T is for Tenth Anniversary

 Happy Tenth T Day Anniversary to Elizabeth and Bluebeard,  a big thanks to Elizabeth for keeping the T Party going for ten years,  it’s been o lovely to meet up with so many friends each week.

A cake to celebrate the Anniversary and also my number ten.

My swap partner was Chris, (Pearshapedchris), who sent me a lovely package of goodies.

My package from Chris. Thank you so much for everything, the Handmade card is beautiful and the Butterfly note card.

My ATC from Chris,  a lovely blue BG with the pretty cup and saucer, I love the pretty lace across the bottom,

These are the two postcards Chris sent, the top one of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester.

Beautiful Napkins especially as they are from the recent Coronation of King Charles, I'm not sure I will be able to bring myself to use them!

The Envelope from Chris, the stamp was a lovely one of the Late Queen Elizabeth.

I was also lucky enough to have a beautiful ATC from my friend Sharon, (Foxystamper), It feels as if it's been made from a Napkin? Sharon and I are old friends from Splitcoaststampers.

It’s beautiful with the pretty bird, it also came in a pretty envelope.

This was all the lovely goodies Sharon sent to me, two pieces of embossed card and die cuts, pretty bird cages with birds and lovely butterflies.

My envelope from Sharon, the stamp is a pretty pink flower but I can’t say what it is.

This my ATC for all the ladies of the T gang to wish you a Happy Tenth Anniversary

Cheers Ladies, Hope you all have a Happy T Day

Jan x

T is for Trying To Keep Cool

 Not much to going on here at the moment with the excessive heat, we’re getting ready for our eldest son, DIL and youngest GSs visit in ten days time, last Wednesday our family from San Francisco left after their two week visit, it was a sad day made worst by having to be up at 6am to get to the airport.

Our son was mid flight from San Francisco and DIL and GSs at the airport in Berlin when the airlines cancelled their return flights from Spain to the Uk so our poor DIL spent the afternoon at the airport trying to find another flight, ended up flying into Birmingham, miles from London, in the end they hired a car with driver to collect them from Birmingham to drive them to Oxford where our DIL was staying with her sister and then taking our son on to London for his flight home the following Day, Hopefully they will get a refund on their original flight as it cost an extra £900 for the flights and £300 for the car! Quite disgusting that they are allowed to just cancel leaving people stranded.

Our GS pointed out the sky as we were driving to the beach, dark rays across the sky.

We had a lovely two weeks with them, it was exhausting as our ten year old GS loves the pool and so I had hours of fun with him, also playing Uno, we had a championship every evening before bed, it was fun but they are all very competitive so you had to have your wits about you at all times. Also some cheating going on too!

Our ten year old GS wanted to play in my craft room, he made this card for his Mum, he embossed the BG and he wiped pink distress inks over the raised pattern before adding the flowers, bling and the MOM across the front.

I think he did a great job for his first time!

it's 9.30am and already hot and humid, we have already had our walk and breakfast,  today and Wednesday we have heat warnings as they say it may get up to 46C, never had more than 40C here before and only once I think, fingers crossed it doesn't get that hot!

My ticket to the T party for this week; I sent this photo to our son to show that we are preparing for his visit, we always take a couple of beers to the airport, wine for DIL and cold drink for GS, to celebrate the start of their holiday, usually sandwiches too just incase they are hungry, it keeps GS occupied as it's a 90 minute journey from the airport, he told me over the weekend that he is travelling in his swim shorts so he can jump out of the car and jump straight into the pool, I had visions of him sitting on the plane with his swimming goggles on too. LOL

Hope all the ladies of the T gang are happy and well, that's me for this week, off to the pool for a swim, the water is 31c !  Take Care Ladies

Jan X