Valentine's Day

Hi!

We are finally getting some winter here!  

We had two more snow days on Monday and Tuesday

We're expecting another 25 cm (9 inches) overnight tonight! 

Funny snow drift in the front corner of the house. 

C and I got our Valentine's stuff out on Monday.

I didn't have a special meal planned for dinner, but with a table cloth and the nice dishes, the fish curry turned out nice. 

During the snow days, I got into making some cards.  This one, I made the outside in 2012, 

But, I did the inside this year! 

Actually, that was just a test one, but it turned out ok, so I gave it to K. ;-)

When I did cards for the kids, I kept the outside simple.

So the inside would shine!

(FMI (for my information) I used watercolor paint for this and found it was a bit runny.) 

Enjoy the rest of your week! :-)

Drywall in the Bedroom

Hi!

We had a long weekend here, with Monday being Islander Day.  The kids spent Saturday night at my inlaws so K and I had the night to ourselves.   Valentine's Day was Sunday. We went into Summerside to have dinner at the inlaws' with the kids.

I've started drywalling the remainder of the master bedroom!

I got this little part done on Monday. It needed a bunch of little pieces cut, including the one above the door.  On the corner, I'm using a plastic corner piece.  Not sure how it will work (I don't see how it will get smooth and parts are still bumpy), but I'll mud it up and see...

K had been working on the wiring and got it finished Monday night.   

This meant I could put in a little more insulation, tape up the plastic and screw in the drywall that's been sitting there for I don't know how long!  I got this done on Tuesday (yesterday).

Here's the other corner.

Still a lot of work to do, but it's nice to make some progress!

We had a warm spell yesterday (and today).  It got up to 8C (45F) and a lot of snow has melted.  Here's how it looks out the kitchen window. 

We still have a few Valentine's decorations up!

Last year we had a storm on Islander Day weekend, here's how high the snow was!

It's been a great winter snow-wise, with no storms in the forecast for the next week!

Hope you're having a great day! :-)

Stuff

Hi!

So, we've had 2 snow days in a row!  It snowed overnight Tuesday (with more in the eastern part of the island where the school board is), but it had pretty much cleared up here by 7:00am.  However, since the school board had not cancelled school a week or so ago and had 4 buses go off the roads because of ice, they were more cautious and cancelled school for the day.  The same thing happened yesterday (Thurs) with snow during the night and pretty much clearing by 9:00.

Wednesday was a fun snow day.  The snow was light and powdery.  The kids made "houses" in different parts of the yard and I made "roads" in the snow using the snow shoes.  I also went cross country skiiing to make a "railway track". The kids used their birthday month and day for addresses which they wrote in the snow.  DD's house was in the back corner of the yard by the horse barn.  I got the playhouse.  DS's house was the tree house.  There was another house by the breezeway and we made what turned into a post office in the middle of the yard.  Yesterday (Thurs) we had to redo everything because of the snow overnight. But it was wet and sticky so walking around in snow shoes was hard since the snow stuck to the bottom.  The same with the cross country skis.  Finally, today the kids are back in school.  I missed my time by myself!  HH also had his work delayed til 12 on Wed. and 10:30 on Thurs.  BTW, we are expecting more snow tonight!

So, on to decor stuff.  Here's a picture I found at Kara Paslay Designs that has a floor that looks like the one I painted in the front room!

It's actually in this fancy house from S.R. Gambrel! Oh, la, la! :-)

Here's our floor.

 I want to share what we did for Valentine's Day before it gets too far away. For dessert, I made a spice cake (from a mix).  DS helped ice and decorate it.  I got some red sugar on sale and he covered the cake with it and left the hearts white!

My phone didn't work before dinner so I didn't get a picture of the whole cake.  Or the fancy heart shaped tortillas for pizzas with heart shaped pepperonis!  But here's the cake mostly eaten!

I put out a few decorations for the table. 

I put Valentine tape around a pink pedestal and some candle holders so we could eat by candle light.  I also wrapped up chocolates for everybody at their place setting. DD had a friend over after school and I thought Oh, now we can't be fancy like I'd planned.  But then I thought, Why not be fancy? So, we were and it was fun! :-)

Have a great weekend! :-)

Curtains (Valentine's Day!)

Hi!

Happy Valentine's Day!  Here are the few decorations I put up.

I made a garland from our old red couch material.  It alternates red and white (the front and back of the material).  I cut out the letters and sewed them together on the sewing machine last year. I'd forgotten about it!  DD also put up some window gels!

Here's another craft (I think from Martha Stewart). I cut out a heart from an old map, then used an exacto knife to cut out a bunch of hearts on the inside of the big heart, leaving the sides, tops and bottoms attached.

  

When you lift it up, it has hearts on the inside.  It's supposed to be a card, but I just left it as a decoration.

I also made more map hearts.

Last year, I had them hung up as a garland I think in the back room/bedroom by our dresser mirror. This year I just put them on the secretary.

From the side they look like hearts!

Finally, we have some hearts the kids did last year.  (Can you see what I'm watching? Covert Affairs on Netflix. :-))

So, I actually did a little house project this week.  I finally put up DD's curtain on her front window.

I also fixed the curtain for her closet nook. I used iron-on hem tape to hem it since I think the sewing machine isn't working.  A while back we kept smelling a burning rubber smell and couldn't figure out what it was.  It turns out the foot pedal on the sewing machine had gotten squished and it was going as if it was sewing! I'd kept the machine plugged in because it was easier, but I never thought that would happen.  Actually, it had been acting funny before that, and I haven't tried it out so maybe it's ok.  Anyway, it was just easier to use the hem tape for this project.

 I also painted the thin rod and hung it up with ribbon and hooks.

Here's how it used to look.

Have a great weekend! :-)