03 Thursday Apr 2025
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April, big girl pants, blessed, books, crystals, living room, memories, moments, nature, shells, square, table, weather, widow
started April by changing up the living room table…
this time I moved all the crystals to one square, filled a second square with shells… the third square included birds and critters… the final square with some of my favourite books…
looks good…
02 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cameras, choosing, display, drawer, family, happy, living room table, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, rediscovered, sarong, shells, Technology, widow
took some time to begin the process of changing the living room table display for the fall…
removed the shells that I rediscovered in the spring… I won’t forget where I put them this time (upstairs in the Computer room closet🤪), lol…
I decided to put my camera collection out… I had to move the glass to fit one of them in…
next I printed photos to put in each of the squares… that was a bit of a process between the iPhone, computer, and printer, lol… besides having to choose only sixteen (well, seventeen)…
I’m rather pleased with how it came out;-)…
next change will be glittery things for the holiday season…
09 Sunday Apr 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, collection, found, lost, memories, moments, nature, original, resources, seashells, shells, widow
feels like working to clean up the computer room is a never-ending project…
but…
on Saturday I found my original seashell collection…
I can’t believe it… I came across a box that hadn’t been opened yet and figured it was filled with more papers… and when I took off the lid, this is what I saw;-)…
yikes, not even going to think how long that corner of the room hasn’t been touched…
what a lovely time I had today, unwrapping each one and putting them in the table and credenza…
memories came flooding back as I remembered names of many of the shells as they emerged from the 1998 newspapers they were wrapped in…
going to take out my resource books and do a bit of a refresher, lol…
24 Friday Mar 2023
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abalone, big girl pants, blessed, collection, lost, memories, Mexico, moments, nature, pictures, remembering, seashells, shells, store, widow
came across this picture from a trip to Mexico in 2017…
I have loved and collected seashells since I was given an abalone shell when I was young…
this store was amazing;-)…
I have lost the main part of my collection… this is a very old picture from when I was a teenager…
I think these shells may have ended up in the garbage years ago;-(…
now I fill the drawers with a collection of more recently purchased pieces…
it was fun to remember the store and my collection…
04 Saturday Apr 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, hallway, happy, hot tub, moments, proud, purple, shells, snow, sunshine, tidy, widow
rather proud of myself… I have barely done anything for ages, but today I was able to accomplish three things…
first, I went into the backyard and shovelled a path to the hot tub… my shoveler hasn’t been by… likely he is staying at home like everyone else;-)…
being very careful of my back, I worked slowly and made sure there wasn’t too much snow in each shovelful… now I can go out to soak my back if I want;-)…
came in, had a break, and then tidied the hallway bookshelf… I’d organized it back in 2014… made me laugh when I realized it was that long ago…
finally, I redid the living room table drawer… put sea shells in two of them and left the others as they were… one has all the retirement cards and the other has a number of pictures and maps from our trip to Hawaii…
looks good…
pleased with all that got done… maybe I will keep on getting things done;-)…
19 Thursday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, East Coast, family, kids, moments, outside, raining, shells, sky, sun, sunshine, treasures, widow
this morning I put all the shells that my kids brought home from their trip to the East coast on the table outside to dry in the sun…
they have been soaking in soapy water for a few days to clean them and get rid of the fishy smell…
when I arrived home they were rather wet from the afternoon rainfall…
I was thinking they would have dried out and been cleansed by the sun…
right now it is pouring out and I am hoping that the shells don’t blow away in the storm…
wish me luck;-)…
30 Friday Mar 2018
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artistic, big girl pants, brunch, Conservatory, dinner, display, grandson, lamb, moments, Park Cafe, shells, widow
my middle grandson came over this morning to spend the night…
first thing we did was change the display in the living room table… took out the Chihuly bits and put in shells, books and rocks…
he has an artistic streak so it was fun to watch as he decided what needed to go where…
off to the Park, where we had brunch, walked through the Conservatory, and stopped by the Zoo to see if his toque had turned up in the lost and found…
sadly, no toque…
home for a rest and then some roasted lamb for our supper…
it was cooked perfectly…
lovely day filled with special moments…
04 Tuesday Apr 2017
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big girl pants, camera, Chihuly, favourites, hibiscus, ladybug, shells, tree, widow
in my camera app you can save favourites…
when I like a picture for some reason or other, I put it into the favourites folder and wait for the right time to use it…
today I have a few that I’ve been saving and thought I would share…
on one of our walks on vacation I took this picture of a lovely hibiscus…
this shot of the new shell additions to the living room table… one square has the purchased ones and the other all of the ones we found along the beach…
newest page on my Chihuly calendar…
I love April…
this cute little ladybug was wandering along the baseboard in the bedroom the other day…
wonderfully gnarled tree in the English Gardens…
once I’ve used them I remove them from Favourites… and on to the next;-)…
21 Tuesday Mar 2017
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beach, big girl pants, henna, Mazatlan Day 5, ocean, parasailing, pina colada, sand, shells, shopping, vacation, waves, widow
as usual I was up and on the balcony by 6… bit of early morning fog then…
but by 6:45 it was nearly gone… called the other daughter as today is her birthday…
had breakfast around 8 and then we headed to the beach in front of the hotel… spent the day there… we beachcombed, jumped in the waves, rode on boogy boards, relaxed, got henna tattoos, drank piña coladas, shopped for signs, jewellery and sea shells…
and parasailed…
my daughter took the shots from up in the air…
I got to go on my own… such fun…
we spent a final hour in the pool and headed to our rooms to rest and get ready for dinner at the Mexican restaurant…
enjoyed our supper and are all headed to bed…
all that fun wears a person out, lol…
here’s today shell collection… that we found…
and the purchased ones which came from the island just across from the hotel…
20 Monday Mar 2017
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beachcombing, big girl pants, Mazatlan Day 4, nap, plants, pool, rocks, shells, Starbuck's, sunset, thunder, vanilla, walk, waves, widow
up around six this morning… did some beachcombing with the middle grandson and my daughter…
I provided the bag and they found the shells, lol… many were thrown back because we have a strict rule about not keeping broken ones…
the waves were beautiful and some crashed like thunder…
daughter found a very nice cowrie which we decided meant she won the day…
also had to pick up a few rocks for the collection, lol…
met up with the rest of the family for breakfast and then three of us walked to Starbucks stopping along the way to check out the shops and plant life…
found vanilla, hot chocolate mix and a few other goodies… apparently chocolate shops, which we have been watching for, are few and far between here…
once we got back to the hotel we went to the pool where the rest of the group were, and the kids spent the remainder of the day there… I had a nap and also some pool time…
it gets dark here quite early – around 6 – and we’ve been enjoying the sunsets, which have been stunning…
heading out for a steak dinner shortly…
another wonderful day in paradise…
herbiggirlpants 