Happy New Year

Who would have thought the end of year would come round so fast.  We had a great Christmas and the predicted rain stayed away.  Tonight is suppose to be fine too here in Nelson, so hopefully we can have that BBQ as arranged.

What ever you are up to and who ever and how you celebrate the start of a new year, hope all your dreams, idea's, plans and goals come true for you in 2014.

Happy New Year!

Teachers Card & Tag

On the left is a card for Paige's teacher and 

the right a tag for her Math's teacher. 

 They were both made using

Magnolia paper (red stripe & music paper), 

Poinsettia flower made with Cherry Lynn die.

3 little bells that ring & christmas bell charms.

Snowflake & Green Trim - Martha Stewart Punches.

Words & Santa picture printed onto Kraft cardstock

All products found in the Scrap Box NZ shop.

Glitter poinsettia - Cherry Lynn Die

Snowflake - Die-namics Die set of three

Christmas Bell Charms

Christmas Gift Wrapping

Brown wrapping paper, 

bakers twine, buttons & tulle.

Simple and effective
(Pictures from Pinterest)

I'm back ...

Surely it can't have been that long since I've made a blog post.  Actually logging in just now, I nearly forgot how it all works.

Wow it's been busy - the shop, the website and life in general.  It all seems to be flying past so quickly.  Feel like I should be buying Easter Eggs not Christmas Present.

Hope you've all got your list sorted and working through them.  I seem to be adding things faster than I'm ticking them off.

CHRISTMAS SHOP HOURS and ORDER DELIVERIES

This is just a quick reminder that the physical Shop at 5 Peppin Ave, it's last day this year is the 18th December and will re-open on the 14th January 2014.  Of course the Website will still be available to order from.  If you are wanting items for Christmas, do keep in mind that the Couriers will be busy and with one Cook Strait Ferry out of operation the freight to the North Island may take a little longer.  If you are after last minute things for Christmas, I would advise that Friday the 20th December would be your last day to place a website order so it's in time for placing under the Tree.

If your wish list stretches to a Silhouette Cameo, I have three machines soon to be in stock.  So if you want to start hinting to the nearest and dearest we can arrange for one to under your tree.  A shipment of Silhouette products are soon to arrive along with other items that I need to get on the website.

Hope all your preparations are well under way (in your mind anyway).

Pressy Time!

My good friend recently turned 40! 

That's all good, but she doesn't do birthday cards. 

So what do you give someone who doesn't do cards from a cardmaker!

 

A Mini Card

 

Made a little envelope from a Sizzix Die and popped in a mini card.

The doily & felt numbers are cut from Dienamic Die's & the butterflies are Martha Stewart Punch!

 

Great thing was she was rapt & commented on how much work I must have put into it.

It was popped onto a gift bag, with a paper doily and the bag was filled with Russian Fudge (her favourite) & a couple of gift vouchers so we can go shopping together.

 

New Charms & Resin Flowers

It's a wet weekend, and although we need the rain, I'm a bit of a sun lover.  Rain does mean I can catch up on computer things and this week I've been adding new charms and resin flowers to Scrap Box NZ shop.

 

 

These are wonderful and include some lovely antique style keys, bird cages, birds, tea pots and coffee cups etc.  Have a look at the full range here

 

The new resin contain flowers of different shapes and sizes, also doves & owls you'll find them here

 

 

Hope your weekend is going well - despite the rain!



Easter Sunday

saw Brooke & I up at 6.30am to head off to the Easter Fair in Mapua, about 15mins outside of Nelson.  Mapua Easter Fair is one of the largest in the South Island and had 330 stalls this year. It's a fundraiser for the Mapua School and Playcentre.

The day started off with very heavy rain, but watching the weather forecasts for days before they promised it would clear late morning. As we were driving to the Fair just before 8am it surely didn't look like it would go ahead, but there were lots of hardy soles already set up when we arrived. We sat in the Ute on our site, in the rain and waited for the skies to turned blue about 9 o'clock and we set up.  It got very windy and Brooke's job become a human anchor to hold the gazebo. A few things blew away, but we survived right through to 4 o'clock when the skies threaten rain again and we packed up fast.

 Above is a photo of our stall, which was busy all day.

 

This is my youngest Paige getting her hand painted with a Henna pattern. 

 It stays on for up to two weeks (depending how often she washes !!!)

Despite the weather it turned out to be a very successful day and lots of fun!