Gosh, I am SO
excited that I just had to share this with you. I love serendipity and this is
certainly it. First of all though, let me just say that things have not
been all rosy at the old O-P abode. Mr. O-P spent Christmas in the ICU and New
Year's in a rehab facility as the result of the ravages of chemotherapy that he
was undergoing for bladder cancer, that put him into renal failure. His cancer
diagnosis came last August, following fairly closely upon, first a hip
replacement, and then a knee replacement. As if this isn’t enough, and, trust
me, it IS, he lost both his younger sister and older brother during the
holidays. The mister is 20 years my senior (he was my college professor,
scandalous, I know), so this has been pretty rough on him. As caregiver, it
hasn't been peachy for me either.
Why am I excited, you ask (if you haven't hanged yourself by now)? Because Mr.
O-P will be released on Valentine's Day and I have just come up with a
wonderfully clever Valentine idea that I know will make him smile. The mister
is one of those guys (and, really, aren't they all?) who struggles to throw
anything away. While he's been gone I have been doing a bit of, ahem, “organizing.” In the doing, I
discovered a plastic bag that contained hinges from the shutters on our former
house, an American Victorian farmhouse that was built in 1892. The shutters had
been ripped off during a tornado, the hinges scattered everywhere. He collected
them and saved them in a bag.
I'm not sure what gave me the idea, but I wanted to use them in a table setting
somehow. While I was ruminating, the phrase “you unhinge me” popped into my head. So, I took a photo of our shutters, edited it
to remove all color, added the text and a couple of hearts, printed out four on
white cardstock, cut them out, and placed a card at each place setting along
with one of our antique hinges. 
A cute, original idea that cost me nothing, and is guaranteed to give the
mister a smile. The process of this was very cathartic for me, and took me back
to the good old (and I do mean OLD!) days when kids used to make cards for
Valentine's Day.
Hope this helps to get your card-making juices flowing.
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3 comments:
Whys are some years..just the worse ever? And why do they seem to last for more years?
Our hope has to remain strong in knowing that all of a sudden things will turn around and we will be stronger..
I wish your husband.. full recovery..happy peaceful days :)
And you too.
Your previous home is aso pretty.
Happy Valentine's day to you both..
PS my husband is 13 years older and was one of my bosses at work during college..
I think these are wonderful. I love most anything red.
That is the cutest card....truly! Bet he really will get a chuckle out of it...so glad he will be coming home ~ it's always nice to "get back to normal" (whatever that means lol!!)
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