A Postcard From ....

This week's challenge has now been posted on the Collectively Yours blog. I love doing these challenges and I hope lots of you will pop over to the blog, have a look and feel inspired to do one yourselves.

 

The theme this week was ‘A Postcard From …’ and it left lots of scope for different interpretations.

Having just returned from a wonderful holiday in

Canada

and

America

I toyed with the idea of a postcard from the trip, but then I decided to go a little differently to that .

I loved my holiday. We saw wonderful sights, took thousands of pictures and had a great experience, but there were times when we were both very sad as we missed the cats …. Yes even Fiki! Leaving them back home in the cattery is the hardest thing we have to do and we miss them dreadfully. We tell ourselves they are safe, they are cared for etc, but it’s hard. It wasn’t helped either by coming home and having Kira poorly which, it seems likely, was stress elated as we left her behind. We don’t have children and they are our babies o we really do feel bereft without them.

I decided therefore to base my page on how much I missed them and took the quirky approach of what I might have said if I had sent them postcards whilst I was away. (Yes I did do that once – not this trip but a log time ago …. I sent the cats a postcard …. I am seriously deranged you know!)  That bit was great fun to do as I made the little mini postcards. The backs were printed onto white card, complete with stamps and hand-drawn postmarks. The fronts were photos we had taken with text and logos added so they looked more like a postcard.

The centre section is a photo montage of our three fur babies and the very heartfelt title of Wish You Were Here. Because I did – all the time. There is a tag under the picture which explains how I felt and how, after Kira being so poorly, I think it may have been our last big holiday.

That doesn’t worry me at all. I have been blessed to go to some amazing places around the world and see some incredible sights, and so if I never go again, so be it. I chose to have them so owe it to them to give them the best possible care. If we go away for short breaks we plan on leaving them at home and having a cat sitter for them.

Do go and have a look at the challenge blog and hopefully you will feel inspired to make your own page based on the prompt.

Comments

[Heather]

I do so love this page, I know how much you miss your babies when you go away, seems appropriate to write these postcards :)

[Martha]

This one really hit home with me. I love your page Karen. But with our cat I miss him terribly as well when we are gone. We though, are lucky enough to have a kitty sitter. It's bad enough leaving him at the vet's when he's really poorly for a couple of nights, and you know you have to. But I can't bear the thought when we are away. I even ring the sitter throughout our hols to see how he is!

Martha

[Em]

What a fabulous page Dolly, you are so imaginative and the end result is just gorgeous!