Inspiring Inkin'

Today’s card will bring a bit of sunshine into the grey day ! Believe me I am not complaining, we haven’t had any rain here for weeks, my lawn looks like straw and the soil is like sand.  Last night it rained and it’s still drizzling a bit, I’m sure you can hear the plants [...]

Well I’ve been rather quiet for a few days as I have been re-organising my stamp room, I’m not finished yet but I thought I would share the work in progress………! So far…….2 trips to Ikea, a mountain of boxes, 3 bins bags of rubbish, 4 boxes of recycling and the local Girl Guide unit [...]

As promised here is a picture of the goodies Izzy’s guests made at her 9th birthday party. Inside their bags ( which they made)  is a bookmark, decorated pen, Smarties card, notepad and a pop up chocolate bar. It was a lovely day, thank you for inviting me Izzy! Happy Stampin’ Amanda

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I went to the Newbury show, well I had a crazy weekend with the family before the show, including a very late night in London as my son went to an Ozzy Osborne concert.  I put out a request for chocolate on my facebook page and the [...]

Well the holidays haven’t started yet……..and my lovely Kimberley was bored……… So like all good mothers I set her to work ! Chocolate and Raspberry cupcakes with vanilla frosting. It was her first attempt at piping, very impressive !! And they were yummy !!!! Happy Stampin’ Amanda

Christmas has come early………..actually it seems to arrive here at this time every year…………!  I start my Christmas classes and projects at the end of June and last week was all Christmas, including my team training. I love Christmas and for me preparation early is the key, so come December I can focus on the [...]

All change! For the past 18 months it has been my privilege to work with the team at Magmaker on Making Gifts Magazine as it’s Craft Editor, it has been an amazing journey and I have learnt a lot, met and worked with some wonderful and very talented people. Magmaker have decided to change the [...]

So are you enjoying the sunshine? It’s still glorious here and has been for days, the garden is struggling and the water butts are empty, so it’s lots of watering cans full………! I’ve been really busy this week, Saturday was Eclipse the Twilight movie with Kimberley, then off to London to take Connor and his [...]