quick wonders

**edited to say: see how impatient I was....... you can see all the messy gluppy glue!! teeheeeeee! **

a super quick make today :)....dont you just love tissue paper!

all in a row.....

........house garland, I found a pic on katydiddys blog and got hit right between the eyes with my crafty mojo, so I had to get up and create it, although there is a wonderful tutorial on lauras blog for this, I went in blind with my papers, card and stamps,and made up my own templates. I chose to use the bluehill & rose garden papers from papermania as they matched the batch of felt roses I made last friday perfectly. I also got playing with my black and white pens to draw the windows and doors, taking inspiration from my paper artsey stamps.......so here she is hanging proudly in my hall :)

hope you all have a wonderful weekend, I am off now to pour a glass of red and get working on my birdhouse, happy friday peeps, hugs m xx

unexpected bargains

were had today.....was so delighted.....and how on earth did I ever survive without pink glue!!!!! I didnt even know it existed.........nearly had a heart attack in the aisle at tescos!!  and the gorgeous notebook, which is an a5 size and a bargain at €1.90!! so I bought 2!  I also picked up this cutlery basket for 4 quid, bargain! which I wont be using for cutlery but for craft stash! so thats me done for the day, off now to pretend to do housework and lash pizza in the oven! hugs xx

happy wednesday peeps :) 

hold onto your seats ladies it is another messy one from me this week...........so here we go all you lovely WOYWW's.  I do believe I have craft tools and chocolate in there somewhere, and maybe even a cat!  it is like a game of "where is wally" at the moment.

I will talk you through it ladies (I keep having to throw my head over my shoulder to have a look at the mess, my pooter is the far side of the room....whiplash!)

ok first up is the desk.....in the little bowl there is pink, blue and white felt flowers that I made on friday night, I turned a few of these into hair clips, oohhh and I found my missing chocolate, thats my breakfast sorted!  Then we have a blank bird house which I am covering in cosmo cricket paper.

and up goes the camera to show you the top of the drawer unit thingies.  a couple of you ladies asked me about the photo collage so I hope you can see her in all her glory, I decided to create one big canvas using my favourite applet prints. link to the lovely emilys shop is here.

I realised that I never showed you  how I store my stamps, the white boxes hold my clear stamps, as does the boxes and baskets that you can just see in the end of the picture, there are boxes under the white table thingie that I dont use that often.

finally, at last I hear you all scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I will finish on something quick I made this week, its above my pin board, it is a frame off a clock that I broke the other week, so I decided to keep the frame part and all its inner bits (for tim moments), I used my favourite sassafrass paper and a quote from the lord of craft himself  holtz, and eh voile wall art!  (and erm..... yes that is more chocolate beside the glass jar and fudge too, can you tell I have a problem???)

off I go now armed with a fresh cuppa to oogle over your desks!  if you would like to join in the fun swing by Julias blog, the wonderful creator of WOYWW, hugs m xxx

pretty papers

I love love love these papers from pink paislee, had a little play today!

I will............

us

created this page on tuesday using a sketch from creative scrappers, I had been routing through a box of old photos and just had to scrap this one of my sister and I.....................she is gonna kill me when she finds out I put it up on the internet! teeehhhhheeeee!!!  hugs m xx

its wednesday, WOYWW time

 yes its wednesday.....again..............my god who is stealing these weeks, we need to have serious words!!!  time to share my shamefuly messy desk again this week on "whats on your workdesk wednesday"  and do you know what I am not really ashamed...this is me creating and happy.  I only kid myself trying to keep it tidy because deep down I know it wont happen, its just not me!  so I have given you a few photos this week to nosey over ladies.....enjoy! off now to brave the school run and supermarket....hugs m xx

all aboard!

finally completed my titanic layout, photo and boarding passes have been on my desk for 3 weeks now.  

we had all headed up to the titanic exhibition in dublin on easter monday for a family day out, it was an amazing and moving experience to see all of the relics they have brought up from the wreck site of this great ship, learn about her passengers and soak up what was truly a once in a life time opportunity, we really really enjoyed it.  so here she is my contribution to her memory.  I tried to make everything look like it sat at the bottom of the ocean for nearly 100 years, so I was happily distressing!

hugs m xx

addicted to patterend paper scraps

......I can not stop, everything that has been made at my little desk the last few weeks has been done using my bits from my scraps basket!  deep deep down I think a phobia is starting to develop that is stopping me from cutting up lovely new sheets of patterened paper.....I am long into the stage of buying 2 of each design....one for cutting and one for stroking, but I think I am taking it to far now!

so here are my offerings, here are the quick cards I was working on the other week, all your woywwers out there will have spotted these on my desk, and when I say quick they took no more than ten minutes each, and I made myself not ink a single edge and resist the urge to fire up the sewing machine.  birdie house's are from a papertrey template and I made some atcs too.  these atcs are up for grabs if anyone is interested in doing a swap, just leave me a message.

heading out to a friends house later tonight for a scrap night, so looking forward to it, hugs m xx

woyww

'tis another wednesday...I would like to know who is fast forwarding these weeks, since I became truly addicted to snooping at other lovely crafters desks the weeks are just zooming by at full speed...either that or I am getting old rapidly!  I love my little routine each wednesday morning now, thanks to julia the founder of woyww.  I get my post done while having my coffee listening to the kids fighting over the toothpaste and getting uniforms on for school.  

I took a pic from a different angle this week as my desk is well and truly a tip!  I made some butterflies too to pimp up my lamp shade, so I am sharing those with you also.....and you can seethe yummy edward cullen in the background!  off now to get kids to school then back to have a nose at what you ladies are up to this week, hugs m xx

my loves birthday

this card is for a very very special person.......a person who gives me strength, who loves me completely, bad bits and all, knows me inside out & upside down, he loves with all his heart,  the best daddy in the world and my best friend.....happy birthday baby, love you xx

desk time

 can not believe how fast the weeks are going!!  its wednesday so that means WOYWW.

firstly I am showing you how I made a box of truffle eggs disappear...............and in one sitting too! yum yum...even though I did go a funny shade of green!  was almost the same shade as "shabby shutters"!!

secondly a few of you lovely ladies wanted to see my pin board......which has mix of stuff, brooches I made , badges, and a pic of our craft god  "tim"................................and finally a pic of the bomb site itself!!!!  I was determined to make quick cards yesterday using only paper scraps and embellishments (excluding my lovely gems!!!) that I never use, so that I had a little stash of cards at hand in the case of an emergency! and I got 4 made, plan on another 4 today! 

looking forward to having a nose at your lovely spaces today ladies!

{{hugs}} m xx

finished tilda

taadaa!!!!!!!!!! about time, I only started her this day last week!  only for all you lovely WOYWW's were wanting to see her finished I would not have got her done....boy I need that boot up the backside everyweek!
I am going to enter this little lady on the "Just Magnolia" challenge blog this week, they are looking for something punched....and I got happy punching with my leaf punch!

and also over on "Quixotic Challenges", the lovely Elaine is calling for Spring themed,  which is a perfect chance to show off the lovely flowers I got from Elaines shop!

off now to tackle yet more clothes washing as we are having lovely weather here so I have to take advantage of it to get the drying done!

hugs m xx

my desk on wednesday

 woyww time of week YAY!!!! there has not been much happening on this desk since last thursday......it has been all go go go here since then with the easter weekend and I squeezed in my first ikea visit too yesterday.....now I am hooked on storage!   I started work on a magnolia stamp and as you can see I got no further than her skin....I am determined to get her on a card today before I head out to madhatters craft club tonight! hugs xx

my new forest friends

I love my new deer friend from the greeting farm, he is just adorable....so reminds me of bambi!  this is my entry for crafty creations this week, the theme is anything goes!

my tim book did not arrive yesterday, I was so dissappointed so fingers and everything crossed that is comes today!  the little lady in the house here has her first appointment with the hairdressers at lunch time today, she is getting a fringe and loads cut from the ends....as there is a daily battle here every morning with her and the hairbrush..that involves tears on both sides and tantrums...so it is a welcomed goodbye to her long hair...for the sake of my sanity!

hugs m xx