Candles for the CCC!

 Hello Everyone, hope you are all having a great weekend and that your weather is good.

We went sailing yesterday, I was invited to go with the guys and it was marvellous, but more about that further down the post.

It's time for another Christmas Card Challenge and this time is our Valery who has chosen cards with candles on them. Now I bought quite a few LOTV digital stamps and had a beautiful one all lined up for this challenge, but couldn't print it out, as my printer isn't going online. I believe this is to do with having a new router and it not recognising the printer, but having spent the best part of the day trying to work out how to fix this I had to give up, so my cards are not quite what I'd planned, but at least I've go something, well two really.

Both images are from Geko Galz and you'll notice that they both have lanterns and I would guess that they have candles in them...a bit of artistic licence lol. I've jazzed them up with gems and Stickles for sparkle, and used some lovely papers and glitter card.

I hope these will do  Valery, and thank you for the lovely challenge, I did enjoy making my cards.

So on to my little sailing trip. We sailed part way down Loch Ness, on Tor's little boat, and stopped off at Drumnadrochit for a wee picnic. Getting on and off the boat was something else for a wee stiff lassie, but I made it with the help of the other crew members;

Alistair, Tor and Derek and a picnic

This beautiful ship is a Baltic Trader and 129 years old, all wood and brass, and belongs to friends of Tor and we were invited on board and what a fiasco that was for me trying to get on, but made it once again, and sailed with them for a bit, and had a couple of glasses of wine too. Then as Alistair had his fiddle and Malcolm the ships owner had his guitar we had a wee musical session,

By this time it was realised that we needed to get back in order to go through the locks before they closed for the night, so Tor's boat was attached to the large one and was towed along, then we had to get back into the smaller boat to go through the locks, here is the Kommandor sailing into berth

I've put the photos around the wrong way, this is beitn towed along the Loch.

I had such a wonderful day and just what I needed, after 18 months staring a four walls, like many folks. Loch Ness is so beautiful, and although not the best of days it was pretty calm and it was so good to be out in the fresh air, meeting new people and being so welcomed on this beautiful ship.  It will keep me going for a good while and it took my mind off the medical procedure I'm having on Wednesday to investigate what's going one with my stomach. I'm not looking forward to it as having diabetes makes things a bit more complicated as I have to stop eating the day before and not take any insulin, so it means monitoring my Blood Glucose very closely. Anyway, I do need to get this sorted.

I'm afraid this is such a long post, so don't feel you have to keep reading, but thank you if you do.

Also thank you for the lovely comments on my last post, I do appreciated them.

Please remember to have a look at what the other team members create, their cards are always fabulous.

That's me for now, enjoy the rest of your weekend and keep yourselves safe, see you soon,