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Back to basics….

Hello, well, after my last post that made little sense, things got super busy and now they have righted themselves and I am back to normal (as if I was ever such a thing!!!)

This Sunday I will be travelling over to Ballinameela National school at the very luxurious time of 8.30am (its usually about 7, but since its Sunday we are taking it nice and easy) and there we will be doing a class called “Back to Basics”.

You see, next month we are starting an amazing project that will take two classes to finish, uses a full 12×12 paper pack and a whole roll of tape…. and i’m not going to show you what it is yet!! well its an organiser/ journal kind of a thing that has a choice of beautiful papers ( i will show you piccys of those later)

So, in order to do that we need to be clear on the basics and since we have people of all different crafting levels (some brand new and some regular fabby dab ones -the new ones are fabby dab too by the way!)

we are going to make this……

Its a gatefold album with a different binding on each side. All the pages are different so there is a lot to practise, its in gorgeous BoBunny Alora paper which I love because its so bright and happy!

Ok……. i’ll show you a little snippet of the next album…….

yeah, I know, its tiny but the real thing will be at the class on Sunday if you want a really good look!

Right then, its next Sunday 27th October 11-5pm (told you it was a laid back start) Ballinameela National School, which is near Dungarvan, €30 for the day, bring lunch but tea, coffee and cake (Midi makes the best cake!) are supplied for the teabreaks.

You will need to bring scissors, cutting mat, knife, trimmer, score board, bone folder, pencil, ruler and wet glue. If you don’t have any of those, don’t worry, come anyway!

Midi will have her craft supply shop there so there will be retail therapy too.

Send me a message felicia(at)scrapzville(dot)com if you have any other questions or to book a place (3 left at the moment…)

Adios Folks! xxxxx

23/10/2013 By felicia

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Today has been full of very tricky decisions

Today has been full of very tricky decisions…….. with many different scenarios that all have different outcomes……..but which one to choose? I am actually addled from thinking, I found this quote on Pinterest but it just addled me more since I love the life I have, but this new choice might be good too????
But aren’t I lucky to have choices? Yes I am.

I know this makes no sense to anyone reading it…. sorry.

In fact, I think I shall follow the advice of this next Pin instead.

03/10/2013 By felicia

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Being put on the spot……

Do you remember years ago comedians would start there shows with the line, “A funny thing happened on the way here tonight”?

Well, I have to tell you about yesterday and it has to start with ” A funny thing happened on the way to yesterdays class”……..

So, yesterday (Saturday) I was driving to my once a month visit to Ballinameela in Waterford to do a Haunted House class. I leave at 7am because its a 2 hour drive and on Saturday mornings the radio station has a DJ named Alison Curtis (Today FM in case you’re interested!) she in Canadian and brightens an early morning start. Anyhoo, she has people text in to explain why they are up that early, its usually because they are up with the kids or training for some race or going to work. So, for some reason I decided to text in and say I was driving from Killarney to Dungarvan to a paper crafting class. (yes, I pulled over to do it!)

At 7.30 my phone rang and before I knew it I was live on air on a national radio station with Alison Curtis asking me to explain what a paper crafting class was………..

I have to tell you I was seriously put on the spot! how do you explain what we do to non crafters? In my panic I may have said “its cutting and sticking for grown ups”……………. I did also briefly explain scrapbooking, and then I got into a tizz and couldn’t tell you what else I said!!

Cutting and sticking for grown ups????

really????!!!!!

My saving grace was that she is a huge Halloween fan and asked me to send her something, so this is what she is getting!!

The back needs some more work, but its nearly done.

The day in Ballinameela was brilliant as usual, they really are such a ~~mad~~ nice bunch – everyone had a constructed house at the end but there was no sign of them going home when I had to leave…… there was serious Stickle adding going on!
Next month (October 26th) we will be doing a basic binding class because we are working up to a BIG project and we need to know the basics….. (it is going to be soooo cool!!)
Hope you all have a lovely weekend!!
F xx

29/09/2013 By felicia

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CHA Release Weekend.

I know, don’t faint….. 2 posts in one day? I’m shocked myself!
Anyhoo, I am back to tell you about the amazing weekend that Kate has lined up for us in Athlone on 5&6th October.
In fact i’m not going to tell you, just show you this poster and give you a link to the class timetable.
If you have any questions about the weekend you can contact Kate at www.createwithkate.com

http://createwithkate.com/class-timetable.html – click the link for the timetable and class details.

17/09/2013 By felicia

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A Haunted village!

Hello, or should I say Bonjourno?!

I am back from Italy, it was unbelievably fabulous and I have tonnes of photos – but that is for another post.

So, last Sunday I set out in the wind and rain at 6.15am (that sounds like a hardship but I was delighted to be going!) to Bunmahon in Co. Waterford. Caroline from Crafters Cove had invited me to her home studio for the day… oh my, what a studio!! she had arranged for 10 crafters to come to the class and for Bernie from BK designs to bring her shop along.

