Paint Watercolor Doodle by Donna Downey

I am really going to have to take better photos of these pages tomorrow, but here is my Donna Downey Chipboard/Acrylic mini album from the Halloween Mega Scrap Class. I just finished it this evening, but I may still add some more journalling to some of the pages, just waiting for inspiration :-)



Above is Page one, I had to redo it when I came home as I had written my title (lightly I thought) with pencil the wrong way round at first and it was visible through the paint :-(



Pages 2 and 3



Pages 4 and 5



Pages 6 and 7



Pages 8 and 9



Pages 10 and 11



Pages 12 and 13



Pages 14 and 15



Page 16

Lazy Day LO

This is my adaptation of Anita Mundt's Wash Day LO from the Halloween Megascrap. I decided not to use a photo of my washing, so had to change the title. I loved the LO tho, esp using the doilys and the chipboard and even the crochet!

Attempting some Anita techniques!

I was up on a chair and Cobhlaith was on the floor and she thought it was absolutely hailerious that I was up there!!

Halloween Mega Scrap

Sorry folks but I was so engrossed in the classes at the megascrap that I didn't manage to take any photographs except for this one during Donna's Paint Watercolor Doodle Class! It's my biggest crafty purchase for ages (since I got my bind it all at Crafteire) but I'm so glad I splashed out on this box of Caran d'Ache wax pastels and that I learned how to use them. I had a great weekend. I arrived at the hotel on the friday evening and gate crashed a birthday party at the hotel, didn't manage to photograph the kilt clad men for Tigger but Caroline got one on her phone!! Caroline arrived later in the evening and we spend the night catching up on each others news in front of a very welcome (gas) fire :) How we missed Mireille and Brian I just cant figure out but we met them at breakfast on the Saturday morning, we were also joined by Ann (Kelly) for brekkie, which set us up nicely for the intensive crafting day.

It was so nice to meet up with everyone again, Lainey, Annamarie, Julie M, Eva, Ber, Kiki, Isobel, Val, Coco, Tigger, Tracey, Pamela, Jackie C, Julie B, Carrie, Auds, and to meet new friends Karen, Olive, Lorna and others whose names escape me! I loved the first class by Donna Downey - Paint, Watercolor, Doodle and can't wait to finish my mini-album. I'm trying to choose photos for it at the moment. I also loved Anita's Wash Day LO Class, the crochet didn't bother me as I've been crocheting since I could walk but I wasn't too taken with putting a photo of my washing on a LO so I used a photo of my daughters instead. I'll post up a photo of the LO soon.

Even tho I'm so not a mini book fan I must say that I enjoyed Donna's second class too, I surprised myself!! Again, it's nearly complete, just photos to be added now. Antia's photography class was interesting and I've tried out a few of the techniques, but I am such a bad photographer. Still I'll post up some of my efforts in a while.

I was lucky to win a raffle prize too, a basket of herma goodies which will come in very useful as I'm always running out of glue :)

I was disappointed that everyone had to leave after the classes as I was staying at the hotel and had been looking forward to dinner with everyone a al Crafteire!! But I must say that Coco and Tigger were terriffic company and we had a lovely leisurely meal and a great laugh, I couldn't believe that we were still in the restaurant at midnight!!

I had a nearly 2 hour delay at the airport on the way home but didn't mind as I had a book to read and I met up with some Tory folk who were returning from An Oireachtas in Cork.

Hairdo

This little lady proceeded to give herself a haircut a few days ago!! I suppose it's something that nearly all little ladies do at some stage in those early years!! But this happened at the kitchen table when herself, Rionnach, Caoilte and I were sitting at it too!! How we didn't see what she was up to, or hear the snip, snip I just don't know. Thankfully she didn't do too much damage and when her hair is tied up you wouldn't notice it at all, it fact when her hair is down it looks like she has a longish fringe now, I haven't managed to get an 'after' photo yet as she has been sick for the past week too, in fact all three of the children have had bad coughs for over the past two weeks or so, Caoilte and Rionnach are over theirs now, but Cobhlaith has just started on an antibiotic today, I was hoping that she would recover without one but it's just been lingering for too long now.

