Tuam Sunset

When we viewed our house for the first time the estate agent told us that on a fine day you can see Croagh Patrick - That same morning we were doing well to see Tuam only 4 miles away it was a wet dark november morning at 8.00am! Well he wasn't lying! I took this pic only this evening, it would make you think it was summer!

Daniel O'Donnell Concert

Here are some pics from the Daniel Concert, no sniggering please!

The first one is my Mam and granny in the front row!




The great Man himself



And these 3 refused to go to the concert......


all messing aside he did put on a great show, and he didn't finish until quarter to twelve! The crowd loved him and I found myself clapping and singing along too :-)

Hubby in Irish Times

This is a very quick entry, but am so proud of Alan, a feature on his company appeared in yesterday's Irish Times!!!!!!!! It was a really great article, and for the first time in years I have a laymans version of what he does :-)

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/0718/1216073237405.html

Boyzone, Brides & Barcelona!

Well, had a busy few weeks since last here!
Firstly I went to the Boyzone concert, it was fantastic, am now deaf in one ear because a woman behind us kept shrieking any time Shane Lynch appeared on the big screen, but in fairness I could see her point! And as for little scrawny Ro, never judge a book by its cover! They all stripped off their tops at one stage, I think the woman behind me may have fainted, there was silence for about 5 seconds, they really had been working very hard in the gym! My only hope for next week is that Daniel O'Donnell has been working as hard. The things I let myself get talked into! DH thinks it's hilarious that I have front row seats for Daniel, my mother and grandmother are secretly delighted but they haven't told my Dad yet, I'm under instructions not to hand over the ticket to him until we are at the seats :-)

I handed over my first wedding invites last Sunday, in a carpark of a hotel on the M1, very clandestine but the bride was in rush. She loved them as did her h2b, so I was more than relieved. She is a lovely girl and really nice to deal with. No bridezillas at all!

So that brings me to Barcelona, here I am since yesterday, and just to rub it in, left dublin yesterday in the pouring rain and 2 and a bit hours later got off a plane to blue skies and heat! the joy of wearing my new sunglasses to keep sun out intstead of just to tone down the glare off the grey clouds!

DH left for registration of his conference at 7.30 this morning and I haven't been able to go back to sleep, hence the blogging! Shops dont open until 10 so I'm biding my time, there are sales everywhere and size 16s as well so I'm in my element!
The only bad thing is I have picked up Als cold, so am all stuffed up but I am armed to the teeth with uniflu and strepsils so that's keeping the miserable side of the cold at bay!

OK, was looking at the clock in the corner of the laptop, but have just discovered that it is on Irish time, am off to the shops!

Thanks for stopping by.

Karen

PS: notice no mention of Wexford hurlers this week.........Kilkenny destroyed them, the minors too, oh well the footballers are our only hope of silver ware this season, but aginst the Dubs so I won't be getting too excited yet........

First Wedding Invite order

Wedding Invites, All things Agricultural & Come on the Yella Bellies

Today is a fab day for loads of reasons.
1. I finished my first wedding invite order and am ready to deliver it.
2. Wexford Minor Hurlers drew with Dublin in Croke Park
3. Wexford Senior Hurlers beat Dublin today in Croke Park

But best of all

4. WEXFORD SENIOR FOOTBALLERS BEAT LAOIS TO MAKE IT TO THEIR FIRST LEINSTER FINAL SINCE THE 1950s

The joy, was only sorry I wasn't there to see it, had to make do with TV3 coverage and patchy coverage over the net of the hurling. I'm not a total GAA freak, I couldnt tell you who played half back for wexford in 1995 but I am proud of my county and I do love going to matches, all though they are far and few between now since we moved to Galway and had Ruairi, it really is too far to travel for a game, never mind the expense and if we brought Ruairai you could be garunteed that we would have to leave after 10 mins cos he wouldn't like the noise.


The wedding invites have been taking up most of my time lately, so blog and chat forums lose out unfortunately. I'm thrilled with myself today though that I have finished off the first order, the second order i have already started but will be working on it full time now! Hopefully these to orders will get a few others for me too. The only card making I've been doing is for orders and they tend to be the same at the moment, all wedding ones! Good job I adore weddings and all things wedding!

The last few weeks have seen us go to the County Show in Clarinbridge, Ruairi loved the show jumping - horseys jumping up and down, and all the sticks fall down! He loved the bouncy castle and icecream more though. Alan took some really cool photos of the show jumping, I'll post some pictures later, I'll put up some of his and of mine so you can see the difference!

On Friday evening after work we went to Farmfest '08 in athenry. Alan and ruairi went early in the afternoon and had sourced all the free lollipops by the time I got there. It was a really great show, and best of all I got to meet one of the Craft Supplies ladies in real life! Hello Helen aka Mayo Mom, she had the coolest stand at the show with her friend, they had loads of really lovely cards and bits and pieces. I bought a lovely blue angel phone charm from Helen, it is gorgeous. I also introduced her to Alan, just to prove to him that all you ladies are real, and not in my head.

The next few weeks are pretty busy for me again travel wise, I've to go to Portlaoise on Tuesday, to Dublin for the weekend to see BOYZONE!, the following weekend I'm down home to deposit Ruairi with his grannies so Alan and I can head off to Barcelona, Alan has a conference, and I'm tagging along,it's a beautiful city and I wont mind one bit exploring it again. Then we arrive back in Ireland on the friday and my parents, granny and neice are coming up to Galway that weekend to come and see Daniel O'Donnell in Salthill......... I'm going too for my sins - Alan "kindly" offered to baby sit that night! Phew I'm exhausted typing this, never mind doing it all!

Considering yesterday was the longest day, I reckon I'll be back to blog again just before Christmas............. sure it's only around the corner now ! ! !

Some of my recent creations

These are some of the cards I've been making over the last few months, although I do tend to get asked for several of the same design so I have made more than that ;-)