Painted postcard!

This isn't for a swap - I was just in the mood to continue painting and stamping while we watched The Golden Compass yesterday....so I painted on one of my watercolour cardstock postcards I have in my writing desk. This time I stamped on two bees and the word 'bloom'.....

'Bloom' ATC's...

These two atc's are painted on watercolour paper using watercolour paints, brushes and then stamped and then I used watercolour pencils to colour in the flower and then brushes on top.

The swap is a 'painted atc' swap at swapbot and the picture can be of anything so long as the atc is painted.

Glass painting...

A Spruce Tree I painted yesterday using my glass painting kit I've had for like...FOREVER!!! :) I bought it in the sale at Michaels after Christmas last year! I didn't want to make this look too much like a Christmas tree - I just wanted it to look like a Spruce Tree so that it could be out at any time of year.

'Fairies Rest' ATC....

This is the ATC that I made for the 'Mushroom/ Toadstool' swap I am in at swapbot.

I surrendered!!!

After watching the trailer to the new movie that is due to be released in November....and hearing endlessly how FANTASTIC these books are, I finally surrendered and snatched up a copy in Chapters this morning! I started reading it while Lloyd was in the Liquor store getting some bottles of wine and have to say I'm enjoying every page so far :)

Christopher is horrified that his Mother is reading this series. Laurence is thrilled because his teacher also raves about them! Lloyd thinks its cool that I'm excited to go see a vampire movie (not normally my thing!) So all in all this is a very good thing :)

You can see the trailer yourself at: www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_movie.html

Sunday morning...

I'm sat in bed......Lloyd is in the shower and Sam is in the bathroom playing with lloyds watch and glasses trying to make me laugh :) The Grand Prix from Japan is on the tv (boring).......I've been curled up reading (A Complicated Kindness) and then logged on to see what was happening in the world around me online....

Yesterday I was still feeling crappy - today I feel much better apart from this horrible cough :(

I was in bed much of yesterday and then the latter part I spent crafting....I did some glass painting and then painted a watercolour postcard and then some watercolour ATC's for a painted ATC swap I'm in...then I painted and stamped another ATC for a mushroom/ toadstool ATC swap I'm in!!!! I brought some of my supplies upstairs and I painted at my writing table in my bedroom window - it was lovely watching the sunset as I painted!

Then we got into bed and watched No Country For Old Men - OMG what an odd movie!!!!! Really slow start!!! More violent than Gangs of New York!! Odd ending. Odd movie. Lloyd thought it was brilliant. I didn't think it deserved all the awards it got. I didn't think the acting was that good. Thats just my opinion though. And I like movies with decent endings.

So Lloyd is out of the shower and dressed - as is Sam...they are heading out to the workshop to put some wood in the woodburning fire for Charlie....let the dogs out and stuff......I guess that means it's time for me to get up. Lloyd and I are heading into town for coffee...to get some fresh vegetables for dinner tomorrow...(Thanksgiving day) and a few big plastic tubs I need for storing things from the kitchen - I have to empty everything from the kitchen by next week so I need to get packing - I've emptied most of the cupboards already but I still have about 4 to do so I need boxes!

The time has also come to get the winter clothing out of storage - so thats another job for today!

I will photograph my crafts later and add the pictures.

Tess have a safe drive back from BC!!!

For K - Vals Daughter!!!!!!

the-jonesfam.blogspot.com/2008/04/national-high-five-day.html

Saw this and thought of you!!!! ;)

The picture made me LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!!! And NO I would NOT high five THAT hand ;) Would you???????????? ;)

No!!!!!!

It's snowing :(

Magic.....

Lloyd...this songs for you :)

Every time I hear it I think of you :)

Grayson! Did you fart?

Frozen...

We had to smash the ice on Charlies big water bowl this morning and on the dogs water bowls too...not much longer and the dogs will have to come inside for Winter. It will have to wait until later to fill them with fresh water because the hoses are frozen!!! Two more weeks and the bees will get moved in for winter. Charlie already has her light on at night now and the cats come into the mudroom at night now anyway. Jasper seems to be in the house a lot already - he's such a skinny thing under his fur coat anyway - he eats a lot but he's still so skinny. Luckily he gets on with Grayson now so they can share the mudroom all winter at night - during the day they otter about together.

