A Crap Week.

It's been a rough time for me.  In the past 12 days I've been to the Doctor four times, seen my Specialist and ended up very unwell in hospital with a sinus infection.  It doesn't want to go away😝.  On top of this my blood pressure shot up to over 200/93, way too high.  Turns out it was due to ongoing stress I've had.  I was also running a high temperature.

I am back home now, recovering slowly.  All this because someone came into  my home who was not well and did not bother to tell me.  Because my immune system is so vulnerable any infections make me very unwell and put me in hospital. 

On Friday I get up around 7 am, turn on the kitchen light to make a cup of tea.  I was about to cross the floor to get the milk out of the fridge but something stopped me.  As I stood there, I hear a loud CRACK sound, the light goes out, I briefly see sparks, then the light comes back on.  I look up ad see the fluorescent light literally hanging from the ceiling by a couple of wires!  Not knowing if they were live or not, I immediately call the Fire Brigade.  Then I leave the house for safety reasons.  The Fire Brigade arrive and check everything out, no live wires or anything dangerous.  They remove the light and tell me to call the Electrician who installed the light. (Less than 2 years ago) Luckily he was able to come and he re-installed the light with no charge to me.  Ok Universe, I think I have had enough stress for now, please give me a break!

Below is a photo of the light.  Had I walked across the floor to the fridge as I was going to, I would have been hit in the head/face and no doubt sustained some serious injuries.  My Angels were looking out for me that day😀.

No cards today, but they are coming...

Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE Day!  Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!

A Quick and Easy Shaker Card and More!

I made the shaker card (above) this morning.  I had someone coming to drop off some plants, and I wanted to thank them with a card. It uses a piece of cellophane for the front and it's stuck down at the sides and back of the balloon card.  It's a very easy technique and I am happy how it turned out!

I haven't done any crafting for almost a month.  I have a sinus infection and am hoping it clears up soon.  My Doctor wanted to prescribe Antibiotics, but the only one I can tolerate has to be administered through an IV.

To have that I would have needed to go to hospital as the IV has to be monitored.  I didn't want to go to hospital so my Doctor agreed to let me stay at home and try to get rid of the infection myself.  It's a real challenge for me because my immune system is very poor and if I get any infection it can (and often does) mean a stay in hospital and having lot's of drugs and blood tests.  Not my idea of fun at all.  I know who I caught the infection from, and she had no right to be here  when she was unwell.  "She" (whose name will not be printed here) knew she was ill and knew to stay away.  However, she chose not to tell me she was unwell with a sinus infection, and so here I am feeling unwell and having to take all kinds of drugs to make sure I get well, and hopefully keep out of hospital.  I've had the infection 2 1/2 weeks now and I am over it!

So this is why I haven't done a lot of crafting lately.  Plus I had a horrible migraine that  lasted 7 days:-(

Above is "Egg Head, who is, or was, an egg cup!  I have planted a small succulent so it rows to  look like his hair!  The plant has tiny red flowers, when it flowers.  I forget the name of it and I can't move to find the tag off it because I have "Romeo-Valentino" curled up behind me, and if I move two things will happen. 1 - He will steal the whole chair and there will be no room for me!  2 - He will get grumpy with me and will possibly nip me!  Gently, but still a nip I don't want!

Above is "Miz Violetta"!  Below is "Nana Audrey! Both are "String of Pearls'' plants.  So much fun to grow and I got the egg cup and glasses from my local Hospice Shop.  I am always on the look out for unique/weird/funky containers to grow things in!

I have recently spent some time outside planting 70 odd Daffodil bulbs, 40 Ixia bulbs, 20 odd Crocus bulbs, several pots of Aster seeds, (saved from a beautiful bunch of flowers my neighbours gave me for my 60th almost five years ago, the Asters come up each year) 40 Freesia bulbs, and today I planted two "Ruruhau" plants (Chinese Cabbage/Mustard Greens) that someone gave me.  I am in pain from the Fibromyalgia, but find if I keep moving the pain isn't quite so bad - until tomorrow when    the pain hits!

My attitude is, I just have  keep going, and learn how to pace myself.  Rest when I need to and move when I feel like I can without too much pain.  Gosh, that's a whole new blog I could start!

On top of the pain, it's darn icy cold here today.  No sun, just cloudy and icy cold.

Oh well, I have a nice warm electric blanket when I go to bed...and two furry cats who LOVE the electric blanket and believe it is for them!

Ok, I'm done for today, hopefully more cards coming soon! Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day!  Remember to always be your authentic self and shine bright each and every day!

 

Vanishing Visitors And Something CAS.

For the card above, I used some Tim Holtz dies from a set called, "The Park".  I die cut the lady twice.  Once on black card and again on some DSP.  The words are from a TH stamp set that has lot's of different Halloween related words. I used a mask from a piece of card that I had die cut the lady, and carefully brushed on some grey ink to give a kind of shadowy look.  Or are they ghostly images...?!  The butterfly net and butterflies are also part of the die set.

For this card, above, I just stamped the words in black, on to a white folded card.  I added a small glass gem to the tail of the word "away" and the card was done.  I actually made this card for a Face Book page that has all Clean and Simple(CAS) cards.  I struggle with making CAS cards because I love my bling!  Anyway, I like how the card turned out!  The stamp is one of Suzanne Cannons creations.  Her calligraphy is STUNNING!

Ok, so that it's for today.  Thanks for dropping by!  Have a SUNSHINE day!  Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!  Hugs:-)

 

Clean Your Stamps With These!

While I was in my local $2 Shop, I came across these cleaning sponges.  There are four in a pack and they each measure 4 inches in length, just under 2 1/2 inches across and about 1 1/4 inches deep.

It says they remove things such as crayon, permanent markers, scuff marks (presumably on shoes) tough dirt from most hard smooth surfaces.  My brain immediately thought, "what about cleaning rubber/acrylic

stamps?!"  You wet the sponge and then wring it out a bit, so I tried it on the bathroom cabinet, the kitchen sink, the top of the oven and eventual my stamps!  WOW WOW WOW!!  It cleans my stamps perfectly and it didn't take much effort!  I usually clean the ink off the stamp with a wet cloth them dry it with a paper towel.

Using this new sponge, the ink just came off so easily and the stamp was left way cleaner than usual.  These sponges are great, and I just wanted to tell you all about it!  Oh, and they remove tea stains from your tea cup sooo easily too!

Above is one of the sponges.  I now have them in the kitchen the stamp room and the bathroom.  I will try them on my shoes later and see how that goes.  The sponges are quite firm and very light.  I'll be keeping these in stock for future use, especially in my stamp room!

Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day!  Remember to always be you authentic self and shine bright each and every day! Hugs:-)

 

Cards to Donate

 

I have stamped and cut out some images ready to colour later.  I am going to donate these cards to either a local rest home, or to my local Hospice shop.  I haven't decided which yet.  I will stamp more as time goes by.  They will include Christmas as well as general cards.

I've had a very stressful week or so.  Eight days ago I discovered I had no working landline.   I also had intermittent internet connection as well.  

I contacted Orcon, my provider whom I have my internet and phone with.  They said they would send a technician out asap.

I also filled in and sent via email, a Medical Dependency form, stating that I have a St. John Life Link Alarm that was dependent on the phone line working.  The Alarm was flashing and every 15 minutes was telling me to check the phone line.  This is still happening, every 15 minutes. I have several serious health issues and need that alarm to be working incase I needed to call for help.  Orcon had told me that by providing this form to them would prioritize my technical issue and it would be fixed immediately.

This was last Wednesday.

Each day I get a text message from Orcon saying a technician will be here 'tomorrow.'

It seems as if "tomorrow" never comes.  The last message I got was that a technician will be here tomorrow, Tuesday 27/4/2021 to fix the problem. We'll see.

So much for the Medical Dependency form making my phone line issue being  "prioritized".  EIGHT days I have been waiting, and eight days I have no landline that works, and my St. John Life Link being out of service. I have had to contact St. John to let them know what is happening and why my alarm is not working.  They too are not impressed with Orcon.

It's not good enough, Orcon's "customer service" is non existent.

What really annoyed  me when I called Orcon, was, the guy I was talking to kept saying, "yes, I understand" when I said my Life Link alarm was not working and how important it was for my safety.  He did NOT 'understand' at all.  If he was reliant on a medical alarm and had serious health issues, and had no working phone line, then yes, he would certainly 'understand'.

It makes my blood boil when people say they 'understand' and they clearly don't.

So now I wait until tomorrow and see if a technician really does come to fix the phone line.

I'm furious with Orcon and will be changing providers after this is all cleared up.

So yes, I had had a lot of stress in the last week.

Okay, that's my rant for today!  

Thanks for dropping by!  Have a SUNSHINE day!

Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day:-)

Something Simple For Sunday!

 I cut out a leaf shape using my Scan N Cut machine.  (No leaf dies I had were big enough for what I wanted to make.) I laid the piece of card I had cut the leaf shape from, on the white card and used soft brushes to brush on some Autumn colours.  I used four different colurs of ink pads, yellow, orange, Cajun Craze and red.

I then used my Tim Holtz Stamp Tool to stamp on the tree over the coloured leaf, using black ink.  I was going to stamp the words, "Hello Autumn" on the bottom, but decided I preferred it without the words. I just wanted it plain and simple. I lastly added a small clear gem half way down the card, on the right hand side and the card was finished. (Ok, so I couldn't resist putting at east ONE bit of bling on the card!)

I'm not good with making clean and simple cards, they challenge me, but felt like making something simple today.  Every so often I do this, as it settles my busy mind and makes it easier for me to get back into my "busy" cards!

Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day!  Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!

Flying Snarky!

I almost forgot to publish tis Snarky Cats card!  What prompted me was, someone bought it yesterday (along with other Snarky Cats cards I made) and I remembered it needed publishing.  Personally, I really like this card, and sometimes I have trouble letting cards go when it's sold.  Does anyone else feel like that?  I would love to know your thoughts!  The colours on here are a bit pale.  In reality, the colours are much brighter.

It was cold last night - a gentle hint that Winter is slowly creeping in:-(  I am not looking forward to Winter:-(

Ok, that's it for now, thanks for dropping by!  Have a SUNSHINE day!  Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!