a card for a friend.

Sympathy cards are the most difficult to make. It means that sadness and/or a loss has come to someone I care about. Nothing can ever be said to fix such a thing. But I want who ever is suffering to know I care and am thinking of them....so I make cards because that is the only way I know how to express my feelings and show my concern.

tonight I had to make such a card. Someone I have recently met has suffered a great, terrible loss and I truly ache for her. She is someone I respect and knowing she hurts right now is hard to deal with. Losing a loved one is never easy, and though I hear people say "it takes time", there's never a set amount, because I still ache for my grandma after 7 years. So it may get easier, but you never know when.

to show her I'm thinking of her - and her family - I made a card. It won't heal the wound, but at least she knows she's in my heart.

{papers by My Mind's Eye, Stamps and die by Papertrey Ink, ribbon and button from my stash, Punch by Fiskars}