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Good Morning Ladies, 

Well here we are at the last week of April, how can that be?!  These month's are whizzing by way too fast!  We were counting down with Lucy to her holiday and she's back and it's all over way to fast for her.  

We are super proud of her though,  it was her first holiday without us or Sophie which is a really big deal for Lucy, hopefully it has given her more confidence,  although they had quite a rough flight both ways so she isn't any keener on flying!  The little things that I thought she would struggle with like asking about upgrading to Half Board and getting access to their room because their flight was late at night she dealt with confidently.  It's so lovely seeing her overcome some of her anxieties!  I know Flynn had her back if she struggled too which was a comfort.  I mudt say she was so glad to be home and even happier when Soph came home from work.  Also Paul was way too soft, we ended up popping to shop yesterday morning because Lucy had asked for Roast Beef dinner and we had bought chicken, it works out ok though as Flynn's favourite is Roast Chicken so we can have that midweek.  

I tried a New Background Technique,  you basically smoosh your Distress Oxides onto your glass matt or Craft Sheet and spritz with a little water, then you take an old Credit or Store card and pick up the ink and spread the ink across your card in different directions,  I used Wilted Violet,  Broken China, Peeled Paint and Evergreen Bough Distress Oxides. When you are happy with your coverage you use a little bit of White Acrylic or White ink and Black Soot or Black ink, pick a little up with the side of your credit/store card and create lines randomly over your inked background, you don't need many.  I think it transforms the background into a tartan kind of pattern.  To turn my background into a card, I added a mat of coordinating card and then adhered to a card base.  To decorate I die cut some if Tim Holtz's Wildflower die cuts and added the die cut 'Hello'.  I must say I am delighted at how well this turned out. 😊 

I have you all have a marvellous Monday, mine will be a slow day as I have very sore legs from ironing on Saturday,  I hadn't realised how sore until I was stood pricking out the Tomato and Coriander seedlings yesterday!!  I was having to encourage myself "come on just one more row" 🤣😂

We grew the tomato plants from a tomato that had gone a little bit over, I saw something online about slicing a tomato and putting in a plant pot, a week later there were loads of seedlings 🌱,  I said to Paul lets try it, we both honestly thought it was nonsense,  we used a Piccolo cherry tomato as we love that variety,  i literally sliced it and put it in a pot of seed compost, put a sandwich bag over it and no exaggeration a week later every seed had germinated, a week after that they were a couple inches or more tall witg their second set of leaves growing, so I potted them on yesterday and we'll see what happens! 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra                                                                    xxxxxx