Rocking my world, Friday

Hi I'm back with another run down on my world and what has kept me smiling this week.

It got off to a good start with a party for my friend's joint 70th birthday and 25th wedding anniversary party. It was at bar El Naranjo and they had made it look very pretty with pink ballons and ribbons, and a banner that read FILICIDADES which in Spanish is used for Happy Birthday, Best Wishes,Congratulations etc. Lots of their friends came together for a great evening.

Flowers and cake; what more could you ask for? And they look so happy don't they?

On Tuesday our choir leader and my friend, Julie, came over to us and together we went to meet Cati, the founder and organiser of the charity ASADIS. We were able to give her 800€ from the donations at the Cantante choir summer concerts. This will help to pay for speech and physio therapy for the children over the summer.

On Monday, my husband Chris, ordered a new wide-format printer for me to replace my 'dead' one, and it arrived on Tuesday. I call that pretty amazing service, and for Spain it is exceptional! So I spent the rest of the day re-arranging my craft room, so I could tuck it away in a corner where hopefully I can protect it from cat hairs!

At my Wednesday sewing group I was given a gift:

Seven lovely water melons. The stripey ones are sandias which are almost pip free.

Most of them will go to the food bank at my church on Sunday, but I cut one up and boxed it in the fridge so it is chilled and ready whenever I fancy some.

On Friday mornings I usually drive to our nearest town of Turre for the market. Next to the railings there is often a little old man with a plastic bucket full of straw, and nestling in it are these bags of lovely fresh eggs. I like to  buy them and the English man on the next stall always grins and says "Scrambled eggs for tea today then?). But surprisingly I don't often break one in transit. Today they all got home intact. Yeah!

Another market buy today was these gorgeous poppy mugs to go with my new kettle. They are nice big ones too. We do like our good English tea!

Now I will leave you with these two lovely photos. We don't get too many beautiful sunsets out here because you need some clouds to reflect the light, and we don't get too many of them either! But this week we had a real treat. Here is the sunset on Wednesday evening (around 10 o'clock).....

.....and here is the sunrise the next morning.

What a blessing just to see them.

Now I shall pop over to Celtic House to link this, and also to Annie's Friday smiles. Do drop in to share other folk's happy moments and why not share some of your too?

Happy Birthday Dear Sister.

Way back at the end of May, in my usual Wednesday post, I was trying out a new set of dies and stamps ready for the 85th birthday of one of my sister's. Well she has finally had her celebrations so I can now show the finished card.

I started off with some white coated card and used ink dusters to add pink and a touch of yellow all over it. I then stamped the main rose script image and cut it out with the largest die from The Sizzix set - Decorative labels eight. I used the outer edge of the die to draw and hand-cut a cream, pearl mat and edged it with a gold Krylon pen and used pencils to add a little colour to the smaller flower, the leaves and the butterfly. I then stamped the single rose (which perfectly matches the larger one on the script stamp), coloured it with copic markers and cut it out with the corresponding die. I did the same with the butterfly but I had to take this from the main image and cut it by hand. Then I shaped them a little and used silicone glue to add them to the main panel. I found some pink card for the base which matched the rose, and a small pink bow for the upper corner. Once again my new Britannia word dies were used to cut the sentiment, and a small fabric butterfly from my stash finished it off. The stamps and dies are all from Heartfelt creations, Bella rose collection.

Unbeknown to me, my sister Jean also had just bought this stamp and intended using it for the same sister's card. Fortunately she saw my Wednesday post and decided to use something different!