And finally, a card

Good morning everyone. Thank you for your support through my family trials and tribulations...hugs to you all. They haven't finished because no my daughter is now in the hospital with her gall stones! Thank goodness they are both in the same hospital, makes visiting them easier! 

But, there is a bright side at last. I got my car back yesterday, no charge as it was a manufacturer's fault,  afternoon and it feels wonderful. Only trouble is, after driving Stephen's card for a few days, I keep turning the windscreen wipers on instead of indicating LOL. 

The very best thing though is that Stephen is improving slightly each day. He now helps them (one handed)  to dress him, and when they are washing him he turns over when they ask him, so he is understanding things more. His face is back to normal. He talks a lot with his face and eyebrows and the old Stephen is back :o)

Anyway, enough of my family's woes. Here is the only card I have made since Stephen's stroke!

This photograph is of Uncle Doug in WW2 on his ship, HMS Penelope.

I gave it the soft frame and the text in PSP11 then printed it onto white linen card.

What a wonderful man he was and he will be remembered with much love :o)

Jackie xx

The bad news just keeps on coming.....

Good morning everyone, Thank you so much for caring, you have all lifted my spirits...hugs

 

In the immortal words of Victor Meldrew, "I don't believe it"

 

I set off to go and visit Stephen in hospital yesterday but never got there. Instead I was sitting on the Derby ring road broken down for over an hour until my breakdown service arrived. Ended up being towed to my usual garage and still awaiting a report on it. Something broke in the engine and it's going to be costly! Can anything more happen to us now?

I never got to see Stephen  but Susan went last night and she said he was very tired. They must be putting him through his paces in rehab!

This morning I am going to have a try at driving Stephen's car. It is a lot bigger than I have driven for many years so I think I will take a turn or two around the village before I venture any further!

 

To cap it all, I had word from my cousin that our wonderful Uncle Doug has passed away. He was the nicest person anyone could ever meet and will be sadly missed. He had cancer so we were expecting it, but it's still a shock. R.I.P. Uncle Doug 1920 - 2013

 

Oh well, onward and upward as they say!

Jackie xx

2 x 90th birthday cards

Good morning everyone, I hope it is brighter where you are. It is very dull and miserable looking here and quite cool!

These are cards for my Uncle Doug who will be 90 this month. This first one is from my cousin and I use old photographs of him to make the backing paper.

This second one is from me and I used google images of 1920 to make up the backing paper. As you can see I couldn't get by without nesties :o)

Jackie xx

Another wartime wedding

A couple of weeks ago I did a wartime wedding page for a change (see my PK #21) and it whetted my appetite so here is another one I did. The backgound DP is actually grey but it shows on the photograph as brown!

This one is my Uncle Doug (Dad's brother) and Aunty Margery. I punched the flowers from pearlised white paper and the leaves are Sizzix. Journalling was printed in Ms Word.

Creating these pages has made me want to get back to my heritage scrapbook which I started oh so long ago :o)

Jackie xx