Ooops! I realised I hadn’t done a post about my latest video. I did cheat a bit by also using a retired SU set, ‘First Steps’. Here are the cards I made:
I used Boho Blue cardstock and ink, and Bubble Bath cardstock and ink. The mattes were from the Lighter Than Air DSP, die cut with one of the Deckled Rectangles die set. The sentiments were punched using the Label Me Fancy punch. The pink ribbon is from the SU Sheer Ribbon Combo, which is Bubble Bath, Lemon Lolly, and Azure Afternoon. I need to write the colours onto the reels as they are completely blank, so I wasn’t sure what colours they were when I used them. (Thankfully, I keep an Excel spreadsheet of all my SU products so I checked in there just now.) I used the Boho Blue textured ribbon on two of the blue cards and the Azure Afternoon on one.
Later this morning we’re off to a funeral or, ‘celebration of the life of..’ as it’s called. Our lovely friend, Gwenda, who was 75 in May, died while we were on holiday. She was a first-language Welsh speaker and we hit it off straight away when we started attending Emmanuel Church. She was thrilled to know that I was learning Welsh and encouraged me a lot. We always spoke in Welsh, even when we were counting the collection together on Sundays. She came to support me the last time I competed in a solo singing competition on Learners’ Day at the National Eisteddfod at Llanrwst in 2019. She had learning difficulties, but she could pray! She was probably one of the last people to have worn the dreaded ‘Welsh Not’ as a child. This was a punishment for speaking Welsh in school (in Wales!) when only English was allowed. If a child was caught speaking Welsh, even in the playground, they would have to wear a piece of wood with ‘W.N.’ engraved on it until the next child was caught. Whoever was wearing it at the end of the school day was then punished, probably with the cane.
This morning, I have done my Ancestry DNA kit that I showed at the end of the video. I shall post it whilst we’re out today. I don’t think it will tell me much more than I already know about my ancestry – English, Welsh, Scottish, French, Indian – but it might lead me to finding out about my mum’s ancestry, as she was adopted. I have my own theories about who her birth father was, but I may be wrong. My results will be added to the Ancestry DNA database and any matches will come up and I will be informed of them.
That’s all for now, I shall get this up on my website and get ready for Gwenda’s Big Bash. Hwyl am y tro!