Another Month Gone - Aghhhhhhh!

Another month has flown by and a miserable month it was too weatherwise. Our August started with a day trip to Doolin with DHs parents. Ruairi had to be shipped off to Wexford for race week as that's when the baby minder takes her holidays so the Grannies in Wexford were only delighted to have him. Alan's parents brought him back up in the Camper Van - he loved it sitting in the front with Granda looking at the world go by. On the Saturday we headed off for doolin - they were going to spend the rest of the long weekend there. We had a lesurely drive down and we all relaxed a bit in the campsite. I took some photos and this is the least wintery looking of them :-)



We hope to get away in the camper ourselves at the end of september - when the Indian Summer arrives lol. At least if it's too miserable we will be able to drive home!


I've been busy finishing off some wedding invite orders and despite thinking I got nothing else done for the month I did get to do some very nice crafty things in between. I went to my very first cardmaking day out in on Siopa Bui in Spiddal. It was brilliant. Jackie gave some lovely classes and I forget the other girl's name who did the bella's. Here are some of the cards we made on the day.




I had a fantastic day and really enjoyed the classes and the company and especially the shopping........ I bought Markers, bellas, punches, water brushes, inks, scoring boards.......I have no idea how I ever made a card before without these items :-) And I got loads of good advice from MayoMom who helped me all through the day and must have thought I was the greenest card maker ever!

So of course having got my new bella stamps I had to put them to use and ended up using two on the one card for a friend who had a load of really nice things happen to her lately and I wanted to wish her well, the most exciting of these being she is pregnant, so armed with colouring pencils, water brushes and stamps here's the result





I also manged to get me second invite order finished, do 60th Bd invites and get one or two other cards made.






Well that's it for now, that was a long post so thank you very much for taking the time to read it.

Karen xx