Green Umbrella

Just a bit of fun. I found this on Julie's (leapblog) and had to have a go :)

What Your Green Umbrella Says About You

When faced with adversity, you try to calm down first and act second. You can approach things from a fresh perspective, but you have to relax first. You are a very insightful and perceptive person. You offer up interesting critiques. You have amazing levels of concentration. You can focus completely on any problem until it is solved. On a rainy day: you take time to nap, day dream, and relax

The Umbrella Test

Remember Me!!

Hello folks, I can't believe how long it's been since I've blogged, I've since lost my computer, gained a new (secondhand) laptop which is tempermental, a little bit sunnier than my pc tho thank goodness and lost most of my photos which were on the pc :(

But here I go again and I'm hoping to blog everyday if I can.

Seo pictiúir a tharraing mé do Cobhlaith coicis o shin nuair a bhí picnic againn tráthnóna amháin

It's been a while

since my last post!! Where does the time go?

Well the biggest news in the Doohan household in May was Ríonnach's First Holy Communion Day which was 10 May in Gortahork. She had a great day and was so excited. She was very involved in the ceremony, being the only pupil from her school making their Communion this year. She was part of the Procession at the beginning of Mass and had to carry a lit candle representing all the childrens Communion Candles, and place it on the altar. Then she sang the Psalm - Mo Ghrá Thú a Thiarna - and sang it very well, although she told us later that her knees were shaking! She also took part in the Offertory Procession. Vincey con-celebrated the Mass along with Fr Sean and a priest from Glasgow, whose niece was also making her Communion (Róisín Duggan - I can't remember the priest's name right now), and Fr Sean let Vincey give Ríonnach her First Communion, and also Katie and Emily. 25 children from 5 schools made their Communions with Ríonnach, or should I say including Ríonnach. She knew most of them before hand as many of them were at the Naíonra with her in Gortahork in 2004, and three of them were her cousins, Emily, Katie and AineS. Shane lived next door to mum for a few years so she used to play at home as well as at the Naíonra. She met Joanne at the St Patricks Day parade!! and Hannah has been her companion at An Cosan Glas for the past few summers. After Mass we went to An Sean Scoil for tea and cakes and minerals and sweets for the children. There was a gorgeous Communion Cake there and Ríonnach, Emily, Katie, Eilish, AineG, RóisínD and Fr Sean cut it. I must look for a few photos :) Later on our family (23 of us - well she is the first grandchild on both sides :) ) had lunch in Ostan Loch Altan. Ríonnach's treat for the day was to go to Arena 7 where we were joined by Maryanne, Gráinne, Conor, Patrick and Caroline. We were there until 8pm and exhausted but then we went to the cinema to see Nim's Island - I couldn't believe that all three children, Ríonnach, Caoilte and Cobhlaith stayed awake until the end!! Eddie and I were nearly asleep, but the film was very enjoyable. So all in all a great day. Ríonnach wore her dress again to Mass on Sunday morning and Fr Sean had all the First Communion children who were there up on the altar for the Our Father and kept them there until after Communion which was nice for them, he really made them feel special on both days. Well after that essay I better post a few photos, I'm afraid the quality isn't great but here goes -




Cobhlaith was fed up after just one photograph!!




Fr. Sean, Ríonnach, Anna Boyle (R's teacher), Vincey

What Noelle Means

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life. You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you. At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Beautiful Donegal :)

Some nice photos of various parts of Donegal here on our geocaching trips, the first three are in Tory - the rest of the photos aren't in chronological order, sure that would be boring!! I'm afraid the photos don't do justice to the beautiful scenery in Donegal, but I hope it whets the appetities of a few of my crafty friends who are coming this way soon from the big smokes :)


Hurrah, stage 2 of the Tory Cache found!!


Final Stage of Tory Cache - treasure found!!


Caoilte, Eddie, Cobhlaith and Ríonnach with an Tór Mór behind them



Cache Number 4 (I think) at Horn Head



Caoilte at the View Point at Glenveagh National Park on a wet April Sunday. That's the castle behind him.


