Wow! I finally managed to get to talk to the lady who sent us the letter about the wiring business and, well, she's human! She'd spoken to the chap who'd come out and refused to pass the work on Friday and he said that, in view of all the work we'd done, if we could get a proper certificate and just rectify one or two concerns he has, (the hall coving, for sure), then he'll pass it and sign it off! We have a meeting with them here on Thursday morning, (Sir is working the next 2 days, else we'd have done it tomorrow!), and so look out for more news then......
The wiring jokes are still coming thick and fast - eek! The Victory Carol is almost complete!!
Almost done with the stitching on the bookmark and I expect to have it done very soon and a nice photo posted. I want to give it to the little girl I'm making it for, (a butterfly fan - like me), on Weds eve, so a pic should be on here before then. Hopefully, we'll soon be able to rededicate this blog to needle and thread matters!!!!!!=)
My Book of Wiring Psalms - 16th Edition
Trunking is for us a refuge and a strength, wires that are readily to be found during distress.
That is why we shall not fear, thought the electrics undergo change
And though the new cornicing totter into the heart of the dusty bedroom;
Though its wires be boisterous, bulging over,
Though the wiring cupboard rocks at its trunking
(Perverted from Ps 46:1-3)
Therefore we do not give up, but even if the plaster outside is wasting away, certainly the wiring inside is being renewed from day to day. For though the re-re-wiring is dirty and noisy, it works out for us a signing off that is of more and more surpassing weight and is everlasting; while we keep our eyes, not on the trunking seen, but on the wiring unseen. For the trunking seen is temporary, but the wiring sunk is everlasting.
(Freely adapted from 2 Cor 4:16-18 )
Or how can you say to your tenant, 'Allow me to extract the wiring from your walls'; when look! No trunking is in your own home. Hypocrite! First re-wire your own home to sub-standard specification, then you will see clearly how to install trunking in your tenant's home.
(A relevant, if irreverent, principle from Matt 7:4&5)
That is why we shall not fear, thought the electrics undergo change
And though the new cornicing totter into the heart of the dusty bedroom;
Though its wires be boisterous, bulging over,
Though the wiring cupboard rocks at its trunking
(Perverted from Ps 46:1-3)
Therefore we do not give up, but even if the plaster outside is wasting away, certainly the wiring inside is being renewed from day to day. For though the re-re-wiring is dirty and noisy, it works out for us a signing off that is of more and more surpassing weight and is everlasting; while we keep our eyes, not on the trunking seen, but on the wiring unseen. For the trunking seen is temporary, but the wiring sunk is everlasting.
(Freely adapted from 2 Cor 4:16-18 )
Or how can you say to your tenant, 'Allow me to extract the wiring from your walls'; when look! No trunking is in your own home. Hypocrite! First re-wire your own home to sub-standard specification, then you will see clearly how to install trunking in your tenant's home.
(A relevant, if irreverent, principle from Matt 7:4&5)
The Nightmare Continues......
Oh man! What a day! Got home mid-morning to a letter telling us that we have to have the wiring re-done to be surface mounted again, (i.e. in that hideous trunking), as it does not comply with their specifications and therefore the work cannot be signed off as complete. So, what they're saying here is that, because of not being able to tick a box on a form, a mere and worthless formality, they are willing to put us and their contractors to the trouble of re-doing much of the wiring work jsut because we object to our home being made to look like a portacabin and sank in the wires! Unbelievable!
You can be sure that we're not taking this without a fight and are appealing to them to be reasonable about it. Their reason for having the wires all surface mounted (official: so they can be easily accessed, real: cheaper and quicker to do in the first place), falls down when you note that their own specification for the kitchen (where there is more wiring than anywhere in the whole flat) and the bathroom include wires sunk into the walls and all sockets and switches flush! So, one thing in one room and another in the other rooms. Total nonsense! We'll also be contacting the local Councillor, who by all reports is a man of action, to ask him to get them to make a note on the file and sign the work off regardless of our alterations. I mean, surely the fact that they are safely done and fully functional is what really matters, not their silly paperwork? I hope we can convince him and that he can lean on them.
If all else fails and we have to go back through with it, we have a contingency plan consisting of being here to have the electricians route the wires in the least visible places and then, if possible, to re-sink what wires cannot be hidden in cupboards or by furnishings once the project is signed off and all inspections complete. Naturally, we would like to avoid this and are going to do all we can to prevent any further action being taken!
