I did a fire awareness and fire wardens course on Friday. It scared the living day lights out of me. I am terrified of fire anyway. Well, as a result, I had a package, quite a big one, waitingf or me when I came home. I am now the proud owner of 4 new smoke alarms, 2 fire blankets, a fire extinguisher and an emergency escape ladder for the bedroom. Oh yes - I believe in being WELL prepared LOL. I hope it is a complete and utter waste of money and that I never ever have to use any of the items.
I have a card to share with you today
There are weekend challenges that run over at Its A Creative World every weekend - you should check them out. They are great. Well Katie set a great one last week to use die cuts. I love cutting shapes with my dies now I have a Cuttlebug but I thought I would challenge myself to use some old die cut sheets I have had since the first year I started scrapping. Wow - that was back in 2003.
In those days - those dim and dark days of the past - there was relatively little choice for scrapping products compared to what we enjoy today. Die cut sheets - well that is a misnomer actually as they were sheets you had to cut yourself - were one of the staples. I fell in love with The Beary Patch die cuts - I mean seriously in love.
I loved them so much I had to have as many sheets as possible which meant ordering them from the US. And because I loved them so much .... you can guess what is coming ...... I couldn't bear to use them. So I am now in the position of having all of these die cut sheets which were loved so much they have never been used and which I don't love any more! They are not my style now (I am not sure they ever were ... I just loved them for being cute) and so I am now determined to try and use them.
So I pulled one out and made a card with it for soemone who had a little boy.
They were very flat so I added dimension with layering, foam pads and a cloud made from white card and water colour pencils.
I used a scap of coordinating paper and added faux stitching and do you know what - I am in love with them again and can see a card making frenzy coming up using them all up.
Today I am thankful for
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Making our home a little bit safer
Karen now you and Nigel can start a fire drill at home just to try things out LOL. As for the teaching,well tomorrow is another day! And I think that card you made is really cute.
Posted by: mary | May 25, 2011 at 09:30 PM
Had to share a teaching magic moment with a fellow passionate practitioner... We have a fab community garden at our school and last night we camped out with 30 year six children. We made campfires, used Kelly kettles, completed team building activities and had a massive barbecue. Children loved it. We know we have created a memory for those children that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. We gave them an experience that they will pass on to their children in the future. One of the brilliant bits about teaching that can't be shown on a league table or shown on sampa. But all about citizens of the future - what we are supposed to be doing. Long comment but I wanted to share it with you.
Posted by: Scrappyjen | May 26, 2011 at 07:28 AM
I also loved and bought those sheets. Mine went into school eventually. I'm impressed that you've used then and made a really cute card with it.
Posted by: Bev | May 26, 2011 at 07:35 AM
Buying those things is like an insurance policy. If you buy them you never have to use them but if you don't buy them then you just know you will need them. Never a waste of money to get fire blankets for the kitchen. We had a frying pan burst into flames when everything was switched off! the fire blanket soon sorted that thank goodness. I am never without at least one of those and the smoke alarms get tested every month - on the first of the month so I don't forget - and the rope ladder out of the tilt and turn window. Oh I am so with you on these things
Posted by: Ladkyis | May 26, 2011 at 10:49 PM
lol we are practising a fire drill at work latter this week should be fun, we need to exit the building in 2-4 minutes from the 10th floor. I dont remember doing any fire drills at school did we do them in the 70's
Posted by: james White | June 10, 2011 at 11:47 AM