Happy Canada Day

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!

To all my fellow bloggers. Enjoy your day with family and friends.

What have I been doing....

Wow I can't believe how time flys by.
Well I have not been in the mood to sew/quilt, the weather has been amazing. Worked in the gardens. Planted vegs. amoungst my flowers.
Next year I plan on having a veg garden on its own.

I have done a little x-stitching in the evenings. Maybe half way there with my pattern.


We have been out on the weekends antiquing with our friends and their antique vehicles. Here our 49 ford p/u truck and our friends mustang, as well a our 49 meteor.


Here are some of my finds.
A weathervane that I know will look great on the top of our new shed,
dishes for our hutch. I found this blue Meakin jug that is the same as the pink one I already have. Now to find the brown one that matches. I Need to focus on the red and white transferware and A beautiful old pudding bowl.
Here it all is displayed on my new hutch.

Need to be on the hunt for more furniture to paint.......

Last weekend we spent with friends and family at our sons to celebrate our grandson and grandaughters (cousins) grade 8 graduation.

The weather was on our side. Everyone had a great time. Monday was the actual grad and our grandson won athelete of the year. He is a strapping young lad at 5 ft 10 in . He loves sports and is a pitcher on a all star ball team. Look out Blue Jays, upcoming pitcher here. And our grandaughter won three awards(pins)in honour of achievement in Arts, Academic, Reading. She was part of a group of students that went to a camp for art /theatre for nine days. Very talented young artist. Runs in the family....lol

I hope you enjoyed your weekend.
See you soon........
Linda

We have a winner

Congratulations ! Lori, from Frugal Farmhouse Design. You have won the $50.00 CSN gift certificate.
A big thankyou goes out to all of you that entered.
I will email you Lori with the details.
Everyone Have a Great Day!

GIVEAWAY TIME!

Very Happy to announce that I will be doing my first GIVEAWAY with CSN Stores

You can win a $50.00 gift certificate!

Featuring products from over 200 stores, CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find everything from cookware to cribs or even your most specific needs like LED lighting or laptop cases! I guarantee you'll find something you like. I was able to find several items I would love to have and could have easily spent hours browsing through their many products. So go check out the site, see what you would like...and enter to win the $50.00 one time use gift certificate! CSN Stores Link

Here's how the entries work:

Post a comment= 1 entry,
New follower= 2 entries
Post on your blog that I am having a giveaway = 3 entries

The giveaway is open till Sunday June 13th. @ midnight.
One lucky person will win.
I will draw the winner Monday June 14th.
Good luck!

Giveaway Postponed

Hi everyone, I'm so sorry but I have to postpone my" giveaway" until later this week. I'm having computor problems.
I'll try to have it up and running by Thursday.

Thursday , where has this week gone

Hello fellow bloggers. Has your week been spent sewing, painting or have you been in the garden?

Well as you can see in the following pictures, all my time has been spent in the gardens. I still have two left to weed.
They say the early bird gets the worm.
I must take heed and get up early to start pulling, digging and transplanting before the morning heat. I don't know about all of you but we have had exceptional warm "NO HOT" days this past week. Last year our summer came and went without the number of hot days we have had this week alone.
So are you ready for the tour... lets begin.. Follow Fergus.
As you walk out of our patio doors off the kitchen you walk into this screened in porch. Off to the left are doors that close off the porch to keep out the bugs. (see Max) continuing around the room , here my August APQ has arrived. Can't wait to read up on all the new quilts.
Going down the stairs now on to the lower deck, (we installed this awning, well what a time we had. DH got one side up then the other side would fall.The air was blue, I started to laugh, not a good thing.) He has no sense of humour.
Now go on down the stairs and you will see my new rock garden and all those hostas that we transplanted. I love my little fish pond. My garden angel watches over.

Now over to the east side of the yard I have my dads old ladder as part of architecture. This ladder has to be at least 70 years old. As we continue to the other side here are some more hostas, black eyes susans, and ????
















And as we end this tour here is where I found a home for my
old birdhouse. Right out front for everyone to see.Be sure to come back on Monday, I will be having another "GIVEAWAY"
Linda

THE REVEAL

Finally the reveal.


Well remember this sideboard and hutch I purchased last week.

I started on Sunday afternoon and sanded , Monday morning I stained and in the afternoon I gave it its first coast of paint.
Bright and early yeterday morning I gave it a final coat then proceeded to rub it to give it some appeal. Well I think it turned out great.I picked up the hardware for it today at our local Rona Cashway building and Supplies.

The paint colour is Beautitone, #1475 off white.

A lot of hard work and time went into this project. The next one I will spray paint.
My dh will have to put up a tent and then put me in a white suit ,
give me a breathing apparatis,then let me loose.

So whats next you say, well I'm still on the hunt for a harvest table and chairs
that I can do my handiwork to.

Linda