For Dianne and Dad :)

I know, I know......I haven't been taking as many pictures of the other animals....I'm sorry! I will try to do something about that! Here is a picture of Charlie that I took on Friday!

Charlie is doing good......the workmen adore her - Tim especially I think. They used to park their trucks on the side where the workshop is and she would stay over there near them...but now they have moved everything over to the side near the pond and the beehive.....so Charlie,too, has moved - and she spends her day over there with them - keeping an eye on them ;) Really though its because she likes company - she just likes to be near people! The guys think its funnny that she has followed them over!

She now has a woodburning fireplace in the workshop and yesterday two new garage doors were fitted to the workshop - so she is nice and warm and secure in there now :).

I will add more pictures of the other animals this week - remind me to take my camera on some of the dog walks this week - I tend not to because my hands get cold.

Oh and on Friday when I took my camera out, a wasp got between my hand and the camera and stung the palm of my hand and its still annoyingly sore and itchy :( there are still so many wasps everywhere :(

Our squirrel friend! Caught!!!

Susie spotted our squirrel on the porch today and called me to get the camera! I couldn't see it so came back inside only for Laurence to say it was back again! I saw it run down by the workmens trailer and all the cedar shingles! Finally - our funny little squirrel who appears every now and then and seems to be living in our side woods, is caught on camera!!! It obviously likes the bird nuts from the feeder :) We'll have to get a squirrel feeder and nuts for him now!!! :)

Sleepy.....

I was reading last night in bed but couldn't resist creeping out of bed and taking a picture of Lloyd and sam asleep snuggled up. They looked cute in the glow of my bedside lamp. Its driving me nuts having Sam in bed with us when he is almost 4 (because of Chris being in his room because of the renovations) and I will be so glad when Chris moves back to his own room and Sam can go in his own room...but there are things I will miss - and this is one of them - as well as having Sam snuggled into me in the mornings like a hot water bottle after Lloyd has gone to work!

Watercolour ATC's

These atc's are for a watercolour atc swap at swap-bot. They are both going to 1 partner so I have called them 'Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow'. This weekend I have also worked on Christmas and Winter act's for a swap I am doing with Tess and Stacey - but because they both read my blog I can't post pictures yet!!! :)

Edward Cullen swap!!

This is a package I got for being in an Edward Cullen swap at Swap-bot!! I love the note that came with it :) I couldn't agree more :)

Staceys first Artist Trading Cards.........

On Friday, Stacey - from the 'Mollys People' blog (link to right) came over for the afternoon with her children so that I could snap a few Fall pictures of them. I know I for one had a lovely afternoon of chatting, tea and hot chocolate, walking in the woods and enjoying holding Kylies teeny tiny hand!!! It makes Sams hand feel ENORMOUS!!!! You forget quite how little they are when they're two!!! 4 hours flew by!! They met Charlie the pig (Taylors face when he met her was quite a picture lol! And luckily Abigail was home from school so she had a wonderful time playing with Kylie with playdoh and painting.....

Anyway, While visiting, Stacey gave me an envelope and inside were her very FIRST ATC's!!!! I feel HONOURED to receive these!! thanks so much Stacey!!! And I especially cherish the one of Molly!!! Molly is Staceys little dog and some of you may remember that I fell in love with Molly the night of Staceys Stampin-Up party when I made the Christmas Cards - I don't normally like little dogs, but I really liked Molly who was a sweetheart!

I've only posted pictures of these two cards because I will save the others to post when I get Tess's swap cards and then I'll post al the Winter and Christmas swap atc's at the same time :)

Halloween party night.....

Tonight the girls have gone to their school Halloween party night - a week early for some strange reason. I guess because many people go trick or treating on the actual night. The children didn't have school today either so I guess that gave the school time to decorate and get organised. Laurence spent all week saying he didn't want a costume and didn't want t go because the Jr High kids said it was babyish and not worth going to. Tonight he is sulking because all his friends are going and he doesn't have a costume. So I suggest costumes we have in the costume box and he isn't interested so his friends offer him costumes and he plans to go with them and now he can't get in touch with them because it's too late.....and now he's tired from his sleepover last night and sulking because he isn't out having fun! I'd happily take him but he's too busy sulking!

We bought Abigail a purple and black witch costume because on the packet it looked so cute - but when she put it on it was awful - it looked like something a paedophile would design!!!!! OMG so she didn't wear that - instead we got the dress up box out and she wore this rapunzel dress as a 'nice witch' instead! I had no body glitter so I rubbed red stickles on their skin lol! Oh scrapbooking supplies come in handy sometimes ;) I told them if they come out in a rash they should find a bathroom and wash it off quickly lol!

Susannah is an 'Evil Fairy' and her wings have black cobwebs on them....I made her wand.....a dowel and black felt hot glued and then decorated again with stickles lol!

Lots to blog about!!

I am going to blog all out of order the next little while!!! I want to blog about Stacey and her atc's, her children, postcards, the renovations, Oliver, my Nan, Halloween.....and so its all going to be out of order lol! And none of it is in order of preference - just in order of how the pictures are coming off the camera - and that tends to be back to front lol!

Painted atc's

Here are some atc's I received in the 'painted atc' swap at Swapbot. These came from Erna in South Africa. Erna is an artist and an art teacher! She actually contacted me on Facebook! Aren't these atc's exquisite? I plan to frame them and put them on the wall as they are miniature portraits in watercolour!

Grrrrr wind!