Its supposed to be warmer again Sunday and Monday thankfully - this cold snap isn't very nice! Makes me sure I want to move South! Especially at the end of a week when we've been sick. I don't mind Fall temperatures but I don't like COLD - not for months and months :(

Baking cookies

Sam baked cookies today....chocolate chunk cookies.....Mmmmmmmmm!!! Nice and warm and yummy on a cold, cold day!

My Friday ramblings...

Sat in bed waiting for Angus to do his financial report on Global breakfast news. (I kind of wish I had studied economics - I am LOVING watching the economy change around the world. This and the American election are my main interests at present. Is anyone else paying particular attention to them? I find it fascinating and watch Anderson Cooper nightly on CNN and Angus on Global every morning and check the markets regularly on various channels. We still have an interest in living in the US but our business will remain in Canada, and our final decision will depend on the economy.....so we watch things carefully. Or rather I do - and I feed it all back to Lloyd. We also have an account in the UK so we have to watch things there too to know when to bring funds over from there because banks keep closing and collapsing over there too :( But all in all its VERY interesting! My friend in the UK, Lorraine, used to be a stockbroker before she had children, and her stories used to be fascinating. I wish I knew more about it and REALLY understood it well. I grasp some of it and can follow along with most of what they say now but ....and I think Henry Paulson should have been shot months ago.....why was his resignation not called for months ago??????????? But I wish I understood more detailed information. Maybe I need a Dummies guide....

The Presidential Debate I enjoyed - I think the Canadian leaders debates are USELESS - all they do is bicker and try and pick fights with Harper - it's pathetic - they don't debate ISSUES!!! But in the US they DO debate issues...even if they don't answer them in detail all the time, they do answer questions - even if they are a bit too 'nice' about it.....I have no interest in the Canadian election - I don't even think there should be an election here - I think its a really bad time to be considering a change in leadership here- not that I think Harper is a great leader - just that I think with the economy the way it is, we should leave things as they are until at LEAST next Summer. See where we are then. Consider an election NEXT Fall. It makes no sense to me to have an election now in the midst of all this messy economy. What we need is stability - not change. We need the country to stick together and stay balanced and focused.

Sam is curled up beside me watching too. I have the laptop balanced on my knees but the battery is getting low (Lloyd you didn't charge it over night!!!)

I'm supposed to get up early and head in to Costco to pick up pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. Theirs are my favourite.

I waved Abby off to school a little while ago - watched her walk down the driveway with Susie and Laurie and now we won't see her until tomorrow! She will go home on the bus to her friends house for a Hannah Montana birthday sleepover party!! Lloyd tucked her into bed last night and was sad he wouldn't see his little girl until Saturday! Abby was very excited though!!

Ok can't think of anything else to say apart from the fact that its Friday YAY and its a three day weekend YAY- have a good one everyone!!! And Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Sunday drive.....

Harley Davidson - now Harley!

I keep forgetting to post about Harley! I always think that because I can read about it on Vals blog, that EVERYONE knows about it all! Everyone has seen the news and seen the pictures and is up to date on it all! I forget that you all don't know!

Sorry!

So, here is the update! We had two pigs! We got Harley Davidson as a companion for Charlie, thinking they would be good company through the long lonely winter. WRONG! Charlie's leg started to hurt her again and Davidson started to take advantage and started to bite Charlie - drawing blood and actually scarring Charlie quite badly! Charlie became withdrawn and depressed and refused to move for days. We ended up having to separate them totally. Davidson had to go in with the dogs while Charlie healed. The vet came out to see Charlie and even she had no ideas as to what to do differently than what we had tried.

Charlie really was quite depressed.

Anyway, thankfully, Val and her family were more than happy to have Davidson (who they now call Harley) join their family. So several weeks ago, off Harley went to live at the 7Jays ranch where he is totally spoiled and pampered and is loving it :)

Its great that he is somewhere where we still get to see him often! And its funny to see that he has settled in and is doing things in much the same way as Charlie does here - pigs are quite habitual!

And since Harley left, Charlie is a MUCH happier pig all together! No more depression, she is back to roaming around the place again and being her old bossy self!

So much for trying to help her by getting her a companion for the winter - she will just have to make do with the cats going into the workshop to snuggle by the fire (Lloyd bought her a wood burning fireplace to keep her warm this winter!!)

Ok so now I have updated and Val and James can stop complaining that 'their pig' is still on MY blog hahahahahaha ;)