I have to say a huge thank you to Caroline, not only did she do all the organising she also had croissants warming in the oven for when we arrived!!!

Here are the Ladies hard at work, there were times when it was silent because they were concentrating… I was beginning to get worried.

But then they got chatty again, right about the time we declared a tea break!

This is Pat hiding behind her house. We used Echo Park “Chillingsworth Manor” paper and the new Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells stamp set, which are gorgeous by the way.

Now you can see the whole village of haunted houses, all different, some had purple windows, others green and one had turquoise!

This is my house… i’m still adding bits to it.

This was the kit for the day – I decided to put the house by itself and a smaller kit (just enough to decorate the house without making the back part) on Ebay, i’ve never sold anything that way before so it’ll be interesting to see what happens! I’m doing it all again on the 28th in Ballinameela and then 10th October here at home for anyone in Kerry. But you could always put in a bid on Ebay if you want!

I just wanted to show you this album . It was sent to me by Martina in the swap organised by Sandi and I just love it! It is so pretty, this photo doesn’t show the colours well. We included tags with “things you didn’t know about me” on and its a great way to get to know your swap partner.

She put in a Halloween page because she is a fan too – how fab is it?! Thank you again Martina!!

So, thats all my news – I will be back with a post about Kates CHA release weekend soon, i’m deciding what classes I want to take, spoilt for choice I am!!

17/09/2013 By felicia

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Its Haunted House time again!

I love September, when the weather starts to change, the kids go back to school (even though this is our last year for that..) and when I can start my using my Halloween paper stash!!

Last year I altered a house from Retro Cafe, which I loved. But it is fairly small and it cost a lot of money to import (that is mainly down to the postal service not Retro Cafe) and I really wanted to do this as a class this year……. so, I designed my own house and the lovely Carol from Crafty Cutting used her magic to make it.
In fact she made loads of them, so I can do Haunted House classes around the country for the whole spooky season!!!!!

So, this Sunday is the first over at Carolines studio in Bunmahon Waterford….. that class is fully booked but I also have the following classes coming up:

Ballinameela Waterford – Saturday 28th September 10-4pm
Athlone – Saturday or Sunday 5 & 6th October (click this link for more details)
Killarney – Thursday 10th October

The cost is €35, all the times differ so send me an email or phone me or Facebook if you’re interested in any of these classes…….

If you are coming along you will need to bring:

Craft knife & cutting mat

Paper trimmer

Wet glue

Paint brushes (one thin one wider)

Scissors

Pencil & ruler

Black distress ink or a black marker

Distress tool

Plastic packaging -the bag that Prima flowers (or something
similar) come in is perfect.

Alcohol ink in orange, green or purple.

I will have alcohol ink so don’t worry if you don’t have it.

Bye!! xx

Mwahahahah (spooky laugh!)

13/09/2013 By felicia

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Sandie Dunnes swap.

02/09/2013 By felicia

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Saturday morning projects.

I had painted a kite flying in the sky, its acrylics on canvas board….. I liked the blues of the sky, but the whole thing looked a bit “clean” for my liking.
So, out came the structure gel, a stencil, more paint (no paintbrushes) and my new favourite thing Faber-Castell Artist Pitt Pens!
We have had these in the house for ages but since I don’t colour stamps it was mainly for Zac to use. Then I discovered that even though they are permanent they can be smudged if you put them onto a non-porous surface (like acrylic paint!) now, this may not be news to you, but its made my wet and miserable Saturday much more fun!!!

Bye!!! xxx

17/08/2013 By felicia

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This is a long time coming…..

Right, I’ve just about had it with this blog stuff…….. not blogging as such (I love that) but Blogger – I really don’t want to move to WordPress (because I don’t know how to drive it and it always looks “formal”) but its driving me nuts!!!!

Ok, that rant over…. my apologise for not posting sooner….. “technical issues” can be blamed.

Now, we have been enjoying the summer holidays around here, everything is so much more relaxed and it really has flown by this year. Zac didn’t have any major exams this year which meant he got out of school at the end of May (yes, he has THREE months off school!) but he starts back next Monday into his final year of Secondary school.

We got a new furbaby this week, an unbelieveably cute Yorkshire terrier / Bichon cross!

She is actually tiny, even though she looks quite big in this photo. She is 10 weeks old, weighs about 2 lbs and her name is Boo. So with Toby, Sam (who stays every other weekend) its a bit mad!

Also this week I was delighted to be featured on “Tell All Tuesday” (my links aren’t working i’m afraid) Jenni over at Jennibelliestudio.blogspot.com does weekly interviews with different people, sh ealso does really cool art journal tutorials – go and visit her, she is lovely!

If any of you have any suggestions of how to fix this blogger problem ( I can’t read anyone elses blog, can’t put in links, can’t leave comments) please let me know! I started a whole new blog as an experiment but its doing the same thing so it sounds like a problem with my account…..

Right, i’m going to push the Publish button now and we’ll see if this works….
Bye!!!
Have a great weekend,
Felicia x

16/08/2013 By felicia