Design Recollections

Mum is much improved over these last few days. So much so she is off the oxygen, on her feet and making plans for home. All sounds great eh? But it is not. I would bet real money that after all this worry, running back and forth and making plans for her care that she steps out that hospital, steps foot through her own front door and lights up a cigarette!! She will undo everything that has been achieved over the last 10 days in a few puffs :( 

She has been told by the hospital that she cannot have the oxygen at home until she has been 6 weeks clear of smoke. They will do blood tests to confirm and only then can she have the treatment on tap. I rate her chances on achieving this at ZILCH! She is all full of talk just now but I know this woman so well and all my life I have had no choice but to watch on from the sidelines as she made bad choices and bad decisions that were completely self centred. She is the most selfish person I have ever come across and I am worrying now about what I will say to her when I take her home this week???

None of the treatment or even if by some miracle she quits will save her life. She is going to die from oxygen depravation and that is a fact. She blood saturation levels are awful and will never improve. If ever anyone needed inspiration to quit she has to be it, its all so pathetic and unavoidable. She is going to hit the bloody roof when she finds out all her fag stash has been removed from the house and everyone in the neighborhood warned not to buy her cigarettes but its the siblings last stand and when she gets around it I don’t know what I/we are going to say to her, actually there is not much point to anything now, its way to late.

On a more cheerful note it has been lovely to have Andrew home this week. Such a shame I have had to spend so much time away from home but it has been nice to come back to him of an evening. I have not been sleeping so well and scrapping quite late to keep up with plans and projects. I finished a new CJ last night ready for sending next week, I am almost finished a DT advent calendar and have some Lippy Chick book photo’s edited and ready to print. Kit is all chosen I just need to find a few more hours in each day, don’t we all?

I have also finished off a couple of kits from Scrappers Paradise (they are in my gallery) but here is one starring the bew BG Christmas Papers ‘Fruitcake’ Love the papers and the idea behind this page was to journal or use images within each folder to record your family traditions at Christmas. A lovely idea and one I actually stuck too for once! The other kit from Becky was a romantic lovely-dovey one and I turned it into something quite different teehee! 

I really wanted to share the Craft Heaven Crop Kit layout by Morag. We did this last Sunday and it is really nice and I decided that Andrew was going in there, flowers and all! I have not shown him it yet, wonder what he will say hahah!

So despite my lack of time and lack of sleep there has been little shirking of the jobs list as you can see. I even did an hours ironing tonight YUK!

UK Scrappers announced a new cybercrop this week and I was disappointed to see it was over the same weekend that I am off down south with Roz to Sarah’s Cards Christmas Retreat, bummer! It is not the only CC I am going to miss either as there us A N Other one on A N Other  board that I seriously would have loved to have joined in with but alas, it is not meant to be. However, I am so looking forward to the day of great classes and good company that I will get over it pretty quick Looking forward to meeting Kirsty and Sarah too.

I also squished in a class myself today and met up with Anne, whom I know reads this blog and just needs a wee lesson on how to make a comment, I am on the case Anne! It was lovely to see you today and I did enjoy being in the class, it was a couple of hours stress relief. And on that note I bid you all goodnight. I must go as I have to get back through to Livingston again in the morning.