birthday cupcakes

Hi Folks,

my son turned a "big 4" as he talks about at the end of June and I had the task of creating his wish to have tractor cupcakes! I didn't delight in the thought of making individual ones and decorating them as there were quite a few to do so instead i thought i'd use them to make a larger cake.

Once i baked what seemed like hundreds of cupcakes (actually it was more like 50) i set about trying to arrange them into the shape of a tractor (trickier than you think especially at midnight!) and decide what colours which cupcakes had to be iced like.

From the picture you can see the outcome! Caleb was delighted, as were all the kids (& big kids) who came to the party! It took longer however to get the green food dye off my hands!

crochet hat

Hi folks,

found this picture on my phone of my son(yes i know he's wearing a pink hat!lol) with one of my baby gifts i made a few months ago!

Its a little pink crocheted hat with matching purple crocheted flower. Very simple to do and very much appreciated by the mother of little anna!

It's been a while ....

Hi Folks,

It's been a while since my last blog! For a while i hadn't been crafting much, I'd kind of lost heart with it after the company I worked for closed and we had to shut our shop! The Paper Mill Shop will be missed!

Anyway a few weeks ago I met up with my dear friend Sarah and she rekindled my love for card craft once more and inspired me to get back on the horse as they say! I had a lovely and very relaxing day just chatting and crafting away without any interruptions! Just what the doctor ordered! Thank You Sarah!!

So be warned, the sleeves are rolled up and I mean business I've been busy make, make, making and intend on blog, blog, blogging! (If my computer doesn't crash from shock!! lol)

Hope you like what you see and maybe it will inspire you!

Lynda

Cupcakes & Coffee Evening

Hi there,

My GB company (First Antrim Presbyterian Church, Antrim) are having a fundraising event on the 17th November 2010 from 7pm - 9pm to raise funds for our company and charity of choice.

It's a Cupcake and Coffee evening where you can buy cakes, cupcakes, a small selection of crafts and books and have a chat over a cup of tea/coffee. If you are free we'd love to see you there.

The cupcakes will be deliciously tempting!

Cupcake Addiction

Hi folks,

I have a major cupcake addiction and i have been baking non-stop these past few weeks. Watch this space for some of the themed cupcakes i have been attempting.

yummy

Baby Thank Yous

Hi folks,

I had planned to be so organised this time round and have all my thank you cards made before the arrival of the baby! Unfortunately due to not being able to settle on one design ( i kept changing it and changing it and changing it) it took a while to get round to making the final ones - altho i probably could have used all the trial versions, everyone would be different.

This is the final design i settled on inspired by Sarah's beautiful card click on the link to see the inspiring work of a very talented lady:

http://sarahslittlesnippets.blogspot.com/2010/10/baby-girl-card.html

The card is A6 landscape and as always sourced from the Paper Mill @ junction one, the image is a forever friends stamp coloured with pro markers, the circles and scalloped circles are woodware punches and the embossed background is created using the cuttlebug and a sizzix embossing folder. The wording is from a woodware clear stamp collection.

Just a quickie...

Here is the prayer pot I made for our Girls' Brigade prayer requests.

It is very simple as was done in a hurry using a stampendous pail, patterned paper by papermania and cut out shapes from my cricut. Its very simple but quite effective the only problem now is that my seniors and brigaders want to decorate their own pails!! What have i started. lol