Happy Birthday Tania

Last week we left on a little bit of a journey to attend a party for one of my niece's who lives in Armidale NSW (I think there's one in Victoria as well). Thursday saw us leaving all packed up with whatever warm clothes we had (the weather forecast was quite a lot different to the 29 degrees we had) and meandering down the highway to Toowoomba where we stayed the night. We were lucky to get a room as the Carnival of Flowers was on and we had a quick walk down town before heading back to the room where it was nice and warm and the restaurant served up a lovely meal. Just out of Toowoomba is a lovely little place called Highfields and it has a great village feel and a lot of little craft shops that are fantastic to browse. At one spot called the Village Green they have a grouping of shops and a great cafe that looks out over the side of the hill with outdoor tables on the grassed area. It also has the best patchwork shop and a scrapbbok shop that has a good range of papers.

And if you like beading just before you get to Highfields there's a shop called The Danish Flower Art studio (or something close to that) where they have a huge amount of all different beads and some giftware as well, definitely stop there. All of these shops are on the main road so you don't even have to detour just pull in.

I'm running out of time today so I'll continue tomorrow but I'll leave a photo of the birthday girl.

$2 stamps at the PCYC Markets tomorrow

I've added a couple of more products to the Look Whats New page and I thought I would do a quick reminder of the PCYC markets that are on tomorrw. I've also received in more of the cute $2 wood mounted stamps that are so popular so they will available,. Sorry to everyone who doesn't live here as I find it too hard to list them all individually on the website as they come in assorted packs and they sell out quite fast.

Lots of events happening in Bundaberg this weekend. We have the Bundy in Bloom parade tomorrow starting at 11am in the main street. For those people out of the area we have a month long celebration of all things spring like so there's garden competitions, parades, fetes, the Mayors Ball and lots, lots more.

$2 stamps

When buying a card is a good thing

Ok I confess.....this year I bought Fathers Day cards. There, I've said it. No need to comment I felt guilty enough as it was. We really do make a rod for our own backs sometimes don't we?

Now.....you notice I've used past tense, as in felt, because now I'm really happy that I did because I won the Hallmark competition at the newsagent. A message was left on the answering machine that I had won and to come down and collect my prize. I have to admit I really didn't even look at the prize when I filled in the form, much too shameful to be buying cards let alone hanging around filling in competition forms. So I was expecting something small when out from the office they carried a largeish box and handed it over.

Is this for me? Yes. Inside is a MP3 player, headphones and docking station. How cool is that? No I don't have one but now I can be one of those people out walking with ear phones. Of course that means I have to figure out how to use it.

Teenager to the rescue.....I've been told by my godson that he'll come around and help me set it up and show me how to use it as he had to do his mothers when she got one. Gotta love em don't ya?

My prize.

Thinking of Christmas cards?

If you've started to think about making your Christmas cards then pop over to the Look Whats New category on the website. We've received a few in from Stamp It and I have a few from Hero Arts that arrived today (I'll be adding them to the website as soon as I can). I'm also waiting for my order from Stampendous and I'm sure they'll be more arriving in the next month.

Don't forget the PCYC markets are on this weekend so if you want to see them up close (or anything else) come on over between 8am and 12pm.

Thank You Hero Arts Cling Stamp card ideas

I was flicking through an old card making magazine last night and came across a stampers challenge that they had done using the Thank You Hero Arts cling stamp and thought I would share it with you. They've created ten cards using the same stamp but altering the paper, card stock and embellishments to get totally different looks. So here they are: