I know it’s been an age but I’ve been struggling to think of something to write about. Yesterday and today something popped into my mind.

I’m sure you know about what’s happing in Israel and Palestine. In Monday evening the 6 o’clock news was on and it was talking about what was happening and about people that have been killed. And hearing that news article (if that’s what you call it on TV) it made me think.

The sort of things that are covered on the news about wars, conflicts and murders etc are generally for an adult audience. If they were on film they would be classed as 18s or maybe 15s and shown on TV at later times. I’m just wondering why they are allowed to show and talk about these disturbing things in the early evening.

I understand that people need to get to see what’s going on in the world but this information being available where vulnerable people including children can access it can’t be a good thing.

With everything that’s happening in the world at the moment watching the news can be scary and upsetting. Some people have even called it depressing. Because my head gets easily messed up and the slightest thing can cause meltdown, I can’t watch it anymore. If I need to check what’s going on in the world, I’ll use the Internet and get the information there.

This is not to take away what’s happening in Israel and Palestine at the moment. I am sending love and light to the area with some Reiki and healing thrown in. I do hope peace can be found very soon.

What’s been going on over the past few weeks. I know I haven’t updated things for awhile and again I’m really sorry it does seem to be becoming a habit but I promise I’ll try and do better next time. I know last time I introduced you to Huxley, he seems to be fitting in well. I still keep thinking about doing some vinyl wording to put inside so he knows so he has his own name badge and everyone can see it but every time I think about it I get distracted and forget to do it. I just seem to have too many choices about what font to use, what vinyl to use, should it glow in the dark, should it be shiny and metallic or should it just be a plain colour. Then there is the size of the words to think about and that’s before I even decide where to put it on the car. But before all that I’ll need to think about designing something to use as a badge.

You probably have realised by now that I’m not very good at making decisions.

I have been doing lots of work with vinyl recently though. I’ve been making signs stickers badges and labels for different things. So Martha has been getting a bit of a workout recently. Here are some pictures of the things I’ve been working on:

It was the baby lost awareness week wave of light on Sunday. So I made a little sign to go in Dexter’s garden at Oldham Hospital:

Other thing that’s been going on over the past few weeks is Lucy, or Lucifer as I like to call her, has been with us for Mondays and Tuesdays. The little darling has brought lots of bugs, germs and viruses with her. To start with she gave me and Mum conjunctivitis it’s been nearly 2 weeks for me now and I’m still trying to deal with it and I think Mum has been having similar issues too. We’ve been using the infected eyedrops you can get in the chemist, but that hasn’t fixed anything. We’re just now trying to get onto the emergency opticians to see if they can help. I hope so my eyes are so itchy and irritated, I’m getting headaches but it’s from my eyes.

The little darling even gave me a Head cold, so my nose and sinuses have been bunged up. It’s not been a pleasant experience. On Saturday I had my Covid jab, I think that’s six or seven now. Of course that means the day after I wasn’t well. At least this time it wasn’t as bad as it’s been in the past. They did offer to do my flu jab at the same time but from past experience of having them both together I won’t be doing that again.

Of course as always I have done some tiles. Here they are:

There has also been a tile swap over the last few weeks and this is the tile I received:

This tile was done by Deborah Harper it’s great. I love the little arms coming from underneath the pumpkin and you’ve got the tiny witch in the top right corner.

I had two attempts at the tile I sent in because I didn’t like the first one. Here’s a picture of them both together. I’ll let you guess which one I sent in:

I know last time I was talking about the Craftember tiles. It’s where we did a mini tile each day in September. Here is a picture of the finished piece with everything put together:

I did a bit of colouring and a bit of shading and some work with some white and pink gel pens but there is still some work that needs doing I just haven’t got round to it yet. So knowing me this is how it will probably stay.

I’ve done a few cards over the past few weeks too. One of them was requested by a neighbour and she wants to give this card to her daughter. I gave her this card a few weeks ago so I’m not sure if it’s actually made it to its final destination yet. I have done another card like this I use the same deco large from Hunkydory. Here is the card I did for my neighbour:

Here are pictures of the other cards I’ve done:

Last week it was the 10th Birthday Celebration of The Attic Project. The community part of the church. I’ve volunteered with them in the past and I’ve done a couple of other things here and there. Last year as part of the Queens platinum Jubilee The Attic Project was awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service. This award was shared with everyone that volunteered with the group. Last year I got a little badge that said Queens award for voluntary service but at the Attic Project’s birthday celebration copies of the certificate were given out by The Kings Voce Lord Lieutenant. She gave the original award to the Attic Project last year. And because I’ve volunteered with the Attic Project I was given a certificate here’s a picture of it:

During the presentation the vice lieutenant said the award is an equivalent to an MBE, so I think that means you should be bowing and doing curtsies and stuff to me. Only kidding, I’m sure you know that, but it would be funny.

For the Attic Project birthday celebration Dawn asked me to make some drink tokens that the service users of the Attic Project could use at the celebration so they didn’t have to pay for drinks. Here’s a picture of the little tokens are made

I made 45 of those little tokens. I started off creating the image of the cup with the text inside. I copied and pasted that image a couple of times onto one sheet. I printed a couple of sheets out that had 15 tokens on each page. Then we took a trip to Martha Anne had to cut all the tokens out. It was quite fun really it sounds complicated but it really wasn’t.

I’ve changed my hair colour again. This time I’m not just one or two colours I have three colours in my hair. One is blue the second is pine green and the third is hot purple. Sounds like an interesting combination but I think it looks cool so I’ll have to say thank you Sarah for doing my hair. (not sure whether she wants to be thanked for it or not but there you go) here are some pictures of the process of getting my hair done:

Here’s another picture that’s been going round the family but I thought it was cute so I wanted to share it. It’s a picture of Lucy giving Zoe cuddles:

I’ve only just spotted the look on Zoe’s face. I’m not sure if she’s ready to run or not if you were being hugged by an 11 month old you’d possibly be ready to run as well.

I think that’s about it but I could be completely wrong and then maybe more but my memory being what it is I’ve drawn the blank. With that I’ll call it a day and wish you all the best.

Love And Light.