The 3rd Great Big Craft Extravaganza - Athlone

30 September, 1&2 October

Athlone Springs Hotel

Athlone

• Entrance Free

• Loads of crop and craft space - also free!

• Fantastic demonstrators

• Hands on tutorials

• Pay only for your Classes

• Choice of over 30 Classes

• Lots of Shops

• Payper Box Stand

• Competitions

• Challenges

Yes, we are back, and I am of course more excited than ever. We are currently confirming

shops, finalising tutors and getting all the details ironed out.

Be sure to visit our blog at http://greatbigcraftextravaganza.wordpress.com and like our facebook page at Great Big Craft Extravaganza. This way you will be sure to get all the information just as it comes out - without any delay!

We have listened to your feedback and have changed things about to make it possible

for more shops, and even small suppliers to attend. We are sure this is going to make

for an exciting weekend with great classes, and of course great value shopping.

Entrance remains free, with lots of free seating for those wanting to crop and craft

between classes. And oh! what classes and class kits do we have planned .....

We have a fantastic line-up of classes planned with some exciting new ones - all classes

will range from 18 Euro to 30 Euro and many of the classes include fantastic kit such as a free stamp, punch, paper pad or more.

Classes already on the planning list include

• Hunky Dory Crafting

• Winter weddings from An Siopa Bui

• Getting your product to market and getting sales

• Altered Art

• Tiara’s and Wedding fascinators

• Beautiful Beading

• Lots of Tim Holtz

• Scrapbooking

• The latest TV crafts

• Teaching Crafts - taking your craft into a business

• Fimo

• Graphics

• .... and many more besides

If you have any more questions, please let me have them. I will

answer as best I can.

Calling all Tutors:

Are you a craft teacher and would you be interested in teaching

at the Extravaganza? We would really like to hear from you.

Please email me letting me know what type of cards/scrapbooking/jewellery/ craft you teach, and a little info about you, and we will get in touch shortly.

Kerry (kerry@ansiopabui.ie)

Christmas Launch Cocktail Party

Put the 14thth of September in your diaries - it's the annual Siopa Bui Christmas launch. It wouldn't be Christmas without mince pies, so while the shopping and demos are the main event, we will be wining and dining you too!

Venue: An Siopa Bui, Spiddal

Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm

Dress: Glamorous!

Be the first to see all our exciting Christmas stock.

Sizzix Coffee Morning - so exciting

The parcels from Sizzix have arrived. The Big Shot pro is here, along with some amazing new smaller dies (one shown here!) that are great for cards but can also be used in jewellery making. We have lots of free gifts to give out and of course the lemon tart from the Cafe has been ordered.

Join us for our fabulous free morning starting at 10:30 this Friday 22 July

Woodware Crafty Edger back in stock

As the website is still under construction - looking good though! I thought I would just pop in here to tell you that the eagerly awaited Woodware paper edgers are back in stock. I am so so glad that I can get mine out of the cupboard and use it again!

A Sizzix Coffee Morning with loads of sponsored prizes

We are currently awaiting our first delivery of the Sizzix Big Shot Pro - along with some yummy large dies. Thank you to Sizzix who are sponsoring our coffee morning next week and are sending over lots of free goodies for attendees like aprons, pens and mugs as well as some other exciting prizes planned for the day. This is a great opportunity for you to get the best out of your Big Shot as we will be showing you some fab hints and tips for using your dies.

We meet at 10:30 for Coffee(or Tea) and Cake and then have our demo, raffle draw and more.

Diarise it now - 22 July at Siopa Buí in Spiddal - a great reason to visit the beach

Date for Coffee morning and more!

Coffee morning is on Friday 22nd July - not where you would expect it to be! Summer really has me turned upside down this year - between summer camps, extravaganzas and our regular classes I don't know which way is which. It is all a juggle, but a good juggle at least. It will be a great coffee morning with a demo of the new Sizzix Big Shot Pro - and a Sizzix theme - complete with give-aways.

OMG - a truly amazing parcel worth blogging about

Ok, so the last parcel is in for demo day on Saturday. It is from Hunky Dory and they have outdone themselves!!! I don't want to work I just want to make samples for Saturday. I promise that anyone who comes to the event is going to be amazed.

If you can't get to the event and love Hunky Dory, you can give us a call or an email and we will try and make up a parcel for you as you cannot buy online with the website being down. Just give us a day to get the pricing done and everything checked.

Amazing toppers for Her, for Him, Vintage toppers ...... just yummy!