My First 'Groovi' and next weeks Challenge

Good Friday Morning Ladies,

Yesterday turned out to be a lovely day, it started out a little grey and overcast but the sun soon shone through and the afternoon was glorious, the girls put two loads of washing out and it was dry in no time.  

The telephone Engineer turned up about an hour and a half early, ten minutes before he came I had tried the phone again (just in case it had sorted itself out) but there was still no dial tone, he came in and I handed him the phone, he had asked what the problem was, so I tried to describe but it was easier for him to hear for himself, he looked at me and said ''Well there's a dial tone, so what is the problem'', you could have knocked me down with a feather!! I explained that not ten minutes before neither phone that we tried in the socket would work, he then said 'aaaahhh, my colleague is attending a fault at a house two doors down, he had the junction box open and it looks like it has recently flooded as all the connections were wet, he explained that it is a regular occurrence, as it is so close to the Thames, if often floods meaning a lot of the connections are floating in water, he went on to explain that he had stopped to check what he was doing and at the same time re-sent a signal to our number and he thinks thats what had cleared the fault!!  I was relieved but at the same time 'p***ed Off, as the night before Paul had had to clear half of my craft unit and move it away from the wall so that he could access the phone socket, my whole craft room is upside down with stuff stacked everywhere, what annoyed me is that the Engineer that I had spoken to to report the fault had said that there were no other reported faults in our area and that he had checked everything externally and there were no problems, therefore he was 80% sure it was our equipment failure!! Both of those statements weren't true as the engineer was clearly booked to attend a fault two doors down!!  Anyway apart from having a bomb site for a craft room at least it didn't cost us any money and I have the reassurance that the phone is working.

Today's card is my VERY First Groovi Card, now I know that it isn't perfect, not even close to perfect, but I am quite pleased with my first attempt, Becca loved it too as it was something completely different to anything that I have ever made her before, I used ''Linda's Roses and Lace'' Groovi plate and my Derwent Colour Soft Pencils, I die cut the outer edge of the parchment with one of the Grand Decorative Circle dies and mounted it onto Cherry Cobbler Card and then onto a die cut circle card base.

Next Weeks Challenge

I thought I would add familiar Challenges in between the  'different challenges' that I suggested last week, I happen to think that this is quite a nice TicTacToe with lots of choice, that would work for most occasions.

I look forward to seeing your cards.

I received an email confirming that there will be NO Ally Pally in September, sadly, I think that we will take this opportunity to try and organise something for all of us to do instead, so watch this space....

Have a lovely weekend Ladies,

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra

xxxxxx