Idol

Twinchie challenge time again and this week the theme is IDOL, a challenge indeed when you've no supplies.

So here is what I managed to come up with: the background is a piece of card from a cake box (yum) and Katharine Hepburn has been cut from a magazine. I amazed myself with this one!!!

Journal 52 -week 4

This week is all about CHARACTER!

I cannot draw people :-( I really must practice!!!!

Anyway, my adventures in France continue....my husband has been moved from the hospital today...

Sadly not home to me, rather to a convalescence centre a few miles along the road from the hospital. This means that I still have a journey of about 90 minutes by car to get there :-( not a lot of fun when driving a "British style"  car on mountain roads with steep drops to the side!

Anyway, tomorrow I'm heading off with a girlfriend and Bailey (our golden retriever) to visit and also deliver some clothes as Bill will no longer be provided with a hospital gown. I also plan to take a flask of boiling water & tea bags as he really misses his cup of tea.

As I cannot do people and as I am having to call on all my reserves to be strong for the 2 of us....I have gone with my birth sign, the crab. Quite appropriate as I do slam the shutters down when I hurt, but I do think that I have a fair amount of tenacity & strength behind my armour...I've used a page out of the local telephone directory coloured with Promarkers , some watercolour pencils, a black Sharpie & a white Gelly Roll.

When I finally get back to the UK I shall no doubt work some more detail into these pages that I am creating with scant supplies. New additions this week: a rubber, a glue stick & a letter stencil!

Ballet

I cannot say that I've been to the ballet but as that is this weeks theme over at EVERY INCHIE MONDAY I had to come up with something.....no stamps that fit the bill....so some lateral thinking later here is what I went with....

SWAN LAKE!

A swan stamp inked & embossed in white some blue Promarkers and a black Pitt pen!

It's called improvising in my house :-) & now I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else has come up with.

Journal 52 week 3

As some of you are aware, I don't have an awful lot to smile about this week!

I went down to the hospital on Monday to visit Bill....it's not the top of his femur that is broken but his pelvis.

Journal 52 cue word this week is something that makes you smile.... Well, normally my husband does make me smile but not right now so, unfortunately , I have resorted to doing a "sketch" of him in his bed with his leg in traction!

Looking at 6 weeks minimum in hospital/convalescence centre :-(

Going down to Digne les Bains again on Friday for another visit, deliver kindle with extra books loaded as well as his iPod shuffle for some music. I've told him I expect to see some serious improvement in his French this winter!

Glass

The latest Twinchies challenge theme is glass and no way can I make mine shine with the supplies I have. I've got a glass jar of buttons for you this week mounted on an inky scrap.

It also just happens to be sitting on a button embossed ATC leftover. 

Brown

A new week & a new inchie...

An inch of book page, a portion of Paper Artsy stamp & some brown Promarker.

Oh no!X-rays

So here's the story....we had 24 hours of snow - oh no! That made for 45cm or about 18" to clear yesterday.

We dug out the entrance, then the car or should I say the side & rear only and then the patio.

Time to meet friends for coffee before they leave the resort first thing Saturday morning as they are heading back to the UK. My dear husband is an impatient soul.... With no crampons on his boots and no intention of waiting for the local "around the resort" bus, he goes striding off leaving me at the bus stop.

5 minutes later a guy I know appears, calling for me to come quick! Oh no! What now?

OH NO!!!! Bill has fallen at the end of our road and cannot get up :-(
Some paramedics happen by and come to our assistance, all the while Bill is lying on the snow with more snow falling out of the sky.

Oh no, the local doctor is off sick....so we have to be taken to the nearest doctor 10km away, the vibration in the vehicle due to the snow chains is dreadful and the driver stops to remove them as soon as possible.

To cut this rather long story short, after 2 xrays and a very hefty dose of morphine, Bill is carted off to the nearest hospital with a broken femur and a possible broken pelvis- he is going to require a hip replacement! Oh no! As at 9 pm last night I had only been able to establish that he was in his room very slowly coming round. Not sure if he's been operated on at this stage but my next job is to get myself up and call the hospital for an update and then contact the kids who both live in the USA and let them know what's what....

Sorry for sharing bad news, but sitting here in a ski resort with only a dog for company is not ideal as we are forecast yet more snow over the next 4 days and I'm not looking forward to having to drive the mountains rounds to visit a hospital that is 90 minutes drive away :-(