Di Hickman nov #1 and Sketch this :cards 31

New kitchen is going to be fitted on monday. I cannot wait. The big american fridge is in the back room waiting to be installed. We are going to have a dishwasher as well. And a double oven instead of the horrible combined oven and grill thing that we have at the moment. Not that i am mad about cooking. I love eating, but it is Ian who does most of the cooking. And i have ordered a bookcase and a wall mounted shelving unit to go in the back room. It is going to be my craft room. Another thing i am excited about. I want to be sat in my new craft room on xmas day. Most previous xmases we have had visitors or going to someone elses house. Now this year i want to have a chillout xmas. Just lounge in my pj's all day if i want. Watch Luke open his presents. Make the round of phoning relatives etc. And scrap and card make and just craft. Hopefully. Only black cloud is that Warren will be out in Afganistan. They are told because it is a special day for us that there will be lots of attacks. Lets all pray that peace will prevail soon.
I was reading the other day that a woman dies every 28min's during childbirth in Afganistan. Although the Taliban are not in power their mentality still remains. There are hospital facilities available with maternity units but the men will not allow the women to go for prenatal care. They would rather risk losing their wifes and unborn children. Very very sad.
There is also a ward in one of the southern hospitals called the Liberation ward. It is full of women who have set fire to themselves inorder to escape violent abusive relationships. The abuse not only comes from the men, but the mothering laws. Some of these girls are do not die straight way but slowly over a period of days or months. Again so very sad. Makes me grateful i live in a here.



Anyway enough morbid blogging, i have managed to do too new cards. The Di Hickman nov #1 challenge and Sketch this: cards challenge #31
Have a good weekend.