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Christmas of 2012
Hello everyone! I hope you had a Merry Christmas. We had ourselves a wonderful time during the Christmas season. It was Christmas with my side of the family this year. Mom and Dad were here as well as my sister and her entire family for a grand total of 22. Even Seth was here after being gone to Manitoba for over a month commercial ice fishing. It’s a family joke, Seth’s rather non-talkative nature. So, Serenity drew this image before ironing it onto a shirt for Seth. On Oscar the Gouch’s trash can it say’s, “You talkin’ to me?” Christmas Eve we had an informal Asian meal. We sang some hymns, played some games and watched…
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Make Your Own Magnetic Chalkboard
I am so excited to share this project that I did this past week. There are times when I actually am successful at a craft project and my expectations and reality are one and the same. It actually kind of shocks me when that happens. 🙂 In our stairwell, which leads downstairs to our guest quarters, I wanted to put up a collage of frames displaying pictures of family and friends. As I started to think about it, I realized I would always have the same pictures in the frames and what I really wanted was to change it up every now and again. So I thought about making…
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These Hands
As I was snapping a few pictures at Thanksgiving, I did a close-up of mom and dad carving the turkey. I’ve learned that you never know what pictures will be the ones you end up loving. Mom said, “What can you do with a picture like that?” I gave her a few reasons – such as I might want to make a post on my blog about “These Hands”. So here it is mom. These hands held me in the first few minutes of life. I’m sure they touched my ears, my nose, my little feet and yes, even my little hands as they marveled at the miracle of…
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A Christmas Vignette using Natural Materials and White Elements
I’m joining up with Rhoda at Southern Hospitality with a Christmas vignette. The other day you got a sneak peak when I showed you my candles covered with music. My inspiration for my Christmas vignette came from wanting to use natural materials and white elements. Here’s how I did it after playing around with the whole thing for a while. I started with laying a piece of folded burlap and then placed little white lights underneath the fabric. Then I just started adding things I had on hand. These little elephants are from a trip my husband took to Africa before we were married. The smallest white one is…
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Minnowing in Canada – What? You Didn’t Know That was a Word? Cross My Fingers – it Really is!
I really should have made this post several months ago, but well, here it is now. Seth flew to Manitoba this past summer to minnow with his cousin, Nathan. Nathan lives the life my son dreams of, hunting, trapping as well as doing guided hunts. Now Nathan has a new venture of minnowing which is simply catching minnows and shipping them off to be sold in stores. You may think this doesn’t sound like much of a job but if I told you they were catching approximately 70,000 minnows a day, it might change your perspective. In much te same way that salmon do their run at a certain time of…
