Guest Designer for CASology

Hello everyone, I am so excited to be a guest designer for CASology this week, this is my first time being a GD, and I am very happy that it is for one of my favorite challenge blogs!

This week the cue card is 

This is the card I came up with!

I printed the sentiment on a white card stock. I  up-cycled few bamboo twines, which came in a packing, I used this to make a nest, it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.  I decided to add a tiny red heart instead of the usual egg/s in the nest. And stamped a tiny bird on the card, and stamped it again on a piece of card and fussy cut to add it above the stamped image, using a foam adhesive. That's it, didn't feel like adding anything else on it. 

I had so many ideas, but I kept coming back to this one, so ended up making this. 

I am going to tell briefly, why I chose these words out of so many beautiful words for a home.

My hubby works for 5 star hotels, and back in time from 2003-2007, close to 6 years we were housed in his hotel. Now, these were business class hotels not Resorts. My kiddos were toddlers that time, and they were going to school. Every morning I had to take them to the hotel lobby to take the  school bus, around 6:45am in the morning. What I hated the most was that I had to dress up nicely, and look presentable early in the morning, just to drop them off. Every time I had to step out of the house , even for briefly, I had to look perfectly presentable with a smile, as I was passing by the public places of the hotel, and I bump into the staff, they know who I was! Not that I was a VIP, but I was an executive's wife! Very tiring indeed.... So when we moved here in 2008, I was over-joyed that I would not be staying in a hotel, but in an apartment, away from where my hubby works(trust me, you don't want to live where your hubby works, poor him - it was both home and workplace for him).

For the first few years when I used to go down to drop off my kids to their school bus, I didn't bother, if I was poorly dressed , I didn't have to look presentable all the time, my hair can be a mess and I can just drop them off and go back home. I WAS/AM ENJOYING TO LOOK AND FEEL UGLY!

All said, I do miss a few things from when I was living in the hotel - the Housekeeping and the Laundry service ;) !

This is my interpretation of the cue card, A home is a place where you can feel what you want - ugly, beautiful or anything, and most importantly be yourself! I think this make a perfect card for a family member.

Thank you for staying with me, even though it is a long post.

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!