With our love, we could save the world. --George Harrison

Good Morning!

The world didn't end.....my cousin in Austrailia told us it was 'business as usual', as she left us hanging cause she was having a massage! haha

We had a wonderful, cold Christmas!
Would have been better if Kalen was here, but he did call from the ship, and everyone talked to him!

I was spoiled, as usual!
Gotta tell ya the highlights!
I got a $1,000.00 travel vouchure from  my bosses!
When I thanked them for it, I told them it was right up there with the tickets the kids got me to go see Emerson Drive, Doc Walker & Aaron Pritchett!!!!!

I worked Thursday & Friday, and will work Monday!

My mom had called Sunday, and asked about brining the turkey;.......get on the internet & look it up, and call me back....hahahaha!
So I did, we did,

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/turkey-brine/

http://savorysweetlife.com/2010/11/how-to-brine-a-turkey/

turned out great; don't put the stuffing in it, the gravy was awesome!
Didn't have to add anything!
I just used what was in my pantry, and I'd do it again!

Had trifle for dessert!

We ate too much, laughed too hard, played games, and the kids even took out the skidoos Christmas Day, in -30 something with the windchill!
Ya know you're from Canada when...............

 

They got all dressed up, and we asked if they went to the bathroom!

My gf was here, and she said kids should be sent out on the step, before you get them all dressed up, cause when that cold air hits them........................

She's the same gf who said, "You've got Christmas everywhere, and no tree!"

See, no one really missed it!

And one less headache and stresser for me!

(Hahahaha that rhymes!)

 

Vanessa was babysitting her cousins dog over Christmas, her name is Reese!

She didn't stay long when wanting out!

Someone had to dress up and go with her, or she wouldn't get off the step!

I. KNOW!

A dog in the house; she was no trouble!

 

 

Here's Buster at work, knawing on road kill!

I told B there was half a dinosaur out my office window!

Ya know yur a redneck when you give your pet half the animal for a bone!

 

 

Shadow's been loving her heated dog bed already this year I can tell you!

Last year she slept outside, cause it was too warm for her!

 

It's on the upward swing, days getting longer!

I see this morning it's only -6!

OMG, it'll feel tropical out compared to what we've had!

I better go, get ready to go to town.

I'm delivering AVON, and looking after houses for 2 gf's!

Ya, I know!

What was I thinkin!

I hate intensly dislike going to town, on weekends & holidays, unless I'm going to something!

I'll get over it!

 

Ray hurt his back; thinks he's 20;

 pulled something putting a humongous log in the wood furnace!

Yeah, I know you're thinking 'how convenient';

but he really did, he's got drugs & everything!

 

My mission today is to pull some snow off the roof!

(Which was Rays' mission, until he screwed that up!)

We have a handy dandy thing called a 'roof rake'!

It's awesome, as long as the snow is not packed!

 

Anyhoo, I made a card for my gfs stepdad who had a heart attack just before Christmas:

 

 

 

He's a John Deere man!

Farmed forever, still has a tractor or 2!

Hence the John Deere green!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
Thanks to my blog friends that sent me cards & stuff! You know who you are!
I appreciate it!

Happy New Year everyone......just in case I don't get on here again before then!
Hope you're all well!
Ta ta for now!

Live Like There's No Midnight - Cinderella

Seriously!
Where does the time go!?
I've got picture overload for you here tonight!

Last Friday was the Open House/Silent Auction at the library.
I took these cupcakes; which were a big hit with the kids!

 

I ran out of icing sugar, so took a tier off my cupcake holder thingy!

The bats & pumpkins were edible, can you say SUGAR; the eyes & eyebrows were not,

but I thought they looked cool!

I also took the famous Pepper Jelly Tarts, and if I had a minute I'd find you that recipe,

cause I know it's on the blog already!

 

I know where the saying "Deer in the headlights look" came from!

This little feller was on the road one morning.

We were both stopped for a while, cause the snow's deep,

and he didn't know what he wanted to do!

 

This was the moon coming up one night, maybe the night I went to 'Card Camp'.

Of course these pictures won't be in cronological order....HA!

 

This is how cold it was Halloween morning going to work!

Of course the vehicle thermometer hit -31 in my travels!

Crazy hey!?

It was OCTOBER!!!!

 

One of our guys wives sent this to the office on Halloween!

She must have been up all night!

 

These are the trees to the west of the office!

They look like they all have skirts on!

 

Today I got Happy Mail!!!

I won this on Americas blog last month!

Check her out....she does awesome stuff!

 

I can't wait to play!

These next pictures are from Card Camp earlier this week!

I'm such a good friend, I told her I'd be the sixth person if she needed me!

Need I say more..........

I didn't take pictures of all of them either!

 

We made 6 simple cards.........

Those are tags, we just stamped a greeting, used some DP & ribbon......

easy peasy!

