Message in a bottle

365 cards challenge for Day 234 is Imagine This - For this one, all you need to do is think about are Palm Trees.

I don’t need to think about Palm trees as this is what I see every time I look out my kitchen window.

Pretty all around the pool hey?

Well NO! They are a headache to me, I want to run away and just stay inside when I look at them... Why?

Because of this! – And that is work! (less time for me to play NOOO!)

Hard to find inspiration in something that you dislike but I did find some.  For me when I have to think about palm trees (forgive my misspent youth in front of the TV watching cartoons) but I think of that lost little island in the middle of nowhere with the lone little palm tree leaning to the side with coconuts falling on my head as I drunkenly watch parts of my shipwrecked boat wash up on shore.  (The comical sharks circling around would be my children).

So palm trees all I can say is give me a shipwreck on a deserted island and “preferably” a full bottle of rum :$

The message on the bottle outside and the poem inside is computer generated and printed onto light yellow card stock.  As I wanted to get a real feeling to it I burnt the edges around them both along with random sections of the paper and then distressed both with black ink.

To suit the challenge I added the message into the bottle, but I am actually giving this as a gift to a friend, she is having a bad week like me with a teething child so I thought the sentiment is perfect and I added some rum to the bottle and attached the tag around the bottle neck.  It can’t all be that bad as I made one for myself as well ;))

 Hic, Hic Challenges:

* The Corrosive Challenge – Get rid of White (Mondays)
* Simon Says Stamp and Show – Anything but a card (Mondays)

 365 Cards – Day 234 Imagine this (Wednesday) Spotlight Designer for this day!
Lots to do (2nd Entry) -  Plain and Simple  (Fridays)
Craftalicious (2entry) #10 Anything goes   (Sundays)

And now I finally have a child sleeping (Grandma always says to dip some rum on the dummy

and a swig for mummy) this Navy Wife is off to bed.

Fair winds and following seas
The Navy Wife