A Feast For The Eyes (and the stomach!)

I do enjoy my job. Especially when my lovely boss takes it upon herself to "celebrate" the finishing of a stock check I didn't even help with by bringing these delightful items into our lives:

Julie and I just about died when we saw them. They truly were works of art. I just had to ask Tricia to take these photos of them.

Julie had an intimate moment alone with this strawberry one:

'Twas not long before the chocolate one made it's way into my face...

...and the lemony one swiftly followed:

Nom nom nom!!!!

Sigh. We are very bad girls.

Oh, and I promised you woolly flowers:

Don't you think they look good enough to eat too??

Debbie Day!

My Wednesday project made it onto the Daisy and Dandelion blog - yay!

It's an Easter Pillow Box Mini Treat Holder.

Quite a quick and easy project really. Hope my instructions make sense!

Not much been happening around these parts recently, hence my lack of waffle. I thought I'd just concentrate on crafting for a while. If anything exciting happens, I will be sure to let you know!

Oh, but I did buy some woolly flowers today. They are lush. I will take photos tomorrow!

Bit Nervous!

Feeling a bit jittery this evening because there are big changes afoot over at the Daisy & Dandelion blog. As Erica is currently snowed under with New Baby Duties, she has passed the task of Blog Contributors to us, the Design Team - eek!

We will each have our own day every week for posting projects on a monthly theme (this month, it's Easter) and there will be a monthly tutorial on specific techniques.

Wednesday is going to be my posting day and so I've just been preparing the instructions for my project tomorrow. I think I may have messed up a little, though, and I'm worried my post is going to look rubbish as a result. Bah. Oh well, will just have to wait and see.

Just a simple card to show today:

I just love the little tree stamp, I could use it on everything!
But that might get a bit boring after the 68th card so maybe I won't bother!

Rush Rush Rush!

Just stopping quickly by to show my submission for the DCM challenge this week, which is the theme of Aquamarine; a very fresh, cool colour, makes me think of Trebor Spearmints! I've managed to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and combined it with a Thank You card I had to make:

I don't know where I got the papers but I love the foam butterflies and the felt-y letters.

And another card I put together the other night:

The oval stamp and punch are from Stampin'Up.
The dotty card is a Godsend for someone like me who doesn't have a Cuttlebug!

Sorry no chat tonight, just passing through!

Oh Baby! (part 2)

It's all about babies around here at the moment, people. No, don't panic, I am not "with child" myself or anything, but on the Daisy and Dandelion blog the Design Team have been busy making projects that celebrate new arrivals of the infant kind.

My own project is a keepsake box, or rather, a keepsake set of drawers:

As you can see the top features an easel card and the wee drawers are actually solid boxes with lids as I found this gave the stack more stability. The new Some Bunny Loves You range from D&D is so lovely, fresh and Springy that I decided that it's not just for Easter!

Oh Baby!

I have a day off work, the sun is shining (yay!!!) and I've been making baby cards galore:

Embellishment stickers: K & Co
PPs: DCWV, Papermania

Ribbon: Stampin' Up

So, quite a collection to add to my card box!

Nice Spring-esque colours too!

Bring Me Sunshine (pleeeeeease!)

After a chat last night with my crafty friend Vanessa, (sorry again, V, about bowing out of the SECC trip - grovel, grovel!) I felt inspired to try entering a challenge. And because there has been what seems like endless snow and rain around these parts lately, what better challenge to cheer one up than this week's Daring Cardmakers one, which is all about sunshine!

I've had these papers from Cosmo Cricket for quite a while and they are perfect for this! Just looking at those zingy reds and oranges is enough to warm one's cockles (whatever they are!).

It almost makes me forget about the "Brrrrrrr!!!!-Factor of it being -900 degrees outside and the car park resembling Siberia.

Ah yes, 'tis certainly a day for scrunching up on the sofa with a packet of chocolate HobNobs and a cup of tea, whilst shouting "choice" phrases at the rugby match on TV.

Which is precisely what Himself and I plan to be doing later!