Happy Valentines Day...

I hope you're all having...or all had....a lovely Valentines day. Lloyd surprised me with this wonderful little card that he made himself while I was out for dinner on Thursday evening. He used my rubber stamps and stamped a bee, cut out a heart and even coloured in the bees :) He totally won me over with the thought he put into it :)

I love you Lloyd!

The cutest moose?

Tess just could NOT resist trying on the moose head ;)

Samantha turns 42...or DOES she??????

Last night I went out to help my friend Samantha celebrate her 42nd birthday. Tess came with me for the evening and it was great to catch up with her and see her again after so long! We ordered our drinks and we all had soft drinks except Samantha who had alcohol - and the server asked to see her ID!!!! She ID'ed her!!!!!! oh my gawd!!!!! At 42 she got ID'ed - and she was serious! Samantha was laughing and she didn't have any ID on her as Tracey was driving her home, so Tracey showed the server hers, and the server said no, she needed to see Samanthas!!! we were all in hysterics!!!! Sooooo jealous!!! We finally got them to believe she was 42 and the server apologised and said 'forget I mentioned it' and we were like 'no way - it's like the highlight of her year' hahahahaha!

Valentines...

Yesterday Sam had his Valentine party at Pre-K. He had to go dressed in red white or pink - so I put him in a red sweater and stuck heart stickers all over it! He took the treats for all his friends (the straws we had labelled) and there were bags lined up for them all and we had to put one for each in the bags. He also gave his teachers a little bouquet of Tulips each.

They had party food and decorated cookies, made the heart winged butterfly clips in the picture above and went to the indoor playground. They made necklaces too. He had a lot of fun at his first Valentine party! His treat bag was FULL when he came home :)

Kids can make atc's too (2)

These are the atc's that Abigail and Susannah have made for the second round of this swap. Abigails is on the left and Susannah's on the right. They love to get mail for themselves with all the stickers and goodies!

Sams Valentines...

These are the Valentine treats Sam is taking to give out at Pre-K tomorrow. They are straws with hearts on and I've tied a name and greeting to each one with red ribbon. Simple yes but I think they're cute. They'll have to do this year because I just don't have the time and energy to do anything more creative this year! Other years I've gone more over board but this year I just can't!

Birthday card....

A card I made for Samantha - she likes bright colours.....

My first whimsey jar.

Thank you Stacey :) Here it is - my very first whimsey jar! I painted it at Staceys house on Monday, added touches the last couple of days and finished it this morning.

Edited to add: Stacey I ended up doing dots of stickles around the pot to cover up the dots where the paint had peeled off BUT I actually love how it looks :) I had covered the lid in a thick layer of stickles that took all night to dry anyway so it coordinates with that anyway! Worked out well in the end thankfully - and then I had to use stickles around the neck to cover up the glass that was showing because I didn't paint high enough up the neck - but I guess its just a learning curve ;)

Wednesday

I am hoping for a quiet day at home, then an evening out with Lloyd before going to collect Susannah. Susie is going curling tonight - She's been invited to go curling with her friends family - it's 'Bring a friend to Curling' night and she has been invited for the last two years and wasn't able to make it so this is third time lucky!

Lloyd and I are going out tonight to get Abigails birthday gifts ready for Friday, and run a few errands that we need to do. I've been honoured to be asked to do something very special for a friend and so I want to go and get the supplies I need for that special project tonight. Lloyd has to go and collect his new filing cabinet - which means I get his old one - which isn't very old - it just isn't working for him (yay) - I soooo need this - I get to put all of Abigails homeschooling supplies in it and clear off the sideboard in my bedroom! No more clutter driving me crazy in my bedroom! I can feel organized in there at last!

I'm not sure we'll have time to eat out tonight - maybe at Timmy's...we'll see!

As for today, our school work is focusing around Valentines Day, and I also have a few cards to make - Monday was my friend Samanthas birthday, but we are celebrating with dinner out tomorrow night.

Sam and Abby are already at their books.....Denis and his other workman...and the electrician are already hard at work....I guess I really should get going. I've been awake since 4am though and I'm soooo tired now! blah!