They say we have a voice in things, but it turns out to be unlikely to be true in actual fact and when it's something that really bothers you. When you think that so many tennants have refused all the work anyway or denied access to their properties, but we have co-operated against our will with wiring in the first place, (my mum's place is twice the age of this building and has never needed re-wiring!), it's amazing that they go to all this trouble to hassle us! Oh, and they're threatening to make us pay for the re-doing of work that they unreasonably insist on as well! The fact that not one person, including the Council Clerk of Works who was here the other day, have ever said anything actively disuading us from improving the look of the re-wiring, then we get a letter saying we should have known better is just one of the things that make me WILD!
Man, how much I want all this mayhem to be OVER and to be able to focus on something more important, or at least more interesting!=( We're having to wait for vouchers for the re-decoration anyway and I think there'll be an inspection to see how much is needed, so should we have to submit to a 2nd re-wire, then we'd best leave any re-sinking until after then...... We shall see.
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
You can be sure that we're not taking this without a fight and are appealing to them to be reasonable about it. Their reason for having the wires all surface mounted (official: so they can be easily accessed, real: cheaper and quicker to do in the first place), falls down when you note that their own specification for the kitchen (where there is more wiring than anywhere in the whole flat) and the bathroom include wires sunk into the walls and all sockets and switches flush! So, one thing in one room and another in the other rooms. Total nonsense! We'll also be contacting the local Councillor, who by all reports is a man of action, to ask him to get them to make a note on the file and sign the work off regardless of our alterations. I mean, surely the fact that they are safely done and fully functional is what really matters, not their silly paperwork? I hope we can convince him and that he can lean on them.
If all else fails and we have to go back through with it, we have a contingency plan consisting of being here to have the electricians route the wires in the least visible places and then, if possible, to re-sink what wires cannot be hidden in cupboards or by furnishings once the project is signed off and all inspections complete. Naturally, we would like to avoid this and are going to do all we can to prevent any further action being taken!
They say we have a voice in things, but it turns out to be unlikely to be true in actual fact and when it's something that really bothers you. When you think that so many tennants have refused all the work anyway or denied access to their properties, but we have co-operated against our will with wiring in the first place, (my mum's place is twice the age of this building and has never needed re-wiring!), it's amazing that they go to all this trouble to hassle us! Oh, and they're threatening to make us pay for the re-doing of work that they unreasonably insist on as well! The fact that not one person, including the Council Clerk of Works who was here the other day, have ever said anything actively disuading us from improving the look of the re-wiring, then we get a letter saying we should have known better is just one of the things that make me WILD!
Man, how much I want all this mayhem to be OVER and to be able to focus on something more important, or at least more interesting!=( We're having to wait for vouchers for the re-decoration anyway and I think there'll be an inspection to see how much is needed, so should we have to submit to a 2nd re-wire, then we'd best leave any re-sinking until after then...... We shall see.
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Bathroom Done!
Here's the final status on the bathroom. As with the kithchen in the post below, the paint colour will be changed as I don't like magnolia much at all, but esp. not with green tiles! The poor lady next door chose the blue tiles for her bathroom and has been lumbered with magnolia walls too, so I hope someone is going to help her re-paint with something more suitable as well. They didn't even use kitchen and bathroom paint, and you can really tell when you get some water on the wall, (common near the washbasin).We moved back in last night, got the bedroom workable and I'll re-start on getting the living room up and running over the next couple of days. Photos of those are on the Webshots.
(Skip the next bit if you don't want to read me getting some ranting off my chest!)
