New toys to play with

I got home to find an order I placed at the weekend waiting for me. It is a lush set of Hero Arts Sizzix stamps and die cuts and I am already in love.

I haven't really played, just stamped a couple of the images, cut them out - so easy - and had a quick colour.

The detail on the stamps is lush and I am loving the dies.

I can feel another addiction coming but I intend to resist.

I don't make enough cards to warrant this, but I can justify this set as I will use them on pages.

I also had another gift which Nij wasn't sure I would want. You may remember he has been doing some work and training with Bourjois Cosmetics (lots of lovely free samples) well he had a sample of a big bottle of Soire du Paris perfume and it's very nice. Yes please ... thenk you.

As I feel I don't make enough cards to justify more of the Hero Arts sets I figured today I would share a card I made at the weekend.

It was for the daughter of a friend of mine who has just secured a great job. She is a huge animal lover and so it was, in every way, a very appropriate card.

 

Today I am thankful for

• the fact there are so many wonderful crafty things out there - new ideas all the time.

and this is my one minute devotional calendar page today

It had been six years since I’d lost my left leg to cancer, and I had finally found a sport I could compete in: ski racing. I’d been skiing for years, but this was my first race. I was nervous. An official wearing a radio headset was counting down: “Five … four … three … two … one … go, racer!”

I pushed through the starting wand and accelerated out of the gate. On the first turn, I almost lost my balance as my ski scraped across the ice. I continued to flail through the course until the third turn, when my ski slid out from under me and I crashed. I looked down to see if my ski was still attached to my boot. It was, so I was allowed to get back up.

Three turns later, I fell again. I got back up. Then I fell again. In total, I fell five times before I finally crossed the finish line. At this rate, I was sure I’d never make the Paralympics, the quadrennial competition for athletes with physical disabilities. Then I remembered something my coach had said: “It’s not the falling that matters for you right now as much as the getting back up.”

That’s just the path my ski racing career has followed—a lot of falling, a lot of praying, a lot of getting back up. Five years later, when I did make the Paralympics, I managed to fall a lot less, but I never forgot the lesson I learned from that first race: Persistence, not perfection, is what counts.

Finally - another couple of those amazing photos (nearly done with those now!)

Airport in the Maldives is located on an artificial island in the middle of the Indian Ocean

Lighthouse guard in Mare , France must be one of the most courageous people on the planet! Not everyone will have a smoke in such weather, and in such a place!

Photo of storm in Montana , USA , 2010

 

Skyscraper-Crescent Crescent Moon Tower ( Dubai )

Heavy fog in Sydney , which enveloped the whole city

Comments

[Barb in AK]

Have fun playing with the new supplies :-) New materials always stimulate me and makes me want to scrap more :-)
LOVING the photos---amazing! The one from Montana seems almost like an alien invasion! LOL!!