This is the second Easter QP that I promised,

Same lo but with more girly colours and the little flowers, I hope you all have a wonderful Easter holiday and take loads of pictures. These are precious times with your "little Bunnies", boys and girls as they grow up so fast, the memories will be wonderful both for you and them. Grannies, get snapping too, sometimes we oldies 'see' from a different perspective and the resulting photos are a different slant on life.

I decided this year not to indulge in a chocolate egg, when I heard on the news that in Ireland there will be 14 tons of chocolate/eggs consumed over Easter!!!  This is a small country of just over 4 million people - I'm not even going to try working out how much each. Anyway I'm already trying to lose the flab gained from my Mother's day chocs. so this year I'm going to be GOOD. here is the link: http://www.4shared.com/file/95326603/5836e5e3/GLO_Easterbunnygirl_QP.html   LINK EXPIRED

My New Freebie Qp "Easter Bunny Boy"

This is the first of two new Easter QP freebies made with my new 'softy' papers and elements.

First one for the little boys - soft & sweet but keeping to stronger colours. I always find 'boy' stuff is either wishy washy or full of nuts and bolts! I know the children's old rhyme tells us that boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails but that doesn't mean they can't be the sweetest little terrors as well. If you know what I mean!

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This is a LO done with my new "softy stripe" papers,

I had to show off the beautiful flowers my son Gary sent me for mothers day. I didn't expect them as he had driven 16o miles to spend the day with me and he was clutching a very big box of  'Lily O'Brien' chocolates. I thought he was looking a bit agitated but later in the evening the local florist knocked at the door and produced these gorgeous flowers. Her delivery man had left them to the wrong address and was in a panic when they were returned. No harm done though, it was a great surprise and only added to the rest of a wonderful day. Thank you Gary, you are the best! and thanks too to the honest recipient who returned my flowers, you are next best.

Congratulations to all the wonderful 'Mighty Men' 

Who won the Six Nations GRAND SLAM 2009 yesterday in Wales. They have lifted the spirits of everyone in this small country throughout the weeks of  the tournament. I thought I was going to have a heart attack yesterday when it came down to the last two minutes and Wales were awarded a penalty. You could hear a pin drop in the stadium as the thousands of supporters held their breath and then the huge roar as the Welsh ball dropped short !  

The celebrations are ongoing as I write this with a huge homecoming party in Dublin this evening and further events around the country as every fan of this fantastic bunch of young men are bursting to show their appreciation. Paul O'Connell was outstanding along with Brian O'Driscoll, Ronan O'Gara, Peter Stringer and Tommy Bowe. They happen to be my favourites but every man on the team contributed to the win which we have waited 61 years for! last word has to be for the manager Declan Kidney who has done us all proud, long may it continue.

Sue in Australia has been very busy and these are two new layouts she has done with my St. Patrick's Day QP Freebie . Beautiful work Sue and thanks a lot for sending them.

This is a great advertisement for Ireland Sue, I love the way the large picture has been blended into the background.

Here is a Lo I received from Sue in Australia, using my Freebie Qp. The pics in this were taken on Vietnam Veteran's Day last year, not St. Patrick's Day, but if I know Sue and John & Katie and Owen they probably celebrated 'living' and I think the pics show they had a great time. Thanks for sending it Sue, now i'm waiting on the Paddy's Day LO for the coming weekend. Have a good time everyone and CHEERS!

This is my St. Patrick's Day gift to you.

As you can see there are no big leprechauns, sparkly CLOVER or rainbows with pots of gold at the end!  I know millions around the world will be wearing the wigs and big hats and good luck to them, I hope they have a great time, anything to lighten the mood at this dreadful time.

For myself, this QP represents how I like to see  St. Patrick's day represented - with dignity.

I hope you enjoy yourselves though and I think this QP will be perfect for new - or old pictures. Amazingly, In the last American Census around 50 million citizens claimed to have Irish connections, how wonderful is that! SO.... there must be millions of photos just waiting to be presented, I would be delighted to see some of your LO's.      Link below.

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Here is a freebie for Mother's Day,

It has been over five months since I posted so what better event could I choose than this. The last months have been traumatic for me as my beloved hubby was very ill. Things are starting to look better now though and positive thinking is helping us to cope. I want to thank all of you (you know who you are) who kept in touch and sent me lovely emails, cheery notes and lo's to keep me smiling. I won't forget. I will have a St. Patrick's Day Freebie for you in a few days so pop over again and leave a hug.

