My clever friend

Hello there

I'm a lucky girl in many respects but particularly so with some clever ladies I know. For my birthday, a present I received from Mara was a gorgeous cross-stitched design card which says 'Create'. The story behind this card is funny, as Mara was away from home at the time and didn't have a a sewing machine, so she nipped into a well known store and borrowed a machine to quickly sew the fabric onto the card. How ingenious is that?! She's not one to let an issue stand in her way, for sure :-)

To enable me to keep the card so that not only can I have a memento of Mara's many talents but also the friendship she offers, I decided to frame the card. Of course just sticking it in a frame isn't interesting, so I put some background paper behind it; Tilda's Summer Blues pad. Then I made some flowers from the same paper and attached them to the frame after putting buttons as their centres. I could always have painted the wooden frame and done allsorts of fancy stuff but the focus should be the card not the frame. 

The great thing about this too is that I've had the frame for a long time and hadn't found it a purpose. 'Meant to be' springs to mind. Everything finds it's place in time; just don't be too surprised when it's not what you expected.

This isn't eloquently phrased but 'life isn't what you make it, it's what you make of what happens more often than not'.

Take care out there

My winnings

Hello there

I won these on a Tando blog hop recently. How cool is it to win so many things that you
love just for looking at design team entries, which are mega inspiring?!!

My daughter asked me recently to make a frame for her latest drawing.

It just so happens that a backing and an Arabian arch fit perfectly around her  drawing.
I got to playing around tonight with paint and some heart balsa wood embellishments

The arch looks even better with the gold paint dabbed on. I'm
going to leave it to dry and see whether I should've put gesso on the  chipboard
before painting. No problem if that's the case, as I'll just
turn it over

Yee hah! I spy fun times ahead with this little project.

Take care out there