My mojo went astray

Well it has been a long time since I last posted, hopefully things will be changing. After the death of my father in law, my mojo went awol, and therefore did not post or do any real crafting from that point. As my pregnancy progressed the sickness and tiredness disappeared after 4 ½ months but then came back along with swollen feet and hands. We took a fortnight off work in October to have a wee break and to visit my mum down in England. We went to York for a week and stayed in the centre of York and did a few sightseeing trips, unfortunely due to swollen feet and ankles I could not walk very far and at 7 months pregnant I got tired very easily. Unfortunely the trip to my mum was not a good one. I got a phone call from my mum’s partner, john on the Thursday of our first week. They had been away on a cruise for a 10 day break and on the last full day mum had not been well. They got back on the Wednesday and by the Thursday they had to call the doctor out, who thought she had a chest infection and was being admitted to hospital for intravenous antibiotics, and this is where she would be when we arrived on the Friday. We went to see her and although she was awake she was not very compis mentis, and could barely hold a conversation with us. On the Saturday she was barely awake. The phone went in the early hours of Sunday morning to say that her condition had detoriated; we then had a meeting with her doctor later that same day. The news was not good. It turns out she had advance lung cancer which had already spread to her liver and they thought it had already entered her brain. They were going to do a second scan on the Monday to confirm. We were told she only had days to live. They then took more blood and by this point a second consultant came along and that was revised to only hours. By teatime she had passed away. As you can image being 7 months pregnant, I was not really in a position to grieve plus I also had to deal with the paperwork and clearing out a house (another story!). Since coming back, I was then preparing for the birth of our child and trying to deal with two deaths in the space of four months. I ended up having a caesarean section on the 31 December and along came our son, Robert David James in honour of his two grandparents and my husband’s middle name. He has brought much joy to the two families and has helped making Christmas and New Year an easier time to bear.

Now, my life is my husband, his family and our son and totally complete. I had surprise in the post just after the new year, I had received my copy of the magazine Complete Cardmaking, in which I had subscription, but not getting to look at it properly did not see that a card I had submitted for a completion had made it into the readers gallery. I had used Nitwits products and had used some items from the Hey cupcake collection and the other items came from one of the Nitwit collections on a Complete Cardmaking CD. Obviously I had not won the completion but was happy on getting a CD called Magical Christmas Moments. A bit late for this Christmas but will be certainly using it for the cards this year.

I also did another couple of cards using the nitwit collections

I did a card for our wedding anniversary using the Docrafts Boofle CD, as my husband had commented that he had like the image of Boofle.

This card I had done for my youngest niece Ellie for her birthday. The image is from Crafts U print, but I mounted it onto white card with Black glitter card with silver peel off and black ribbon, apparently she loved it.

That is all for now, hopefully I will get back to you at the beginning of March. Kay xxx