Tuesday 31 August 2010

SIMPLY CREATE DESIGN TEAM...

I'm in.....the Simply Create Design Team that is....Can't believe it...never thought I would be picked in a million years as there are so many wonderfully creative people out there...I swithered about entering but Sonja and Susan both said I should go for it so I thought 'why not'....I didn't even send my entry in til last night - last minute Annie as usual...I am soooo exciiiited and can't wait to get started and to meet all my new teamies..... Thank you Jacqui - you have really made my day!!!

Hop on over and say hello to all the rest of the girls....




I am also going to be doing a class over at the shop on the 23rd September and here is a wee sneak peek if you fancy it!!!!


OMG...still can't believe it...and it's so lovely that there are one or two or even three or four of the peeps that I know and love on the team as well....Don't think I will be able to sleep now!!!!

Saturday 28 August 2010

NEW BACKGROUND

Sorry messing around with Blogger Backgrounds today...bear with me - this may take a while...lol

Thursday 26 August 2010

NEW ETSY SHOP

This week I opened my etsy shop - StorminavintageTcup for business after setting it up in July- I started of with this little trinket box that I bought along with some other shapes and sizes from Hobbycraft just before going on holiday and it was a tutorial that I seen on mjm-the art tart that spurred me into using this one and then a remark from Sonja that morning made me put it in the shop....so thank you to both of you for the kick up the butt that I probably needed...I found these two notepads lurking about in a box from a while ago so I thot just to add a couple more items I would pop them in the shop too...you never know...unfortunately the photo of the other one just refused to upload!!!

I would also like to say a BIG thank you to Jacqui over at Simply Create for the 'One Lovely Blog Award' she gave me yesterday....now I need to pass it on....but I am going to cop out of this and pass it on to everyone whose blog I read and follow because they are all so full of inspiration and fabulousness..... Well that's it for now...hopefully will have more to show next week and hopefully I will manage to keep up with demand for items from the shop...lol...chance will be a fine thing!!!!

Wednesday 18 August 2010

HAIRCUTS AND 1ST DAY AT SCHOOL...

MORGAN before... and after...not sure there is that much difference but there was a fair chunk of his hair cut of and it is much neater than it was.....
ELLIE before...
and after...she is starting to look very grown up all of a sudden and doesn't she have a lovely smile...very natural..(sorry, bragging about my kids, can't help it!!)
LIBBY before...
and after...much, much better, still trying to grown that fringe out...
NIAMH before... and after...she only had the very wispy ends cut of and this was her first haircut too... This is my baby of to school this morning - doesn't she look gorgeous in that school uniform...I could eat her all up, she is so cute!!!! Edit...if you enlarge this one you can see the little dimples in her knees....
She is another one with a gorgeous smile. She was very excited to be going to school today (1st day) and was up at 6am this morning so I had to send her back to bed for a little while...
The little ones all ready to go...
and the big ones...
Don't they all look smart in their uniforms!!! So that's them back to school - Primary 7, Primary 6, Primary 4 and Primary 1....
Sorry no crafty things to share this week as I am working on some things that are being kept under wraps for the minute but maybe once I finish that I will have time to work on some other bits!!! Take care and enjoy what's left of the week!!!

Sunday 8 August 2010

HOLIDAY REPORT...

Well here we are back from holidays and what fun we had...first of we went to Disneyland Paris. We flew from Glasgow Prestwick which is a great little airport about 30 minutes further South than Glasgow's main airport...and when you can get flights to Paris for 120 quid for 6 people you don't mind going a little further...lolFirst day and Allan took Morgan and Ellie to queue for some of the faster rides and I took Libby and Niamh to the more genteel ones!!!
This was them in the Alice in Wonderland Maze...I remember it from last time...so much fun with things popping out at you and water scooshing you at every turn...

This is the Mark Twain paddle steamer - it takes you for a wee sail round Big Thunder Mountain and back again. I used the photo editing tool Time Machine to change it to around the 1850s...looks quite cool I thot!!
The girls in front of an old fashioned American ice-cream van with The Hollywood Tower of Terror in the background (that's where Allan and Morgan were)...no thanks!!!
A rare photo of them all smiling - there is usually one with a grumpy face...
I love this one!!
Enjoying dinner in the Rainforest Cafe...it was just as cool as we remembered it from the last time we were there 6 years ago (really doesn't seem that long ago)...

This is the castle preparing for the Fireworks extravaganza which was amazing as it was pitch dark by the time they started with the parade and then the fireworks...Niamh was in her element here....

Had to get this picture as it's not very often you will see Niamh in a dress and doesn't she look sweet??? And so that was our Paris adventure over and then it was of to Yorkshire on our return...
First day we went to see our very good friend Mandy (have a look on her etsy shop - she does the most amazing things with felt!!) who lives in a village called Riccall which is quite near York...It's been 8 years since we last met up (our wedding), although we do talk on the phone and what not and it was fantastic to see her - she hasn't really changed that much since we first met nearly 20 years ago in Ibiza....
This is us now - I will really have to did out some old photos and do a comparison...


On the 2nd day we went to York and went round the Railway Museum which is awesome and most importantly FREE...lol...then we did the open top bus tour and the lady was really nice and didn't charge us for any of the kids and told us to go buy them an ice-cream instead - wasn't that nice of her???


3rd day we took a trip to Harrogate as Allan said the shops were quite good and I thought it would also be a good opportunity to go visit Dy at Art from the Heart but guess what???? She was closed much to my disappointment!!! Never mind we had a lovely day anyway...


I was glad to get back on Wednesday and that's really me just up to date now with everything - last of the washing is out on the line and kids are all in bed...practicing for getting up for school on the 18th August (yeehaa!!!) as the girls have summer dance school this week and Libby's starts at 9.30am...


I really need to get myself motivated again as I am 3 weeks behind with Claudine's workshop now and I have a couple of other things that I need to get done too...