We are already one week into 2020 and today I went to see my cardiologist for the annual MOT and came home with an appointment for 2021! Plus this is my second WOYWW this year. Can you believe it!
I have been doing a lot of reading into the fires in Australia and I feel very strongly that I want to do something to help. There are lots of organisations we can donate to and so I wrote a long post about the fires ending with a list of places that you could donate to. Then my computer went silly on me and the whole post looked like it was on a piece of 'ticker tape'. (Like a white strip with black writing on it, made for uncomfortable reading). So I am going to set to and rewrite it but in the meantime please join me in praying for rain - lots of it for them.
As for crafting, well, I haven't done much. I did stamp all those Zinis I showed you last week, cut them out and coloured them ready for my small Moleskin Journal. Now I need to do backgrounds. I don't make resolutions, because they never last with me, but I am going to go back to drawing and painting portraits like I was taught by Tracey (Scott) and I want to try to make cards a bit like those I see others do with Lavinia stamps. Now I do not get on with Lavinia stamps but I managed perfectly well with Cardio silhouettes at Christmas so I bought a couple of silhouettes of fairies.
My desk shows my portrait journal, the two new sets of fairy stamps and my new journal which I found in the cupboard. Brand spanking new! I only have about six pages left in my current Thursday Journal so I was delighted to find two brand new ones - the other has all black pages so was not really suitable for what I want at the moment.
Now I am going to go to You Tube and watch a few videos to see how they do those lovely fairy cards I see. See you next week - will it be fairies or faces?
Health Update:
Yesterday was not good, neither was Monday when I went to see a friend and walked up and down all the time nursing my back but Sunday was a totally pain free day. I could not believe it! Having had a visit to the chiropractor on Friday, first in three weeks due to the holidays, I did not expect a full day like that so it was lovely to reflect on it. But on the whole I think there is a marked improvement and I keep telling myself there are folks out there far worse off than me.
Cardiologist gave me a thumbs up and as I said at the beginning I have an appointment for my next one - in 2021!
