Getting ready for 2015

I found myself today in a lovely (and infrequent) position.  I had a day off work and no other appointments or engagements to attend for the entire day.  A whole 24 hours with nothing else to do other than please myself! 

With rubbish 'Festive Season' daytime television on in the background I spent a few hours this afternoon making a selection of Birthday cards - I've got 4 friends birthdays in the next 25 days!!  I made quite a few last year for various people and various reasons and they seem to be well received.

One's already been popped in the post (hopefully it will get all the way to Barry, South Glamorgan (in Wales) ready for my friends birthday on 2nd January.

One will be coming with me tomorrow night to my friends New Years Eve party, so I can leave her card for her, her birthday is on 4th January.

The remaining two will be coming with to work on 5th January - one will be a belated card for one work colleague who's birthday is tomorrow, and the other will be for another colleague who's birthday is way off on the 25th January!!! 

I'm hoping to get some more time to myself on Friday (I'll be waiting in for some deliveries) and I can make a start on the 3 birthday cards I need for the beginning of February (seems crazy to be planning to make them so soon but once I'm back to work I rarely seem to get much time to sit down and get things done....maybe I should make better 'to do' lists and timetabling part of my New Years resolutions for 2015 !!!

I think this last one is actually my favourite, I may well be a design I'll repeat again...I think its the subtle metallic pencils that I particularly like....shame I don't have a wider selection of colours...but its not too great a problem or disadvantage.  Will add to the 'simplicity' of them.