Card in progress - or not

My dad will be 75 on Wednesday. Now, the plan was to celebrate him in August when he would be well recovered from his surgery, but you know, plans change. Instead of 2 weeks in bed, he was up and walking by himself after 2 days, and was transported to his local hospital in an ambulance yesterday with a promise that he would could be at home on leave on his birthday. Everyone is amazed about his recovery; he does after all have a 10” incision in his spinal cord. Anyway, how can I not be there on his birthday and how can I not bring something handmade and what can I make that only takes a couple of hours?? Of course I’ll be there, and I’ll bring daughter and grandson as well. Husband has to stay home and take care of business.

Now to the handmade something; I was thinking a wall hanging type of card using felt (very timesaving, no binding needed). I was working on this yesterday morning, but blaaaah; nothing’s right. I think I’ll cut out the Lutradur pop art picture and print another less colourful one; it’s just too much going on! I’ll also add a piece of dark felt to frame the whole thing.

Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and prayers for both of us; they were highly appreciated! Some of you had questions about my prayer flags, and you can read about the origin here. I knew of them as my parents have travelled in Nepal, and was reminded of them by my friend Corrine’s post. What meaning and thought you might put into yours would be up to you, but to me it was a comforting and healing process. They still hang outside in my tree.-)