Mr Fixit.................

I needed to make a couple of male cards and found this little acrylic stamp set by Papermania UK hanging around. Papers are by Martha Stewart, the screw brads are from Oriental Trading in the USA. I put glossy accents on the paint cans so they are nice and shiny

Promarkers used

sandstone, tan and caramel

powder blue and denim blue

lime zest, poppy and grass

Ice grey 1 to shadow

Back to Brazil..............where was I? Ah yes, trying to get on board the dratted ship. I will gloss over the fact that when we set sail, our cabin sprang a leak, there was a lot of water coming in over the bed, not a great thing to happen when you are on an ocean. They couldn't move us until the morning, so we spend the first night, cold, damp and thinking Titanic type thoughts.

So we arrived in San Salvadore..........if you haven't been there, don't bother. The buses were rather amusing, I have never seen so many people hanging onto a bus, they clung like limpets onto windows, doors, and there were even some sitting on the roof. Apart from that, the most striking thing about the city was the number of dead dogs - they were everywhere. Honestly, everywhere you looked there was a poor deceased mutt lying in the gutter. We must have seen about 20 altogether. Not a great tourist attraction really. I have no idea if they were dead because some disease was striking them all down, or if they had just got fed up of living in San Salvadore and laid down to die. I have to say, that if I lived there I would probably have joined them............................... I do hope nobody from the San Salvadore tourist board is reading this!
to be continued.....