Frustration & Fun....

I realize that my blogging has been pretty pathetic lately. There are many reasons/excuses I could come up with, but the main one is computer related. I haven't been able to use Adobe in about three weeks. The program will open, but I cannot open any files. I am 99% sure that I have some sort of nasty virus on my computer because there are a few other programs I am having trouble with as well.

Without Adobe, I feel lost! I haven't scrapbooked anything in almost a month! I have been taking lots of pictures with scrapbook pages in mind so once I am up and running again, there should be an abundance of pages being created!

I kept myself busy during the latter part of June helping to organize our local Canada Day festivities. It was a lot of work and a lot of frustration, but totally worth it! There had not been a Canada Day event in the area for almost ten years and all of the planning committee members were rookies at planning an event of this size. Lesson learned? Starting to plan an event for July 1st in March is not a good idea. We missed all of the deadlines for requesting government funding and ended up doing a lot of begging for donations from local businesses. For a rural area, we really did well! Even businesses who could not donate funds gave us gift certificates or merchandise we could use for prizes!

The day was a little spread out so we will definitely need some more activities next year. We had a community breakfast, parade, giant yard sale, barbecue, carpentry competition, rolling pin toss, kids games, face painting, music, strawberry shortcake supper, graveyard walk and fireworks! At the end of the day, we had earned more money than what we started with! Yay! My big suggestion for next year will be a bouncy castle and a clown for the kids! I was worried that people would complain about the gaps in the activities or that there wasn't much for the teens to do, but I heard nothing but positives all day! I was even told afterward that our fireworks were better than the ones in town! (That very small town!) It was such a wonderful day! I met so many new people and made some great friends on the committee. I strongly encourage anyone to volunteer for this type of event!


Since Canada Day, I have been keeping busy helping T make more bottlecap jewlery. She is making keychains and zipper pulls as well as the necklaces now. She has even received a few phone calls from people requesting custom orders! One lady ordered 10 necklaces for the nurses in her dental office after seeing one of T's friends wearing one!

It has been unusually hot this summer, so T and I made a few sundresses. In order to wear them to church, we have to have our shoulders covered. T will sometimes just wear a t shirt under the sundress, but with the less casual dresses it looks funny. I found a very simple crochet shrug pattern on line and I've been making it in a multitude of colours to go with all the different dresses! My friend has also purchased some yarn so I can make one for her as well! It's a good thing I can whip one up in a few hours!

We're planning a weekend getaway for the upcoming weekend! It will be my grandmother's 75th birthday, so we are heading down home for a visit! We also hope to check out a theme park (weather permitting). So I will have many, many more pictures and still no Adobe! Wish me luck!