Life's a beach.........

So I have this new cartridge that I couldn't wait to try out. I made this card for one of Mike's sailing buddies. The card is 5 1/2" square. I added layers, then shaded them in a little with my copic markers. The anchor was cut at 2 1/2" and I hand doodled the chain. I stuck some navy corrugated card behind the aperture.

I can't tell you how much trouble this simple little card gave me. Everything went wrong, including dropping a black ink pad on the almost completed card. The inside sentiment reads....it's time for a gin and tonic. I know it should be 'make margaritas' but hey, I'm a Brit, we don't do margaritas, we do G & T

We were going to go and renew our driving licences today, but there is a real thunderstorm going on out there, so we are keeping to the house. We took our Florida driving test five years ago, although you can drive on a UK licence here, but when we bought our car the insurance required a US licence, so we have to go an renew it every time we come over. They cut up our old licence, take a new photo and we do an eye test. Because we are 'non-resident aliens' we can't go to any old test centre, we have to drive about 25 miles to a special place where they know what a British passport is. So they give us a piece of paper, the new licences come in the mail, usually the day before we leave for home, then we come back and they cut it up and the whole cycle starts all over again. It has become part of the routine of being here, we have found a great little diner for lunch and we know all the staff at the test centre by name. We may get an invite to their staff Christmas party this year :)