Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Enjoying Some Sun


For this past week our family has been enjoying some sun down south! Our summer in Vancouver has been so disappointing, cool, cloudy and rainy. We decided to escape to sunny California where we have been enjoying the sun!


Bear with me as I most likely won't be posting again until Sunday when another stupendously talented Canadian comes to visit! There are so many amazing Canadians, my list is long!

**edited Sunday, August 31. Finally got some free wi-fi and my So Canadian eh? post isn't quite ready. My family is waiting for me to grab breakfast so we can head on the road back home!
What a long drive home!


Hugs to all.

XO Barbara 

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Summer Fun : Camping

We enjoyed some family fun camping with neighbours this past weekend, not without some glitches along the way. Each girl took a friend and one friend accidentally had her mom's passport, which she discovered when we were about 5 cars from the border crossing. After that was resolved, I was driving along the I-5 when all of a sudden a bike flew off the bike rack. Thank God, it didn't result in an accident! The next day we all had a good laugh:)

Once our camp was set up, the fun began!


Hikes along the beach..


Gathering firewood...


Gorgeous views....





Amazing sunsets.....



Exploring the rocky shore.....


Friends.....


We had a wonderful time. 

Now onto folding 10 loads of laundry......

XO Barbara

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Golly Gee, I Won!


I am thinking a lottery ticket purchase is in order!

 I won two giveaways in the past two weeks. I won a colour/interior consult from my wonderful blogging friend, Anne-Marie at 10 Rooms.



Finally, someone to help me decide how to make my living/dining room sparkle! I am my worse enemy when it comes to deciding on colours, etc!

Sad, unedited photo, aren't all before photos supposed to look blah?

THEN....

On Sunday I read that I won a cache of LePage products at Rambling Renovators!
Let the glueing begin!


And..


I am finished Roman blind #2!



With a little help of course...that is what happens when you lay nice clean fabric down on floor!

I am working on the tutorial and hopefully will have it up Friday!

Finally...
My daughters have one more day of school.
Yes! Two less lunches to make
{I am making quite "boring" lunches according to the youngest one.}

My son finishes the 29th and then he is off to high school in the fall. I will have all 3 children in high school for one year. I just hope the weather will warm up for us to enjoy summer. So far, not so good.

How is your week thus far?

XO Barbara

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Amy Butler Fabric: Pillows



While I have been procrastinating with my own to-do list I have been helping my sister (another famous procrastinator  - she will be mad at me for this comment) finish her projects. It always more fun working with someone on their projects instead of your own. A while back I wrote about how we went shopping for fabric for her room, but we haven't tackled any sewing until now.

 Procrastination is our middle name.

This week she brought over all the fabric for the duvet and throw pillows for her bed. During our shopping trip we chose some Amy Butler fabrics from her Midwestern Modern Line that would go well with the robin's egg blue herringbone toss pillows she had by Nate Berkus' from the now defunct Linens and Things.



I managed to sew her some throw pillows for her bed this week! 

Life isn't all play, I have managed to do something productive, even though it isn't tackling my own to-do list.

 We used inexpensive pillow inserts from Ikea, the larger one is down and cost $6 while the smaller polyester fibre-fill pillow was about $2. 

 (This wasn't planned but I noticed once I posted the photo that in the background is my sister on her wedding day!)  





The piping around the pillow was made from the contrasting fabric,  the backing was made from a robin's egg blue fabric.




I made covered buttons for the enclosure.


Here is a sneak peek at our other project we worked on this week!


I know, I know.....

 I should be working on my own projects. Good news though....I have started working on the upholstered headboards for the girls' rooms. Hopefully I can get them finished before we head on our vacation!

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