help please

squeaky

I've got somewhere in the region of 150,000 bits of clipart stashed on CD's and there are plenty of borders there to choose from

Give me an hour or two to catch up with Board guiding things and I'll PM you a few possibilities - flowers round oval frames...

kscour

just a quick but huge thank you to everyone. I've got my tissues out again!
The clipart you've found is beautiful. Pink Winged - the primroses and spring flora was just the sort of thing she would have loved (she probably would have made me print them out for her!)
I think the timing of her death shook me- I know she was 93 and I didn't think she was going to live forever but somehow dying on her birthday when she was so in my thoughts because she lived too far away for me to visit seemed to enhance it. Also on her birthday I had to take my daughter to have 6 teeth extracted under general. It took an hour to get there and nearly 2 to get back as we had to keep stopping. I found out my Nana had died the next morning while my daughter was being sick in a bucket & running a temperature. By last night I felt like someone had pulled all the stuffing out of me and left me in a wrinkly heap!
Right now I feel like I've had the biggest group hug in the world - thank you, all of you.
Gravitytolls you used one of my other Grans expressions "God bless you pet" she also used to say "if you sit and wait for others to do something it may never happen, if you get moving and do it yourself it will"
So tissues away and order of service into production!
thanks again everyone - by the time I post this I'll probably have to thank you all again

MrsB_2

(((((((((((((Kscour))))))))))))))

I'm so sorry to hear of your sad loss, and even more so that it came on top of an already stressful day.

I'll be thinking of you and sending you hugs and strength to get through the next few days.

Take care of yourself.

Love

nicki_2

:grouphug:

My OH's nana died suddenly a few years back and I was the one who had to break the news to him. I just thought I would share something that his family did - they took a picture of her looking really happy (only taken a few weeks before she died) and the poem that was read out at her funeral (can't remember what it was exactly, but it was one about she's only moved into the next room and is waiting) then they used the two things to make bookmarks for all her family. Ours is put in a box for safe keeping with other keepsakes, MIL & SIL use theirs daily. Just thought it might be a nice idea.

My thoughts are with you and your family. :grouphug:

Bendybops19

nicki wrote:

:grouphug:

My OH's nana died suddenly a few years back and I was the one who had to break the news to him. I just thought I would share something that his family did - they took a picture of her looking really happy (only taken a few weeks before she died) and the poem that was read out at her funeral (can't remember what it was exactly, but it was one about she's only moved into the next room and is waiting) then they used the two things to make bookmarks for all her family. Ours is put in a box for safe keeping with other keepsakes, MIL & SIL use theirs daily. Just thought it might be a nice idea.

My thoughts are with you and your family. :grouphug:

That is such a lovely idea, made me all weepy!

MrsB_2

Hi Nicki,

I think you might mean this one, and as it's so beautiful I thought I'd post it and see if it was one that may appeal to Kscour. Hope it doesnt upset anybody.

All Is Well

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household world that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It it the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.

By Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)
Canon of St Paul's Cathedral

misty

One of my all time favourite poems is the sonnett Remember Me by Christina Rossetti - which I would like read at my own funeral.

Remember
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more, day by day,
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

Hope everything goes well. Misty

Swan_2

here's the URL for that Victorian clipart I mentioned last night ... http://antiqueclipart.com/category.php/flowers.html

Bendybops19

MrsB and Misty - they were lovely, made me very teary at work. - Must be hormonal, i'm crying at everything!

I have printed them off, really touched me.

kscour

Just to say thanks again. Between posting here yesterday and my mum arriving to go shopping for a suitable outfit I put together a very rough draft using the clipart.
My mum was in tears but very happy and she wants to print them off not so much as an order of service (which it will be because we will print the poems that are to be read in it) but also as a memento of her life - very like Nicki's bookmark.
My mum had already mentioned All is well - it's one of her favourites. I think I may include "Remember" as well thank you for that Misty it's beautiful.
I've gone from photocopying to printing out in colour because the clipart is so beautiful - again thank you so much to everyone you've all been so helpful.
I've also included the Irish Blessing:-

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
And the rain fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again
May God hold you In the palm of His hand.

I like that one for any family get together - christenings, weddings etc. Seems a nice end to any service.

And as we've turned it more into a momento we're all getting to add a poem, reading, memory or whatever of our choice as well

I've adapted He is Gone it seemed to suit my Nana to the ground (sorry Bendybops19 tissue time again)

She is Gone

You can shed tears that she is gone,
Or you can smile because she lived,
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared,
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on,
You can cry and close your mind be empty and turn your back,
Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
Anonymous


Thanks again to you all for your support - it has really made a huge difference to me. I know now that I can do my Nana proud on Wednesday as well as be there for my Mum and Auntie