Shabby Vintage - With love on your Birthday

This gorgeous pack by Craftwork Cards arrived just as I arrived home from the US, and this is the first chance I have had to play with it. The colours are lovely, soft and elegant, and I love the letter stickers -  so much that I made them the focal point of this card. 

I have had a Cricut cake in an online shopping basket (cricutmachine.com) for about two weeks now, the only reason being that it was at such a knockdown price it seemed too good to miss ($49.99). I overlooked the fact that I haven't actually baked a cake for about five years, a bargain is a bargain. Then, like a lightning flash, I remembered that my daughter in law Annabel makes loads of cakes and decorates them beautifully. So although I had bought all her Christmas presents, she has an extra gift in a rather large box winging it's way across the Atlantic. Even with international mail costs, I only paid about £80 for it, which includes three cake cartridges, which considering Create and Craft have just the machine for £400, must be a steal. If she doesn't like it, I will reclaim it and use it as a back up,  to cut paper. So anyone hankering after a Cricut expression, go over there and grab yourself a deal, they may have some left.......

 I have a curtain that needs to be altered - very expensive fabric so I need to be careful. The plan is that it will undergo a metamorphosis and turn into a blind.  I got as far as taking it down, and it has been folded on a chair for about two months now. I have just moved the chair to make room for the Christmas tree and the blind has been moved to my New Year Resolutions list! Having it neatly placed on this list makes it all seem so logical, and less urgent somehow. Now I will only have pangs of guilt when I go to my list to add something else that I don't feel like doing.....master of prevarication, that's me.