The lovely Aideen from Aideen’s swaps organised a swap for Valentines day and since I hadn’t joined in since Halloween I was delighted to take part. My partner was Kay and today my gift arrived – look! The box is full of little love themed die- cuts, as well asContinue Reading

It has been a wild and stormy weekend here, perfect for making soup (Mary Berry’s butternut squash soup, which was even nicer the next day*) and then locking myself away in the art room (that sounds very grand – its not, its a lovely 8x10ft room where we keep andContinue Reading

Last Sunday Ebony and I went to Cork for the #Cloggers Afternoon Tea event. #Cloggers is a Cork based blogging group (who kindly let us go even though we’re from Kerry) and they were holding this event in the Imperial Hotel (ver, ver nice hotel, gorgeous in fact!) We set off earlyContinue Reading

Homemade…..  If you had a leftover piece of timber what would you do with it? Make a homemade house maybe? (get it?)  That’s what I thought too. This is a work in progress, but this is what it looks like so far…… I drew a pointed roof and cut offContinue Reading

Oh dear……… once upon a time, a long time ago (like two years) I started to show you my Mums new house. I explained all about the reasons she had moved and the jobs that needed doing – you can catch up on that story here, I don’t expect anyoneContinue Reading

Well, its 2016 already, Christmas this year seemed to fly by which was odd when you consider that the build up seemed to start forever ago. We had a lovely time at home, we ate lots and often with family and friends, wine was poured, fun was had and manyContinue Reading

Each kit contains: A printed image from one of my hand painted original designs A long piece of fabric to make a flower Two leaves, a button, ribbon and a small piece of embroidery thread to attach the button. To make the flower:   Fold the fabric length ways, rightContinue Reading

Even though she has just had a baby girl, Aideen from Aideens Swaps organised a Halloween swap. You had to make some sort of trick or treat bag (s) fill them with treats and send them off to your swap partner. So lets see – you get to craft Halloween stuffContinue Reading