Sitting in the sunshine.....

Another Memory Box dies card today, I used the Grand Madison Window and shutters, the scallop curtains die, park bench, bare tree, grass and flower mound. All papers are by Authentique, and the flowers and foliage were cut in white and coloured with ProMarkers.

I really like this little scene, I would be quite comfortable on that bench watching the world go by, sitting in the sunshine with my book........

I hesitated before buying the curtains die, but I am so glad I got it now, the tiny edging is in perfect proportion to the window - I have used a Martha Stewart punch in the past, and the lacy edging is a bit big for the window...

I cut the bench out of kraft cardstock and distressed it a bit with vintage photo distress ink....

and the plant with little white flowers is really a bare tree die - I cut it out three times to make it look bushy, and cut off most of the tree trunk, the tiny flowers were cut with the flower mound die....

The number of people I heard moaning about the heat today, about twenty. The number of people I wanted to slap for moaning about being too hot, about twenty. I didn't of course (I was too hot to bother, and I am really a very tolerant person...). After the terrible spring we had this year, and a rotten washout of a summer last year, I would have thought everyone would be thrilled to see the sunshine, but obviously not. 

My sister hates the heat, I love it. Isn't it strange that two people who share the same gene pool should be so different. Why did she get brown eyes, and me blue? Why has she got a gorgeous singing voice and I sound like a frog with a sore throat? Why do I thrive in sunshine while she retreats to the shade? Fascinating stuff genetics. I look at my grandchildren and see tiny gestures, a turn of the head, a little expression of their faces and see glimpses of my parents, their great grandparents who had died before they were born. Right, that's my random musing for today, see you tomorrow x