Surprise surprise!

I can't believe another week has passed us by! It's almost Easter already (ok I know it's early this year but time is still whizzing past) He, he................at this rate it won't be long till we are wishing each other a Merry Christmas again :))

Firstly I would like to say a big thank you to Kathy for returning the honours with the award. You're a star!

I have had two wonderful surprises this week. On Tuesday I received a big box and here is what was in it. This was my second prize from the English Paper Company competition last year in Cardmaking and Papercraft. Good eh! What a shame that they are no longer!!

My second parcel arrived this morning and was for having a card published in Papercraft Essentials :)Lastly, here is what I have been up to this week :)

Fifty day invitations, ninety evening invitations, one hundred and forty reply cards, one hundred and three favour tags, seven gift bags and a guest book.........phew! I've also made an invitation sample today :)

Tomorrow we are all going out for lunch. There are 15 of us altogether with my parents, brother and sister and their families and my kids. It's my birthday on Monday............I'm going backwards in age as of now :)

Well, I must go and get dressed. I need to post the sample this morning and I have some commissioned cards to make. I also have another wedding order which has just come in which they want by Wednesday!!! so no weekend off for me.

Whatever you're doing, have a good weekend and thanks for dropping by.

More good news!

DH came home last Friday with the new Paper Essentials magazine for me. I don't buy many card making mags now as I just don't have time to read them and I have a pile of them waiting to be read. I always have a quick peep if I'm out and if something takes my fancy I will buy it. Anyway, he brought the mag home and I've scanned through it two or three times so far. Last night I wasn't feeling too good so after hubby went to bed I curled up on the settee with a blanket to have a nose at my mag, only to find that a piece of my work has been published! I hadn't even noticed it before. lolI made my little maze book as part of last years comp in which I was a runner up but didn't realise that it would be used in the mag. I felt all giddy when I saw it. Apart from competition entries and adverts in bridal mags it is only the second time my work has been published and it's a wonderful feeling.
Now for my second piece of good news....................When I entered the competition in PE last year, I also entered the one in CM & P. I saw loads of blogs where people had been winners or runners up in different competitions and just assumed my work hadn't been place as I hadn't heard anything. However, yesterday morning I got a letter from Kirstie (the editor of CM & P) informing me that I have won second prize in the English Paper Company category. My prize is £150 worth of English Paper Company products. Yay...........go me!!! LOL
I am such a bad blogger at the moment but work has got in the way. Hopefully I will be back later with a couple of pictures (but don't hold your breath:))
Thanks very much to those of you who keep visiting and leaving your lovely comments, they are really appreciated.