Saturday, March 21, 2009

Catching Up ...

Oh wow, the last couple of weeks have been really busy and mostly filled with Haggis. He's able to go out and about now so we've been showing him our little corner of the world and we've also enrolled him in Puppy School. Our first session was last week and we haven't been expelled yet - there's time yet mind you!!


The beginning of last week was taken up with a horrible visit to the Dentists for me and a day off work to recover from my ordeal :( We've also been decorating. My brother and his fiance have finally moved out of our house into their own which meant I could move out of the spare room and back into my own larger bedroom which they've had for the last year which in turn means that the spare room can be turned back into my craft room!! Hip Hip Hooray I can't wait to have all of my supplies in one room instead of being spread out in storage around the rest of the house and even the shed and greenhouse out in the garden! I've been to IKEA today for new storage stuff and shelves and tomorrow we're putting my work benches back in and moving my furniture in and then hopefully I can set about organising everything.




I have spent some time over the last few weeks making cards and playing with paper so I have stack of photographs to share :) But first here is my baby








I finally got around to using the hostess stamps from my Stampin' up collection and my promarkers - I love both and will definitley be buying more markers


I love this new digital kit by Melissa Bennett at Sweet Shoppe Designs, it's an Easter kit but I loved the colours and thought it would be good for a wedding card that we needed and then of course I couldn't resist the little bunny :)

I also used it to make some little Easter goodies for the kids in my class. I bought the test tubes from ebay before Christmas but never actually got round to using them but when I saw these teeny tiny little chocolate eggs at the supermarket I thought they would look so cute in the test tubes












I've had a few visits from the postman too, including these gorgeous stamps from Papertrey Ink and the heart punches that fit exactly which makes life very easy and some from Hero Arts too, the happy birthday greeting stamp is just the right length for my size of cards and I can see it being used loads!


I went to Hobbycraft through the week too and stocked up on some new dies for my bigshot as well as a stack of bling and brads because a girl just can't have enough of either and I love to have them in lots of colours. And just because I was in the mood for emptying my piggy bank I invested in a couple more sets of the nestabilities dies including these fab labels. I can see these becoming my next 'must have the whole collection' addiction :lol:


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

love the cards and projects!

Cheryl Hirzel said...

Hello, I stopped by to check out your blog after seeing yout card on Di Hickman's site and I like it very much! Your cards are adorable and refreshing and your pooch is the cutest ever! I am signing up (on google reader) so I can make to follow your entries. Have a great day!

Dolly Mixtures said...

You have been busy! Love the cards - I LOVE the papertrey cards, the stamps and punches look great , as does the sentiment.(wish papertrey had a stockist for the UK and Europe- postage costs are usually more than the items).
Haggis is very cute.

kathybart said...

please, please, please tell me what the paper is on the "flowery" card that has the great big flower embellishment on it! your cards are beautiful! thanks, Kathy x

Carolee said...

Andrea, you little guy is so adorable! Congrats! I love looking at your cards and projects - they are so inspiring!