How did /i get card making or how did /i find the kids needing cards?
WEll, I git Sky TV and found QVC and Dawn Bibby, and Also Alan "And Barry on "Ideal World and isnce then my plastic cards are permanently bending under the presure of "I must have that!"
About the children, 6 years ago, on a Christian web site an Indian man wrote to me living in Aberdeen he had just finished his Batchelor degree in Theology. His name was Suresh.
He wanted to meet people in England and learn more about this country where he was trainig to head up th mission his grandmother had started.
The story of the start of the Charity, in itself is a real tear jerker.
Well, he got married and bought his lovely wife, Roja, in English Rose, back here in 2000.
She started to learn English and in 2003 was preganant.
Lonely and no 'mother to tun to.
Her own mother back in India was too ill to travel so mt frined Suresh, his mother came as a substitute nearer the birth.
But I am an e midwide and told them to write all thir questions down but typically of the "NHS at the moment, they did not get the answers they wanted.
So in stepped Midwife Michele and soon I was being called their English mother!
I am a month older than his mother Vijaya, but when yo see her picture she looks about 80. She obviously is suffering the results of the hard life they live in Andrhra Pradesh, a poor region of India.
She also has lots of metal shrapnel in her body from when she was caught in a terror attack by Muslims on a Christian meeting at a town several miles away from their own village.
No free care there, they ptched her up and sent her home.
I would love to pay for her to get rid of these metal pieces which sometimes break through her skin. And the ones deepoer inside which cause her so much pain and discomfort.
When he sent me pictures of the children, something touched my heart and that is why I offered to make them cards.
I introduced them to Scrapbooking and they have made a lovely book for their little boy, Swithin Ross now 2+. Called Swithin after the Nishop andSaint of Winchester CAthedral which he visited andl oved, andRoss for the country of his birth. THey have kept his baby bracelts from the hopsital and done what all UK parents do, but whicvh was so new to them but they caught the bug and are already on their 3rd album.
I send albums and extra pages and paper each few months when they hae birthdays due to keep them in supply.
They have kept all the cards I made for them, and also taken photos of them even thogh they have kept the card inside the album. And it just carried on from there.
Iwanted to give these children something to smile about.
Theyall looked so serious.
The children are excellently cared for and have a sponsor each, the moeny goes mainly to pay for their education and new clothing, but their sponsors have never thought to send a card.
So I asked if they had birthdays, some are only approximate as they were found abandoned on the doorstep of the church but now I make them all their own cards. I ask their likes and dislikes and this year the girls asked about British flowers, so they all had cards made with dried flowers I encased in plastiuc so they will ls for ever.
The boys had a mixture of boats and football and cars.
They range in age from 8 to 15. What surpirsed me was that there are more boys there. I thought it would be mostly girls.
It shows a familes desperation to abandon a boy baby.
As you say, there are so many ways of making a card!
And so masny easier ways of making them laways becoming avaialbe.
I love parchment work in particular but also stencils and dry embossing!
I have just made a card for my brothers mother in law, using a Medallion stamp and glitter! a 6 layered card!!
A sparkly bed I have as that is where I work mostly!
And I am now going to do a Gold card for a cousin!
I hope Muffin and Cosmo soon feel vvery much at home.
At some stage I would love a house Bunny!
So I am here reading and learnng all about bunny care first!!
I wish more poeple researched it better before they got a child one as a pet, then when the parent ends up having to look after it that is when the probems start as she has not time other than to do thje basics for the poor Bunny.
I certainly belive that children shold not be allowed to have them as a pet. They lose thier interest so quickly leaving it all to poor busy Mum.
That is why I want to learn everything first!!
I said in my introduction, I wanted a snuggly Bun who would like wearing a harness and go for walks with me. I am shortly moving to the centeo fo the village and I am opposite the village green so facny taking my Bun a walk , me on my mobility scooter or powerchair, and Bun hopping along beside! And if it got tired, then oit could have a ride home with me!!