One of the reasons I am just SO glad to be back here is the noise at mum's! Hard to believe when we live in a tower block and her in a nice, private semi-detached house, but she has an electric guitarist living next door. Now, electric guitar is not my favourite instrument. I don't mind it in regular sorts of modern music, but it's the yowly solos that I find, frankly, stressful. Well, this lad has the corresponding bedroom to the one we were using, so whenever he started to play, we had the full benefit of it. And it went on for hours on end! I didn't mind on the very odd occasion that he played softly and something pleasant to listen to, but most of the time it was that horrid, showy stuff that sounds like a cat fight. The irresponsible, inconsiderate little oik had his amp jacked to the ceiling too! You could often hear the volume actually going up during a note, (so he clearly increased it at that point), and you could even hear the feedback from the amp next door, it was that loud! How his family put up with it, I simply cannot imagine and I was glad, on our last night there, to go 'round there and 'petition for a bit of peace and quiet'. The self-important little pratt just looked at his watch, (it was already after 9pm and he had been at it for most of the pm that day), and said, 'No problem.' I wish I'd said at the time, 'Yes matey, it is a problem. It is a problem when I can hear you in the next house, when I can hear you all over the next house and I can even hear you in the street. It is a problem when your amp has a volume control and that you are so blatantly inconsiderate and have a family that are so stupid that they don't realise that this noise is going to annoy the neighbours and don't put a stop to it. I find that a very big problem indeed, so don't you be so blooming smooth and pseudo co-operative with me, you long-haired yob! If I had your guitar to hand right now, I'd break it over your silly head and throw your amp through your window.'
Ugh! How much I hate people like that who are so self-absorbed that they can't think beyond their own little world and what they want. I mean, surely it's obvious that noise on that scale is plain inacceptable? My mum just turns her telly up, but when you're trying to chill out after a long days' renovation and cleaning up, the last thing you want is boy prodigy next door forcibly showing you how good he is at the nasty solo bits. Yack! Just you wait until I get my cello, little matey! Then I'll go to my mum's, go into our old bedroom and practice my scales and arpeggios as loud and as off key as I can possibly manage just to give you and yours a taste of your own medicine. And just you try and complain and see what colour of gobful you get in return. PAH!
And I bet his family just let him get away with it out of indulgence. You see he has/had ME just like I had, so he's probably one of those who has a family that let him have everything he wants, just because he's ill! I suspect his trigger emotion is anger and that he works it through by howling via the leccy guitar. Well, I sympathise with the illness, but I don't support the treatment! Families who treat their sick kids as if they were to be indulged to the n-th degree are just setting themselves up for a load of trouble and are not teaching their kids anything remotely useful. They just teach them that they can do whatever they like, whenever they like, that they are not to blame for anything and that, basically, the world owes them a living. Instead of teaching their offspring to behave maturely and responsibly, parents like these (along with those who always side with their kids, no matter how vile said kids have been) just breed big-headed delinquents - just like the indulgent Chinese parents who give their only son everything he wants, the modern 'Little Emperor' syndrome. Well, parents of sick kids can be guilty of creating their own little monsters when they ought to be helping them.
OK, I needed that!=)
Ktichen Complete!
Here's the new kitchen with all the work by the Council workmen completed. I still feel a bit lost in there as it feels so bare and colourless! Still, we just need to re-paint the walls and then get a bright blind for the window, plus put a couple of pictures up. 
Martin took a lovely photo of a sunflower which was in our formerly yellow bathroom, so that's waiting to be re-hung in the kitchen and I plan on stitching a nice oranges and lemon's design (yes, the fruits) which is in a Spanish cross stitch mag I got on holiday last December! I always like to buy the local stitching titles whilst abroad and hope to catch up on the latest hardanger issues in Germany next month. I can also get the Italian 'Rakam' in larger outlets over there too.=)
Stitched in Exile!!!
Here's my latest stitching WIP as a break from all the renovation work. I've been doing a bit here and there whilst at mum's, but it's been taking a while. Haven't had much time for it, understandably. Shouldn't take much longer though as there's only a tiny bit of the blue left to do, (which is done in single strand), then the BS and the knots. No, I don't use beads for French knots!!!!!=)
WAY too much to catch up on!!
So, where are we now in the renovation chaos? Well, it was getting a bit hard to remember all the details from each day, so I'll just give a quick round up and post some photos of things as they stand tomorrow as it's too dark to get shots now and the 'finisher' comes tomorrow to ties up loose ends in the external work.
The kitchen and bathroom are essentially complete, except that the kitchen window ledge needs attention as do a few bits of filling around the room. Sealant is needed around the bath so that we can finally use that super-dooper new shower they've given us, (I tried it when doing my hair the other night), and the bath panel was damaged, so a new one is needed. The finished also will sort out the bathroom window ledge and, we hope, someone will sort out the light in there as it's not fit to be seen right now. It works, but it's just wires and not properly finished off. All the appliances are back in the kitchen, flooring is down in both that and the bathroom and all the boxes and bags of stuff that were taken out are now back in. That was quite a job! I managed to get rid of quite a lot of stuff to the convenient charity shop ('thrift store' for those who speak US English) around the corner. More going there soon....
