Ylva's crafty corner

So...I made a promise to update my blog regularly, to get things done and focus myself... It has been a few months since the last post (not too bad considering the space between that one and the one before...), and as usual things have progressed in a way I was not expecting... Firstly, we lost Pearl, our 14 year old cat on the 4th June, 2 days after her birthday. She had not been herself from just before we moved from Inverness to Elgin at the end of February. I noticed her drinking a lot more and not eating much, not having much energy and stopping often to breathe before continuing walking, so I booked her in with the vet. The news were bad but inconclusive. The lungs did not sound right and the heart was working very hard. In a cat that age, it points to heart problems or the possibility of cancer. It was decided to bring her back for a scan and blood test, and the scan showed that her lungs were filled with fluid. This fluid was emptied, bloods taken and when I picked her up a...

Ok, so I have been very bad with writing on my blog...I am slightly ashamed... I do however have a reason for it...This last year went pear shaped, and I lost myself a bit. Firstly in March, my husband failed his final exam for the first time, causing a lot of stress and worry. Secondly, we lost our gorgeous baby girl Tara, our almost 12 year old GSD...she was in too much pain in her back and back legs, she was dragging her back feet as she had no strength to lift them to walk properly on her pads. This caused her to wear down her claws so much that she was bleeding on one occasion. After this occasion we made sure to walk her only on the side of the road so she could drag her feet on grass instead of asphalt. At the end of April 2014, we sent her across the Rainbow Bridge, to join her friend Darwin whom we lost in December 2012. After this awful event, things were quite tough at home, and as if that was not enough, my husband still had to study and practice for his final exam. He ha...