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Here is my Freebie 'Halloween Word Art'

 These wobbly words look great with the Halloween theme so I hope you can use them to decorate other pages you have. The background here is not included.
October '09 - I am re-issueing this Halloween Word Art and I have already done the same with my 4 halloween QP's. The new code is below. Have fun with the little ones and take lots of pictures, these are the precious years in their lives we love to look back on, how easily they laugh and play (The EGO has not descended on them yet LOL)
I'd love to see what you do with the QP's and this Word Art or Wobbly Words as I call them.



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I'm Back! We've been doing a bit of travelling, seeing places we haven't been for a while. Some - like Donegal, never disappoint while others like Malta have changed beyond recognition. My once favourite, and quiet little fishing harbours are now chocked full of modern high-rise hotels and tourists. From a very beautiful small island Malta has changed into one of the most highly populated places in Europe. So different from my memories of the summers I spent there. Who could think this is progress. Fortunately the Maltese people are still as friendly as I remember and when away from the 'tourist' places it was possible to find a hint of times past.

This is my new freebie "GLO China Frames".

There are five frames which I hope you will like.

The colours are lovely and soft so I think you'll find lots of uses for them.

I've used my dog 'Chew' in one of them to show what they will look like. To make it handy for you I also added backgrounds to match each colour, so all you have to do is put your pic on the background and place the frame on top.

Easy peasy! It will look like there is glass in the frame!

Don't you just love my beautiful old friend. His official name was 'Glen-Valley Wagtail' but he was renamed 'Chew" after he ate the fingers out of my Mother's expensive kid leather gloves! Unfortunately he is no longer with us but he left so many happy memories behind. I so hope there is a heaven for pets. Download here: http://www.4shared.com/file/138562313/892e8fed/GLO_China_Frames.html LINK EXPIRED

HI, long time no see!! Unfortunately I was as they say 'under the weather'. I should have recognised that things were not right when I could feel my heart trying to beat it's way out of my chest! STRESS! 

and Oh I was SOOOO GRUMPY! for which I apologise. Anyway, enough about me..... 

I had an email from the lovely Silvia who wants me to help GOGGA on his round the world trip. It all started with a little girl named Lyndie and a geography lesson. We have to see how far we can get GOGGA around the world (I suspect he will be dizzy before very long and will rival the CERN project for speed and rotation.) Apparently he is a chawcha/bug, I think he might be known as a caterpiller on this side of the world as he looks remarkably like the fella who was chewing my poor little willow tree (which is now almost bare of leaves). It's a good thing this Gogga is digital or I might consider dropping  him on the bird table. Oh there I go again, but if you could see my tree!! sniff sniff.

I'm sending this to June which will take Gogga to England and then to KrisG in Chicago Ill. USA . I might have a little baileys to toast him on his way LOL. 

 

Hi , well, the storm clouds are back so I think it's official. The "Summer" is over. How many days did you have? I think we had two, maybe three it's hard to say as I think only a 'full' day counts.

As you will see I have removed the links to a lot of my older stuff.  I will be leaving new freebie links active for a week or two only, but I think that's plenty of time for you to get them.  

Right! Where were we, oh yes, as I've been too busy to post anything since last week I am posting part three of my 'Woodshop" tags, with the words, JOY and LOVE. (Keep repeating after me, Joy and Love, Joy and Love...... I hope you enjoy using them. Please leave a ty I need it. Download here:

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My latest freebie is a new quick Page which I named "HOT SUMMER NIGHTS"

I had great fun doing the 'steamy' cloud effect on the frames and I have put lines there as well so you can add some journaling - like names and dates etc. I think these nice cool shades would look great with summer wedding pics, so I hope you enjoy the Qp, as well as the sunshine (fingers crossed) if it lasts.

Oh by the way, just in case you missed it, I heard the other day that we might not be getting the protection we thought we were from sun creams. Apparently the brainy ones who decide how effective the creams will be, assumed that we would be lathering the stuff on with a brush! They assumed about four times more than the average person uses! It's all about selling more product really, but if you want to be protected properly you will need to grease yourself as if you were diving in to swim the English  channel, Oh it's sure to be a very slippery summer. Wax dummies lying about everywhere Yuk!

