Good Luck for Polkadoodles

Our task this week was to make a good luck card. I used the adorable owls from Back to Nature CD rom, and papers from the Sundae of seasons CD. Be sure to check out all the creations on the Polkadoodles challenge blog

I cut a slit in this little owl's wing, so that he looks as if he is holding the sentiment, which I printed from my computer. The 'brads' are Card Candi

We are off to London this weekend, to babysit Max and Milo, and take them to their cousin Kiki's birthday party on Sunday. I offered to buy Kiki her birthday cake, we went to M & S to choose one. She chose a fairy sitting on a toadstool, but announced that a butterfly would do if I couldn't get the fairy, or even the Hello Kitty cake "but you bought me that one last year" - what a change from when my kids were small, and I struggled with icing bags and smarties, trying to make something that resembled a train/caterpillar/fairy etc etc. I was never very successful, my kids used to come home from parties saying in awestruck voices 'Davids mum made a train cake, and it looked just like a train'. I really disliked Davids mum, she was the type of person who could whip up a fantastic fancy dress costume out of a couple of black sacks and a roll of kitchen foil. Hey presto, and David looked like Darth Vader, whereas my kids looked like boys dressed up in rubbish sacks. She probably never, ever gave her kids fish fingers for tea and they always had clean shirts and ironed underwear. Funnily enough, I didn't become friendly with Davids mum and her cronies (there's a surprise), so I have no idea what they are doing now - probably knitting intricate cashmere shawls for their grandchildren and making Hello Kitty birthday cakes. No, I 'm not going to think about that. Parent guilt is enough to deal with without starting on the granny guilt

See you tomorrow