Happy long weekend...

It's been a busy week, so I'm sorry that I haven't been posting, but I've been trying to catch up on everything that fell behind while I was sick. And then on Thursday evening Brad came for his first visit since he's moved to Edmonton. Mercedes is thrilled that he's here and I've enjoyed a little break from single parenthood for a few days. He will be going back home tomorrow, so we've tried to pack as much into the four days that he's here as we can.

He showed up with a cooler full of a bunch of our favorite foods that we can't find down here and then spent the whole evening playing with Mercedes. Friday we went to Lethbridge and did some shopping and then we went to dinner at the Keg and still got home in time spend most of the evening with Mercedes. Yesterday we just hung around the house, and he helped me sand and seal the wooden memory box that I am starting to work on. Then last night we watched Avatar on Blu-Ray...WOW! Considering that we didn't see it in the theater, high def, was definately the way to go, and we all really enjoyed the movie. Today, I got to sleep in until noon, and then Brad and Mercedes wanted to go fishing so I tagged along and took some pics and then just hung out and watched them for a couple hours.

So I have a few pics to show off...

This is the scenery I see everytime I am coming home from the city....I just love coming home, cause I LOVE this view...I love my mountains!!!
This is a pic that I took while Brad & Mercedes were fishing. The big mountain in the middle is Chief Mountain and it looks over our town, but I loved the way it looked today with the clouds and the snow.

Here's a pic of Brad & Mercedes during the time they were fishing....it was really cold & windy so they would set up their rods and then come sit in the car to warm up, so I managed to catch this pic just as she hugged him to thank him for helping her get her rod set up. I thought it was a great pic of my little girl with her daddy.

Tnis is a wooden box that I've been hired to decorate. She wants LO's done on each side & the top and then she is giving it to her son to use as a Memory box and every year he can go through all his projects and pick his favorites to save and he can store them in this box. This is a totally new kind of project for me. I've altered boxes before, but on a much smaller scale and usually just with paper & embellishments, not usually with pictures and doing layout type things. So this is the box that Brad helped me sand & seal yesterday and I was grateful for the help, and I've pretty much finished all the pre-planning and gathered all the supplies, so now I just need to sit down and get started on the actual creating. I'm just a little stuck on which side to start with! lol

But I wanted to post the before pics and I will take pics along the way and definately post after pics since I could not find any pictures of something like this when I was looking for ideas, but I do think it was a neat idea, although I can't take credit for it, it was my cousin's idea...she just hired me to actually do it! Wish me luck!!

This is just a pic from the front. It doesn't matter that it's so scarred and beaten up since it will all be covered with paper & pics by the time I'm done!

I've decided that I'm going to be giving some of the graduates that I know this year some packages of thank you cards to use for either gifts they recieve or to give to some special teachers, so I've been working on thank you cards and congratulations cards for the actual graduates themselves. So that's what these cards are all for...

The paper is all K&Co and the stamps are all Close to My Heart. Ink is Distress Inks and the pattern for these first 2 cards is from the book Wishes from CTMH. While the pattern from the last 2 cards is one of my own patterns using Spellbinder's Nestibilities Label's Thirteen.

Gift tag I made using the scraps left over from the above two cards & a wooden heart sprayed with a couple different colors of glimmer mist.