I kidnapped the aforementioned finisher on Friday afternoon and he kindly plumbed the washing machine back in for me. Since then, I've managed to get all that needs washing done and today I tackled the huge pile of ironing that's resulted from not being able to get to anything for 2 weeks! I didn't bother with curtains though, as they may as well be pressed just before being re-hung.
Friends, Nicki, Stu and Emily came over on Saturday afternoon and helped me clear the rest of the living room shelves and they also stripped 95% of the hall wallpaper, (I plan on finishing that off tomorrow), and also about 40% of the living room paper. Martin (DH) has finished putting up the coving in the bedroom and is painting both it and the ceiling as I type. As well as getting the last bits of hall paper off tomorrow, I plan on getting a fair amount of sanding of woodwork done in the bedroom, so that we can get on with the glossing in there as soon as we can.
This evening we decided not to wait for the re-decoration grant vounchers to do the bedroom, but to get on with it and have it done as soon as we can so at least one room is fit for human habitation. I'll need to hide in that room for a while yet until the living room is made fit to look at. Honestly, one look at that mess in there and I just feel anxious and depressed!=( Anyway, even though we're doing one room ahead of arrival of any vouchers, there'll be more than enough needed to get full use out of them when they do come on the hall and living room paper and paint. We also need new coving for the hall as we thought the stuff the workmen put up was naff in the extreme.
Photos from the above mentioned work on my Webshots where the whole lot is recorded for anyone who'd like a re-cap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Up-dates here tomorrow, all being well.=)
The kitchen and bathroom are essentially complete, except that the kitchen window ledge needs attention as do a few bits of filling around the room. Sealant is needed around the bath so that we can finally use that super-dooper new shower they've given us, (I tried it when doing my hair the other night), and the bath panel was damaged, so a new one is needed. The finished also will sort out the bathroom window ledge and, we hope, someone will sort out the light in there as it's not fit to be seen right now. It works, but it's just wires and not properly finished off. All the appliances are back in the kitchen, flooring is down in both that and the bathroom and all the boxes and bags of stuff that were taken out are now back in. That was quite a job! I managed to get rid of quite a lot of stuff to the convenient charity shop ('thrift store' for those who speak US English) around the corner. More going there soon....
I kidnapped the aforementioned finisher on Friday afternoon and he kindly plumbed the washing machine back in for me. Since then, I've managed to get all that needs washing done and today I tackled the huge pile of ironing that's resulted from not being able to get to anything for 2 weeks! I didn't bother with curtains though, as they may as well be pressed just before being re-hung.
Friends, Nicki, Stu and Emily came over on Saturday afternoon and helped me clear the rest of the living room shelves and they also stripped 95% of the hall wallpaper, (I plan on finishing that off tomorrow), and also about 40% of the living room paper. Martin (DH) has finished putting up the coving in the bedroom and is painting both it and the ceiling as I type. As well as getting the last bits of hall paper off tomorrow, I plan on getting a fair amount of sanding of woodwork done in the bedroom, so that we can get on with the glossing in there as soon as we can.
This evening we decided not to wait for the re-decoration grant vounchers to do the bedroom, but to get on with it and have it done as soon as we can so at least one room is fit for human habitation. I'll need to hide in that room for a while yet until the living room is made fit to look at. Honestly, one look at that mess in there and I just feel anxious and depressed!=( Anyway, even though we're doing one room ahead of arrival of any vouchers, there'll be more than enough needed to get full use out of them when they do come on the hall and living room paper and paint. We also need new coving for the hall as we thought the stuff the workmen put up was naff in the extreme.
Photos from the above mentioned work on my Webshots where the whole lot is recorded for anyone who'd like a re-cap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Up-dates here tomorrow, all being well.=)
Days 11 & 12
No photos at the mo, but we're actually beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel! On Tuesday, day 11, the painter came and did the kitchen and bathroom paintwork. The woodwork is white, but the walls are magnolia! Yack! Looks deadly boring in the kitchen as it's almost the exact same colour as the tiling. Planning to re-paint that in a nice lemon shade and as for the bathroom, well I don't think the wall colour goes with the tiling at all, so a nice green shade for there to match instead, methinks! I got some cleaning up done in the bedroom so that it's clean enough to decorate and almost clean enough to sleep in.
