T is for Total Lockdown

Hello Ladies, it has been quite traumatic for all of us I think since we were all at the T party last week, I hope that you are all free from the virus as we are here.

We are on total lock down here in Spain, we are only allowed out to go shopping, the pharmacy or the hospital, we've just been told that we aren't even allowed to go shopping together! The police are patrolling around and it's a fine if you are caught, we didn't realise this, we went shopping yesterday morning although Steve stayed in the car, I wouldn't risk him mixing with anyone as he has heart problems so better to be safe than sorry. It is was very organised, only 40 at once in the shop, it's a big supermarket so I was never close to anyone, they have plenty of food but spread out on the shelves, I think they are keeping some back to keep filling the shelves to stop people buying everything.

They sprayed our hands with sanitizer and then gave us plastic gloves, they are so big on my hands I could't actually open the plastic bags to put my veg in them so I just stuck the price label on and gave them to the girl separately, she laughed when I told her why!

Luckily we aren't social butterflies so it's not a hardship to be together, that's our lives since we retired doing everything together although we are missing our morning walks along the paseo but it's a small price to pay to be safe.

Seeing as we haven't been eating out since we returned to Spain because of the risks I haven't been able to take any photos so I found a digital image and decided to make a card.

This is for all of you lovely ladies from the T Party, to say thank you for all your visits and kind comments, it's much appreciated.

The last two weeks I’ve been inspired to make a start on my travel journal, I’m making this one from our visit to Disneyland and Universal studios 18 months ago with our DIL and DGSs, our DIL organised it all and she did us proud, we flew to Burbank from SFO where she organised a car to drive us to Anaheim where we stayed for two nights, we had one day in Disneyland so it was a hectic day. Then she organised a stretch Limousines to take us to the Hilton hotel close to the studios, it was amazing, unfortunately our DIL doesn't like fairground rides and Steve wasn't allowed on most of them, they went on the log flume and the space ride but after that I had to accompany our 11 year old GS on them all. I must admit it was amazing whizzing around behind Harry Potter and feeling you were going to be crushed by a giant boulder in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark but I was totally freaked out when our GS wanted to go on the Mummy, we had a long wait and when we finally got on the ride we asked if we could go at the back, by the time we got to the end our GS had his head on my knee and I had my eyes closed! We never saw a thing, LOL

I've also been making Birthday cards from the free papers I got with my craft mag, let's face it I think most of us could be on lock down for a year and not run out of stash, By the time we are let out I will most likely have enough cards to last my lifetime, Ha,Ha

I was quite pleased with this one as I also used some twine, I usually struggle to use that and ribbon! That's all for this week, take care and have a good crafting week! Jan x