A lot of people commented and asked what was happening, so here’s an update. It is much improved. We stayed at a hotel on Friday and Saturday night just to be careful and we’ve been working on cleaning for the whole weekend. Well, maybe not the whole weekend. On Saturday, I had a hair cut with my friend Julia and we worked on a little project at her house. On Sunday, Martin went riding with a work colleague. But the rest of the time, we we’ve been cleaning, running the dishwasher and the laundry and sniffing things. The smell has been absorbed by fabrics so there’s a lot of laundry. Also there’s a sticky residue covering walls and any other surfaces – we’re planning on hiring a service to do a good clean and in the meantime we are cleaning out cupboards. Which haven’t been cleaned in far too long so this is actually a good thing – and we’re throwing things out and that makes me happy. We’re going to end up with a much cleaner house and that’s awesome.

Hopefully tomorrow, I’ll be sharing a card. Come back and see!

Liz

Where am I today? Well we had a culinary disaster yesterday – a pot was left on the stove all day whilst we were at work and the house was full of nasty cough-making smoke. We ended up at a hotel and today has been spent out of the house as much as possible (the veranda is such a great place to sit) with the fans going. I was lucky  – I had a scheduled hair cut. Martin decided against riding because he wanted to keep the house ventilated and divided his time between sitting on the veranda reading and cleaning and washing anything he could find. The house is doing much better but there’s a distinctly plastic smell. My cardstock seems to have survived – unlike my wallet and coffee travel mug which reek – which is great, but I haven’t had much time for carding or blogging. I hope to be back tomorrow but bear with me.

Hopefully see you tomorrow – and please ensure you turn off your stove when leaving the house,

Liz

Apologies for the lack of creative posting today, but this morning I received some bad news about my friend Chris and I just couldn’t muster the energy or enthusiasm to create anything. I didn’t know Chris long but he was my favourite person at my new job. He made it fun, we agreed on everything, we got a lot of things done together. And he liked to say that he had no filter. I guess that’s why we got on. And he was really really funny. I’m going to miss him.

Firstly, Happy Birthday to my friend Rebecca.

I have been in Barcelona for the last couple of weeks learning more Spanish and having a fabulous time. I was pleased that I managed to schedule posts for every day that I was away finishing about two minutes before leaving for the airport! The recent lack of posts is because circumstances changed and I extended my stay. Sadly I didn’t have more posts scheduled nor do I have any carding supplies with me.

I will be reunited with my ink and paper on the afternoon of Wednesday 15th so please stop by then or Thursday at which time normal service will resume. If you want a reminder, you can sign up to get new posts by email.

Happy carding in the meantime!

Hasta luego!