Empire of the sun.......

Last night we curled up and watched Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.....I remember when it came out in theatres....I went to see it three times in the first week! I even had to pay for my friend Nicky to go just so she would go with me - and she was bored silly lol! I just fell in love with that movie - I thought it was just amazing....

I haven't watched it for a while and Lloyd had never watched it all the way through, so we sat and wtached and he loves it too...and I still think it is one of the best movies ever made......

Funny to think that the little boy in the movie is now Batman!

My favourite scene is when the Americans are bombing the Japanese runway and Jim is running about on the rooftop yelling "B-51...Cadillac of the sky........."

Great movie :)

Oh and for the first time, we spotted Ben Stiller in it...he only has one tiny scene but it was definitely him :)

Alberta bound............

Sign said 40 miles to Canada

My truck tore across Montana
Ian Tyson sang a lonesome lullaby
And so I cranked up the radio
Cause there's just a little more to go
For I'd cross the border at that Sweet Grass sign
I'm Alberta Bound

This piece of heaven that I've found
Rocky Mountains and black fertile ground
Everything I need beneath that big blue sky
Doesn't matter where I go
This place will always be my home
Yeah I've been Alberta Bound for all my life
And I'll be Alberta Bound until I die

It's a pride that's been passed down to me
Deep as coal mines, wide as farmer's fields
Yeah, I've got independence in my veins
Maybe it's my down-home redneck roots

Or these dusty 'ol Alberta boots
But like a Chinook wind keeps coming back again

Paul Brandt-©Foothillbilly/Gianfoothillbilly-BMI/SOCAN 2003

future tv presenters.......

Yesterday the children spent HOURS playing with the boxes the groceries came in........they turned one into a tv and took turns being weather girls and news reporters...they even made buttons for the tv and a remote contril so they could switch each other off and turn the volume up! Then they made cars and boats and space ships...and this mroning Abigail came into the bedroom first thing in her space ship!!!

Ruby slipper card..............

Rhonda!!

Hi Rhonda...you are a permanent reader of the blog now so it shouldn't run out at all so just ignore any emails that say it has run out :) Let me know if you ahve any problems though.....

Also I can't change your username - you will have to do that...when you write a comment it should ask which name you want to use - so you can click 'other' and then write in the name you want to go by.....but unfortunately I can't do anything this end!

HTH :)

I loved th epicture of the Elk bridge you sent me yesterday! Thank you!

At last!

Christie will be proud of me!!! FINALLY I got a new broom lol....I know Christie was disgusted by my old broom when she looked after the house in January...the old broom even had a big gap in the middle of it so that all the bits in the centre never got caught by it anyway...well I have a new broom :)

And the winner is.......

The winner of the altered playing card contest is:




NO ONE!!!!!!!

Not one of you entered!!!! So I don't get to send a little prize to anyone!

Oh well.....I thought it would be a fun idea but I guess not!

altered tube....

I turned this old cardboard tube into a money box for the iron chef contest...I decided to make it a money box for saving for 'bling' (ie the real bling - diamonds!!!!) I had to use bling and a monogram on the item....I embossed the lid and cut a money slot in it......

I think I will enter this instead of the explosion box......although I love explosion boxes, I am not happy with how I used the contest ingredients on it..........

Enjoying time off....

Lloyd has been making the most of his time off of work..this afternoon, despite the horrid weather, he went out on his quad and tested how tough the ice was on the puddles........the front puddles weren't thick ice at all but in the back field the ice was thicker and it took a while to get the weight of the quad to fall through......

Do men ever grow out of the boy scout type of stuff??????

Its April...so why is still SNOWING????????

It has been snowing here all day today...it is windy and cold and horrid out.....we have had snow since October :( it has been a very very long winter here this year :( it is 13 degrees colder than it should be for this time of year :(

Dumb dog!!

I guess she'll never learn lol...Amber came in tonight with 3 quills sticking out of her nose! AGAIN!!! Why won't she learn that porcupines HURT???????

Crazy dog! Next time she does it she can suffer a minute longer while I grab the camera!!!

conversations in the car.....

Coming back from the Farm and Ranch show yesterday...


Lloyd: "Abigail! Stop picking your nose!!!"

Abigail: (starts to cry) "But Dad I'm sooooo thirsty!!"

Sunday - and its cold again!!

I spoke to my Nephew Daniel again today and he sounds so excited about coming to visit - which is so great :) I can't wait to see him as it has been YEARS!!!

He was hoping to book his ticket today so I should know when he is coming over!

Lloyd had to run to Home Deopt for apaintbrush todya - he has spent the afteernoon doing the edges in the sitting room...around the window etc etc.....he has a week off of work so he is hoping to get a lot of unfinished jobs done.

While he was in Home Deopt, I ran into Michaels and chose an icing nozzle - I want to have a go at decorating cupcakes really nicely.....so I bought a beginners kit by Wilton.......it teaches five basic techniques to do star flowers, shells, swirled flowers, dots and sweet peas...and I got an extra star nozzle for doing big swirly cupcakes.......so this week I will be baking a lot of cupcakes to practice on :) I used my 40% off coupon so it didn't cost much at all :) I love those coupons - and next weeks is 50% off too!!!!

I also found some Wizard of Oz scrapbooking stickers so I can scrapbook the pictures of the witches hat from MGM Studios :)

Apart from that though we have all stayed indoors and kept warm as it is cold again and they forecast snow (NOOOOOOOO!!!!!)

Now I am going to go and make a cottage pie for dinner :)

Explosion Box.....

This is my 'altered item' for the contest......I had great plans for it but I just can't do 'shabby chic' which is all the rage right now......all my pieces end up too simple and basic no matter what I do!

But I did enjoy making this as a gift for Susannah.....you pull off the lid of the box and all the 'pages' flop out to reveal pictures of Susie from babyhood onwards.....and even if it doesn't win many points in the contest, I know It has won a lot of points with Susie and the colours and style are sooooooo Susie!!!

Now I just have my card to do and maybe do a few alterations to these two pieces before I upload the pictures to the contest folders at scrappershaven.ca

Rhinestone Cowgirl.....

My layout for Iron Chef round2........using 'monogram' and 'bling'.......