Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to anyone who happens to have (probably accidentally) stumbled onto this blog. I haven't posted on here for ages as I haven't made any cards for a while. I'm back at work now and have to do quite a bit of work at home, I hosted Christmas day for 14 and New Year's Eve at ours, and with those things and looking after James, I've had very little time for crafting.

I had a flurry of excitement at the end of 2009 and won a couple of things (something that I thought would never happen!):

• I won a competition in Quick Cards, to make a card based on a christmas film, which bagged me £100 worth of Mr Men christmas card making stuff. The huge package arrived a week before christmas, but my Year 10 class loved making cards in their last lesson of the year (random, I know, but it was better than showing a film!). The card should be in the next issue of Quick Cards - I thought it would be in this month's but couldn't find it when my copy arrived.
• I won a Clare's Challenge and got a georgeous set of Forever Friends stick ons.
• I won a Passion for Promarkers challenge (although the prize never did come through, but never mind)
• Finally, I got a massive pack of beautiful christmas peel offs through the post on 22nd December (!) after winning a competition in Cardmaking and Papercraft.

I've entered loads of competitions in the last six months, and just when I was about to give up after not winning ages, my luck seemed to change. I'll be back on all the challenges and competitions as soon as I have a spare moment!