A very frustrating day, a near disaster...oh and a card...

Warning! Very long post.
More of a novel than a post actually, so grab a cuppa, sit comfortably and relax.
I`ll start with the horrible day I had yesterday. No, scrap that...I`ll start with last week when Alan was painting the kitchen. I asked him last thursday if he would put 2 pieces of coving up in the living room that has been waiting to be finished for nearly a year and then, this week I could start decorating. Did he put the coving up?
No! ( I don`t call him half a job Harry for nothing). So, having wasted almost half a weeks leave I thought, right I`ll show him, I`ll do the flipping coving. We`ve been married for 35 years and I`ve always done the painting and wall papering but anything else, coving, skirting boards that sort of thing, Alan always does. Anyway I get up bright and early, shifted furniture out of the way , measured the coving, found the adhesive. Could I find that mitre corner thingy? No!. I searched in the junk (tool) filled shed, I took the dogs in with me in case something nasty jumped out at me and I couldn`t find it anywhere. By this time I was beginning to get very frustrated and at the banging about, muttering under my breath stage. So I gave up and came up to the craft room. The trouble with that is that once I`m in that sort of mood, all my creativity goes out the window too making me even more frustrated. I eventually stamped a few images and took them downstairs to do some calming colouring. When Alan came home from work, he went straight into the shed, raked about in a box filled with  some perculiar bits and bobs and found the mitre thingy. Argh!!!
Then came the near disaster. My son, the one who is getting married, in church with all the bells and whistles, in just over 4 weeks,rang to tell us that he had hurt his knee playing football and was on crutches. Apparently he has torn the medial ligament badly and because there is still so much fluid around it, the scan couldn`t pick up whether he`s got cruciate ligament damage aswell. He has had a brace fitted and can`t play footie for 6 months, so it is bad. At this moment we don`t know how long he has to wear the brace for but if it`s longer than 4 weeks he`s going have to get his wedding trousers altered and walk down the aisle on crutches.
I think I want to cry lol.

Now that I`ve bored you all to death and caused mad depression around blog land I suppose I`d better show you my lastest make.

I was playing around really just trying out different colours on this stamp ( Orchids by Flourishes) and I quite like the effect I`ve achieved. The yellow is Promarker buttercup and the pink is Papermania pens which are water based but blend nicely with the promarkers. The problem then was finding a DP that wasn`t too dark or bright for the image. I found this one loose among my papers and I think it`s a Papermania Capsule but not 100%. anyway it goes perfectly with the image so I`m chuffed to bits.
I cut the DP into 4 equal pieces and stuck them onto a panel that is slightly smaller than the card.
I cut the image out with a nestie oval and matted it onto a labels 4 die cut piece of pink pearlescent card then just added a bow along the side.The sentiment is from the same Orchids set.
Having got my card all sorted I thought I have another go at the coving now that I got the right tool and after a bit of messing about and cutting, it`s up Yaaaay!
I`ve never done it before although I`ve watched Alan and I just thought I`ve got nothing to lose but my temper and some time and if it all goes wrong then Alan will have to put it right but, I finished at 11.45 and it`s still up there, and, if I may say so, a mighty fine job done too. Not perfect I`ll admit you have to look close to find the faults.
The only problem I have now is that now Alan knows I can do it, I`ll be doing it all the time. Sometimes I`m my own worse enemy.
Thanks for popping in...Lynne xxx