Thursday 24 June 2010

JUST A QUICK ONE....

Today I suddenly realised that I hadn't even thought about end of year teacher gifts and cards so at lunchtime I rustled up 9 of these using stamps from my last two Unity KOTM....I love those little owls and after using all those buttons at Kath's class over at Simply Create on Saturday I had a wee bit of string left so Kath you will be pleased to know that I threaded all the buttons!!! I am really loving kraft cardstock at the moment too..I just love the feel of it... I also used Judy's wee tip of using Distress Crackle Paint to edge the coloured part...originally I had distressed the edges but it didn't look quite right and then I remembered using the paint at Judy's class last week and it worked a treat....


Presentwise I am not sure...but I think I will have a rummage through the stock I have left over from Christmas and see what is suitable, failing that it will have to be a box of chocs as I really don't have time to do anything else as next week is going to be super busy with the dance show - I don't know who is more excited, me or the girls!!!...xxx

Sunday 20 June 2010

CREATIVE WRITER BLOG AWARD


Another blog award - I am a lucky girl this week - this is from Sonja who I made friends with at last year's ScrapAttack and we have kept in touch...It did make me giggle as I do know the truth in amongst all her fibs but I am not going to tell you, you will have to work it out for yourself...so onto my truth and my fibs...mmmmh


1. I am named (middle names) after the Rod Stewart song 'Maggie May!!!
2. I got married at the top of a mountain!!!
3. I once made the hotel bed of Stuart Adamson from Big Country!!!
4. I have done a bungee jump!!!
5. I used to be a model!!!
6. I have had a kiss from Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet!!!


So there we have it - nothing too outragous but which one is the truth and which are bare faced lies?!?!


I am going to pass mine onto Erika cos I think it will make her giggle too cos she certainly keeps us entertained whenever we meet up!!!!

KATH'S SEWING BOX AND CARD...

After seeing Kath's demo over at Simply Create last weekend I put my name down for her class this weekend and we certainly weren't disappointed....Sonja came over and picked me up and we headed to Parade (again!!) for lunch and then a mooch around the shop - it's full of gorgeous (but mostly quite expensive) stuff for your home....We got to the shop where we met up with Erika and the whole afternoon was full of giggles and laughter!!!

This is the gorgeous card and sewing box we made using Claudine Hellmuth Sticky-back Canvas and Tim Holtz Distress Inks.... The dress making stamps are by a variety of manufacturers (I think) including Hero Arts.....
I decided that instead of matting my sticky-back canvas onto card for the layered look I waited til I got home and used my new Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress Paint (as per Judy's class on Monday night) to edge each strip - I was very pleased with how it turned out....

And this is the card that matches in perfectly with it.....


So thank you Kath for a lovely afternoon.....xox

Friday 18 June 2010

I FORGOT....


I almost forgot that Elaine sent me a blog award today....

Now I have to tell you 10 interesting things about myself(EEEK!!!)....I then have to nominate 10 others for this blog award(EEEK again!!!)...

1. I once entered Miss Evening Express and made the last 10...

2. My first two children were born on the same day 1 year apart...

3. I wish I was reeeally good at one thing instead of just ok at most things I do...

4. I have had the same 'best' friend for over 25 years although she now lives in Fife and I don't see her as much as I would like!!!

5. My favourite colour used to be purple (Elaine) but I switched to green a few years ago...

6. I am still good friends with a girl I met on holiday 18(I think) years ago - Mandy that will be you...

7. I still miss my two dogs terribly...

8. I did the Edinburgh MoonWalk 3 years ago in 6 hours 50 minutes and I am thinking about doing it next year...

9. I am not very confident at all...

10. I wanted to be a crime scene investigator(that's probably not what it was called waaay back then) when I was at school but was rubbish at science...lol...


Now I have to pass it on (as Jamie says!!)....

1. Judy
2. Sonja
3. Jacqui
4. Mandy
5. Susan
6. Kath
7. Gez
8. Kate
9. Jo
10. Liz

BUSY BUT NOT A LOT TO SHOW...

It's been really busy since I last posted nearly two weeks ago...On the local Monday holiday we took a trip into town for a mooch about and I managed to get these little beauties in John Lewis...I picked up the hearts and took them to the till but they had no bar code on them so she looked on her computer and couldn't find them so charged me for the cheapest East of India product that they stocked which was only 2 pounds - Bargain!!!


On the Thursday I went to the first of 3 Jamie Oliver parties that I had been invited to in one week at my friend Kerry's...The second on the Friday night with Susan was cancelled and the third was on Wednesday this week at Tara's... At both parties I bought the new spice jar rack and some more of the tiny kilner jars and I have started sorting my buttons out by colour and filling the jars I already had... I will post a piccie next week when they are all filled up and looking beautiful and colour co-ordinated...lol....


