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I thought you might like to see my commemorative poppy which along with 882,263 others have been on display in the moat at the Tower of London for the past 5 months. It arrived clean and with the 18" steel stem, and needed to assembled, to have the poppy head and black centre piece attached to the stem.

A certificate of authenticity was included. My husband cut the steel stem in half as it was too long to display, and I have put the poppy into the silver Queen's Jubilee mug which we bought two years ago at the Tower shop, which commemorates her 60 year reign. Here are a couple of my recently made cards. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL CRAFTSUPRINT DESIGNERS, CRAFTERS AND ALL THE STAFF AT CUP

Our little granddaughter Millie who is just six, was spending the day with us as it was half term. To keep her from getting bored I suggested she made some 'biscuits' for herself and her little brother with some left over pastry.

She spent an age rolling it out and cutting it into shapes of diamonds, hearts and animals, then decorating them with sultanas and glace cherries.

This is Millie just before I put the biscuits to cook in the oven for her. Here are two of my most recent cards I have uploaded to my home page.

I hope you like them.

This my youngest Granddaughter Millie, who for the second time this year was asked to be a bridesmaid.

Here she is at her uncle's wedding in Spain a few weeks ago, very confident as she "knew what to do!" She has just completed her first year at school in the Reception class and will be going up into the 'big girls class' in September and all before her sixth birthday. She loves to make cards with me and recently made birthday cards for her father, other Grandmother and her baby brother's first birthday. Here are a couple of my most recent cards that I have made.

I enjoyed making these two quick and easy cards and hope you will too.

Here is a picture of my two youngest Grandchildren Millie and Jake who help to inspire some of my verses that I write on CUP. Below are two items I have recently made.

A pretty card for a friend's wedding and a gift bag to be filled with goodies. Here is a little poem to celebrate the validation of my 1,000th verse for CUP. I have written one thousand verses In the free verses on display I hope you have managed to find one That's been what you want to say But not everyone likes a verse Some prefer to leave a blank If you enjoyed using one of mine Then it's you I want to thank

I thought some of you ladies might like to see a selection of my 97 dolls representing 87 countries that I have visited.

I try to buy them in the country's colourful national costume but sometimes it's not always possible, so I buy something representing the country to add to the collection. These have been collected over that past 43 years on my travels around the world, starting with a Spanish doll from Majorca, It was never my intention to collects dolls, but like Topsy, the collection just grew and grew!

I hope you like seeing them. Here are two cards I have made recently. Both for friends, one who loves her garden and other who loves ballet