I've been awake since 4am! Our bedroom was full of smoke! No idea why - I assumed Lloyd had lit the fire in the workshop but he hadn't last night! So we checked the house and garage and everything and our place is fine - we couldn't see where the smoke was coming from so assume someone has a fire going and the wind outside was blowing it in this direction. The smell was so strong. We always sleep with a window open but we closed the window and the smell went. But the wind is so strong outside.

Anyway I was wide awake - so many things going through my mind......couldn't get back to sleep and before i knew it Lloyds alarm was going off so I suggested he had coffee with me. Now Laurence is awake and I can hear him having breakfast downstairs. The girls are still asleep.

Last night I went out for dinner with my friend Tess - we had a quick look around the new used book store near Scrapbook Memories, before heading to Eastside Marios (Joey Tomatoes had a 25 minute wait sadly) but thats ok because ESM's is Tess's favourite! We had a lovely evening and Tess even managed to get a head massage by some guy walking by (hahahaha)

I think I TERRIFIED Tess with my driving (and parking) skills lol and she can probably now quite see why I don't attend her crop nights lol...this is nothing new to Val of course who frequently sees my bad driving......Tess kindly offered to follow me home - and most people know how far I live away from town :) but I don't mind highway driving - its in town I hate driving!!! it's all the turning and signals and everything - the highways are easy!!! Once I hit Hwy 14 it was EASY :) you just have to keep an eye out for moose and deer then :)

Anyway, thank you Tess for a lovely evening! Lets repeat again SOON!!!

Anyone size 12 or 14 petite?

I have pants...practically brand new.....mainly Reitmans jeans.....in size 12 and 14 petite. Are they of use to anyone? I didn't wear them for very long at all........a few times only.

Free to a good home in the Edmonton area...or heading to the thrift store......

Let me know!

Crazy 8's

8 TV Shows I love to watch:

Little People Big World
So Graham Norton
sorry I don't watch much tv lol!


8 Favorite Restaurants:

Joey Tomato's Med Grill
Joeys Global
La Ronde
Ruths Chris
Wok Box
Milestones
New Asian Village
Blue plate diner

8 Things That Happened Yesterday:

The wind took my breath away
Lloyd told me I looked cute in my pj's
I read in the bath
I ate melon and strawberries while reading at MP
I took Sam to Pre-K
I cleaned the toilets
Sams shoe fell off as we walked out the door of MP
The phoneline got fixed

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:

the weekend
my new kitchen
moving away from here to somewhere friendlier
Oliver arriving
Lloyd retiring
Spring
this year ending
dinner tonight!

8 Things On My WishList:
Only Lloyd knows what is on my wishlist ;)

8 Friends I'm Tagging:
whoever wants to!

Wednesday.....

So Wednesday is here.....yesterday I was out chatting with the workmen...Denis was telling me his wife is sick. (his name is French so you don't pronounce the S) She is a migraine sufferer too and is on Maxalt like me.....she was in hospital on Friday and he had to leave early because of it.....not good :( PVC or something which is worrying but she is a nurse and was at work which is a VERY good thing as she was in the right place! So we were talking about migraines etc.......I was telling them about how I often call them all the names under the sun when I have a migraine and they are banging about outside lol! They were laughing and making jokes......It was sooo windy out yesterday 70km winds.

Sam had pre-k yesterday and while he was there I had to go and get the groceries that we couldn't get on Monday night. Stupidstore had quite a bit missing Monday night. So I ran to Costco and Save-On (because I couldn't be bothered to go far). I don't like shopping in stores I don't know though and found I was zig-zagging all around the store to find things. I bought Chris two bags of White Rabbit candies (not that he really deserves them lol) only to find out they've been recalled because of the melamine scares in China...sigh....and he's taken them to school today :( so Lloyd has texted him to tell him to quit eating them.......oops! They're his favourite candy! He won't be happy :(

Oh and when Sam walked into Pre-K yesterday the first thing he told his teacher was that he had 'moved into Moms bedroom'....OMG!!!! His teacher looked at me with a puzzled yet interested look! Lol! I laughed and told her things were chaotic at home....and then once I had settled Sam in class I did explain that my husband was STILL in the bedroom with me and that having a three year old in the room was the better choice over a moody 15 year old joining us lol - because Chris had moved into Sams room for a while during the renovations!!! Once she understood that, all was well ;) Oh and Sams other teacher has also read the Twilight books - this leads Lloyd to believe that every woman on the planet has read these books lol - but like I say, every sensible woman on the planet has read them ;) hahahahaha ;)

The girls had dance last night - Tuesday is STRESS night - dance and library (the mobile library is outside of dance classes and it used to be fine as the girls classes were at the same time but THIS year Susies class is after Abigails class so we are running backwards and forwards all evening and its annoying :( We take Abby then go to the library with Susie then come home. Susie gets ready we go and take her and get Abby, take Abby to the library and Sam, then come home. Then go back later for Susie....in between we do lunches, tidy up after dinner...do Abigails reading and anything else that needs doing......and if anyone else wants to go to the library they can....probably doesn't sound THAT stressful to most people but I don't DO stress well - and we choose NOT to do running about after activities etc so for me this is STRESS! Still the girls love it and its just once a week and they like the library too :) After that I soaked in the bath and read Eclipse and then got in bed and read while Lloyd snuggled next to me and watched Iron Man that I surprised him with yesterday.

Tonight I am out for dinner with Tess! Yay!

Phone line!

We have a phone line again :)

Pre-K Homework!

Sam with his homework from pre-k! He has to cut out and stick on a pumpkin to his calendar each day in October and then take it back to school on the last day in October. I took this picture this morning!