thank you // cards
It’s been all about revisiting my older blocks lately. I’ve a lot of designs which I don’t tend to print with much anymore, particularly my card designs. As things are slow here on the lampshade + cushion orders, I’m thinking of these past blocks + wondering whether to introduce more paper goods - cards + paper prints to my product range. It’s probably a good option when these quiet windows become bigger. I am still brainstorming new designs for this year but I just can’t seem to get going. And now we have landed into February. I have however added some ‘Thank you’ cards to my web-shop.
January has been a difficult one. Good spells + sadness. Along with our ongoing planning permission/living frustration + stresses. This is all we talk about these days. I’m fed up of it now. I was hoping January would be THE month for us. Maybe some positive news on moving forwards but now I’m wanting any news on that front to be honest. Put us out of our misery.
January is our birthday month which for us, makes our January. We celebrated with a last minute weekend trip to The Lakes. A ‘get away from it all’ visit to the north. We spent 3 nights away, the same time as one of the storms hit. So it was a wet + windy breakaway with not much walking this time but it still felt great to be up in the hills again. I’m lucky to share my birthday with my gorgeous son. It’s getting more funny + special as he gets older. He doesn’t mind blowing out our candles together + sharing the card displays. When he was much littler he couldn’t quite pronounce “Mummy” very well, so he would just call me “My”. These are the sorts of things we talk about on our birthday which I’m sure will be our tradition, laughing about his timely arrival. Sadly though, before our break away, we lost our friend Ann. She was poorly + going through it but she was a fighter + so her passing was + still is a bit of a shocker. We will miss her. I know I will miss her popping up, tapping on my shedspace window + nattering to her about what we’ve been up to, what I’m working on + her gardening work + plant ideas. I remember working on my round floral cushions as a prototype when Ann swung by once + gave great feedback on them. I will miss catching up with her. I will think of her whenever I’m weeding my flower bed + fluffing up my round cushion that I perch on most days. She laughed at the garden bed I made once due to its size; I thought it was a nice, small + easy to maintain kind of bed but when she turned up one afternoon the first thing she said was “You’ve made yourself quite a bit of work there.” She was indeed correct. Ha! The endless weeding of that particular flower bed makes me cry/laugh even now. I’m always cursing the buttercups + clover. Ann was generous with her knowledge of plants + growing of veg. Lots of the plants she gave were also used in my dye pots. The bamboo’s Ann grew + gave us a few years back are in the garden looking bigger + taller. I’m thankful for all these gifts; conversations + plants growing in our garden.
I’ve been sitting at my laptop for far too long typing, deleting + re-typing this post. I didn’t know I was going to put all this down. I’m not great with words especially when it comes to journaling. I knew I needed to keep up with my journal entries + it was just going to be about the cards I added to my shop recently.
Thank you cards - for popping those thankful moments down, maybe? x