Day 12 and a nice young sparky, (but not the one I'm married to...), came and finished off the electrics in the kitchen and bathroom. Whilst he was working, I got the majority of the dust out of the study, well, the shelves anyway. They won't be done thoroughly until everything's taken off for a new carpet being put in.
After that, I cleaned out the kitchen, bathroom and hall, (the cooker is now back in the kitchen, so the hall is clearer), and began to get the boxes and bags that the kitchen stuff was packed in. Washed everything and began to put it away. That also got some stuff cleared off the living room floor! Later on, Martin put a first coat of paint on the study ceiling. First decorating (by us) is under way, yeah!
Lili: We're not living here at the moment, so no stiching is being done here. In fact, not much is being done at my mum's either, but I am working slowly on a bookmark and will post a photo soon.
Day 12 and a nice young sparky, (but not the one I'm married to...), came and finished off the electrics in the kitchen and bathroom. Whilst he was working, I got the majority of the dust out of the study, well, the shelves anyway. They won't be done thoroughly until everything's taken off for a new carpet being put in.
After that, I cleaned out the kitchen, bathroom and hall, (the cooker is now back in the kitchen, so the hall is clearer), and began to get the boxes and bags that the kitchen stuff was packed in. Washed everything and began to put it away. That also got some stuff cleared off the living room floor! Later on, Martin put a first coat of paint on the study ceiling. First decorating (by us) is under way, yeah!
Lili: We're not living here at the moment, so no stiching is being done here. In fact, not much is being done at my mum's either, but I am working slowly on a bookmark and will post a photo soon.
Day 10
It's Monday, day 10 (counting in the weekend this time as work was done by us both days unlike last weekend), and let's hear it for the new shower!Other than that, we've just got on with the re-decoration prep and also a lot of cleaning up. EVERYTHING is filthy and the ambient dust was dreadful. I managed to clear the air in a few room by opening windows, vacuuming fiercely and doing as much wet cleaning as I could. We bought paper for the study wall, new cornicing for the bedroom and some paint for ceilings today as well as other bits and pieces. Here's the study pre-paper stripping, but Martin finished clearing the old paper off the study wall and did a bit more filling in there.This is what the hall looks like - just so you have an idea why we're still at mum's...
Days 8 & 9
Over the weekend a bit more on the new wiring was completed and yet more cleaning up. Here's a handsome sparky!!
I tell you, I will never view ordinary house cleaning the same way ever again, it took forever to clear up the mess from all this work.
Here are some of the shots post sinking of electrical stuff.
I tell you, I will never view ordinary house cleaning the same way ever again, it took forever to clear up the mess from all this work.
Here are some of the shots post sinking of electrical stuff.
Day 7 - Quite a bit of progress
Friday the bathroom joinery was done as well as the tiling in both the kitchen and bathroom by the workmen. We got on with plastering in of sockets, coursing and then sanding it down to make it smooth for re-papering and so forth.
Day 6 - Noise attack!
Day off from outside workmen, but today Martin hired an electric chisel and did all the drilling out for the
sinking of the new wiring, light switches and power points. Just as well there was no-one else working in here with us as the noise was horrendous at times! 
The site manager and some of the other outside workmen came in to look at what we were doing. They didn't know what all the noise was!!! No photos taken today, but here are some of the mess in the other rooms and that we are having to work around. 
sinking of the new wiring, light switches and power points. Just as well there was no-one else working in here with us as the noise was horrendous at times! 
The site manager and some of the other outside workmen came in to look at what we were doing. They didn't know what all the noise was!!! No photos taken today, but here are some of the mess in the other rooms and that we are having to work around. 
Day 5 - New kitchen fitting
Today the joinery in the kitchen was done and I awarded myself a needed day off (I wasn't feeling quite well anyway), whilst Sir went off and earned us some money. This is the kitchen (taken a few days later when we'd put some stuff in and the tiling had already been done - see Day 7).
Day 4 - Plastering
Plastering today and here's what the kitchen and bathroom looked like after the walls were replaced!!!
