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quadrants…

30 Saturday Mar 2019

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sun shone all day which is great… Saturday is my rest day and I try not to leave the house…

had a fun time changing out the drawer in the living room coffee table…

put away all of the pictures of beautiful Chihuly installations and family photos… brought back some lovely memories of our meeting with him in Seattle… like shaking the hand of a rock star;-)…

pulled out the box filled with sea shells and used them to fill the four quadrants… I remember how excited I was to find this table at IKEA that the shells could go into…

of course, I’ve lost two different batches of shells since then, lol…

but it looks lovely and beach-y...

Mazatlan Day 7…

23 Thursday Mar 2017

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our final full day here… some of us went shopping while some went to the pool… had a chance to go into the Sea Shell Museum… well, the main floor which was a giant store where you could purchase many, many types of shells… 

I was so overwhelmed that I ended up just taking a picture, lol…

then I found a tablecloth that I really needed and which may end up as a light blanket for my bed… also picked up some chocolate with mango liquor in it:-)…

when we got back to the hotel we joined the others at the pool where we read and played in the water for ages… had our lunch on the patio overlooking the ocean in two shifts…

more pool time and then a last chance to get our toes wet in the ocean… 

the middle grandson and I went for a last wander down the beach and I came upstairs to pack my bag…

supper with our favourite wait person – Jhonaten and it was seafood night…

I have had shrimp at every opportunity as it is what this area of Mexico is known for… 

a final sunset and we are all ready to head to the airport and home early in the morning…

great times and wonderful memories of family fun;-)…

my roomie and I…

progress…

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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watching the JUNOs and enjoying all the performances…

more time in the computer room… not sure you can tell that I spent hours in there today, but progress is being made…

  
it was too funny this afternoon… as I was putting the sea shells into the drawers of the living room table, snow was falling outside…

  
the best news was that I knew exactly where the shells were located… no vanishing this year…

  
went to the Home and Garden show this afternoon with the kids… picked up a lovely wooden spoon… I have a bit of a thing for wooden spoons… don’t seem able to get rid of any old ones…

also found a new cleaning service… very happy about that as my cleaner just advised yesterday that she isn’t able to continue due to the distance from her area to mine… makes sense, but made me sad as they were excellent…

stumbled upon Polished Cleaning Services at the event and was impressed with them… looking forward to a great relationship… and pleased to have this all sorted out…

progress made on many fronts…

organized…

22 Sunday Feb 2015

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had a wonderful day… got so much done…

my sleepover buddy and I had breakfast at the “A”… we drove because it was minus 45 out there…

then it was home to sort and label the Christmas boxes… emptied two or three and labeled all that remained… great to have the shelves organized…

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still didn’t find the sea shells… I can’t believe it…

dropped my helper off at the bus and did a few errands… picked up an extension cord for the car as I will be driving to work for the next few weeks and the temperature isn’t rising anytime soon, lol…

found two pieces of documentation I’ve been looking for, so was happy with that…

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moved the orchid to the coffee table and tried to find a spot for the new lamp I bought a few days ago…

been watching the Oscars for what seems like hours, but I can’t tear myself away…

enjoyed the sunshine…

table…

21 Wednesday May 2014

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so I bought that coffee table a while ago… it is lovely…

there is one small problem… it is a bit shallow…

I’ve been searching the house for the box of shells… I saw it not two months ago and I went right to the spot where I was sure it was… but it wasn’t…

so far I have only filled up one quarter of the drawer, and it is looking good… I have many shells other than the ones in the box, lol…

20140521-214616-78376419.jpgunfortunately some of the nicest shells are too big to fit in it, lol… hoping that someday soon the box will jump out of it’s hiding place… and most of them will fit in the drawer…

sea shells…

04 Sunday May 2014

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when I was about twelve a colleague of my dad’s gave me my first sea shell… it was an abalone from Florida where she had been on vacation…

ever since then I have collected shells… mainly from others who travelled all over the world, but some I have gathered myself…

since I was about twenty I have dreamed about a coffee table with a glass cover where I could put the shells so that they wouldn’t get dusty or dirty…

a couple of months ago I saw such a table at IKEA… it was fairly expensive and only came in an off-white colour…

today we were there again, and found the table in gray… gave in and bought it…

brought it home in two thin boxes and then Crystal put it together…

table bits and pieces...

table bits and pieces…

there were many, many pieces but she did a great job and got it together without a single extra piece…

table all together...

table all together…

then we spent some time reorganizing the living room, as the table takes up quite a bit of room…

next, will be digging out the box of shells and putting them into the drawer…

looking forward to it…