What a bad blogger am I?

Hello folks,

I really cannot believe how bad I am at this blogging lark, then again, I never could keep a diary as a kid.

Anyway I have made quite a few cards in the past couple of week's, I was asked if I wanted to go to Strawberry Tea last week and take some cards with me to sell - well it was a bit of a flop I only sold four :( There were however only about 25 people there.

The next plan of action is a Card and Jewellery night with a friend (who makes the jewellery) at home. Date to be decided as quite a few people are away on holiday, at least I've plenty of stock, just want to try and make something a bit different to sell now, got some pictures and clipboards to alter.

Here's a few of my latest creations











If anyone is interested I've had a big clearout of stamps and have added them to my sale blog, a link can be found on the sidebar, just email me if you are interested in any.

Ooops forgot

I promised to show what goodies I bought with my birthday money





Think I might have gone a bit mad, but it's only your birthday once a year and to top it all off I won some blog candy off the lovely Kitty that ended on my birthday.



Here are some of the lovely handmade cards I received from my Craft club members and Docraft buddies, thanks to Teresa, Suzanne, Sandra, Jane and CraftyJane x




Better get on and use some of it now.

Two awards in one week

Nearly forgot I've been given my first awards this week by the lovely Jannette of Little-Bo's Crafty Place and my lovely friend Suzanne 2



So it goes without saying thankyou to both of you and now I must pass it on.

Teresa - Craftingallday Creations
Lizzy - Lizzy's Crafty Place
Sam - Whisper's Cards
Lisa - Wishcraft
Viv - Viv's Visuals
Joanne - Made by Joanne
Linda - Studio L3

These people have the most amazing blogs and their work truly inspires me now all I have to do it let them know.

Manga's and Magnolia Accessories

I've added a few more stamps to my sale blog, please pop over for a look if you're interested.

New craft clearout blog

Hi there, I've now created a new blog for my bits for sale, please use the link on the right of this blog, and don't forget to add yourself as a follower so you don't miss out on any bargains.

Now I've got that out the way I can get on with some crafting and hopefully come back later with a card for you.

I won another!

Can't believe I've won another challenge - this time it's the Sugar Bowl and the prize looks yummy, a lush purple box filled with goodies, including a Trinkettes bracelet, can't wait to get it (although it does say it might not come in the lush purple box!)




You can see my winning card here

Good news

Yippee, I'm one of the top five with my "Ethel" card over at Passion for Promarkers. Made my day, not won anything for ages.

More stuff for sale

I have decided that before I buy anything else I must try and get rid of some stuff I don't use, what is it they say Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

MS Flower punch with 3 clear stamps 7.00 (p+p 1.50)



Fiskars Filligree border 4.00 (p+p 1.50)



Stampin Up flower punch 4.00 (p+p 2.00)




Please email me if you are interested swire990@btinternet.com and I will send a paypal invoice.

Thanks

How does your garden grow?

Thanks to Rachel for telling me about the Simon Says Stamp Childrens Challenge, my five year old Son, Sam, loves gluing and sticking, he comes home from school everyday with the biggest and best model. Think he's going to be an engineer.

Anyway, yesterday we went to Range and he spotted the Craft Planet Goody Bag for kids which he bought with his Easter money and came home and made this garden. It was all his own idea and knew exactly what he was doing.





Hope you like it.

Oops I forgot.....

to upload my photo for the last post, that card really wasn't meant to be! I've now put it on so if you'd like to take a peek please do.

I'd just like to say thank you for all the lovely comments you've left recently, it makes everything feel worth while.

Happy Birthday to me!

It was my birthday on Thursday and I've had a lovely week, stretched it out. Last Saturday I went to the Leigh Craft show with a friend and spent a small fortune. It was guilt free though as I was spending birthday money. I've been out for a meal with hubby, lunch with Mum and Auntie and had a lovely girly meal last night.

Got lots and lots of lovely handmade cards from my Craft Club and Docraft buddies and some gorgeous flowers, wine and chocs off my friends.

Totally Gorjuss DT Call Out

We've a DT call out!

