05 Friday Jan 2024
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one of my Christmas presents was a bird calendar from my grandson… it arrived a few days ago and is titled Extremely Accurate Birds…
I hung it up on Monday morning…
it has made me laugh every time I walk by…
22 Thursday Dec 2022
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Christmas came on Monday…
my BS group gathered for lunch, a visit, and gift exchange…
we had a great time;-)…
everyone chose what they wanted for lunch and a few of the group picked up the order… we gathered around the dining room table and visited as we enjoyed our meal…
back in the living room we had cookies and coffee, and then shared our goodies;-)…
I am always amazed at the wonderful items that we each find or make for one other… none of us really need anything so it is fun to produce little things to share…
and usually there are donations to favourite charities… mine, this year was to Made with Love, which is helping feed the hungry here in the city…
we usually end with a group photo… technology tried to beat me, but in the end we got a few great pictures;-)…
🤗…
04 Monday Apr 2022
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a year ago my daughter sent some gifts for a friend to drop off to me on January 1st…
amongst the items was a bar of charcoal hair shampoo… I have really enjoyed it and it is now a sliver, lol…
apparently the company may have closed, and the shampoo doesn’t appear to be available…
I went online and found something that might work, ordered it and it arrived last week…
not sure if it is going to work… it has a fairly strong smell so I have set it out on the window ledge in the bathroom and will see if the smell dissipates…
then I will try it on my hair and see how it goes…
14 Friday Jan 2022
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art, big girl pants, blessed, card, flowers, garden, gift, moments, photos, pictures, poppies, project, purple, widow
this year my Christmas project was Post-It notes made with one of my photos on them…
took a while to decide on just the correct picture… in the end I chose a picture of a poppy that I took in the garden this summer… my Ottawa kids did some work removing the background for me…
always happy when I am able to use one of my photographs for a project…
I also produced cards with four different winter pictures to go with them…
working with my art always fills me with happiness…
30 Thursday Dec 2021
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had a photo shoot with my bouquet of flowers…
I’m happy that I’ve taken lots of shots since I received them as they are starting to fade…
got out the actual camera and had a fun time… light was good and tunes were playing…
flowers make me happy;-)…
11 Saturday Dec 2021
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today there was extra joy;-)…
one of my gifts from Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers was the smallest gift tag with the word joy cut out…
and a bit later the Joy pillow I ordered online arrived… it is exactly what I was hoping for…
it was lucky that I looked out the window as two parcels were sitting on the step… no one rang the doorbell or knocked…
the second was a gift from my kids for me… I will wrap the box up tomorrow and put it under the tree;-)…
the day was joyful…
30 Friday Jul 2021
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I’ve been so focussed on the garden I forgot to share the excitement in the dining room…
this anthurium, which I received as a birthday gift five years ago, flowered once last year after not blooming for four years…
on July 7th I spotted this new bloom;-)…
now it is open and beautiful… although it looks like plastic, lol… once open it lasts for ages…
nature truly is amazing…
06 Tuesday Jul 2021
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for my birthday I received an egg carton with four little eggs of wildflower seeds to plant…
I started two in a pot I had and they are starting to bloom;-)…
no idea what any of them are, but these are lovely little cuties… I’ve also got some sweet little bachelor buttons…
wonder what else will flower;-)…
21 Friday May 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, clean-up, flowers, friends, garden, gift, locations, moments, plants, purple, widow
since most of the plants have moved outside, and not necessarily into the garden, lol (as in, they are currently residing in the garage) I’ve been working away in the living and dining rooms for the last few days to clean up…
I actually found the countertop in the dining room… all of the plastic bags which were under the planters moved to the table so there still is that… the window ledges are all clean and tidy… although there might still be a bit of dirt that needs to be swept up…
tomorrow it is on to the dining room table;-)…
in the living room I moved the table in the window back to the den and reorganized the orchids…
the table is now home to my favourite bowl – a fused glass and rock piece from the East Coast – which my BS buddies gave me as a birthday gift a while back…
I am hopeful that the orchids will enjoy their new locations...
20 Tuesday Apr 2021
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