My summer find

This summer I checked out so many garage sales. Hoping to find clothes, toys, and books for my boys, but I never in my wildest dream thought I would ever find one of these!

A vintage treadle sewing machine with it's original foldout wooden table. It's a JB series, so I believe it's dated somewhere between 1936-1948. It is not in the best condition. There are scratches and the leather treadle strap is broken which can be replaced. I'm just so happy to have found one, I've always wanted one, and only for $25! Weeee! And yes, the lady selling it must have thought I was a little crazy being so overly happy over an old sewing machine.

Look at it's details, wouldn't you be?!

Crochet mary jane slippers.

Ever since I saw this amazing mary jane slipper pattern at ohmygoodknits!! I've always wanted to make myself a pair. Finally got around to it and here it is.

Love love love them!!

Routine

So we are back into the routine of things...well sort of...Darcy started teaching, early nights, chilly mornings, mom and tots, and piano lesson. So where in the world have I've been and what have I been up to? I've been moving all my art and crafty stuff all in my mud room. I'm planning to turn it into my studio. I have a lot of stuff as you can see. A lot of stuff = a lot of sorting = a lot of time.

Also, it's hardcore potty training in this house. Lucius is three and a half and still not fully potty trained yet. I know when he's ready he'll be ready, but sometimes his no's doesn't sound too convincing. And there's Aymeric, who will be two already this November, busy busy as can be. I'm crossing my finger he'll continue to take naps until he goes to school. Haha!

So I do have a lot of ideas brewing in my head. Just to find time to make it happen is another thing. Thank goodness I can still manage to crochet as I watch the boys. Thank goodness!

And thank goodness for Darcy's homemade multigrain bread. With some butter and local honey, it is to die for!

I ♥ camping!

We came back yesterday from our final camping trip for this summer. We went to Cold Lake Provincial Park and it was absolutely beautiful there. We decided to try to go for a 5k hike with our boys. You never know what to expect with a 3 and a 1 year old, but they absolutely loved every moment of it. It took us a long time to finish the 5k hike having to stop almost every minute to look at every single raspberry bush, pebble, squirrels, and juice and snack breaks. But we did it and it was so much fun.







Summer is definitely wrapping up. Next week we will be in Edmonton and the week after Darcy will be back in school teaching for the new school year. Which means it's time for me to get back into creating. I already have a few projects planned out and I can't wait to show them.

One busy summer

Just taking a break from my busy summer to say hi and that I'm still here. It's been a summer full of visits from family and friends. Summer full of laughter and tears. Lots of outdoor wiener roasting, playing, pool splashing, and great conversations. Definitely a summer to remember. This coming Monday, Darcy will be driving his brother and his family to the airport. A sign that summer holidays are coming to an end pretty soon. We will dearly miss all of them, especially my little niece who is so cute and girly that loves pink, dresses, and tea parties. A pleasant change from a house full of boys. Haha!

The boys will definitely miss having their cousin around to run, chase, and getting into trouble with. Until next summer!!

Where did you go?

So I've been asked by some of you where I went exactly for my camping trip. Good ol' Google Map is such a great tool to show the route we took all along the Canadian Rockies, a little into British Columbia, and the Southern part of Alberta, Canada. Aaah, I missed the mountains already!

View Camping trip 2009 in a larger map

Click on the placemarks to show links of some of the places we visited.

Summer fun

Has it been two weeks since I last posted? This summer has been filled with so many fun events and visits that I'm losing track of time. It's definitely a good thing!

So we were back from our camping holiday last Wednesday and here are a few snippets of the many many photos I took. It was so hard to just choose a few to post. We had so much fun driving through the mountains, visiting a hot spring, throwing rocks in the rivers, seeing wild animals, zoo, dinosaurs. Looking forward to doing this again next summer.