Post Comment Love 17 - 19 November

Hello there, and welcome back to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. Please don’t link up posts which are older as they will be removed from the linky. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked, comment and share some of that love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

It’s been a quieter week over here, but one with contrasting weather. We’ve had brilliant blue skies one day, to misty foggy mornings the next. And then it was a bit windy again! There’s most definitely a feeling that winter is closing in, but there’s also sunny spells which was good news for me as it gave me the opportunity to get out into my makeshift planting area to get some bulbs into pots, finally!

While I haven’t started my Christmas shopping yet - I think perhaps I should - I have started to think about festive plans, including making some cards. And my photo this week confirms that once again my cards will be tree-focussed, nothing new there then!

Have a good week.

Scissors, Christmas tree templates and a coaster on a white circular table

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Eight colourful cards for autumn

My card deliveries seem to come around more quickly, but that’s ok as I’m still enjoying receiving them - and using them. And even more so now that we don’t have a shop around the corner it’s handy to have a selection of cards to choose from. The Card Boys also do a Christmas selection, but once again I’ve decided against that hoping that I will make most of ours, and supplement those that I don’t with charity cards.

Once again though for my homemade cards I’ve gone for Christmas trees - it’s definitely a theme of mine, which also seems to have slipped into the charity cards I’ve bought unintentionally. It’s not something I’m sad about though!

As before the eight cards in the quarterly subscription box are all blank inside, and usually only a couple of the cards in each box have determined use, in this box two are for birthdays, but in previous boxes there has also been a thank you card.

ARTIST: CLAIRE PAUL

This month I’ve photographed them on a colourful, tropical background which works well for many of the cards which also have vibrant colours, but also works with the more muted colours in the mountain and valley scene above.

ARTIST: LAURA BARNES

The three cheeky monkey cards is one of my favourites in this box and may just have influenced the background - if you look in the top left corner you can just spot part of another monkey! I’m not sure if this was an intentional plan of mine or not.

A simple white figure wearing a pink swimming costume on a blue background with white squiggly waves

ARTIST: MARTHA DUNCAN

I like the simplicity of this swimmer shot, and the squiggly ripples that they’re making. It has a calm about it and I can see this card having many uses. The asterisks with faces card below is cheery and it’s clear what its intended purpose is from a single glance.

multi-coloured asterisks with faces around the colourful text 'happy birthday!'

ARTIST: ABBIE INGLEBY

ARTIST: MARTHA DUNCAN

The cards in these boxes often feature flora and fauna, and these two are no different but their approach in entirely different. Above you have the punchy oranges design, and below a more delicate line drawing of flowers.

ARTIST: REBECCA DIGGLE

Cheery blue, orange and pink flowers on stems with leaves, with the happy birthday banner across them

ARTIST: MELISSA DONNE

The final two cards are by the same artist, and you can see that they’re related both with (and I mean this is a good way) splodgy flowers, which have an almost folklore feel to them.

A pink and white dove with a floral pattern carrying an olive branch on a pale blue background

ARTIST: MELISSA DONNE

My other favourite in this box is the dove card above, it just has a special feel about it and I think could be used for many occasions and correspondence. It also symbolises peace, which I’m sure we all agree the world could do with a lot more of right now.

Post Comment Love 10 - 12 November

Hello there, and welcome back to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. Please don’t link up posts which are older as they will be removed from the linky. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked, comment and share some of that love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

This week has been a week of excursions starting last Friday evening when we popped into Newark to view a light and sound installation at the church just off the market square. It was good to see the event, put together by local students and art group Newark Creates, well supported - and another example of how churches can be used by local communities.

Then this week we went into Nottingham on the bus, which was eventful. It was only a small mini-bus and we were the last ones the driver let on - clearly a popular service, which needs a bigger vehicle. On the way back we got on the hourly bus and got a seat, but once again it was pretty full.

In Nottingham itself there was plenty to see, and plenty more to explore on future visits, though if truth be told I think I’ll be going in the car next time!

Yesterday evening we went to a wine tasting in Newark, once again travelling by bus - I’m writing this post before we go, so fingers crossed it all goes well!

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