Sepia Images for Greetings Cards

I like greetings cards in sepia matted on cream and gold layers. These are edited from original parchment craft cards made some time ago, and are ready to be made up.

I had a walk round the garden - not far as it's not large - the lilac is in bloom and the scent is lovely in late afternoon. But it's all blooming too high for me to get a photo so I had to find this pic to remind me of it.

Day 1!

Physio said - EXERCISES! - and gave me eight to do three times a day - also STAND every 20 minutes.
Well if it will improve my back and posture I'll give it a go.
I'm putting a self reminder pic down the side here and I'll have to set a timer every 20 minutes to remind me to 'jump up' as I'm sitting for hours here or stitching.
Maybe I should have chosen more energetic hobbies in the first place!

Three Poppies

Well this is it - my first needlefelt to be planned - the others so far have just 'happened' and built up as I went along. I did set out to do this.
Now I need to improve the felting to make it smoother -
though I quite like the chunkiness at times.

Poppy

I just walked round the garden - good, fat poppy buds, so we'll soon have some gorgeous flowers like this one from a few years ago.
I'll go and try to make another needlefelt poppy ATC now.

Mosaic of Flower Photos

Played about with another Flickr Toys programme today, with flower photos - love it!

Two in one day! ATC Mountain Meadow

John's day was watching the cup final, test match, and a couple of other football matches - so if I was to see him today at all I had to sit in the lounge. I did just that this afternoon and stabbed and stitched another needlefelt ATC - we didn't speak a lot.
Both content!!
Again I didn't know what I was making when I felted the background - except that it was a general thing that would have flowers on - as I always do flowers. Well a bit of the sky looked like a mountain, not a cloud, so that was that.

Toppling Pot

Decided to have a very restful day, but felt (no pun intended!) unsettled. I had a browse in a couple of Cloth Paper Scissors mags - decided everything in them was too clever for me so did a quick therapeutic bit of needle stabbing - on felt I hasten to add!
Funny that I can't plan a needlefelt design - I just did the background and put one flower on it - added a bit of brown in the corner and decided to do something sideways rather than upright. Anyway I enjoyed doing it. I'll probably prod the fibres in a bit more later and send it to someone - I have promised a few RAKS.

ATC Images Cube

I just found fd's Flickr Toys programme and thought this was a novel way to store images of some favourite ATCs that have been traded.