Happy Mother's Day!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Yesterday was my day at home alone with no interruptions! I had BIG plans for the day.  Hmmm, nothing was accomplished.

First off I woke up at the ridiculous hour of 0630.  Seriously.  Could not go back to sleep.  Eventually I got up and had some cereal with milk from a box (yup) and watched the news channel.  Realizing it was now 1030 I decided to head out into the world.

I had plans to go to the mall and do some shopping for just me.  Arriving at the mall it was packed, not just Saturday packed but a lot of out of town vehicles...go figure.  The mall was crowded, the stuff I wanted picked over and the general mood of the mall was tense.

I left and came home for some lunch.  Watched some more of the news channel before deciding I would head out to the Sherwood Park Mall.  That mall was also busier than usual and no one seemed in particularly good moods there either.  On the way home two pick ups collided in front of me, both were at fault as they both tried to merge into the center lane at the same time.  Lots of yelling swearing and even a few fists raised.  I decided to stay at home after that!

I planted my flower beds around the house as the plants had been waiting for a week:

Once that was done I starred in my refrigerator as to what to have for dinner....it was no cooperative but my dear friend and neighbor invited me over for pizza at their place!  YAY.

I visited with them for the evening....they were such lovely hosts, I think they knew I was lonely at home all by myself.

Eventually I decided to go home and see what I could accomplish late at night.

Shortly after arriving home I got a call from one of the camp leaders that my son was complaining of  a headache and vomiting.  So at 2300 hours I packed up the GO GO GO Toyota with Powerade, Ginger Ale and headed out on a rescue mission.

Took over an hour to get there as lots of wildlife on the back roads.  Packed up kid who drank his Ginger Ale and fell asleep in 10 minutes!!!!  He slept the entire way home and I had to carry him in to the house he was so tired.  It was almost 0200 by the time I went to bed.  At 0730 he woke me up ready to get the day started.

After a pancake breakfast I made a couple of Mother's Day cards for two friends I would be seeing today:

After lunch we headed out to my friend's ranch.  My son got to see the calves, pet the steers, pet the dog, shovel grain for the cattle, get hay for the horses, pet the horses, ride the horse and ride along in the backhoe loader to get hay, play with the dog and the cat!

My son's friend is almost exactly 9 years younger than my son but they have the exact same Costco jackets from last spring:

They both adore each other so this was so cool to see!

Then it was time to head home for Trunk Chicken - a story I will share later as I do not have pictures of it, but it was delicious!

Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day and hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

The Road Home..

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Our four day road trip brought us back home this evening.  We did some shopping in Great Falls before heading off to Helena.

The trip down was beautiful and it was amazing how in just a few short hours the weather/climate can be so different.

This is a picture leaving central Alberta:

Notice the white stuff in the ditch on the left side of the picture?  That is still snow, not a lot, but it is snow.

Crossing the mountains between Great Falls and Helena there is green grass in the ditch, no snow, temperature is 20 degrees Celsius and bugs are being splatted on the windshield:

Spent some time wandering around downtown historic Helena yesterday part of which included a stop at Prickly Pear Quilts:

Here is what I picked up while there!

Heading home today:

Gates of the Mountains, the lake river looked beautiful today.

North of Cutbank today we had three range horses gallop right up to the side of the highway to greet us, this one stayed the longest and probably would have stayed longer had another car not come along:

A little farther down the road we came across cattle grazing:

And I love the wide open space so I took this picture:

We arrived home a little late this evening and by the time we finished unpacking the F-350 it was bedtime for kiddo and hubby who has a couple more days of work here before heading off on his new adventure.

Tomorrow the plan is a DO NOTHING Spring Break Day!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Best Day Ever Yesterday!

Every morning when I wake my son up I ask him the same question:

"Who's ready for the best day ever?!"

He always replies "ME"!

Yesterday was definitely one of the best days ever.

First it started out with sleeping in since there was no school yesterday, followed by a pillow fort on the family room couch, a road trip 40 minutes outside of the city to my friends farm to visit her and her baby and play on the farm (and even ride the horses), a stop for lunch at the new burger joint (which I ate at several years ago in the US, and remember clearly now again that the food is really not tasty), and on the way home a stop for Slurpee's because only recently did I become aware that there are sugar free options for these things!  Okay, the one I had yesterday was Lite, so it had 14 grams Carbohydrate in it, so bolus worthy for my insulin pump instead of what a regular one would be!

Here are my son and horse taking a look at something interesting...

Late last night I did finish the last of my 152, 3" square half triangles for my second Mi Vida Loca Facebook Mystery Quilt but was way too tired to post them at that time as had to go to bed as worked today:

 Now, off to reflect on Best Day Ever Today!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Horse Quilt

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I have been delinquent in my blogging as I have worked twenty four hours of over time this week!!!  So tired, but not tired enough to miss the Red Deer Quilt Show yesterday.

My son and I road tripped to see it, and I got the remainder of the horse fabric that I need to make this horse quilt for my son:

A couple of weeks back we had gone to Prairie Points Quilt Shop to pick up my block of the month. While there we found this horse quilt panel and all these fun horse/western fabrics.  They were so fun, I had to get them.
This is what I chose to do with this panel and the fabrics, but to make the outer horse fabric border 9 1/2"
like I wanted, I had to get more fabric.
So, a quick email to Lynn, and at the show I was able to get the remainder and late last night I finished the quilt!
Pretty proud of my accomplishment; making a quilt all on my own!
Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Happy Birthday Party Bag

Today was the Birthday Party of my son's friend.

Since she loves horses, I made the gift bag in horse style.  I used my Country-Born stamp set from Close to My Heart.  I bought this stamp set because of the animals on it, and also because of the caption it has from Born Country on it :)  The coloring was done with my Copic Markers. 

Originally the plan was to give the pillowcase with gift card to the big box store that has everything for bargain prices....., but my son decided even before we went to that place that she also needed a small toy, like for instance a small stuffed rabbit..what?  Oh, well, how likely was it we would find a small stuffed rabbit?

Well what do you know?  We found a small stuffed rabbit (he was so happy), and the horsey Lego, so there is now no gift card, just these items and the Horse Pillowcase.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

 

Kathy

Horse Pillowcase

My son is attending a Birthday Party this weekend for one of his friends from school.  This little girl might love horses, even more than my son if you can imagine!

Last summer in Canmore while at the Sugar Pine Company, I found some horse fabric.  Guess who I thought of??

So, I made her a pillow case with this fabric for her birthday present.  Usually, I put the presents inside the pillowcase to cut down on packaging, but my son also thought she needed a soft bunny, of which I will show you the packaging tomorrow!

 Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Horse Scrapbook

If you follow my blog at all you will know my son LOVES animals.  For the past year and a half he has been riding horses at a local Equestrian Center, and so I finally got around to making a scrapbook layout for his scrapbook.

Almost all of the products came from Scrapbook Memories & More with the exception of the ribbon, twine and button that were in my Stampin Up stash.

The decoration horses are a rub on transfer, which was interesting to work with as I had never done that technique before.  My son drew the smiley faces on the sticky notes as he thought that looked better than just covering over his face : ).

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy