Pretty, pretty, pretty !!!

Well, after lots of encouragement from my good friend Leesa, today I have finally participated in an online forum and card making challenge.

I have really enjoyed making my cards for this challenge and love the cards that I have created.

I further challenged myself by using only papers that are left over from other projects.

All that I added was the ribbon, buttons and lovely Green Tara flower.

Of course, the finishing touch to each card had to be my absolute favourite , that is of course, stickles.

Hope you like them too !

Life is good.....

How happy I am...the sun is shining, the birds are singing, I can hear squeals of laughter of children playing.....and to top it off, I feel truly blessed to have the love of my beautiful family and faithful friends, who have been there when I have needed them most.

How can you tell a true friend from the rest ???
They are the ones who are with you , not only through the good times , but more importantly when times are hard...they are the ones that walk alongside you , encouraging you , caring for you , never judging you , waiting to catch you should you stumble or fall.

Thankyou friends ( you know who you are !)

Happy Mothers Day

What a lovely day...breakfast in bed , cocoa pops , lovingly prepared and delivered by Charlotte.We had a lovely day , just spending quality time together. As if I didn't feel blessed enough , Sarah cooked a beautiful meal for dinner. Thankyou girls...you are both beautiful daughters...how lucky I am .

life was never meant to be easy , but.......

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

I don't quite know just what to say........

Surreal and frightening are the only words that i can think of to describe the past couple of days.


And there are simply no words to express my grief and sorrow that I feel as I hear of the terrible loss of life as a result of these fires.Thank God that we are all safe.

And to Marie and Brian , 'thankyou' just does not seem enough to say to express my gratitude for all that you have done to help us.

On Saturday, Brian came over and helped me to try to prepare to deal with any spot fires that may occur....Clive and Charlotte were not here as they had gone down to our caravan at Eagle Point on Friday .We never would have thought that we would be in danger of a bushfire where we live....we don't live in a bushy area .

There were a couple of small fires near us , the closest being aproximately 300-500 meters away in a paddock behind my friend Danielle's property......way too close for comfort.That fire came within just a few meters of a house....very lucky indeed.

Within half an hour of this , we left our home ,we had been told that we were to be evacuated.

Sarah , myself , our 2 dogs , 1 cat and bunny rabbit went to Brian and Marie's home where we stayed for the night before returning home the following morning.

To Marie and Brian , thanks once again for all that you have done. And not to forget Leesa who came over to Marie's on Saturday night and helped me by just being there....thankyou Leesa , it means so much.

Enough said.

Been A While.........

Belated Happy New Year to one and all.

I'll keep it short and sweet...had a lovely 2 weeks holiday, looking forward to the year ahead , having lots of fun at Simply Said !!!!

Leesa is coming to teach me how to upload images to the blog very soon...can't wait to share my creations with you all.

Bye for now,
Samantha.