Happy 50th Mum

Well, mum turned 50 on Saturday. I'm not sure if it's a mid life crisis or just a crazy spell but after a lovely family dinner we rounded up the night with lots of cocktails and shots followed by a tattoo of a little butterfly on mums foot in the morning and a T in the Park ticket. What other 50 year old gets super drunk, gets a tattoo and goes to T in the Park...just mine?? Thought so!

Anyway, I thought I'd share a little photo of her being brave on the Sunday morning with a killer hangover. She's already planning her next tattoo for Christmas! Crazy times! The tattooist is Bry, he has done mine and the hubby's. He's every mums worst nightmare with piercings and tattoos on his face and head as you can see in the photo. I thought he would have the hard-man personality to go along with his image but as soon as his mum came into the tattoo parlour he gave her a big kiss and cuddle!

So glad you had a fantastic birthday mum!

Love you,
Kirsty xxx

First ever WOYWW

I've always been a fan of Julia's work and her amazing idea of What's On Your Workdesk Wedensday. I love waking up on a Wednesday morning and snooping around everyone elses work spaces and seeing what you lot are up to.
I've always wanted to take part but never had a blog up and running for my craft stuff. When I fell ill recently I decided to spend more time crafting with the possibility of turning it into a career in a few years, if I become too ill to run my salon. So here I am. I really have to say Julia was an inspiration for me to get my crafting socks back on and not let an illness beat me or my creativity.

I know the photo isn't too clear but last night I was working on a couple of new cards using my new K&co butterfly embelishments and some new papers I picked up. I was also experimenting with my new (and first) Martha Stewart punch. I'm usually a very tidy crafter and tidy as I go so I'm not left with a huge amount of mess at the end but I decided to let my organisation go out the window and have a nice messy desk to show you this morning.

We've not yet got any followers on our blog :( I hope some of you will read this and decide to follow us as I'm sure I'll be a regular over at WOYWW.

Away to do some snooping round some desks!

Kirsty & mum xxx

Stock shopping

Although I said I wasn't going stock shopping until the 15th August I ended up with a day (yesterday) with nothing to do so off I went in the car to Glasgow to find some goodies for my craft room. I got allsorts including a Martha Stewart around the page punch, Tim Holz ink pads, pens, lots of yummy embelishments, some Bazzil cardstock, Born to Shop paper and embelishments, Eastern and cupcake cardstock, some papermania basic design kits so I can get crafting on notebooks etc and so much more. Couldn't help but take a photo to share it with you all. I can't help but get excited at the kind of creations I will come up with for the shop from this lot!

The best thing is...Sunday is the 15th and mum and I are going stock shopping again!

Until next time,

Kirsty & mum

Molly's Baby Box

I made this for a friends newborn baby girl as a little gift. I thought it was a lovely thing to revceive, especially for a newborn, so that mummy and daddy can keep some little baby bits and pieces in it. The box itself took a while to decorate, especially as I made the design up as I went, not using a pre-planned design. This made it a little harder but I absolutely love the finished result.

These can be made to order for any occasion such as birthday's, a retirement, wedding, engagement, anniversary, baby, new home, travel box etc etc. The list is endless. All boxes can be made to suit a budget and completely customised to suit individual taste and style. There are a selection on display in the shop and I will be uploading more as they are made.

Enjoy,
Kirsty & Mum x

Some of our cards...

As promised here are some of the cards we have in stock at the moment. The designs of these are pretty simple but it was mainly so we could build up a stock for the shop. My favourite is the elephant design. All of the cards are made using a range of papers and embelishments and good trusty rubber stamps. Over time I'm sure the technique of the cards will improve, especially after our 'stock' shopping next weekend.

Anyway folks that's all for now, hope you like some of these cards. Please leave comments if you do so I know we are on the right tracks!

Until next time,

Kirsty & Mum x

KML come on down....

Well, here we are. I'd like to introduce KMLdesign, a mother and daughter papercraft business. It all started when I took ill and the possibility of me not being able to work full time in ther future in my beauty salon became reality and we thought I needed a back up plan.
I've always loved making cards, scrapbooking etc as has my mum do we thought we'd start a little business doing so. I'm saying little...but knowing what we're like business will hopefully be booming in no time.

I have just transformed my spare room at home into a craft room, much to the delight of my husband, and my mum has her huge dining table where she can craft and come up with all sorts of creations.

We're going 'stock' shopping next Sunday to a lovely little shop I know of which is about 40mins drive from where we are in Perth, Scotland. I've got lots of cards already on display in the salon which are going down a treat but I'm getting rather excited about getting some orders in! I'm more than happy to make custom designs and alter bits and pieces to make trinket boxes, birthday books, recipe cards...the list goes on!

Anyway, until next time. I'll try and get some images of cards up soon!

Kirsty & mum x