 

I think we made 6 of these; we used stickers, and DP.

 

 

And we made 8 tags, well, I'm using them for tags!

They're little 3 X 3's!

 

Also in the mail today I got the project I'm making for my bosses baby they had in August!

I know, bad Gail, but hey......I knew what I wanted!

It has to be done by December 1st, so I'd better get busy......

Yes, I'll take pictures when I'm done!

 

Better go!

Hopefully I'll talk to you again before I go visit Kalen next week!

I leave Thursday!

 

Hope you're all well!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.- Thomas Edison

Because I can't get everything done I want (even though sometimes I'm up at an unGodly hour) in a day, I'm going to be the first to sign Barbara's petition!

This week, I've had appointments, fed cats for a friend that was out of town, had dinner with the gf's, stamp club, and an evil headache, that lasted waaaay too long!

I have fed our cats, the birds, the dog, did what I had to for housework, dragged the BBQ cover back from the next county........twice;
looked for the flag, I think it's south of the border; it's attached to part of the pole, so please send it back when it flies into your yard!
I've grocery shopped, picked up water (which is still in the van), sorted & delivered AVON, dropped everything to listen to the new Activity Co-ordinator at the OFH vent.......twice; had coffee with a friend, and a beer with another!
I've also managed to play my turns in Words With Friends on Facebook...it's like Scrabble!
Found an awesome site to help out for the days I'm having a brain freeze!
I'd share it with you, but I might loose my edge! hahahahahaha!


I'm still working on my crap craft room (it's getting there)!
I finished (finally) my House Mouse card (previous post), and 2 Easter cards!
I have scored and cut out some little treat bags we made at stamp club!
The kids will be home for Easter!

I'm going to get another coffee, then I'll show you the cards we made this week.
Here you go!

This is the cute little bag/box thingy!

It can hold hot chocolate, a chocolate bar...whatever you want really!

Here's a side view...yup, our stamp lady supplies the goodies!

It's actually called a Cookie & Tea Bag holder! I just looked!

Made with double sided paper!

This was how cold it was on Monday morning on my way to work!

It went from -28 to +10 and windy yesterday!

Didn't Jeff Foxworthy say:

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Alberta.

Today; if nothing pressing comes up, I plan on working on my stampscape, for Craft a Scene.
AND if there are not hurricane force winds outside, I want to sort the bottles!
I'll be making a trip to Michaels when I take the O/S to the plane next month!
There's good money in recycling bottles these days folks!

Maybe make some cookies or muffins for my lunch!
That's on top of the usual laundry, cleaning, etc!!

Gotta go, it's getting light out already............ BIG SMILE! :)
Talk to ya later!
Ta ta for now!

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.--Lily Tomlin

I'm home alone!
Ray left for work about 20 minutes ago!
They're behind, so are hauling Saturdays.

It's been a frosty week!

Monday:

Tuesday:

Then it warmed up a tad; but don't forget, it's like minus 40 something because of the darn windchill!

Had to put my coat together, and it weighs 30 lbs.!

It's warmed up this morning, but is snowing!

And that's ok, cause there's no wind!

Had stamp club this week!

We made:

Isn't that pretty!?

And this:

Just so ya know, we're think aheaders; there's a circle with 'girl' stamped on it, under the 'boy' that's held with that little library clip!

Then I had homework, cause this was supposed to be a Thank You card.

And I wanted it for St. Patrick's Day for my mom!

And this:

I made into a Mother's Day card, cause my Valentine cards are done!

Our stamp lady will drop everything to go find you the stamp you need, but I find the class goes quicker & smoother if I decide what I'm doing and bring it home to stamp!

I also made a few cards for the stash for Lynnette for SAS4K's (Canada).

I found these little cuties printed out in my stash:

I was hoping you could see how sparkly they were!

One of my recent purchases from Michaels included a package of multi colored MS glitter flocking; I used it with a glue pen on the hat band & the boa!

I also took my glue pen and put some glitter on the shoe and the heart on her little compact!

The flocking was fun to use, and not nearly as messy as I thought it would be!

I plugged the treadmill in after Christmas.

Ok, I didn't just plug it in, I've been using it, and I actually think I'll get on it when I'm done here!

I've got an audio book I'm listening to, and the chapters are 25-40 minutes, which is perfect!

I was going to fold that sucker up, but last year was the moose preventing me from walking outside; this year it's the ice!

I'm also going to get my package together this weekend for Bryan & Lacey for January!

I'm making mixes for lattes, hot chocolate, etc. and I'm going to make some Peach Liqueur!

I made different liqueurs one summer and V told everyone 'My mom's turning into an alcoholic!'

I told her I was just making it!

YOI!

Have a great weekend everyone & stay warm!

Gotta rescue the laundry!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!