Gothic Arches – Asian

I love making Gothic Arches as a rule, but I haven’t played for the last couple of weeks, so it’s nice to be ‘back in the saddle’ as it were!! Below the pic I explain why, but don’t feel obliged to read about it!! 😉

I have a very good friend who’s taught me reams about Feng Shui and that’s who will receive this card. I don’t have any ‘Asian’ stamps or images and if I had had the courage of my convictions (and the tools), I could’ve carved myself something, so I’ve made do with rubons and an I-Ching coin! I think rubons are hazardous to my health: Some that I’ve used are an absolute pleasure to work with, whereas these were a Royal pain. I used the lolly stick, end of a pencil, the handles of a pair of scissors and still had a sore palm!

As you will see, I gave up and cut the ying yang one out and attached it with brads! The fan is the embossed image on the background which I then stamped onto black shrink plastic, dusted with clear EP and shrunk! It went all melty and gooey, so I sprinkled some red accent beads onto it whilst it was still wet – cool! The red threads are simply a length of embroidery thread attached behind the green brad and cut.

I passed on the Celtic theme – too busy with other things, but last week’s heritage brought sad memories flooding back for me. My Mum was German and we spent many happy years back and forth between England where we lived and Berlin, visiting my Omi (grandmother) and cousins. When Omi died, Mum fell out with her sister – no more visits.

So, we still had many wonderful family photograph albums from her childhood and great stories to go with them, till my Mum died in 1989.  I didn’t get on with my stepdad very well, but persevered for a few months as we were then living in Spain where I worked too! I moved, we lost touch and when I eventually found out that he’d died, all the albums had disappeared. So sad… I have no idea where they ended up, although I have my suspicions. Still, no use crying over spilt milk, water under the bridge… and all that. Sometimes I get mad about the selfishness of the rest of my estranged family (UK branch), but mostly it’s just sad. I choose not to have those people in my life so it is what it is.

I am blessed to have good friends and a wonderful husband and daughter – that’s all you can really ask, isn’t it? 🙂

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Posted by Rosie on March 30, 2008

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