Projects.....

Here are some pictures of projects that I have done on the weekend. I also have new plants in my place and new stuff I have tried or crazy about.

I am trying my best to show before and after of my place. This will be a short post.

Hump day and I am looking forward to the weekend. I also have started to watch the new series on tv and the old ones as well.

This post is going all over.....

My youngest son stayed with me for a while and had now moved on, thank goodness! He left a foam mattress and I hated to throw it so I cut it up in 3 equal pieces and covered it and made into floor cushion. Turned out well, I think.

 

This is the table cloth I sewed over the weekend. The plant/leaves I cut from a big plant I have that broke off and it looks good and it is still looking good 3 weeks later.

 

The after look of the dining table with the placemats and a nice bonsai.I might have to do a seat cover later.

 

I have always wanted to get different kinds of salt and it is hard to find them. I have been lucky lately to have found these. I only use sea salt except when I am baking I use ordinary salt.

From left to right...Brittany grey sea salt, Cyprus black sea salt, Himalayan pink sea salt, Red Hawaiian sea salt, Persian blue sea salt and Barbecue sea salt which is really good with steak/meat.

 

That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by.

 

 



Wall sculptures....

As I have posted before, we have moved into a new office but in the same building. We now occupy part of the main floor which is an addition to the building so we have our own entrance, deck on the side of the building.

It is an open concept kind of office. It is finally finished and the wall sculptures were installed over the weekend. I took pictures of them before the Christmas decorations are up, they have started this week.
I will take pictures of that later on.

The main wall of the office

Wall by the Vice President's office

Inside the General Manager's office

In the boardroom

Executive Assitant's office

As you can see there is a theme to the decor....which is also theme of Christmas decoration.

Amazing kid....

When I was in Yellowknife, my niece's son Mitchell gave me 4 jars of jams he made himself. A few days after I came back I opened one of the jars and used it for my morning toast. I like it because it is not too sweet. I hope the rest of the jars are just the same.

He also baked choco flan for Thanksgiving dessert but I do not have picture of it. He also baked cake for Father's day and for his grandma's birthday.

And he is only 12 years old......

Rhubarb and strawberry, blueberry, saskatoon berries and rhubarb jams.

What a talent and passion for such a young age!!!!









Halloween at work......

When I first started to work with this company more than a year ago, I came for the interview and the office was decorated for Halloween. It was one of my earlier posts.

They go all out for every holiday. We had just moved into a new office two weeks ago and there are still some things that are being finished but some of the staff decided to decorate for Halloween.

Located where we will have the water feature. This one talks and his eyes and mouth light up and quite scary.

Entrance to our office.

On the window to our kitchen.



On the way to the back offices.

Carol's decoration

Zarah's window

I am sure there will be more decoration that will be put up in the next few days.















A birthday poem

A wonderful and meaningful gift from my little sister. She writes a lot of poems, but I noticed they were all meant for people she loved and have passed on.

I know for a fact, she wrote one for a very good friend of hers who is still alive, so I am honoured. She sent this a day early as I had blogged about who sends/calls/texts birthday wish for me first. She said she is not competing. Besides, it does not count, it had to be the day.

A big thank you. Here it is.

Now I can say a poem was written specially for me!

Hats, hats and more hats

In my new job, we have an hour lunch which I am not used to. For as long as I can remember, I had only half an hour lunch and I liked that since an hour is too long and you get to go home early or start later.

So to adjust to the hour lunch time, I have decided to crochet or do something for the last half hour. I have been in the new job about a month and I have these to show for.

This is the second one I have done and this fits my head perfectly. The yarn is just leftover from another project and I was still in the trial part but this came out really well and I am quite happy with the result.

This was my first project and took a while as I was getting used to trying to fit it before adding stitches or decreasing. The brim I just did myself when I had seen it was turning ruffle like and I just continued with it. This is also left over yarn. When I do the others, it will be different kind of yarn and will be plain colour with accent colours.

This is the last one and a bit roomy on top or good for someone with a bigger head than mine. I will try to do scarves next time too and I will see which one I prefer to do.

So this just shows that you can do a lot in half an hour every day. This will only be winter projects because when the weather is warmer, I will be walking to be in shape for the summer.

A poem for Gino

As part of a new feature in my blog, I am featuring friends and relatives who's got talent in any form of art. The first one is my sister, who after the death of my father and her son started writing poems. I believe it was and is her way of dealing with grief.

From the time my nephew, Gino passed away more than 2 years ago, she has written poems in honour of him. His birthdays, anniversary, thanksgiving, Christmas and New year, I feel it is her way of reconnecting with him as well as remembering him.

This one is most touching and one of the best poems she has written. I am posting this with tears in my eyes but a good way of remembering him. One of the things I am thankful for is knowing who he really was as a person when I stayed with them in 2007 and he and I did all kinds of stuff.  So whereever you are Gino, Happy Thanksgiving!