Want to come and play Gorjuss with us?

If you do please email Net- totallygorjuss@gmail.com

Put 'DT call out' in your first line, with a link to your blog. Also a few details about your style of crafting.

Closes 21st February 2010

Good Luck, we are a lovely bunch, lol and look forward to one of you lovely ladies joining us.

Daughter's blog

Spent all morning with the kids making cards, just glad I'm not a teacher. How they do it with a whole class wanting help at once I don't know.

Anyway we've managed to find a blog challenge for children Little Hands Do Crafts

We've set up a blog for my Daughter which you can visit here she'd be really pleased if you popped in.

Just trying to sort one out for the boys now.

Tags

Well the latest challenge over at Totally Gorjuss is simply "Tags" I'm sure everyone is in need of some of these at the moment, don't worry, you only need to do one, we know how busy everyone is now, so it's a really simple one, the last one until New Year.

Mine is on the post below as I needed it for Friday. So if you've got a five minutes to spare come on over and join us.

WOW WOW WOW - look what I won!

A good day got even better, did the school fair and made over 70.00 which was fantastic. Then came home to find a parcel waiting, a very large and heavy one. Had no idea what it was, I've ordered some stamps but nothing that big.

Imagine my face when I opened it to find this lot










I've won a prize draw in The Stampers Complete Handbook, forgot I entered it way back in the summer. I am absolutely gobsmacked, I was jumping up and down like a kid in a sweet shop, hubby thought I'd gone mad.

Just need to find a home for it all. There's Elusive Images, Woodware, Lili of the Valley, Joanna Sheen, Blonde Moments, Little Claire to name a few plus a heatgun and embossing powders! Out of all of it there was only a clear set of Penny Black's I'd already got.

I am grinning from ear to ear and shall be for a long time to come.

Lisa's Blog Candy

One of my best blogging buddies has put some fab candy up for grabs. The lovely Lisa from Wishcraft has had 5000 hits, for a girl who didn'thave time for a blog she's not doing too bad!

See my sidebar for what's on offer and the link will take you there.

Hello

Morning all,

Not been on for a while, don't know where the days are going. Been busy the last few days I was at a craft meet in Warrington all day on Sunday which was great. Spent Tuesday in the hospital with Son having five teeth taken out.

Then I had my first craft club on Tuesday evening. I offered to take over our local group as the lady running it was stepping down, my friend is helping me along with another lady who was already on the committee. We decided to do more make and takes and everyone will now have to bring their own equipment and materials.

I have now got to come up with plenty of projects! We started off with a Slider card, it was a little disorganised but I think everyone enjoyed it and we had five new ladies.

I've not got a card to show you as I was too busy sorting everyone else out.

These are the ones I made at Warrington Crafty Devils, the monkey was a Challenge using a template, we were all given a different one. I don't think anyone was impressed but the results were really good.








Finally a Good Luck card ordered by a friend



I've got a DT and two challenge cards to do, not to mention cleaning up so I better get a move on.

One more day

Well ladies, you've got one more day to enter the Totally Gorjuss doubling up challenge before we start another on Friday.

So come and join us at http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/

We have got some great Sponsors so remember - you gotta be in it to win it.

Great news!

There is a new blog called Totally Gorjuss and I've been asked to join the DT. I'm really excited as this is my first DT post and will be "working" with one of my best DC buddies - Loobylou (Lisa).

Come and join us over at

http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/

Crafty Devils Meet

I went to my first Crafty Devils meet in Warrington yesterday and had a fantastic time, the best 1.50 and I've ever spent. I met some lovely people who I hope will remain good crafty friends and had a laugh whilst doing what we all love best.

The theme was "Anywhere in the World". Got their and realized I'd left my file of oriental stuff at home! Did have some bits with me so here's what I made.

Both are images from Mo's Digital Pencil too with Papermania papers.




We also had to do a Challenge which we had to complete in an hour. We had to use two papers, a ribbon, a flower, and three buttons/candy dots and a lucky dip image, mine being a Penny Black called "Hanging Around" I think. Not used to doing cats, think it look's more like a teddy bear.