I wanted to send a card to a fellow blogger – Berverly of More Ink Please – not for anything in particular, but ‘just because’. I couldn’t share the card until she’d received it as it would have spoiled the surprise. But, I got an email from her at the end of last week telling me that the parcel of ‘Happy Mail’ had arrived, so I can now post details of the card here on the blog.
Because I live by the sea I wanted to send her a card which made her think of the ‘Seaside’, and that’s why the card itself is all about the seaside.
It has a little Tibetan silver bicycle leaning up against the Beach Huts.
And someone is flying a kite …. which has a tail of ribbons! . . .
Two smaller pictures featuring Beach Huts stand proud of the card itself, by being mounted on foam tape.
The fun, and colour, continue inside with a teeny bit of zentangling and a little bow.
The Bunting and sentiment (‘With Love and Best Wishes’) were added to the front, and a silver metal airplane – ‘flying above’ – was fixed to the card, in the skyline.
Finally a little brassy coloured (metal) vintage style post card finished off the front.
And that’s all there was to it!
For those of you who don’t know the song which is the title of this post, I’ve been and collected a YouTube video… but if you know the song by heart, there’s nothing to stop you clicking and enjoying. The song was written in 1907, and this version was sung in 1909 by a music hall singer called Mark Sheridan.
We have beach huts here where I live, but they’re not quite as fabulous as the ones on the card. . . .
However … a couple of years or so ago a designer (who some of you may have heard of) did a Random Act of Kindness – but she called it: a Random Act of Kidston . . .
… and she covered some Beach Huts in her fabric designs, – she made matching deck chairs, and put matching bits and bobs in the Beach huts. It caused quite an impact. People were coming from miles away to see them. This following hut is my personal favourite…
It’s a typical Cath Kidston design and so me. I love it.
But … if wishes came true …. I think I’d want a Beach Hut like one of the ones on the card I made for Beverly. There’s something so friendly and smiley about them.
Thank you so much for coming and spending some time around the kitchen table and sharing a coffee with me.
Have a truly lovely start to your week. Be good to yourself, and each other …. and may your God go with you.
Sending love from me in my corner to you in yours ~
P.S. . . . Dear Lord … hello, it’s me again. Ummm.. it’s about the weather. It’s hot. Very hot. VERY, VERY HOT indeed. It’s causing me some problems. One of which is that I appear to be melting. I know I can’t be sweating … because my mom taught me that ladies don’t sweat. According to my mother, ladies ‘glow’. Well … I’m really glowing here. REALLY glowing. So … I’m wondering … could you please turn the heating down a little bit? A little biggish bit? Not just for me but also for my plants, and for my three fur babies. Alf Capone, Maisie Dotes and My Little Fat Bitch aren’t coping well with this level of hot. I’ve just taken a look around my living room and down the hallway …. and it looks like a murder scene. All my four-legged companions are ‘as if’ dead. Now if I’m hot and I’ve only got shorts and a t.shirt on, then these four-legged babies must be SO uncomfortable because they’re all wearing fur coats!
I’d be so grateful if you could turn the heat down. Thank you. ~ love ~ Cobs. x
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