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Friday 22 November 2013

The Big 4-0

This past year has been a year of change. A year of discovery, a year of growth a year of blessings. We took a trip of a life time (Hawaii), we learned things about our family we were missing in daily life, we practiced setting boundaries and protecting ourselves and I entered a new decade in life. Why not? Might as well join the big 4-0 crowd.
My husband started planning at least 6 months in advance. He booked one of our favourite spots, a picnic site down by the Bow River just west of the city.
We had lunch with family,



















An afternoon of hanging out,













and potluck supper with friends. An all day birthday party - so cool!

After supper the boys built a massive campfire. We had smores as well as smorfs - same as smores except using fudgeos. So Delish...

Suddenly the storm rolled in. All the Calgarians saw it coming and ran to pack up, collecting items befrore the wind took them away. Summer storms in Calgary can come on very suddenly - intense but often not lasting too long. We raced to bring in the vehicles, loaded up and just like that were ready to head out. What a great day. All of my family planned the day into their summer vacation plans - I was so blessed that day. Although the time was short I appreciated everyone coming for my day - the big 4-0. 

Saturday 16 November 2013

Baby Blankets

All of these come with coordinating little toques.
Double sided reversible receiving blanket - pink
Double sided reversible receiving blanket - green
SOLD - at the Bowness Christmas Craft Fair

Baby quilt - Garden

Baby quilt - Puppy Love
Baby set - quilt, bibs and burp cloths

Baby quilt - Jungle Babies
SOLD - at the Bowness Christmas Craft Fair


Baby Clothes

I like to use up my leftover material to make clothes for the little ones. I thought since I have several different knits from when the kids were little I could make leggings and matching tops. Of course, each piece needs a signature of some kind - this one comes with a cute little yo-yo button on the top.

This set comes with a coordinating little toque.

This was made a while ago, and does not have a specific signature piece. I believe I gifted this to a young man born last year.

Christmas Projects

I finally finished the Christmas Chevron quilt. I decided to leave it with only the five rows of prints, and added a coloufull binding to pull it all together.



 Finally finished the set of two table mats.

And my set of 10... I had completed tmost of this about a year ago, but just recently added the table runner. I think its my favourite in this set.
SOLD at the Bowness Christmas Craft Fair


Art Show

Tomorrow is the big art show for the Grasby Art Studio. Amy has been a student of Teresa Grasby for just over a year now and has learned so much about painting, and art in general. This time she is putting 23 items into the art show. Rob, Amy and Sam are out there tonight helping load grid wall and art pieces into the trailer and trucks to haul to the Scout Hall for set up. It will be a long night for Teresa and a busy day tomorrow with lots of art, musicians, live demo and hopefully several buyers.

Most of Amy's entries are displayed in the Paintings page. We played around a little with the copiers at Staples, and were able to make a few fairly decent prints from some of her sketches. So Amy is entering several greeting cards made from prints. Whether its the lighting or my own editing, we still need to improve our photography of the original paintings, as the colours seem a little off in the print making process.

It's a toss up, selling prints for less or the originals. Hoping she manages a few sales tomorrow.

Shows and Sales

A while ago, it was posted that the communtiy was looking for a few volunteers to help organize the local Christmas Craft Fair. I thought, since I'm now retired from running the soccer club, surely I have time to help with this community event, so I joined. While I was attending meetings helping drum out the details I thought it would be a great idea if Amy and I rented a table to display our "crafts". Quilts for me and paintings for Amy. And so began a flurry of gathering items and getting them sale worthy for the big day. Last Saturday I loaded the car with quilts, paintings, and my wonderful friend and neighbour - partner in crime, Roberta. We headed the three blocks over to the community centre to set up our display.
You don't realize how much stuff you brought, until you lay it all out. Since you hope to sell a few items, you don't want your table to look too sparse right away. Amy did some demo sketching, and although it did not draw a huge crowd, there were a few people who came around to look at her stuff - and came back again... Most were not in the market for her level of work, but were very encouraging towards her.

At the end of the day, she did sell one sketch and I sold four quilts - one Christmas table set and three baby quilts with coordinating toques.