One for Friday.

Here to post a layout since it's friday and that's what i like to do on Fridays....


Made this one last month,super simple :)

Oh yes !!

It's Friday...I have had the busiest week ever :)
Yesterday was insane,I cannot believe so much was packed into one day.I have to say my boys were great because we had a lot to do and there wasn't a single moan,once.
They were so helpful too since I am not allowed to lift anything heavy so there they were loading and unloading stuff and even tidied up without me asking..............or maybe I just had a completely frazzled look on my face and they knew if they said anything I was likely to explode....who knows !

Phew,anyway I'm here quickly before another fairly busy morning starts.
Stuart starts his vacation tonight,so 2 weeks of being all together.
I hate the fact he has to take the construction 2 weeks vacation(especially since he doesn't even work in construction !!) but it is great to be able to spend so much time together.
We'll be here,there and everywhere for the next 2 weeks so the blog will not be active although I will try to post a layout once a week.....try :)
Really hoping the weather picks up.

Running.............really missing it.
I did try to go last Saturday since I woke up early but 2 KM in my shoulder gave up and I had to walk 4 KM home..... So I will not run for the next two weeks,making a total of nearly 4 weeks without it :( and hope everything is better and stronger and I can start again.
The official diagnosis is tendinitis in my bicep and rotator cuff.........because the previous twice I only rested it(because that's all I was told to do),it has become weak.So the only thing left is lift nothing heavy,avoid certain actions(like cleaning ha ha ha ha ha !!!)and to rest it,ice it and do strengthening exercises and hope for the best.

OK,a layout..not the one I have just finished because I haven't had time to photograph that yet but here's an older one that I am sure I have never shared here......


Made this one at the end of out cottage scrap weekend last September,it's one of my favourites.

Here....

......but busy doing everything and nothing!
My brother in law and family got here last night.They have made the huge move and emigrated from the UK to Canada.They are only stopping here for a few days until they arrange their accommodation in Ontario.
They have left their 2 kids(and 2 rather freaked out cats !!) with me while they go and sort out some stuff.
So I have a 4 boys running around the house.........I am about to throw them out into the garden !
Fingers crossed the sun will come out..it is supposed to be summer after all.

Hopefully back Friday with a new layout,since I got to scrap a little over the weekend.

Short and Sweet

The weekend's nearly here.....
It officially starts when Stuart gets home and I think tonight we will start it with a couple of these on the deck since it actually feels like summer today !



We are going to have a take it easy weekend,that may include:

• A little gardening
• A trip to the community pool
• BBQing
• A yummy Saturday dinner,since Stuart has a new scallop recipe he wants to cook pour moi :)
• Wine !!
• If it rains.....a little scrapping
• Relaxing
• taking some flower photo's..because really I never tire of this.

As it's Friday and I like to post a layout.......

This is one of my favourites,which I realised I'd never posted here.I made it back in November,love that BG paper.The photo's were rejects from my photo a day for October.

OK,well I'm back off to enjoy the sunshine while it's here:)

A layout.

I haven't scrapped for nearly 4 weeks and the challenge of a mainly red,white and blue layout on the American Crafts blog was tempting me ever since I saw it last week.So with Mum gone and the boys at a friends this afternoon I made this with 2 of my favourite AC papers........



Supplies: All American Crafts:Paper....Travel(Itinerary),The Goods(Bikini),Kids(Red Rover),Thickers....Root beer Float,Rub-Ons...Minimarks,Accessories (Book 2&3),Celebration (Book 2),(Lauren) and Trademarks(Eddie)
other supplies:Bazzill cardstock and Stampin' up punch

Yes,yes I know it's the same sketch I seem to be using for a lot of my layouts recently but with such a long scrapping hiatus I needed something easy.
Don't worry I'll find a new one soon....ish :) Maybe !

I'm going to add some journaling around the edge I think but I've been dying to use this photo for ages.

The weekend (photo heavy !)

We finally got to meet up with our friends at their cottage this weekend.
Saturday was cool and cloudy but Sunday was glorious and sunny,shame we had to leave early,since this was the nicest day we'd had in a while.
I had been messing about with settings on my camera and changed the brightness of the screen but of course I forgot that and still took pictures allowing for the fact they appear darker than they are.
The result...... over exposed and blown out pictures,Oh well,excusing that and the fact I haven't had time to make a montage:

Stuart caught a big bass,which we released although would have made a tasty dinner....


This monster was lurking in the canoe.....


I swear spread out like that it was nearly as big as my hand,I have never seen a dock spider that big.I will never get in the canoe without scrutinising it thoroughly first !!

Our friends are American and being the 4TH of July we lit some fireworks and the kids had sparklers........


Sunday,Adam did a fair bit of this.......


Oliver preferred this.......


And found a friend....


I spent time taking pictures of these by the water's edge......

A rare picture of us taken by Oliver since it's well known I'd much rather be the other side of the camera.....


This was my favourite shot of the weekend,can't explain why but I love it....


Other stuff.
Last week I had to bite the bullet and made an appointment with the physio in town(I don't have insurance which was the biggest factor in putting this off)but my shoulder just wasn't getting better and I was just getting more and more frustrated.Which isn't fun for anyone around me,I can tell you !
That decision made I decided to stop running,ice it up when possible and managed 2 days of no driving (both are cars are manual and the gear changing aggravates it)and it was a little better.
Anyway had the first session so we'll see how it goes,got some exercises to do and he's not too keen on me running for a while........not sure I am able to obey that one but I'll try for a week and ask again !!
Out comes the bike.......and once Mum has gone back we can all bike down to swimming lessons so that's some exercise at least.

I so badly want to get those running shoes back on because I have missed it.I've been using the use the map my run site for keeping track of all my activities and I only just found the elevation feature when you map out a route......it's pretty cool.Well I think so !

Mum leaves Wednesday evening and then I thought I had 5 days before the next set of visitors arrived.Plans have changed it seems so that saves me doing a bit of furniture re-arranging and major cramming of stuff in cupboards.....Thanks Nic :) !!

OK well hopefully back later this week with a new layout...........I really want to get back to scrapping.

Friday

Here already,again ?
That midweek day off has thrown us again.
My lovely pal Carine and her gang came over for a BBQ for Canada day so that was fun,despite the crappy weather.........we did manage to at least sit out and eat,even if it was in the gazebo.I had fully intended to take a whole bunch of photo's but didn't end up even getting my camera out......Maybe the month of a photo a day has worn me out :)
Speaking of which..........


Not a great montage since I tend to take a lot of off center pictures but here's all 30 pictures from June (It should be 31 since one was a 2 photo challenge but I missed a day and never had the opportunity to do it.) They can all be found here.

I didn't get my time to scrap this week :(
I ended up placing all my pages since January in the correct albums......that was a job in it's self.
So,I made 6 pages in June most of those in the first week,which brings the total this year up to 48 pages.
Since it's Friday and I like to post a layout........


This ones from NSD weekend back in May,I decided it was about time I used that paper.

I'm really hoping the weather picks up for the weekend as we have fun plans.All this rain may be good for the garden but it's not fun when you have visitors.