God Is Love Triple Frame

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Challenges...
#49 AAG at Inspiration Destination
#199 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#71 CAS at Beyond Grey Challenges
#277 AAG at Craft your passion

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a GREAT one! I'll be back on Sunday, so I hope you'll join me then.

Ruby Wedding Card

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Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. It's an honor to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know.

The card I'm sharing with you today was commissioned by a client after she had seen this card...

She loved the look and asked me to create something similar for her to give to her husband for their ruby wedding anniversary. I changed out the soft Crisp Cantaloupe for Cherry Cobbler and added in a second bird created with the Bird Builder punch and a computer generated sentiment...

#33 AAG at Scribble and Scrap
#101 AG w/ optional at 613 Avenue Create
December Linky at DL.ART

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I'll be back tomorrow with another couple of CAS cards, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em x

Love birds

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I truly do appreciate each of you more than you know.

The card I'm sharing with you today is similar to the last couple I've shared which can be seen here and here. Today's has been created for a special couple and I've used Strawberry Slush and Lost Lagoon card for the elements, together with Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla.

All the products I've used in the design are available 24/7 in my Online Shop. Click the images below to go straight to them.

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I've loved creating the cards this week and I'm really happy to have shared something every day for the first time for awhile.

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one and I'll see you back here on Monday when I'll be sharing another creation.

Hugs,
Em

Remembering 9/11

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Thirteen years have now gone by since the day that the world changed forever with the terror attacks in the US. It hardly seems possible that the events that day, that I remember as clearly as if they were yesterday, happened all those years ago.

On September 11, 2001, I was 10 weeks pregnant and in the early afternoon in the UK, I'd just gone into a bar where I'd worked until a short time before. As I caught up with former colleagues while stood at the bar, the kitchen staff, who'd had the radio on, came running out and shouted for the TV to be put on. The bartender asked why and was told "JUST DO IT!". He did so and those of us who were in the bar turned to watch. 

Within seconds we were clinging to one another in stunned silence as the enormity of what we, with the rest of the world, were witnessing; the immediate aftermath of American Airlines Flight 11 crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York at 8:46 am local time/ 1:46 pm BST. We all kept our eyes on the screen and my hand instinctively moved to my stomach. 

The silence was replaced by screams as we watched United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the South Tower at 9:03 am, the aftermath of the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon at 9:37 am and United Airlines Flight 93 southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania at 10:03 am. 

Although I do not know anyone personally who passed away that day, I grieve with those who did. I give heartfelt, prayerful thanks every day for the actions of everyone who risked their own lives and indeed the hundreds who lost their lives trying to rescue others. Without them, many, many more would have been lost. 

I also give thanks and salute the thousands of Armed Forces personnel who have paid the ultimate sacrifice since, and in the face of continuing terror attacks I pray for all those who will deploy. 

I will NEVER forget! God bless the USA and God bless all of us!

Hugs,

Em 

Thinking of you

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For the January Giveaway please click HERE.

Today's card is a very special, very personal to me. Today is my guardian angel, my Granddad's birthday and this card is for my Grandmother.

I'm entering the card at...
Hiding In My Craft Room #134 For a loved one
DL.ART January Linky Party

I'm mindful that today also marks the 28th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, and my thoughts and prayers are with the families and friend of the crew, Francis Scobee, Michael J Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Greg Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe, and indeed all who worked for NASA on the mission. God bless them all.

Hugs,
Em

Belated Monday Musings

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When I wrote my last post, 2013 ~ A year in review, I had intended today's post to be a follow up. However while thinking about the content for this one, I've decided to forego that and as a result, I have edited the original post, which if you missed it, can be read here (it will open in a new tab when clicked, like all other links on the blog).

Instead, I've decided that this post will not really be a look back, but rather a look forward, so I'm adding this to the Monday Musings series, a belated posting. If you'd like to you can take a look at all the other posts in the series, please do so.

Just before writing this post, I was reminded of a heroic act that happened five years ago today. On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, brought US Airways flight 1549 down safely in the freezing Hudson River in New York. All 155 people on board survived. Sully's speed of thought and composure following the bird strike just after takeoff, was quite rightly termed "Miracle on the Hudson".

It hardly seems possible that five years have passed since that day. I'm sure that everyone associated with that short lived flight will, forever be thankful that it was Sully flying their airplane that day. I wasn't even on the flight, nor associated in anyway with it, but that doesn't stop ME being thankful for his actions.

In bringing this post to a close, I want to thank not only our military and our emergency services, who themselves helped ensure no lives were lost that day, but also all in public service roles, the pilots and all who, by doing their job, help keep us safe.

Hugs,
Em