Snapshots from the last few days.......

Gumballs at Marble slab yesterday:

Cute little guy at the park today:

Beautiful blossoms:

Sam enjoying our walk in the woods on Friday:

Abby balancing over water:

Sammy smelling the blossoms at the park today:

Self portrait taken with my phone lol:

Sunsetting above a pond, with the Edmonton city skyline behind it:

Sam made this out of Lego for me last week - it says Mom with a heart on top:

Bought myself some summery jewelry on Sunday including an ankle bracelet and this ring:

My typical bedtime routine.  Rosie curled up asleep, my art journal and some Facebook time:

Love this picture of Abby and Sam holding hands on the swing at the fair:

Vodka soaked Gummibears.  Make them the day before and they are really yummy as they lose the flavour of the vodka and start tasting like gummibears again:

Home :)

The weather has been so gorgeous lately - Summer is truly here and I am determined to make the most of it!!  I am enjoying the deck and porch so very much and am going to get a new tank of propane this weekend for the bbq!!  

Adding on the wrap-around deck really was well worth doing - I love it soooo much!  There is always somewhere in the sunshine to sit - or somewhere in the shade to enjoy - and somewhere sheltered to enjoy the rain on a Summer evening too :)  I can sit and watch the birds or Rosie in the pond - or the children playing or riding their bikes!  

This may or may not be my last Summer here - but either way, I will enjoy every moment and create memories to last a lifetime :)  

The apple tree is in full bloom right now:

My little chefs :)

Friday was a good day as both Susannah AND Laurence cooked at school and brought food home for us all!  Susannah made Taco salad AND chocolate chip and oatmeal squares.  

Laurence baked a blueberry pie:

All of it was VERY yummy and the perfect thing to come home to after our adventures in the wet and muddy woods on Friday :)  

Almost perfect....

Today was an almost perfect day.  For me it was a wonderful day - but my mind was also on some friends who are going through some very difficult and sad times.  They remain in my thoughts xxx

My day started off very early as Susannah had to be at the school by 9am.  She volunteered to run the concession at the plant sale all day.  I came home and cleaned the downstairs bathroom and the kitchen, got the dishwashers running and swept up, and then relaxed out on the deck for a while.  It was such a gorgeous day!  

Rosie enjoyed the fact that I was home with her and outside - and she pottered about in the woods and in the back yard, reassured that I was out on the deck.  She would head down to the pond for a swim, to cool off every now and then :)  

I sat at the patio table and did some art journaling.  It was such a wonderful place to journal:

Lunch was a spinach wrap with cream cheese and veggies:

My crow family are back again this year and happily feed from the bird table:

I picked Susannah up from the plant sale just after 3pm.  She didn't want to go home as the weather was too good, so we headed to Whyte Ave for a stroll and to look for 

an Iphone cover for her (no luck):

We went to Coney Island Candy Store to see Zoltar.  Oh boy his fortunes are always sooooo accurate - it's amazing!  he knows us so well!! This guy was standing next to Zoltar:

 We then headed to Fuss Cupcakes for a drink and a cake each:

We did a lot more walking and window shopping on Whyte and then headed to Katies Crossing for a while.  We got home just before 8pm and then I cut the grass before relaxing in the sunshine again on the deck...

And enjoying a recipe from Pinterest - vodka soaked Gummibears :)  

Artsy stuff from the last few days....

I am still working on the 29 Faces in May challenge.  I think this face is one of my favourites so far.  I just think she is really cute :)  :  

And still loving my art journaling:

The page above was created using a stencil made from a $2. BATH MAT!!!!!  :)  Yep :)  I spotted it at Dollarama and thought it would be perfect cut up into squares to make several different sized stencils!!  Works great with my Dylusion ink sprays:

Loving using the sprays in my journals and at the moment I am using some photographs that I printed off on several pages:

This technique is called 'ghosting' - where you remove some of the ink afterwards with water through a stencil:

I LOVE this page but still haven't journaled on it - haven't thought of the ideal topic for it yet - but I will when the time is right!

I did this one today and my blue Copic pen ran out halfway through doing her hair (you can have them refilled thankfully) so I used the turquoise Dylusion spray to finish her off, and I think it worked out quite well even with her hair half done :)