My gosh it has been ages - I should update this blog more often. Well today is Easter Sunday and the kids had a ball - they went to see their nana and then off to the gym for a swim and then home to a roast dinner. And of course chocolate eggs thereafter!!!

Since I last posted I now have a new baby niece - Ava - she is a dote... I had her overnight a few weeks ago and it reminds me how much hard work babies are!!! But at the same time sooooo worth it.
I made some easter nests for the kids last night - thanks to Jan on the Craft Supplies forum - for the life of me I can't post a link to the photos - I must work on that one - I thought once they were in photo bucket then i could add them to blogs too.. I must get this sorted....Anyhow - here is a link to the discussion on Craft Supplies which gave me the idea. http://www.craftsupplies.ie/shop/chat/viewtopic.php?t=21443

I have been to the last two of Jackie Mooney's card making work shops http://jackiesworkshops.blogspot.com/ and made some amazing cards. I will take some photos of recent cards and post them up over the next day or too.

I am working on some albums/booklets for our sixth class kids to remind them of their time in school. I have until June to get them sorted but thought I would start them when I had some time over Easter. Again, I will get some photos sorted soon. Thats all for now...

The kids had a whale of of a time over the last few days with the snow. It is the first time they ever managed to make a snow man!!! And what a job they did too.... Well done all. I love the snow. And I especially like the fact the schools (and as I work in a school, my job) are closed until Thursday. It has thawed out today so all the snow has melted so I wish for a bit of snow to make more snowmen and have it thawed nicely before I need to be on the road again!!! It's Sunday night and no snow here yet???

Happy New Year to you all. All the best for 2010!

I have been busy but managed to get some crafting in and thought it was about time I updated this blog!

I bought a cheap mirror frame from Ikea and altered it a bit and this is how it turned out. The colour scheme goes great in our bedroom. I love it.

I have just made a few cards and took some photos to share. So have a look below.

That's all from me for now. I promise my New Year resolution is to craft and blog more often. Hope you are all happy and well. Bye for now.

My birthday presents!

My husband has come up trumps this year with my birthday present - he got in touch with Annamarie from http://www.thescrapbookstore.ie/ to buy all this stash above!!

He also bought me my favourite perfume Grapefruit by Jo Malone - I love it. I did drop the hint about the perfume but the scrapbook stuff was all his idea - well done Frankie!!

Teachers presents

The first year my children were in school I got flowers or sweets as a present but soon realised that the teachers were indundated with these. So every year since then I have made something for the teachers instead. This year I used an idea I got from Elisa at Crafteire in February (thank you Elisa!). Ikea frames with the embelishments on the outside of the frame. I am going to get the kids to draw/write something on the back (whatever each one is capable of !! my youngest will just scribble but what can I do??!! )

Picture overload

Since I have just sussed out this blog thingie I have added some photos that were on my computer of recent cards/projects I have been working on.

Below is a pinata my sister and myself made for a kids party last month. It was great fun to make and a fraction of the price that I would have paid in the shop. It withstood the battering of the children and broke just in time before they got bored! I'd say this cost €4 to make as opposed to €20 to buy and that's before you fill it with goodies!
You could really go to town decorating it (and I was tempted) but I thought why bother when it was going to get destroyed by the kids!

The quality of the photo above is pretty bad but it looks better in real life!

Note to self - I must get better at taking photos as all the above looked better in real life - I promise! Anyway that's just some of the stuff I have been working on.

Jackie's workshop on Sunday - fab day

I made this at home so don't know if it is supposed to look like this but I like it anway!

My version of a girlie wallet below!

my version of Jackie's Father's day wallet

This fabulous album is great - I love it and can't wait to get some photos in it!

That Hello Kitty card is great fun - many uses.

Below is Jackie's Father's day card - i love it -I will use this technique again and again...