There is always a beginning

'A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct'

Well. I was told that from now on, I will have to make all the cards for every occasion. Ever.

My husband and I went to the Range to buy a money box for our daughter. We saw a lovely one there a year ago and it was very girly and just what I liked, so we got one for his niece. Now we wanted a similar one for our daughter. We couldn't find any. So we *may* have bought an embossing and cutting machine instead. Not sure if it's any good but it works for us. It's an X Cut Xpress A4 one and it costed less than an A5 Cuttlebug, which, we Googled!, was advertised on QVC. 

As we are both as into QVC and crafts as our cats are into swimming, after a short deliberation (and checking all possible apps for cheaper equivalents with 5 star customer rating), we decided to buy it. Together with additional £40 of embossing folders, stamps and dies. 

The lounge after the first 'testing' looked like  a bombshell... I was surprised that my parents have never commented on how 'colorful' it was around me - apparently as a child I would  get as many sweets as I could, making my mother very worried about the state of my teeth, then scatter the wrappers around me and discard the sweets. When my parents asked me why I had done it, I apparently answered something along the lines of ' Oh but it looks so colorful now!'
 

There. So yes, with the very colorful lounge, I got very proud of myself. My first creation, of course to thank my parents for all the sweet wrappers that the life has thrown in my way, was on its way. To commemorate their 44th wedding anniversary, a card was created. I experimented with the borrowed scissors and cut+embossed the butterflies, but it wasn't enough so they got a layer of golden ink on top of them. A bit of a faery dust to sprinkle their wings :)

The Banality of getting the balance sheets even was being fought by the butterflies. I like butterflies, have I mentioned that before?

Butterflies for tea

The Banality.

There is a Role Playing Game called Changeling: The Dreaming. The first time I played it I was  guided through a house, from the cellar up, and I had to describe each of  the rooms I visited. I especially remember my nan's cellar that had this smell of wonderful dampness that no one else but me appreciated. If I could, I would stop the game then and there as I got so much into the memory of a sunny day when I had to bring some coal and wood for my nan. That smell of the underground  was the smell of my childhood. It was somehow invigorating; I felt like a kid again. And I did not want to gro' up. Neva eva!

So, what does it have to do with tea, butterflies and this blog? One main thing. Defying Banality. The main thing I've loved about that particular RPG was that whatever happened- the banks go bust, someone looses their job- there is always hope. Hope and creativity. And these help change the world into a better place. Just like tea. A good cup of tea makes you close your eyes and think of pretty things. Like -butterflies!

Well. It may be a bit convoluted way of explaining myself, but there we go. This blog is (hopefully) going to be about my little card making project. Out of all the 'creative' ideas I hope this one is not just a whim. Trust me, I am rubbish at crafts. I made a few scarfs in my life an none of them was straight. I loved them and of course they were my pride. But the card making seemed more rewarding. It relaxes me when I can sit and put the ideas from my head on a piece of paper. When I look at 'hand making cards' on Google or all those scrapbooking ideas, it's again as if I was in the world of Changeling. Remodelling the world with some magic so that it becomes a more interesting place.