C'mon de yella bellies

Off to see the match this afternoon, hope to be seeing scenes like this at about 5.30ish.........

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

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