, that was me! Anyways, back to the card! I was helping a crafty friend out and happened upon the SP papers and HAD to download the romantic ones! I love them, love them, love them. I also bought some text paper a bit back that I wanted to make a flower with using the robo file i bought from DAN (I love that guy!) This was the first one I have ever done! I'm happy with it, but Mum wasn't!!! I had to send it in a box - need to think of postage when making cards to send - and she had to go collect it from the post office! I Had the gorgeous Laura Ashley cream and burgundy ribbons in and the label and dotty mirri is me playing with my new baby - my big shot that i bought from my sales!!!!!! Can't believe I earned enough to buy one! Don't think my hubby can either and I'm sure he's checking the funds lol!!!! Oh and the peel-offs, something I don't routinely use - were freebies with the big shot! the writing was done care of my clever robo! Wish I could say I did it my hand! After writing this post I am now wondering if Mum managed to work out how to display this card, my colleagues proved this is not 'automatic' upon receipt of an easel card - bless them!