Sunny October weekend!

I can't believe how nice the weather has been this weekend after the winds and rain of last week. I hope it is like this next weekend when my family are with us in Sheffield. Alex had a wonderful time yesterday following a treasure map and digging for treasure in the garden. He was most disappointed that he didn't find the treasure box first though!

Today he went to a party where he had the greatest of fun diving into the enormous ball pit and sliding down the very fast tunnel slide.  I enjoyed the opportunity to meet some of the other mum's from school and to put faces to some of the names I have been hearing from Alex.

This afternoon we went to the park with Alex scooting round as batman.  Did Batman ever wear a bicycle helmet? My little batman did!

He also had fun on the slide, climbing frame and climbing his first ever tree. All in all we had a wonderful weekend enjoying the beautiful autumn sunshine.

The girls at Less is More have challenged us this week to make cards based on cocktails. Here is my attempt which uses an inkadinlado swirls stamp (twice) and a Katie and Co 'celebrate' stamp (my only drink stamp!). I coloured the drink in pink to resemble a cocktail I had at University all those years ago (I can't remember what it was called, only the vibrant pink colour!). I added clear glitter glue to the bubbles and circles in the swirl stamp for the final touch.  I am also entering this into Speedy the cat's friends 'seeing double' and SCSC 'white plus one other colour'.

They also introduced us to an on-line site (HERE) where you can find out what your personality is in terms of a cocktail.  Mine was 3 parts understanding, 2 parts beauty, 1 part bravery and a splash of fascination.

Sadly I had to make a sympathy card this weekend as well, as one of my on-line crafting friends died on 7th October. Many of you will have known Kath, also known as Lazy Kay. She was incredibly supportive and generous with her time and talents. Although we never met in person we had a lively e-mail and snail mail correspondence and I will miss her a lot. I am entering this card into Ooh La La 'sympathy',  and Daring cardmakers 'bird' challenges.

Finally I had to make a birthday card for one of Alex's classmates (this mornings party boy). I took this as an opportunity to use up some scraps, so this fits with DYSU challenge. It also fits with PTW 'three different shapes' and Papercutz 'stars, circles or diamonds'. That is all from me for now. Have a great week everyone. I will be spending some time getting the house ready for an influx of visitors next weekend so there may not be much crafting going on!
Love,
Caro
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