Sunshine - well paper & mosaic sunshine anyway!

I had a wonderful evening of cutting and sewing at Annamaries evening crop last thursday and made this layout of the three lads in france ...

The photo is only a small polaroid snapshot - so it really got a dressing up here. I cut each of the rays out of different patterned paper, and the sky and grass are 12x12 cut on the diagonal.



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Meanwhile all the glass sections have been stuck down for the top half of a table I am 'pimping!' ... its still to be grouted but wouldn't it make a nice door window? *note to self, perhaps try stained glass next?

Kitchen Mosaic ... and why it needs to be redone!

So brought the completed - and grouted - mosaic panels up to cavan at the weekend. And as I suspected - they are too small!!

So I am going to have to redo them all. I want to make them 'busier' too - I dont feel there are enough flowers in them at all... so the next ones will be bigger and better !!

I enjoyed every minute of making these - so I can't say I am upset at all!

On a side note - doesn't the kitchen look great!

Paperplay - paper roses....

There arn't any actual roses .... but plenty of paper flowers. I drew a few and stamped a few and punched a few. Cut the grass from scraps of basil, and added a fairy at the back.

Sisterly love layout ...

Havent done half enough layouts lately. Keep falling into altering items, making mini albums and making cards ...lol.

So inspired by Jackie C .... I did this layout of the two girlies :








These photos dont actually show the finished layout - as later that day R. asked me to give her a shot of the sewing machine ---- and seeing as it was out I did a bit of stitching onto this layout ... but didn't retake the photos!!

Tagged ....

.... have been tagged by the lovely Deirdra.. if you haven't already read her blog do so !!

Anyway I have to answer questions five about each subject so :

Five Favourite Songs :

1. Keep on Dancing - Jack Lukeman
2. Paradice by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf
3. Past the point of rescue - Hal Kechum
4. The Dance - Garth Brooks
5. Elizabeth - by Des Walsh (!)

Five Films ;

1. Gone with the Wind
2. Cassablaca
3. Lost Boys
4. Willow
5. The Shining

Five ramdom things I like :

1. Marshmallows
2. Rain
3. Blue Flowers
4. Train rides
5. Diet Coke

Five books :

1. The Lovely Bones (just finished re-reading this again this week) by Alice Seabold
2. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
3. The Shining by Stephen King
4. The Boleyn Girl (amonst others) by Phillipa Gregory.
5. The Bible - various authors - I actally read this regularly (and have been known to quote it on occasion ...)

Five crushes ... :

Not sure you would call them that but in my time I have 'fancied' at least five other men ... the biggest one being Greg Hogan who I met on a train way back in 1978 and who would have been my main crush right up through secondary school. ....

So there ya go!!

I will pick five people to tag ... but will wait till tommorow to do so.

Paperplay - Sweet ....

Too late to enter but this is what I did anyway ....

It was for Róisín's brithday ..... .. ... my baby girl is 16 now ... and never been kissed ??

Candle....

Made a dozen of these for the wedding last week. I had intended to make an elaborate base for them, but ran out of time so just placed them on these wee glass trays. We also got a load of tea lights in wee glass holders and had them on the tables too. It looked nice. And people were fighting to get one to bring home at the end of the meal !! So they were a hit.

Family Wedding ....

Des's brother Anthony got married yesterday to the lovely Cora. We had a brilliant day, the sun shone down for them for most of the day - no rain till around 9.30 and that only helped cool us all down a bit anyway!

Here are the happy couple just married in the registary office in the morning ... early cermony but sure there ya go....

This is how your assembled guests look when the groom says he will take her as his 'awfully' wedded wife instead of 'lawfully'!!!


Anthony & Cora

We went from the registary office to the church for a blessing .. . got some lovely photos in the grounds of the church...


Nana & her kids !! ..... x



Me & Him - self portrait.

Seán - Róisín - Líadán

Desmond & his brothers - his two brothers-in-law - and of course Uncle Ben, his dad's identical twin brother (Des's father passed away 12 years ago)

Me & 3 of my 6 sister-in-laws & my neice Sophie.

Craft fairs - the death of ... (yay)

I did a craft room at my youngest daughters school yesterday ... and thanks to getting a part time job recently I am very very glad to be able to only do them by choice now !!

Its so much work getting stock built up, and at times having to make stuff takes the joy out of it. Then the actual day is hard work, and so much of it depends on other people ... its just hard.

The location yesterday was pants too .... *rolls eyes* .... and that was something beyond my control too ...

So rant over - and on with the week.

Circle journal ....

Yes folks - its circle journal time !! Giving this another shot ... glutton for punishment. Anyhoo here is a sneak peek of my cover.