Our New Addition!

Please meet Maya!  She is a purebred Siberian Husky who was born on April 21st!  We picked her up on Friday and love her to pieces already!!!

Ten on Tuesday

I can't believe I haven't done Ten on Tuesday in a month.......

10 Books You Would Recommend to a Friend is the Ten on Tuesday Subject today!

1. Sacajawea written by Anna L. Waldo  I remember my mom reading this when I was young and it took me until last summer to pick it up and read it.  It took all summer too!
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini This was a great read! 
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Another great one
4. All 3 of Stieg Larssen's books.
5. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
6. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
7. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
8. Anything by Jodi Picoult
9. Nora Roberts books are almost always a great read
10. Janet Evanovich is an awesome writer.  I've actually laughed out loud at some of her books
11. Sean Costello is a local author as well as an Anesthesiologist at our local hospital (in fact he put me to sleep 3 weeks ago!)

Wow!  I managed to get it done!!!



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Weekend Adventure

Back to the land of Blogging!! My hand is just about healed and aside from not having full strength in it I can pretty much be back to normal again!!

Here in photos is the adventure the girls had on the weekend.

Hubby was working all weekend, so I packed up Jo and a friend and off we went to camp.  Friday night one of the campers found one baby raccoon all alone and she took it off to the wildlife refuge.  The kids thought it was pretty cute.  Saturday night the kids found 3 more.  We told them to leave them alone until morning and if they were still alone we would take them in as well.  By morning they had crawled to a nearby fire pit for the warmth and all 3 became residents in my trailer in a box until we could get them taken in.  Jo and her Aunt fed them bananas and water and we kept them warm.  All the kids had a grand time making collars for them (which we kept) and all 3 had names.  If only we could have brought them home!  It was a great experience for all of them and I have to admit, I thought it was kinda cool too!

I want to blog..........

However, Carpal Tunnel Surgery on my left hand is making life difficult.  I am scheduled to get the brace and stitches out next Tuesday, so hopefully I will be back in the swing if things then!!

I was featured!!!!

I'm so excited!!!!  This post was featured!!

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GIVEAWAY!!!!

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GIVEAWAY!!!!

Go and check this out!!!
I am thinking of the appliques I could do with this and the funky glass tile jewelery I could make!!
WOW

Burton Cummings

Tonight is the night!  We are going to see Burton Cummings live!!
I can remember being in the 5th or 6th grade and listening to this song over and over...

Another favourite is

We went and saw him last time he was here with Randy Bachman.  He puts on an amazing show and I am really excited!!!!!  My mother is so excited about going that she near peed her pants when my sister told her that she had an extra ticket!!!! It should prove to be a great night and I likely won't have a voice tomorrow from singing along!!!

His stage show is amazing........

Wee Bit of Wednesday

{one} do you watch the history channel? if so, what’s your favorite program?

I do watch it. No big favorites but do like Pawn Stars and other programs like that.

{two} what is your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?

Snooze,be lazy

{three} what does your dream house look like?

It's on the beach with a wrap around veranda. The house has a kitchen in the middle and every room is off the kitchen. I should scan the plans sometime!

{four} what state were you born in?

Province....LOL Ontario

{five} do you have a change jar? if so, what do you use it for when it gets full?

Girls weekends

{six} what’s the first website you look at when you get on the computer?

Facebook, followed by my email

{seven} what is your favorite breakfast?

Cold pizza

{eight} what’s the most memorable trip you’ve ever taken?

Cancun 2003

{nine} do you prefer your coffee black or with cream/milk/sugar?

I don't drink coffee

{ten} have you ever done a professional photo shoot?

Does the Sears Portrait Studio count?

Almost Free Homemade Light Box

I want to start listing my jewelry on Etsy and needed a light box to take pictures that show the proper colors, have no shadows and look nice.  I sent hubby to the garage last week and with left over plywood, an electric stapler, some drapery lining and white fabric that I paid pennies for and some left over ceiling paint this is what he cane up with

I used some cheap Ikea lights today to try it out.  I used both my DSLR and my P&S with the macro setting and it's going to take some practice, but here are some of the pictures I took this morning.

Happiness is.........

Having your eyeball licked by your 7 year old!

Photo taken Easter Weekend @ camp!

Ten on Tuesday

The topic for Ten on Tuesday today is 10 Favorite Things to do Outside.

1. Sit and Relax.  There is nothing better than sitting in the warm sun doing nothing.
2. Take pictures.  Much more fun in the summer than in the winter.  They both offer different photo opportunities.
3. Knit.  Small projects that knit up quick are great.  Mittens, hats, dishcloths
4. Quilt.  I am working on a baby quilt right now and when it's not too warm the sun provides great light to see what I am doing
5. Bead.  I grab my supplies and a small table and create jewelry while sitting outside
6. Eat.  Nothing better than a meal served off the BBQ and straight to the patio table
7. Sit around a campfire.  'Nuff said
8. Read.  I love to sit and read in the sun
9. Visit.  Get out the patio chairs, grab a beverage and catch up with friends
10. Spend time at camp.  This is my favorite thing to do and all of the above get done at camp!

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Organized Chaos Home Depot Give Away!

I've started following My Organized Chaos.  It is a great blog with lots of great information and tons of give aways and reviews.

Right now Tammi is doing a Home Depot Give Away and it's a good one.  There is a basket of gardening goodies from Martha Stewart and a gift card too.  I have the money spent already and I haven't won yet!!

So far I want this!  Wouldn't that look awesome on the deck at camp???

This would be even better inside our trailer!

This chair would replace the couch below!

Since we bought this trailer in 2008 this couch has been slept on once and only sat on a few times.  I want hubby to take the couch out and in it's place I will put the chair and a small table so that I can sit comfortably and quilt, knit, bead...and watch TV.  It is very straight backed and not for comfortable at all!
The camping season officially starts this weekend although we have started already!!! I can't wait!!

PS The giveaway is open to Canadian Readers only..

Photo Post

It has been forever since I have actually take out my camera.  I have now found my little Point and Shoot with my favorite macro setting and set out in the yard the other day and took some spring pictures.  Things are finally starting to bloom around here!!!!