Rose's Art Show

My sister Rose has an art show coming up on Wednesday June 27th 6:30 - 9:30pm at 1313 Hollis St., Halifax and some of the paintings she will be displaying are below.   There will be 15 artists participating.

Easter Treats

Well Easter is now here and gone and it was a beautiful day to spend with family and friends.  The day wasn't sunny which was part of what made it a great day as you were not thinking about all the yard work that needs to be done on those sunny spring days.  My sister put together a beautiful meal and some of her neighbours came and my BFF came along with family.  Unfortunately my Mom was not feeling very well but she did enjoy seeing Adelyn and yes everyone else.

I did get my three desserts made to take to my sister's which were a hit.  My daughter also made a scrumpcious fruit salad which I enjoyed the next day while I was babysitting.  I think the favorite dessert I made was the Coconut Cream Cake which I had never made before and changed the recipe a bit.  So now I have to figure out the revisions to the recipe to send everyone.   aaaaggghhhhh

Here we have NS Wild Blueberry Cream Cake.  Yummy

Coconut Cream Cake... very yummy

Lemon Cream Tarts with Raspberry & Blackberries... tasty little morsels

Here is my grandaughter Adelyn dancing away with her tutu on that I had made her for Easter.  It is amazing how little girls automatically know what to do with girly things.  LOL  I made a matching tutu for her wear on her dolls.  Too cute.

Here is Adelyn playing in the tunnel of her play tent which the Easter Bunny left for her.  It took quite a bit of rolling around the floor and wrestling with Adelyn, the dog and my camera to capture this picture.  It was quite a workout for these old Nanny bones.  :)

Here she is Easter Monday when I was babysitting, we decided to go out on the deck and get some fresh air and she was obsessed with the snow and then of course being the little minx that she is, she decided to test her Nanny to see if I would let her eat the snow.  Not, so we played a game of chase around the deck with Adelyn chortling away as she thought it was hilarious. 

Here she is modeling a little sundress I had made her for Easter which isn't a great picture as the child never stays still or if she sees the camera she comes running towards me as she wants to see all the pictures on my camera.  Am I little consumed by my grandaughter, yes, yes, yes!  But I mean what do you do when you get them up in the morning and they come out to the kitchen and immediately start dancing for you?  You swoon, that's what and then you start dancing with her like I did.  :)

I am having Adelyn from Friday to Monday this weekend... yipppeeee!  We will definitely have some fun, I have loads of new toys for her to play with so she will be quite busy and we may have to do some crafts and blow big bubbles outside.  Hhhhmmm, her mother may not want to go home..... but I will have lots of pics to share from our weekend to share with mommy and daddy as they still have separation anxiety.  LOL

"Just when I thought I was too old to fall in love again, I became a Grandparent."

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Maritime Fibre Art Retreat was a great success

Well the weekend was over far too quickly but it was absolutely wonderful.  Relaxing, creative and fun meeting up with people we hadn't seen since last year.  It is amazing to see the talent that everyone brings to the retreat and readily shares their ideas and thoughts.  My sister Rose and I were doing strictly felting this year and we commented on the fact that there were other felters there and how everyone has their own technique and area of creativity.  My sister worked on a beautiful tea cozy, a delicate felted over lace scarf and a funky picture of a face that was totally fun.  I worked on a felted over lace scarf and a couple of wall hangings, one of which is still in the throes of being worked on. 

On our travels to the retreat we came across a wonderful garden and gift shop called Oceanview, wow the things they had there were fantastic.  We could have spent a fortune there and yes we have plans to go back and spend more money.  Everything was unique and lovely and I wanted one of everything. LOL  I asked the owner if I could just move in but unfortunately they don't allow squatters. :)  We also stopped into a couple of used clothing stores as I was looking for buttons and it seems that a lot of these places no longer carry buttons which disappointed me as you can find some unique buttons normally.  I did find a nice pink wool blazer though and a couple of beautiful little dresses and a jacket for my grandaughter.  I got home late Sunday afternoon with all my treasures and crafts, rested a few hours, repacked my suitcase and headed in to my daughter and son-in-law's as I was babysitting the joy of my heart on Monday.  My sister and Mom came for lunch on Monday so Adelyn got to show off her entertainment skills and slay two more victims in her growing following of fellow swooners. She puts on quite the performance once she warms up and it is impossible to resist her charms.  I snapped a couple of great pictures of Adelyn with my Mom, she is a lucky little girl to have 3 great Grandmothers who live fairly close as well as grandmothers, grandfathers and a large group of Aunts, Uncles and cousins. 

Well Easter is fast approaching and I have to get my desserts in order to take to my sister's as she is doing Easter dinner and I offered to bring the desserts.  Should be a fun time and I know the food will be awesome.  So I am off to finish my felting project and gather my list of ingredients for all the desserts.

"The most beautiful thing in this world is to see your parents smiling, and knowing that you're the reason behind that smile".