Happy Birthday Auntie

Good evening fellow bloggers.  What a week.  Kids went back to school, I went back to work, only to find a big upset there. But that's for another time when I have  processed all the crap that has happened. 

Tonight we were off to a BBQ for my aunt.  She turns 70 this week.  It was a good evening despite the constant mist of rain. She had borrowed a big tent and had that for everyone to sit under.

Last night I whipped up this card for her. I colored it with Spectrum Noir markers.  It's going to take a lot of practice to learn how to use them.  If anyone knows of a good tutorial, please let me know.

CHALLENGES
Mojo Monday - #309
Sentimental Sundays - #170 happy birthday

enjoy your weekend

dee   

Having Fun With Mod Podge

Afternoon all my blogging friends.  Here I am on Sunday afternoon, starting my second week of holidays.  Last week was so much fun for us.  We took a four day family vacation to Ottawa.  What a great time we had.  So much walking.  There are so many sights to see, you just can't take them all in.  We did manage to see the Spark St, War Museum, Byward Market, Rideau Centre.  On our last day we had headed out to the Aviation Museum where there was a Star Wars Exhibition.  When we arrived we were parked way out in the overflow parking, and none of us wanted to fight large crowds.  So we opted for shopping at a costume store for Sam, and headed home.

Yesterday Randy and Sam were up at 5am to head off to Toronto for Fan Exbo.  Sam had a great time dispite the large crowds.  Meeting some of the cast from Walking Dead, and having her picture taken with Chewboca from Star Wars. While they were away Grant and I spent our day doing things he liked.  A walk around the local Farmers Market, where we didn't find anything of interest.  We then spent a couple hours at Scales Nature Park, looking a snakes, turtles, tortoise, lizards.  A trip to Michaels was my favorite.  Then off to Lost World Reptile to replace a rock we had purchased to Eunice that was too big.  We ended up coming home with a new gecko, a male that looked similar to the male we lost.  This little guy is nearly full grown and you can handle him, which gives Grant more incentive to handle Eunice.

 While I was browsing around Michaels I came across molds made by Mod Podge.  You use their glue sticks in any mini hot glue gun.  Wait 5 minutes and pop them out of the molds.  You can then paint them any way you want. 




I painted the flowers with acrylic paints, and the leaf with a sharpie marker. I even added a little jewel to one flower.  You can then use them as embellishments for your cards and scrapbook pages.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

  

Rock Necklace

Evening my fello bloggers. The count down is on. Six more sleeps and we are off on holidays. Kids are getting excited. 

My son is a rock phanatic. I find rocks everywhere. Every so often we have to go through the house and clear them out. Putting them back outside. Recently he found one he really liked and asked to make a necklace. Tonight we sat down and crafted a necklace for him. 

rock on

dee

Good evening everyone.  This is a quick post.  I'm quickly using the computer to scan my card before my daughter takes over for the evening.  Here we are on the down slide to the weekend.  And I'm counting down till holidays.  Seven more days of work, just over a week. And then it's relax time for two weeks.  So looking forward to it. 

CHALLENGE
jingle belles


happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Civic Long Weekend

Good morning everyone.  I'd like to wish all my Canadian bloggers a happy Civic Long Weekend.  I had to work yesterday but am off for Sunday and Monday.  Thinking not much is going to get done today.  Daughter wants to make a trip to McDonalds to use their Wi-Fi.  We have hit our limit at home.(that's one of the downfalls of living out of town.  Limited choices of internet providers.)  I have a lot of updates to do on my tablet too.

Looks like it's a work day for the boys.  To guys have shown up with chainsaws.  Apparently all the guys are back in the bush with chainsaws and wood chipper going.

Last night I was playing with my Basic Grey paper before I packed it up to get the next months out.  This is the little cutie I came up with.  It also fits a few challenges. It's been so long since I've done a challenge.  Feels good. 

CHALLENGES
Sketch Saturday-#270
Cute Card Thursday-Anything Goes
Simon Says-Anything Goes
Dutch Dare-#228-For a Child

keep relaxing

dee ;o)

I Did Something Crafty

Good morning everyone.  I have finally found the time to sit at my craft table and clear and organize it.  I managed to do something crafty at it too after my hard work.  Although it is from a kit.  I have one more card to make from the first month of my Basic Grey Card Kit.  I will be picking up the third package this week, so I had better get moving on these.

