Chinese New Year Festivities at West Edmonton Mall

My lovely students :)

I received some gorgeous gifts this week from my students!!

Miss T gave me the most gorgeous mug that she had painted for me!!!  My very first Teacher gift!!  

Best Art Teacher Ever <3  

I love it so much :)  

It is on the little shelf by my bed :)  

N and the G family gave me this gorgeous reusable bag made from plastic grocery bags :)  N's Mom made it!!!  It is soooo clever and so strong :)  

Love love LOVE!!!  :)  

The bottom picture shows the canvas T created on Wednesday afternoon when she and I had an art afternoon together!!  This girl is so talented!!  She's TEN!!  TEN!!!  wow!!  

Snapshots from our week.....

There was a big accident by our house on Monday - at the crossroads.  The police and ambulances were there all morning.  Sadly a friend of mine drove by just after it happened and said that the drivers were badly injured :(  

My penny jar is full:

Darryl sent me a picture of his 'morning so far' and I sent him this one in return...

Playing Mastermind with Sam:

Sitting by the fire with a snack:

Hahaha  was chatting to darryl while lying on the floor by the fire....took this to prove it:  

One of the pages I did with one of my teen classes this week:

Mod podge - I get through sooooo MUCH of this lovely stuff:

My Rosie posie:

We went swimming with friends on Wednesday afternoon:

The page I did in my teen art journal class yesterday:

Ice on Whyte - week two.

Yesterday the temperature had warmed up quite a bit, and so we headed back to the Ice on Whyte festival.  We took Cassie with us as she had never been before.  This time we caught the old Streetcar from Whyte Ave over the High Level Bridge to the Legislature Building, where the second part of the festival was.  I think riding the Streetcar was a highlight for all of us :)  We will definitely go back in the Summer and do this again but I'm glad we experienced it in the Winter too - and it was free :) 

Ice on Whyte - one of my favourite festivals.....over for another year!!

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Percolator.

Bliss :)

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He is so sweet.  'nuff said.

Instagram Heaven!!

Who would have thought a McDonald's Playplace would be a photographers playground???  The new McD's on 34th St is Instagram and photo app heaven!!  I percolated  the wall designs, instagramed the wall posters, photographed the fireplace and took pics of the girls in the playground :)  

So much fun!!

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You could make some amazing fabric designs using percolator!!  :)

Teens on a Saturday night.....

Oh the things they do to fill an evening.......  :)  

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snapshots from yesterday :)

Sam showing me things in his new Lego magazine that arrived on Friday - he loves being in the Lego club and having fun mail arrive:

Rosie getting more love and smiling:

 New journals from Dollarama - fell in love with them:

Couldn't resist this bell - and the kids LOVE it - Sam had gone to bed and then he heard it ringing and came RUNNING downstairs to hug Cassie last night:

I painted a ton of pages in one of the new journals last night - prepped and ready for some art journaling one day when I'm feeling creative:

LOVING Instagram still...took this one of Rosie yesterday:

Retro fabric I'm using in my Body Restoration Journal:

It snowed a little yesterday - the treehouse looks pretty:

My Lifebook from SR2 - I LOVE this book with all my heart - those classes changed me and changed my life and brought so many special people in to my life!!!  <3  

Coffee addict:

Me, myself, I.

5 days until the big 4-0

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My Brave Girls had an online get together and we had to share some glam shots of ourselves :)  We were supposed to dress up and put make-up on etc etc but as everyone probably knows, I don't DO make up lol...so this is as glam as I get....au naturel...no make up....but me :)