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Is it a Month  by J.M.Synge

This is a layout I thought the 'romantics' among  you might like. It is based on a beautiful love poem "Is it a month" by renowned Irish writer, and poet, J.M.Synge (pronounced 'sing') who lived 1891-1909

I used my own 'Folded' paper for the poem to accentuate the era it was written in, and overlaid it on to a tree background using 80 opacity. Then I used dark blue colour masks opacity 6 at the top and graduating to opacity 3 towards the bottom. As the words "wet and windy hedge" are in the poem I aimed for an overall wintery effect as well as trying to keep the aged feel of the poem, finally for effect I added stars . Take a few minutes, click the preview and enjoy this wonderful old poem.

"And stars grew wilder, growing wise In the splendour of your eyes"  

FAITH & HOPE Woodshop Tags

This is the second pair of tags from my 'Woodshop' series. I have done 10 in all, to cover most occasions.

The metal words on these as you can see in the preview, are "Faith" and "Hope", two words which I hear everywhere today but not in the context we would like I'm sure. How could anyone have faith in bankers, Insurers, and worst of all politicians. No, "Faith" is not what comes to mind when I think of those.

"Hope", well I hope you enjoy using these and adding more to the set when I publish the next two. I think it might be "JOY and "LOVE" LoL. We could certainly do with a very large helping of both in these troubled times. Enjoy your freebie, Peace&Hope  and don't forget your TYFS when you download.

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TWINS!!!. I want to thank the girls who gave me these awards, Kim from "Kim's Scrappin" and Jessica from Scrapaholic designs. They both said very nice things about me on their blogs (which I'm not sure I deserve) but I am very grateful to both of them for this - Hm! Now I will have to find five or six unsuspecting victims (sorry, recipients) to pass them on to. I was going to name Fran but I see she has one as well, how did I get two ? Is there anyone out there who has not been awarded something, or tagged a million times!!!??? 

Anyone want an award, It's a lovely little thing and a credit to whoever designed it, (you don't want it back by any chance do you)  Oh s*** June from cens loft has one as well, in fact everyone I know has one! 

 Anyway, I am passing on this COOL award to five beautiful people and these are the rules :

                                  1. Winner can put award on their blog.

                                  2. Link to the person who gave you the award.

                                  3. Nominate 5 more blogs you think deserve the award.

                                  4. Put links to those blogs on your site

                                  5. leave a message on the blogs you nominate.

Number One on my list is Fran, because she really deserves an award for her sweet temper!! and her ability to cope with pirates!  As you all know I adore Fran's work, she has the most wonderful imagination and her freebie kits inspired by nature are - Frantastic !

Next up is June from Cens Loft who is tripping over awards, but I know she will graciously accept this one too! June is just the nicest, most helpful woman in digiland. Hugs June.

Next is the lovely Linda  who makes the most gorgeous brag book pages and let's off steam to me in mutual ranting emails Lol. 

Give it up for lizandherbabes who has three adorable kids aaaaaand a hunk of a hubby, she is an inspiration to me with an amazing ability to cram so much into her young life.

KRISG-JUST ME is getting this award too, well I love her taste in music and cats! she also does beautiful lo's and sends me really funny emails. You make me smile Kris!

My final  award goes to.....dnadryad, who gives great freebies and never gets grumpy - just like me!

WOW that wasn't so bad, but I will now go into hiding before the posse catches up with me.

Woodshop Tags "CHERISH & HOPE"

These are the first two tags from my new set. They are layered wood with brushed metal word embellishments. I used words which I know are meaningful to many of us so these will be lovely on LO's and cards etc. I'll be adding more freebies from my  "Woodshop" collection soon, just keep checking back if you want to get the lot. Hope you enjoy using them and as always I would love to see what you do with them. Oh, and don't forget to leave a tyfs when you download, Sorry link expired

My "CLASSIC WEDDING Alpha" Lowercase

To every one who left comments and thanks for my Classic Alpha and for everyone who emailed me asking for the lower case, here it is. I love the soft glitter and the cream shades which are so popular for weddings. I'm already started on my son's wedding album and I've also used it on First Communion and Baptism LO's for friends. Enjoy using the full alpha,  There is shadow on the uppercase letters, however there is none on the lower case letters as I think it is better to lay out the word, group or merge and then add shadow. Download:

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