Whilst the plasterers were hard at it, we took a much needed trip to the seaside. Below is a nice view of Scarborough at the bottom and above that is one of what I call 'The Family Seat'. It's the house my grandad built back in 1963. It used to have whitish walls and a blue roof, which I must say that I preferred. The garden is huge and goes around 3 sides of the house. My aunt lives there now.
Day 3 - Re-wiring nightmare!
Ugh! Look what they've done to our home! 
AAAARRRRGHHH!!! 
This nasty trunking stuff is supposed to be for industrial premises, not for domestic use! The Council's specification, apparently, was to leave all the wiring on the surface, 'so that they can get at it easily'. Man! Since when would they need to? If something goes awry, it's usually at one end or the other, not the wire itself. When telling the sparkies that we intended to sink it all in, they couldn't think why - until I asked them if they would want this in their home, that is!! People get the point PDQ when asked that!!!
Look at the kitchen wall! Well, at least the wiring has been sunk in here and it will all be re-plastered tomorrow.Anyway, Martin lost no time in starting to sink the wires into the walls and ceiling.... We thought we'd just stay one night at mum's (we went there last Sunday night so that all could be ready for the sparkies at 8am Monday morning), but looks like it might be a bit longer a stay than that.....
Day Two - New Bath Suite
So, day two was the fitting of the new bath suite. The loo is in the same place as before, but the bath tub and washbasin are swapped over. I heard that they're creating a kind of shower cubicle at the head of the bath, so I'm wondering if we're going to get one of those screens as well. I kind of hope not as it will be easier to clean the bath without a screen to stretch around. We do get a super new shower though, so that's something nice too. Here's what it looks like in 
there after I cleaned the basin and loo, (got fed up before getting to the bath itself and I've been cleaning up vigorously after each day's work), and we put a few bits in there to use. We're still showering at mum's though. Can't get your hair clean properly and I don't feel I want to bath in a building site!
No work being done today or tomorrow as it's the weekend and even the Council are not so keen to get the work completed that they have their team working weekends! They're pleased enough that each flat is supposed to be 'in progress' for 5 weeks, but they are actually completing in only 3. Good news for us tenants. At least it's all free of charge for us, we can get a re-decoration grant for the work we have to do ourselves later too, but we don't have to do any of this heavy work ourselves. We'll see how rotten the place looks post re-wire on Monday...... They're not sinking any of the wires into the walls (except the kitchen) and so it's going to look RUBBISH! We're thinking of doing that ourselves later on as we want our place to look nice, right?
there after I cleaned the basin and loo, (got fed up before getting to the bath itself and I've been cleaning up vigorously after each day's work), and we put a few bits in there to use. We're still showering at mum's though. Can't get your hair clean properly and I don't feel I want to bath in a building site!No work being done today or tomorrow as it's the weekend and even the Council are not so keen to get the work completed that they have their team working weekends! They're pleased enough that each flat is supposed to be 'in progress' for 5 weeks, but they are actually completing in only 3. Good news for us tenants. At least it's all free of charge for us, we can get a re-decoration grant for the work we have to do ourselves later too, but we don't have to do any of this heavy work ourselves. We'll see how rotten the place looks post re-wire on Monday...... They're not sinking any of the wires into the walls (except the kitchen) and so it's going to look RUBBISH! We're thinking of doing that ourselves later on as we want our place to look nice, right?
Renovation Day One
So, the work on our flat has begun in earnest! We're having a complete re-wire and new kitchen and bathroom. The re-wiring will necessitate total re-decoration, but it was time it was done again really. It's been 7 years now.Day one was yesterday and was 'demo' day. Demo short, not for demonstration, but demolition. Originally, we were told that it would be a short day's work with just the wallpaper coming off in the kitchen, but it turned out to be a little more severe a stripping than that. Have a look:
Here's the bathroom too. From the window before and after:
Then towards the window from the door:
Needless to say, we are taking showers at my mum's place!!!
Day Two is fitting the new bath suite. Even though that happened today, I haven't done a pic yet and there's no work going on tomorrow, (Saturday), so I'll post that one then. Day Three is the complete re-wire and will be by far the worst. After that, it's putting stuff back together rather than destroying it!
Card Completed
Here is the 10th wedding anniversary card. It was very well received by Steve and Jacquie. Although their anniversary isn't until tomorrow, Jax couldn't wait when I gave her it on Wednesday and opened it right away!!!
