Friday, 25 November 2011

Changing Times and Making New Friends

I felt rather sad the other week when a letter popped through my door to tell me that my Personal Banking Manager was taking early retirement.  Linda has always been really easy to talk to and we have chatted about my crafting on more than one occasion - the last being only a few weeks ago in a review when she said what a pity it was she did not live closer to enable her to attend Victoria Stampers.

Well, it hit me like a ton of bricks how much I am going to miss her, isn't it funny how we make friends with people we never meet and have the feeling that we are close.  It happens here in Blogland, you come across someone, leave a message, they leave one back, you leave another and so it goes on.  So many friendships are forged this way and some actually become reality with people meeting up with one another.

Anyway, I digress.  Because we have chatted about crafting and because I felt Linda's retirement needed something, like a card from me, I set to and this is the card I sent to her


Again I used that beautiful face although I don't think I have quite caught it here in this photo - she looks a bit spooky with empty eyes.  Well, I was pleased with the card and hope Linda was too.  Happy retirement Linda and I hope you get chance to do lots of crafting and other things for many many years to come.

ps Had to delay posting this because of my "Shape" cards for JFF - you can see it was made around the same time.