Favourite book atc swap....

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.

Not my favourite book, but an easy ATC to do as I had a bee stamp ;) Stamped and watercolour painted....

Roses...

Lloyd gave me these beautiful roses last Wednesday after I'd had a long baaaaaad day....he thought I needed cheering up :) I didn't take this picture until yesterday so they are looking a little sad now but when they were fresh and new they were STUNNING. So gorgeous - thank you baby! They really made me smile Lloyd thank you!

Cool

I think its cool that I can sit in my bedroom window typing my blog and looking up at the international space station - it's so bright in the sky. I wonder what they're doing up there. What time zone are they on? Do they have their own 'space station' time or are they on our time?

Tuesday......

Sam had Pre-K, Abigail and I went swimming and for the first hour there were more lifeguards around the pool than there swimmers IN the pool :) it was wonderful! Last week the pool was crowded with school kids, today it was empty and we were able to enjoy the waves, the slides, the lazy river - and the hot tub :)

Tonight Susannah has dance class - the last rehearsal before she dances for the Mayor on Saturday at the Valentine Open House at Salisbury Greenhouses. She's very excited. Abigail isn't at her class tonight.

Lloyd and I plan to relax and watch Enchanted. Lloyds prepping some paperwork for taxes and I'm prepping some work for Abigail.

We picked the colour for the kitchen tonight.

I finished my whimsey jar - just waiting for it to dry before I photograph it and can't wait to show my 'muse' Stacey :) Yes, I have a 'whimsey muse'........the only thing I'm disappointed with is that I didn't paint high up the neck enough so when the lid is on you can still see clear glass - so I need to do 'something' about that (ie sneak back to Staceys and use some more of her turquoise paint lol).

Kitchen work continues...poor Denis..he came into the kitchen this morning as he could hear me yelling...he said 'Good morning' in his sing-song French accent and I started yelling at him! 'No it isn't! It ISN'T GOOD morning - it's just MORNING - there's no GOOD about it!!!' hahahaha! " I can't find anything in this stupid kitchen - I can find the coffee, but I can't find the stupid coffee filters, so you can only have instant coffee" and he laughed and said "we're here and we're alive so its a good morning" and then he said "It's my fault you can't find anything so I will have the instant because it's my fault" and then he laughed!

It's good that Denis knows I am not a morning person and he understands my sense of humour ;)

I eventually found the coffee filters in a completely separate cupboard from everything else!!! Why???? WHY???? Is Lloyd playing games with my mind????? hahahahaha ok this kitchen reno is going to drive me insane!!! The oven is like miles away from any counters and the sink has no counter to one side and it turns out the old dishwasher has been leaking underneath for two weeks since Lloyd tried to remove it! And we have everything we use crammed onto one tiny counter and what is left of the cupboard and the hamster...

The HAMSTER....I KNEW Lloyd would NOT look after that stupid hamster - I just KNEW I would end up looking after that bloody thing! Grrrrrrrrr ;) bloody cheesy is going to end up with all the other bloody cheesy's at the end of our driveway me thinks......

I love you Lloyd :)

Monday - a visit to Staceys.

Yesterday we went to Staceys house (Mollys People blog - link to right) for the afternoon. We had a great time - chatting, playing, drinking tea and painting whimsey jars! The children each painted one too - I will add the photographs of theirs later although I didn't take my camera to Staceys house and I wished I had afterwards!

When I got home from Staceys I found my kitchen GONE. All that is left is the small piece in the middle now. I will add the pictures to our home reno blog (link also to the right)

I spent the evening finishing more of my jar and making some ATC's. I received two in the mail yesterday - and Susie received a 'kids can make atc's too' swap in the mail yesterday too.

Oh and Stacey - Anaconda was on tv last now!!! too funny! I didn't see it but Sam and Lloyd watched some of it while I was in the shower ;)

Thinking of a friend...

My friends family have had some very sad and sudden news. The death of a young, beautiful lady. A Sister. A friend. A bride just two weeks ago. Someone full of life, taken far too soon. They are reeling from the shock. I can't imagine.

They are in my thoughts.
xxxx