Bits and Pieces...

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We spent the better part of Sunday and Monday preparing for the first day of school. We are back to menu planning, a chore list, and baking for school lunches. The girls and I baked their favourite strawberry muffins together. We also baked some cranberry muffins and banana bread. I think it's looking a little more positive as far as the school goes this year. I lost a little faith in it last year so it will take some time I think, I have my mind opened.

We are also looking at another exciting year in dance. Chastity and Emma are each in 12 classes and Mikhail has his very own class this year too! We went to the dance store to get him his first pair of dance shoes and he packed those around for the rest of the day. :) I'm thinking about another adult class for myself as well. We'll see though because my physiotherapist wants me to take water exercises to help build strength, I really want to do both, just don't want to push it.


We found another tree frog in our yard. We see them hanging out here every year. The kids love them :) Isn't it cute?? :)

It seems like every year the leaves start to turn colour a week earlier than the last. This year it was the middle of August! Mikhail and I decided to make pretty leaf rubbing pictures using crayons. Look at him concentrate :)

Here's my layout for Lotus Paperie. This week we are challenged to cut the pattern out of pattern paper and use them as embellishments.

You know the veggi garden is coming close to the end when your pumpkins are getting pretty big and your beans turn to seed. It was a good year. We ended up with about 3 cups of seeds from the beans!! Gonna save them for next year. :)

Here are a few seeds...

Remember the mini album I talked about? Well this is how it started...

And here's how it looked when I was done...

I took four sheets of tissue paper that had been wrinkled up and sort of modge podged them in layers on the covers. Then I sprayed the edges of the covers with a mixture of blue dye, water and blue perfect pearls. I then took the same perfect pearls and let it fall from the container onto the cover and where ever it landed was meant to be. I sprayed it with water to set it and heat gunned to dry. I then took bubble wrap and paint to it.

These shells I had been holding onto forever and finally put them to good use. I just drowned them in diamond glaze to make them look like they are in a puddle of water. You will see ink, perfect pearls and paint through out the book. These photos are from last year!! (sorry about the glare on some of the photos)

That is it for now

have a beautiful weekend

thanks for peeking :)

xoxo