Opps I did it again!

So yet again I blogged with good intentions in 2011 and it fell by the wayside when life caught up with me.

So what's happened since last time....... in a nutshell - in May I broke my wrist so for 9 weeks I couldn't do anything (although I did still go to work and found a 1 handed secretary can do quite a bit!), I had an interview - which needed a typing test just 2 days after getting the splint off my wrist - I passed - then the interview for the job I have been doing for the last 2 years.  Luckily I managed to pass the interview even though I thought I was a gibbering wreck and was told a few days later that the job was mine - woo hoo!!! Just a few days later we jetted off (I say jetted but the plane had propellers!) to Glasgow so we could fly out to sunnier skies in Orlando.  Probably our last holiday as a family since my dear son is almost 16 and doesn't really want to go off on holiday with us.  While I was on holiday the building I had worked in for the last 8 years was closed down and we (they) moved into another office just around the corner.... such a shame I wasn't there to help with the packing.

Not my wrist in the picture - I managed to break my right scaphoid bone!

When we got home from our fantastic holiday in Orlando we (I) had to quickly decorate the bedroom as the new fitted bedroom furniture was ready to be installed.  It was whilst getting the bedroom prepared that I broke my wrist!  Then it was work, work, work.  A quick trip to England for a week so we could go to a family Christening, home, start preparing for the dreaded Christmas which means making lots of cards.  Another very quick trip home to England to support my best friend and go to her mum's funeral - a lovely lady who was a very talented card maker and someone I will sadly miss.

Christmas flew by with another injury to my weakened wrist so 2 weeks strapped up and not allowed to do housework or much of anything..... oh dear!  I really enjoyed the 2 weeks off work resting - maybe if I did that the first time my wrist wouldn't have been injured again - or maybe if I hadn't lifted the heavy box of card..... oops............

So now we are in January, my wrist is doing great and I am busy doing what I love best - making cards!

I got the January cards done quite quickly and was happy to get an order for a New Baby card - I went to use my favourite bit of card making equipment only to find that it had died - I was totally gutted.  I am in mourning for my lovely Making Memories Slice machine.  I searched the web for information and found that it seems to be a fault on the early machines.  I decided that since it was broken doing a post mortem couldn't do any more harm so I took it apart hoping for a miracle but sadly any attempt at resurrection failed and my Slice is now in Making Memories Heaven - RIP (Rest in Pieces) my beloved machine.  Thank goodness I have a birthday in around 7 weeks - not that I want to be a year older but my lovely family give me cash so I will be buying the new Slice Elite, better, stronger and faster.

I have now started on the February cards which I had planned to make with the aid of my Slice but had to do the cutting out by hand..... I know you can imagine the wobbly cutting out BUT I used my trusty pc to print the number the size I wanted it then cut it out in the silver card then I drew around that and hand enlarged it in pencil so I had a template for the backing then cut it out again AND it has turned out very well, thank you very much.  I didn't realise I was that good ;-)

So the January cards are here:

You will have to come back for the next thrilling installment to see if I managed not to cut myself with a scalpel whilst trying to cut out shapes without my lovely Slice machine and to see that I didn't actually do too bad with the start of the February cards.

Cya next time