A Postcard A Day - 2 November 2025 - Second on the 2nd, an old post from 2014

 Hello lovely peeps. Today is November the 2nd, so I am joining Elizabeth and Bluebeard in Second On The 2nd, where we post a blogpost from the past. 

Today I am posting one from 2014. I use to join What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday in the past as I did a lot of crafting then. I don't know if the web address is still correct. Angela/Felix The Crafty Cat might know...

In this blog I was making Christmas cards. I don't send Christmas cards anymore (Too expensive). Whereas in England people also give each other cards in person, we don't do that here (In Spain they don't send greeting cards at all, not even for birthdays).

My grandson, who was the recipient of the little card I made, will be celebrating his 11th birthday this coming week as this is a blog from 11 years ago. 

The house we were then building is finished and we/I am living there now. 

The pumpkin pie is reminding me to make one again soon. I'll be hosting a fellowship lunch next week, so that is the perfect occasion to bake one.

Hi Peeps! It’s Wednesday again! It comes round so quickly.

On Wednesdays around 80 crafters photograph their desk/work space and post it on their blogs. Then we all have fun hopping from one desk to another to see what people are doing. It’s a great source of inspiration and encouragement. Read more about it at Julia’s blog:http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com.es/

Here is my desk. I continue with my motto: ‘use up the stash that you have’ and I’m making Christmas cards with papers and elements from a cardmaking magazine from 2009! I love the colours.

The Christmas cards were pushed aside temporarily to make a very special card! My son in Italy and his wife have just had a baby boy! So I’ve made a little bassinet card from an Anna Griffin book. Anna Griffin was very popular a few years ago but I still like the style and from time to time I dip into my Anna Griffin box to do a project. 

Isn’t it cute? The colour is a soft olive green although it’s not very clear in the photo. My daughter-in-law doesn’t like the boy-blue/girl-pink thing and she has decorated and painted the nursery in green, so she’s getting a green card too!

I’m still crafting in the pantry and I’m finding it very cosy. As many of you have commented, I can just stretch my arm to get my hands on a large slab of dark chocolate..... (Oh temptation...)

The build of the house is going to plan although no work was done today as it rained. I had to smile at that. I’ve lived in the UK for several years. If builders went home every time it rained in England they would never ever get anything built!

Here is a photo of the building so far. It’s built over 4 floors. The men are working on the roof. We’re having a wooden roof with wooden beams, visible on the inside. (It will be tiled on the outside). The white building on the left with the green gate is also ours. The green gate is the entrance to a small vine covered court yard. From that court yard you can come into the (cave) house where inside I am typing this at the moment.

Do come in! It’s nice and warm inside. I've just made a pumpkin pie. (I made pumpkin soup the yesterday. These pumpkins are so big I have to continuously think of things to cook with it.) But the pie is definitely my favourite. I had some allspice sent to me from a friend in Mexico, and although I don’t know what it’s supposed to taste like, an American lady  in our church said my pies are delicious.

Thanks for visiting. I will try and visit as many of you as I can over the course of the week. Have a good week.

God bless

Lisca