I can't believe that the kids summer vacation is half over.  We haven't done much so far this summer.  Although Sam and I have got her room painted.  Touch ups on it today where the taped peeled the paint off and then it's furniture shopping.  A few trips to the beach with the little guy.  And some relaxing time in the back yard.  I'm really enjoying reading outside in the peaceful surroundings.

Well off to through another load in the washer.  It's bedding day.  Unfortunately the weather is not co-operating today to hang it out on the line.

keep smiling

dee ;o) 

Beautiful Day

Evening everyone. This is our little piece of paridice. Today I enjoyed it quit a bit. We are on our fourth day of heat in the very high thirties. This little space in the back yard always has a breeze blowing through, so it was ideal in the heat today. I did a lot of reading there today. 

Tomorrow is back to work. Hoping for some rain to break the heat. It's pretty bad at work especially if you're doing the cooking. The blast of heat every time you open the oven door. But at least it's a short day. Then off to the doctors with the little guy to have his shoulder checked again. Hoping there has been some healing this time. 

stay cool

dee ;o)

Happy Lil Piggies

It all started at Easter. My daughter had a male guinea pig that is the sweetest cuddliest little thing. Hubbie showed interest in him, talking to him and feeding him treats. Just before Easter I was in the pet store and saw a cute little red and white guinea pig, with rosettes all over it. A male is what they told me it was. So I brought him home and put him in the cage with Kaz. They got along great. Then Jo started getting fatter, and fatter. They were then separated into their cage. Jo turned out to be a girl. Three weeks ago Jo had her babies. Four with three surviving. They are the cutest little things. The little guy has already picked his out, so I guess we're keeping one. Tonight we all sat on the floor and took all the babies and momma out to play. It was fun watching them run around, whistling.
The next adventure with them is a trip to the vets on Monday.

happy pets

dee ;o)

End of School

Evening everyone.  Here we are with the first day of the long weekend almost over.  Unfortunately I have to work the entire thing.  But maybe the next one. 

 

Here is the card I made for Grant's teacher.  Unfortunately she is leaving the school this year.  I am so glad that both kids were able to have her as a teacher. 

 

Poor Grant wasn't even able to spend the last day with her.  I sent him on the bus for the first time since his accident.  When he arrived at school I received a phone call saying he was sick and had to go home.  Poor little fellow ended up with the flu.  Passing it on to his dad the next day. Now Sam has a cold.  I'm sure that will go around the house.

 

Well recently we have become a very electronic family.  We've always had a couple PC's, a couple laptops, DS's, I-pods. The phones we had were just little flip phone that was only used for calls and the occasional text.  For Sam's graduation we wanted to get her a phone.  We ended up with all three of us getting Blackberry Z10.  That posed a problem when Grant went away for the weekend and we had no phone to send with him.(not sending a new smartphone to a cottage with a 12 year old) I ended up buying another flip phone for him to use.  Last week the Source had Kobo mini's on half price.  I already had one, but now the whole family has their own.  Yesterday Grant purchased the newest DS3D with his allowance money.  OMG, what did we do before all these electronics. 

 

keep smiling

 

dee ;o)  

happy graduate

Good afternoon everyone.  Well it's official.  My baby girl is a grade 8 graduate.  Seems like yesterday I was putting a small little girl onto the big school bus.  Where does the time go?  Well Tuesday was a long day.  Spending the afternoon at the spa/salon getting my little girl beautiful.  We started with her nails done in a very deep purple.  Then it was a little bit of make up.  (boy does she look grown up)  Then it was next door to the salon for her hair.  Lianne knows exactly what she likes, and did a great job on her hair.  There was so much hair spray it must have added 1/2 lb to her.  Her dress was ordered from the UK.  Since we couldn't find one she liked on our shopping excurtion.  Since she doesn't wear heels we settled on a pair of black leather flat boots.  With the whole outfit put together she was a stunner.  I can't believe how much she has grown up in the last year.
 

Introducing the Macaulay Graduating Class of 2013.

happy Canada Day/4 of July to everyone

 

dee ;o)