The last few days....

On Monday C was home form school, so he played various math games with A. Tuesday we went out for breakfast with a friend. Yesterday we went to Parentlink - there were two festive crafts and circle time was about germs...with songs and a story....afterwards we ran a few errands and had lunch at the mall...A chose a cosmetics set at the dollar store and came home and put her make up on :) a circus clown comes to mind ;)

Monday and Tuesday were too cold to go for a walk with -30 windchills. Yesterday A went sledding in the afternoon with S.

This morning we went swimming for a while and then to an indoor playground...lunch out again and then home where A painted with the foamy mixture :)

Thats our week so far!

Puffy snow pictures....

We tried this craft at Parentlink yesterday.....you make snowman pictures or other snowy pictures using this special mixture! It's shaving foam mixed with a little Elmers glue....stir it in with a spoon and add a little glitter....

When it dries, it stays all puffy and is all squidgy and rubbery!

The kids LOVE playing with this 'stuff' and it smells so good :)

Pram quilt.....

This is a pram quilt, baby quilt for a little boy.....this is just the quilt top and needs the other layers to be added and then needs to have the layers quilted together.....one day I'll finish it ;)

That said, I am not in the mood to work on either of these projects right now - I have a few fabrics I want to work with instead but I need more - so tomorrow I want to head to the quilt store and pick out some new fabrics to go with the ones I have, so that once the party is over on Sunday, I can actually get going :)

Please excuse the wwrinkles and folds in the work...they have been folded up and bagged up in storage for the last couple of years!

My quilting...

I have mainly quilted in the past for gifts for other people....but here are two projects that are in my quilting bag, still to be completed!

The green paper pieced quilt is a design called 'Snowflakes in Summer'....a large rectangle of green shades will run down the middle of the quilt, and this rectangle is surrounded by 'snowflakes' of green/ alternate fabrics.....in a white background.....

I haven't got very far with this - mainly because it's all hand stitched - I don't use a sewing machine! I also don't think I did ANY sewing last winter at all!

English piecing...

One of my favourite styles of quilts is created through 'English Piecing'....a technique my Mom taught me when I was pregnant with Christopher almost 15 years ago! Engish piecing uses papers as backing that are tacked to the fabric and then the little shapes are stitched together before the backing papers are removed....

I some very old quilts they find the backing papers are not removed and you can tell so much about the date of the quilt etc by the backing papers used.....

I treated myself :)

I wonder how long it will be before this nighty has gone grey in the wash.......

New ornaments for 07

Here are a few of the little ornaments I have bought this year to add to my collection :) They are already out on display as they are more 'wintery' than Christmasy :) well, the angels are just gorgeous so they are out whether they are Christmasy or not :)

The big angel is named Samantha as I bought her on my date night with my friend Samantha the other week :)

Thursday...

We went swimnning this morning...not a great day to go as a school bus of kids arrived at the same time as us...but it wasn't too bad thankfully. We swam for about 90 minutes and then dried off and had milk and muffins in the food court before heading to the indoor playground for a while....The Oilers were practicing in one of the rinks at the back so we strolled by there and watched for a while...not that the kids are interested in hockey at all!

On the way home we stopped for mail and two parcels had arrived - things I had ordered online at the weekend - I LOVE doing shopping online - last night we picked up all the things from the Sears Wishboook we had ordered online too....no having to stand in line or deal with crowds and the discounts you get online are great....I also got a parcel from CHER - Canadian Home Education Resources, with some books and games I had ordered....I'm still waiing on FIAR (our reading curriculum) but apart from that it was all there...they had called to let me know it would be delayed anyway.

The kids will be home soon...Abby and Sam have been at the table since we got home, painting with the foamy stuff again :) they love it! When the kids get home I plan to take my cup of tea upstairs and wrap some gifts....I have a few for Lloyd to wrap.

I have to run to the school to get Chris later - he's trying out for basketbal today. Then tonight the boys and I are going to the hall in the village to help decorate it for Christmas.

Tomorrow I am meeting my boss for the first time - so that will be interesting - although they can't find an assistant to run the class, so if they don't find anyone, the class still won't run! Such a shame about the area not having a class, but I'm not too bothered either way as to whether I have a job or not...I'm happy to teach or I'm happy to stay home with my two!

Tomorrow I also have some errands to run ....collect some meds, get a few things for Sundays party.....run to the quilt store....and a couple of other places I need to go for gifts for Lloyd that are easier to go to without the kids!

The kids have no school tomorrow.

Saturday we have the Festival of Trees in the morning..and there is a craft fair in our hall that I may go to in the afternoon......then Sunday is the party in the afternoon.

I'm tired this afternoon - oh and I have a big bruise on my shoulder from where I slammed the door on my shoulder yesterday lol!