Saturday saw the girls heading of to Scone Palace in Perthshire for the day with Brownies, Morgan had a judo training day at the Sports Centre and Niamh had a birthday party but before that we (Niamh and I) headed over to Simply Create to see Kath in action on her demo day and boy was she busy - she did some great demos and she is doing a class this Saturday which you could sign up for on the day so I put mine and Sonja's name down....


Sunday was dance rehearsals on and of all day for the girls and Morgan had yet another football tournament which his team won...yayy...just a pity about the weather tho...
Then it was Monday again and I was of to Judy's class at Simply create and these are the cards we made and although they are Judy's designs I did the colouring all by myself and I was very proud of my efforts for a first time!!! Will definitely be trying this again....was much better at it than I thought I would be and Judy is such a fabulous teacher...so thank you Judy for a wonderful class!!!

It was sports day the following day having been cancelled the previous week due to horrendous rain but my camera battery ran out after 2 very bad shots and I need to ask my brother-in-law to email me the ones he took...


Wednesday the P1 and P6 classes did an assembly at school for the nursery children moving up after the summer break... It was very good and Morgan is going to be one of the 'big' ones now...I still can't believe my baby has only one more year of primary and is then of to the Academy and my little baby is of to school this year - it will be the first time in 11 and a half years that I won't have anyone at home - how weird will that be!!!


So that's it for the last two weeks and the next two weeks before school finishes promises to be just as busy with more dance show rehearsals and football tournaments and school trips to come....x

Sunday 6 June 2010

MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY....UPDATE...

Today Ellie and Libby went of to Lochter for the day with Brownies leaving us with just Morgan and Niamh...Allan decided we were going to go to the Feein Market in Stonehaven but then I looked at the paper and realised he was looking at yesterday's so he said why not go to Thainstone instead....

One of the first things I spotted was this gorgeous cakestand which I immediately thought would be great for the Tea Party...
I asked how much it was and she said 8 pounds (or so I thought), she gave the usual sales pitch - not being able to get them like this anymore and she said she had paid 25 pounds for it, so I said I would think about it...After we left Allan said she had said 80 pounds so I thought no way. Just as we were about to leave Allan said he would go back and haggle with her - he asked how much I was willing to pay and I said 10 pounds so I gave him all the money I had in my purse and waited....He caught up with us with the cakestand all wrapped up in bubblewrap and when I asked how much, he said 17 pounds which was all the money I had given him so I was a bit annoyed and then he said she was asking 8 (not 80-we thought it was a bit weird that she was only asking 8 if she paid 25 for it) so he said 6, she said no, so he said 7 as that was all the money he had and she said YES!!! It's gorgeous isn't it??? Of course I googled it when we got back and found exactly the same one on ebay for 29.99 plus 6.45 p+p so it was a bargain!!!!

On to the envelopes for the party...This is the only 'paper' goods that I have bought so far....I stamped up 'key to the party' and the actual key in black stazon and the name and 'party' in SUs Real Red... Each name had to be done individually and was quite time consuming but so worth it.... I also stamped a tiny 'N' for Niamh on the key using my SU Stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up all up (Elaine you would be proud!!)...
Oh yes...and we 'had' to do an invitation to Mrs Rainie (one of Niamh's nursery teachers)...Niamh is insisting that she is invited and it would be fab it she could come as she is really lovely - she has had Morgan, Ellie and Libby at nursery as well so Niamh is the last one....

And this is the 'Piece de Resistance'... Me and Ellie were in Tesco last weekend when we spotted this huge cardboard cut-out at the bottom of the escalator advertising the release of the Alice in Wonderland movie on DVD on 4th June and I said to Ellie that it would be fab as the welcome banner for the party... While walking round we bumped into Eddie who is one of the managers at the store and I asked him about it... he said he would lay it aside for me after they were finished with it...Yesterday we popped into Tesco for some bits and pieces after football and he gave it to us...I had forgotten how tall it was(I am 5' 6" and it's taller than me)!!! Had to fold it a little to get it in the car... It is now safely ensconced in the spare room and I am going to change the date on it to the date of the party....

Tuesday 1 June 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMPLY CREATE...


A BIG Happy Birthday to Simply Create over in Alford - well done Jacqui on reaching this milestone and let's hope there are many more happy and prosperous ones to come!!!! To celebrate Jacqui is having a blog candy giveaway so why not hop over and check out her blog and workshops...xox