This is a look back to just a few weeks ago, when life here was happily normal. I have to admit, it’s difficult to write this as if nothing has changed. I don’t want to sound silly and insensitive to the upheaval in people’s lives. Still, stamping and sharing still feels good and gives me (and hopefully others) some measure of peace, so I’ll press on.
I wrote last week about Painted Poppies and the watercolor look of those flowers. At the other end of the spectrum are the blooms built with no stamping at all, just the Poppy Moments dies. You can see examples of those on the cover of the January-June 2020 Mini Catalog.
This is my version, because I love the Heirloom Frames and 3D Embossing Folders. I used the text stamp in Parisian Beauty (as I did on this card) and a strip of Designer Series Paper behind it. Seemed a shame to hide that beautiful pattern!
This is a better representation of the colors used, at least that’s the way it looks on my screen!
If you follow me on Facebook, you have seen this morning’s activities in our front yard.
This is the start of a ditch 8.5-feet deep from the house to the street to replace our sewer pipe, which disintegrated because it is Orangeburg pipe. Orangeburg is “a type of bituminized fiber pipe made from a mixture of hot pitch and wood pulp,” according to the Express Sewer & Drain blog (a site you can peruse when you need some new distraction). Our plumber described the material as “pressed cardboard.”
So I will be keeping myself occupied here as long as the pounding and shouting (thus far only occurring outside the house) isn’t too unnerving. Then I’ll go for a long, long walk!
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