I LOVE flowers

Sir Cliff Richard sings:
I like small speakers, I like tall speakers
If they've music, they're wired for sound

I would change it to:
I like small flowers, I like tall flowers
If they're flowers,I'd love them so

A deep red poinsetta This is mine from last year!

I have previously told why I love poinsetta, so I will not tell you again. If you would like to know the story behind my love for this beautiful flower, follow the link below the flower.

At Christmas time I got a poinsetta from my daughter. It began to lose its leaves at the end of January - as they usually do. I put it on our closed balcony and forgot about it. So for approx. One month ago I found it when I was supposed to clean the balcony. It was not dead! New leaves were set! I do not know if it survives, but it is now in the living room and I enjoy the many green leaves.

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I remember as a little girl that I standing in my grandmother's living room - looking at her flowers. She had so many flowers. She had more than one in each of the 4 windows that were in the living room, which faced the street. I was especially fascinated by the slipper flower. I was amazed that it could be completely empty - and yet keep its shape; it was also full of dots and grandmother had this flower in many different colors. Today it is an old-fashioned flower, and I hardly ever see it.

Some months ago I put the stone from an avocado in water. It has been fascinating to see how a small sprout can break through, divide the hard stone into 2, and push the parts aside in order for it to come to the light - and soon to become a flower

#1 Stampin Up stamp set: Sheltering tree

#2 Stampin Up stamp set: Falling Flowers

#1 Stampin Up stamp set: Serene Garden

#2 Stampin Up stamp set: Number of years

#3 Stampin Up stamp set: Blossoming basket

#1-2 Stampin Up stamp set:

#1 Stampin Up stamp set: Pedal pusher

2 Stampin Up stamp set: In every season

  

#1 Stampin Up stamp set: Epic Celebration

#2 Stampin Up stamp set: Flowering Fields

#3 Stampin Up stamp set: Magical Day

#1 Stampin Up stamp set: Gift of Love

#2 Stampin Up stamp set: 

#3 Stampin Up stamp set:  In every season

#1 Stampin Up stamp set: Flower shop & Timeless texture

#2 Stampin Up stamp set: Very Vintage

#1 Stampin Up stamp set: Number of years

These are not from Stampin up.

Thinking back...

Again today it has been incredibly hot. It is not funny at all. 
When a little cloud passes over in the sky, you just want to be able to stand in its shadow - if only for a short a moment!

Lately, I've been thinking about my late sister. My sister died in 1983. 
My sister, Ingelise, died unexpectedly of brain cancer. 
My father forbade us to talk about her for 8 years. That was his way of working through the grief that arose when she so unexpectedly died. 

And yet ... my sister was born with a heart defect, and other issuses related to the heart. 
Here in Denmark, we call children born with a heart defect "Heart-children".

In 1972, only 11 years old, she had a major heart surgery. No one at that time thought that she would live long enough to grow up. She almost did, she died when she was 22 years old.

Thinking of the cloud in the sky, where we want to linger if only for a moment, so it is with my late sister. it might be nice to stand in the shade with her. I could just imagine us talking together - albeit for a brief moment.

 

#1 Design Paper fra Stampin Up, Centiment says Merry Christmas (in Danish)

#2 Design Paper fra Stampin Up; Also from Stampin Up The stamp set "Embellished Ornaments" (centiment); Stampin Up punch: Daisy

#3 Card topper, By Lene Design, Centiment by Annette Buur-Andersen

The stencil I've used, are from Stampin Up

These 5 cards are made with stamps from "Magnolia"

This card is a mix of stamps from Magnolia (tree and bench) and the boy are from Bildmalarna

Stampin Up "High Tide"

Stampin Up "Beautiful you

Stampin Up "Dandelion Wishes"

Stampin Up "Beauty Abounds"

So warm!

I don't know what it is, but our family all has fever! We're just not feeling good.Maybe it's the weather. Our apartment is warm. Some on the 8th floor got hold on a thermometer! She measured the heat in the appartment to 40 degrees (104℉).
Now I wonder: How hot will it be when summer really begins?Today it has rained and hailed for some hours. It was very violent. I thought briefly that it was good we didn't have the house anymore. Now we didn't have to worry about flooding in the basement ...

As always my cards are made for www.operationskrivhjem.dk 

#1 Stampin Up: "A happy Thing", "Four Feathers"

#2: Stampin Up: "A happy Thing"

#3 Stampin Up: "A happy Thing" + background are made using "Timeless Textures"

#1 Stampin Up: "A happy Thing" + Leaf punch

      

  

# 1-4 Stampin Up: This little Piggy

  

#1-6 Stampin Up "Let it ride"

#1 Stampin Up "Bella and Friends", "Hello Kitty" and the banner from "Birthday Delivery"

#2 Stampin Up "Bella and Friends"

#1 Stampin Up "Postcard Pals"

#2 Stampin Up "Party Pandas"

#1 Stampin Up "Swan Lake"

#2 Stampin Up "Fable Friends" + Leaf punch

#1-3 Stampin Up "Home to Roost"

#1-2 Stampin Up "So Hoppy Together"

#1 Stampin Up "Country Road"

#1 Stampin Up "Baby Bear"

#2 Stampin Up "Dragon fly"

#3 Stampin Up "Best Birds"