Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

This is what I was busy doing yesterday morning, and I am so excited about it. I made my first two ATC cards, I know they are not brilliant but I am really pleased with them and now my mind is buzzing with many other ideas for more ATCs and other collage projects. I had to make these cards out of materials that I had in my craft set of drawers [but believe me I am such a hoarder there were plenty pieces of old wrapping paper, ribbons, scraps, and used greetings cards there!]. Now,I probably will need to invest in some better scissors, that have good points, and maybe some papers and perhaps some magazines to see what other people are doing and to learn different methods of doing these crafts. I just love messing around with crafts and this winter am hoping to get back to doing patchwork, which I used to love doing and perhaps making some bags and other things. In the meantime I am going to make collage and altered things my summer project, for days when I am not in the garden. If anyone out there has any advice or recommendations of good magazines that write about these subjects, I will be happy to hear from them.

I was reading a blog today, 'Little Sips of Tea', that had posted about the inspiration other bloggers can give you, and for the short time I have been posting I find that this is so true. One blog inspired me to get last autumn's apples out of the freezer and make an apple and almond crumble for pudding and Naturegirl left a comment recommending a book which I might like. I think we all can enrich each others lives in the good times and the bad times, and I know there are some bloggers at the moment going through some bad times, that I hope will get better soon.

My garden is looking better with each day, and today I have found two beautiful pale ice blue irises have just bloomed, they are sensational. I am taking a film to be developed tomorrow so hopefully by the end of the month I should have some photos to post showing how my summer blooms are coming along.

Just a short posting today, as the computer has been misbehaving the past two weeks, and is waiting to be checked out, so if I disappear for a day or two, it means something in the computer is having to be fixed, but don't worry I will be back, but maybe the problem is not as bad as I think, I am not very good with computer hardware maintenance.