The long road to nowhere...

We had a wedding to attend in Sydney last weekend. It was hubby's sister's wedding...so it was a big deal. We packed our 15 bags, dismantled the kitchen sink, loaded the camels, stowed six weeks rations and commenced the trek to Sydney on Friday. It was a long weekend in Canberra, so we didn't even try to pack light (HAHAHA....AS IF!).

Upon arrival Mister Almost Five's bad cough/cold....which he'd had for almost two weeks already, and which we thought was finally clearing up, got much, much worse. He coughed so much on Friday night he vomited, he had a fever, and he barely slept a wink (ditto the rest of us). We decided to take him to see a Doctor on Saturday...because we were worried he may have Whooping Cough. He has been immunised, and he didn't have a 'whoop' but apparently those are not deal breakers when it comes to the big WC.

With the young Thumper on the scene, and not yet immunised for WC...we started getting worried. Not to mention all the people we would be potentially exposing at the wedding. We got a test done on Saturday, but the results weren't due back for days...so we decided that Mister Almost Five, Thumper and Myself would miss the wedding...with me keeping my two boys as far apart as humanly possible (not far enough IMO).

Anyway...long story short (bit late for that now you say!!?), we don't have WC (THANK GOODNESS), but we missed the wedding anyway.... :-(. It was still a nasty cold (and chest infection), but the antibiotics are helping enormously.

I did also manage to make a card. It is not your usual wedding-type card (and not what I had originally planned either)...but I was very pleased with the way it turned out:

I'll have to come back and list the ingredients later. Thumper is currently trying to chew my boob off and I'm anxious not to be his first foray into solids AND...OH JOY! He has also filled his nappy, and if the sound effects are anything to go by, it is a DOOZY.

ETA - Here is the Ingredients List:

Cardstock: Elegant Eggplant Textured (SU), Soft Sky (SU) and Shimmer White (misc)
Ink: Elegant Eggplant and Pumpkin Pie Classic Inks (SU)
Stamps: Heart Prints (PTI) and Enjoy the Ride (PTI)
Accessories: Haikou DSP (SU), White Gel Pen (misc), paper piercer (misc), Royal Velvet Twill (PTI), Mat Stack 4 Die (PTI), Linen and Canvas Impression Plate (PTI), mini glue dots (misc), Dimensionals (SU) and Tombow Mono (Penwa).

I am going to leave you with this last little pic of Thumper chilling. At least we got to enjoy the wedding flowers...

And before anyone has a coronary...the large, mostly empty, foil bladder near the flowers is water NOT Chardonnay (although I may have been wishing I could indulge in some of the later over the course of the weekend ;-).

Just Add Ink Challenge #6 - Sketch Challenge

This week's Just add Ink challenge is a sketch challenge:

This challenge came at a great time for me, because I needed a card for some friends who are getting married, and this sketch looked like it would fit the bill beautifully.

Here is my card:

 

List of Ingredients:

Cardstock: Basic Black, Riding Hood Red and Whisper White
Stamps: Together Forever
Ink: Memento Black and Riding Hood Red Classic Ink
Accessories: Flourish Emboss Folder, Papertrey Ink Black Satin Ribbon, miscellaneous white ribbon, 1 3/8 inch Square punch, 1 1/4 inch Square punch, Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots and SNAIL adhesive.

The large white panel has been dry embossed with SU!'s Flourish embossing plate. It is a bit hard to see in the photos, but looks better IRL.

The black 'parcel' in the back of the third picture is the envelope. The card Measures 6 x 5 inches, so it would not fit in a standard envie..hence the hand made jobbie.

Once I'd finished this card I sat back and looked at it and realised it had a distinct Twilight feel to it...this, however, is not a problem for me ;-).

I hope you are having a lovely warm weekend. We probably don't have too many left this year....so I'm making the most of it.

(Blogged to: White Wedding - Billy Idol and What Kind Of Love Are You On - Aerosmith).