Nerves frazzled already

Thank you, yes I am really enjoying my new hobby and think I will be doing a lot of it over the next few weeks, to try and keep my mind occupied (if not my ears!  More of which later).  Good point about the lines on the green cutting mats aiding measuring and cutting in straight lines - next time we go to town I'll have a look in The Works for one.  At the moment I'm using a plastic stencil plate which has a ruler on both edges, and I use a bit of blue tack to keep the paper/card from slipping about on the glass mat when I'm cutting.  It does leave a slight mark sometimes though.  This morning I made a very simple birthday card, it took me just 10 minutes:-

The hardest thing was picking up 2 of the little crystal gems I inadvertently knocked on the floor with my sleeve, duh!

Another couple made in the last few days:-

Apologies for the quality of the photos, taken on my phone.

I've mentioned before that our next door neighbours (and their 3 noisy dogs) moved out a few weeks ago, the house, the other half of our semi and also owned by our landlord, has been empty since then.  The house needs a lot of work doing before the next tenants can move in - old kitchen and bathroom ripped out and new fitted, electrical works, a lot of remedial work to the roof which will involve most of the tiles and framework taken off and renewed, total redecoration indoors and new carpets/flooring fitted throughout.  Scaffolders have arrived this morning and started fitting all the scaffold poles for the roof works, and already my nerves are on edge with all the noise, plus the fact that the workmen have rested some of their scaffold poles on our fairly newly erected fence (which we paid for), blooming cheek.  And all this noise and mess and coming and going will be taking place for the next several weeks - I'll be bald from tearing my hair out way before then!

I know it's got to be done and there's nothing the landlord can do about the noise, etc, but he's not even been in touch to say it's going to be done and apologising in advance, which would have been nice.  We only know about the works by husband asking the various workmen who've been turning up to have a look at what needs doing.  People have no consideration for others nowadays.  We can't afford, nor do we have the time, to go out all day every day until the work is completed, so I guess we're just going to have to put up with it.  It's affecting Betty too, she's been beside herself with excitement and anxiety this morning, partly excited about the thought of potential new playmates, and partly getting her hackles up because she's thinking she has to protect us from invaders!

The landlord has decided, after his roofer workman came to inspect our roof, that no work is necessary for us, which is something I suppose, I wasn't looking forward to that at all.

And to cap it all, I had a terrible night after falling out with my best friend yet again yesterday.  They've let me down before and have been less than helpful or supportive (well, no support at all) over the past few months, but I was reluctant to let them go because of our history.  I'm just so upset, what they said yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back.  Well, that's that, I must put it all (and them) firmly behind me.  Which will be hard.  

Well, back to the card making.  The irony is, I'd made my friend a lovely one, but they won't be getting it now.