Anyone in to this? Over ten years ago, my wife was complaining about the cost of cards and said (I remember quite clearly) "It'd be cheaper to make my own." And so she does, within a few months I'd had to shell out four hundred quid for a cabinet to store all her "kit" (it has long overflowed into a stack of plastic boxes) and a six-way colour printer. (Find me some pictures of penguins. on the internet ..etc.,) She must spend several hundred pounds a year on card and various other items and equipment. She won't have anything to do with the CD roms now available to produce designs as she says it devalues the skill and originality. Her "stuff" occupies a third of the lounge, I can't complain as I have all my instruments in the front room. The "production" of Christmas cards has been underway for at least a month. I encourage her in this hobby as with her MS which she's had for over twenty years, she has a loss of sensation in two fingers of one hand. Despite this she managers to cut out tiny pieces of card and glue them onto the backing. It's excellent therapy for her. She broke off this morning to make this, a neighbour has asked her to make for her granddaughter. She "themes" cards to suit the individual interest of the receipient. The five-year-old kid is into cats and fairies. "I'd have sent the woman down to Clintons."
Hi Doghouse, This made me smile because I make my own cards and they are not cheaper :hehe: I am always buying cards, envelopes, adornments etc as I cannot resist them. I'm not too good at decoupage as it's a bit fiddley for me but I'm pleased your wife is enjoying it. The cards are beautiful tell her. I posted some pics of mine somewhere - I must get going with the Christmas cards.
Thanks for that. I'll tell her. We have this thing about "deadlines," being retired there's always tomorrow, isn't there? But my working life was all "about deadlines" so I have this theory, people like me create their own, same with stress, if you are used to working with it. When it's no longer there, you manufacture it. I have these conversations over lunch with fellow golfers. We can sometimes start to worry about trivia which in our working lives we'd have dismissed in an instant. Digressing, our daughter is very organised and efficient, she was a Great Ormond Street trained specialised nursing sister. She doesn't work now but plans a month ahead. The other day she said our granddaughter, three, in conversation with her mother, must have decided she would rather get back to her dolls so she said; "I've got to get on!" Sometimes my wife asks me what I'm doing today and I'll give her a list. Her; "Why don't you do some of it tomorrow?" cuts no ice with me. But likewise, for her she's a list of cards she wants to make, that's apart from the knitting she does. Although we never go to bed before 1.00am or later, even on the nights before I'm up at 7.30am to get ready to go to the golf club for 9.00 am (I don't like to feel "rushed"), sometimes she's an hour later than me. "I'm always woken with a; "Did you know?" or whatever, but her excuse for being late up is always "I just had to finish (whatever)."