Goody!! Bitten by the Glenveagh Bug found!!



A view of Downings from Ards Forest Park


On our way to our second cache at Ards Forest Park



Taking a break from geocaching - at the Trá na Rossan Beach - Downings


A windy day in Downings


Another day another cache, this was the best one we found so far and the one we (well I!!) most wanted to find - at Bunaninbhir.


Nearby the Doohery cache site

Isn't it Funny

.................... how things get in the way of blogging!!! Things like living, crafting and oh yes our new hobby Geocaching - have I mentioned geocaching before??? It is the greatest thing, the whole family can take part, lots of fresh air, exercise and treasure too - woohoo. Huge thanks to Kate George and Jane Dean for making me aware of this and especially to Kate for the encouragement to take part. I'm currently uploading photos to my slower than slow pc and will be posting them as soon as I can - watch this space :)

Aha!

So if I take my time and load each photo individually it works!! I'm afraid the quality of the photos isn't great but I wanted to post these up before I head out to the mainland for a week tomorrow.

This is my LO from Eva's Cold Crisp Day Class



Next up is my version of Amber-janes Fancy Pants Class



Annamaries fab acetate class - I must really take some better photos of these LO's, but I was rushing here lol



Eva's yumme class using the most gorgeous papers I've used for a long time, can't wait for the Crafteire shop to restock these :)



Finally my version of Janes Master Class. Again the photo is dreadful and it really looks so much better IRL, I loved making the tiles I found it very thereputic and bought more clay to make some with the children, must get round to that next!! The book isn't completed yet, another project for another day :)

Crafteire

I'm still recovering from Crafteire!! It was a fantastic weekend, it was great to see some of my crafting buddies again after so long. Well done to Mireille and Kate for organising. I've been trying to upload photos of my LO's but blogger isn't playing along tonight :(

Scrapwest #69 What I Love About You

It's my turn tomorrow. I'm not sure what time the class is going up at, but it's a Love Theme for the week that's in it!!. It's a 12 x 12 layout, using lots of photos of someone/something that you love. It's a very busy LO, and not my usual style so I'm a bit aprehensive about it. I hope someone loves it!! Okay, here's a sneak peek then

Scrapwest #68 Jackie's Criss Cross Card

I've loved making my versions of this card. Thank you Jackie

Scrapwest #66 Laineys Canvas Class

Thank you for a great tutorial Lainey. Here's my latest Canvas Offering. I'll take a better photo tomorrow in daylight!!

Quad Úr

You Make My Day Award

I was delighted to be tagged by Jackie recently. Thank you Jackie :) I'm finally getting to this -

“You Make My Day Award” The rules are…..Give the award to up to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel so happy about blogland! Let them know by posting a comment on their blog so that they can pass it on. Beware! You may get the award several times!So, to narrow it down to ten….


I know these people have probably been tagged already but what's a girl to do!! I'm tagging Tigger, Aine, Lainey, Evonne, Eva, Marlou, Kate, Caroline, Ringo, Annamarie

Lainey's Canvas Class

One of these days I'm going to actually make it to one of Lainey's crops, in fact I think it's one of my very few Resolutions for this year!! But until then I'll have to look on from afar ............. here's my version of last Saturdays class.

Scrapwest #65

It's been a while since I managed to complete a Scrapwest project. We've got a new format of weekly classes over on Scrapwest for 2008. Eva went first with a fantastic Resolutions LO (which I have yet to have a go at) and this week it was Kate's turn with a great mini book. I'm posting up my version in it's raw state, I've only managed to cover the pages so far but I'm looking forward to completing it soon, especially as I've used the same papers as Kate did, from the fabulous October Kit from The Scrapbook Store.

Crafty Notebooks

It's been ages since I posted anything crafty here so here are three of the notebooks I altered for the girls in the Camera Club.

Quad

Seo Caoilte an lá a fuair sé an quad úr - bronntanas atá ann fa choinne breithlá saige ar an 24ú ach cén áit a dtiocfaidh linn quad a chuir i bhfolach!!