November 15, 2010

The house is slowing getting closer to ready for the construction crew to come and build. Just not quite sure if this is an indoor swimming pool? It was a bit of a problem getting the sump hole dug because the water kept filling the hole before we got a few shovels full of dirt out. That was some tough digging.

The garage floor is done too. It will sure feel good to have an attached garage on the house. To not have to walk outside to unload groceries will be a new thing for me. But I am sure looking forward to it.

The New House!

Well, I guess it's not a new HOUSE yet, but it is the beginning of it.

The basement was dug on October 25th, 2010. I had to drive past on my way to work that morning just to see if they were working there already. My stomach did a little flip just to think that this was really happening...this is really our basement that was being dug.

These pictures are all not in the right order, but I'm sure you can figure out which way they go.

The move to Chris and Joel's basement happened quite smoothly, other than that it was an AWFUL lot of work. But I guess after living in the same house for just over 25 years, what can we expect?



We are all settled in now and waiting for the house to be roughed up, which is supposed to start happening at the beginning of next week, MAYBE at the end of this week. I can hardly wait to see the actual house taking shape.

I'll try to keep posting pictures for those of you that are interested in the progress.

An exciting day

I got to meet Alan Jackson this past Saturday at one of his concerts! I was so nervous and excited to finally get to meet my favorite singer of all time. It still hardly seems real, I'm just glad that I have a picture of us together as proof that it happened.

I started drawing this picture of him and his wife a few years ago and finally finished drawing it a few days before the concert.

We had to drive 6 hours to the concert but it sure was worth it. He put on a great concert again. The opening act was George Canyon, who was also good, but I didn't notice much of his part. It was before I got to meet AJ and my mind was on that.

Busy day

Wow, it's been a busy day for me. Lots of baking, a wedding reception and cooking soup. I think I have almost all my Christmas baking done, although I will probably think of something else that I really want to make. I don't know who will eat everything, but I'm sure there'll be takers. I have made a goody tray for friends from Winnipegfor many years so I'll do that again this year. These are a few of the things that I made today. White Chocolate Bark, Oreo cookies, Peppermint meltaways and Monster cookies. I also made Coconut Bars but haven't dipped them in chocolate yet.

My shopping is as good as done!!!! And I feel great about that! The malls and stores these days drive me crazy. I even have all the stocking stuffers done. Just a few more groceries a day or so before Christmas and I'm good.

Hmmmm, what to have for CHristmas dinner? I bought a Butterball turkey so that's one thing. Mashed potatoes, stuffing and another kind of meat???? I'm leaning towards meatballs. I have to work Christmas eve till 4:00 and then the Christmas program in the evening, so that doesn't give me a lot of time to get anything ready. What kind of dessert is good? Maybe a trifle? I will have to think about this.

Open House on October 31!

The Open House is happening tomorrow at the Winkler Library Meeting room. It starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. Of, course, if you come earlier the selection of my used stamp sets will be a lot better. I have about 40 sets to sell, as well as a lot of paper. There will also be Door Prizes, so come and join the fun. And of course, food to snack on while you look around.

Close To My Heart is having a huge Stamp sale in November as well, buy two, get one free. This sale will be on at the Open House, as I will be placing the order in November!

This Open House is a Fundraiser for Operation Smile - an organization of volunteer medical personnel that go around the globe fixing children's cleft lip and cleft pallette. I have a personal interest in this organization, my cousin has gone on many a mission trip with them. I will hopefully be showing videos of this at the Open House.

I hope each one of you can make it out and bring a friend or two!

Hoping to see you there.

I am getting ready for an Open House for October 31 (Halloween) at the Winkler Library Meeting Room. One display that I'll have is for a Christmas Card Workshop. These are the five different cards we'll be making, two of each for a total of ten cards. I'm not sure when I'll have the workshop, hopefully beginning to middle of November. The cards all use the new Jingle paper. On this card, I used the Martha Stewart leaf punch.

All the cards use the CTMH stamp set Holiday Trinkets. It is a beautiful set.

The colors for the cards are Juniper and Tulip.

I will have quite a few door prizes at the Open House. I made two boxes of tags for prizes. Each box contains 48 tags to use or your CHristmas gifts.

My Cricut was very busy cutting all the scalloped circles. It did a great job though!

The two boxes have four diferent kinds of tags. Each box has different ones. I can't decide which are my favorite, but I sure had fun making all of them.

I put some plastic covers on the boxes and wrapped them up pretty with a gold ribbon. I hope whoever gets these, will love using them.

More details about my Open House will follow in a while. I hope all of you will be able to attend.

See you soon!

Missing.....

I have been missing from this blog for far too long. I realize that the summer has just passed me by hardly without me realizing it. The weather is still beautiful here. No frost yet, which is a good thing, as I have only picked about a dozen tomatoes so far.





I really want to keep my blog more up to date with my Close to my Heart stuff. Now that winter is near, I hope to have more time to do some workshops again. I will keep you updated with my plans.

James and I had a big project this summer. We decorated a wedding cake for my cousin's daughter. It was a lot more work than I had expected , not so much the decorating but the baking. It was a huge cake, probably stood about 3 feet tall.

I hope to be back soon with some pictures of my scrapbooking and cards that I have made.

Happy Fall!