CITY BACK TO NORMAL ONCE AGAIN.....

The 100th anniversay celebration of the Calgary Stampede finished up last night after running for 10 days.....for those 10 days even our "suited" folks don western garb (boots, hats, shirts, even some chaps) and the city becomes a cowtown once again with rodeos, midways and cowboy music everywhere you go.....although I live in a small town just a vew minutes drive from Calgary, I am fortunate that I do have an unobstructed view of the fireworks as they light up the skies over Calgary!....the fireworks happen every night around 10:30 to 11 depending on when the grandstand show ends, as that is where they actually set the fireworks off.....I was born in Calgary and as far back as I can remember, most evenings the skies would open up and we would have a thunder/lightening storm during the whole of the Stampede...this year the parade went off without a hitch in 30C weather and I recall only one day where we actually had a bit of rain.....the thunder storms (when they do come) pass quickly however and everyone resumes whooping it up....every day here has been in the high 20's or low 30's (unusual for us) and although it was great weather for the Stampede, most of us do not have air conditioned homes so it has been a bit brutal.....today we are back to nice balmy mid 20's type weather....that I can handle!.....so long little dogies til next year!....

IT ARRIVED......YAY....

Just received an email from Margaret Ann that the crock pot card arrived....hope she enjoys making the pulled pork....here are the pix...

   

ONLY IN CANADA EH!......

Last Friday, while chatting it up with one of my scrapping online friends (Margaret Ann) during a ustream show, she asked if anyone had a good recipe for pulled pork....and it just so happened that my daughter was making it on Sunday for father's day.....I told M-A that we just used a pulled pork seasoning packet made especially for slow cookers and it was delicious!.....sadly, only in Canada you say!...lol...so I offered to send her some to try.....I couldn't just send it like that, so of course I had to dress the pkg. up a bit.....in a following post I will attach pix of the finished "card".....have to wait until she gets it so as not to spoil it....

WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE....

WOW....it has been a month since I last posted!...must mean I have been super busy creating projects!...hahaha....that is what I would have loved to be doing all this time, but as we all know, "life interruptus" has a way of getting involved....however, I have completed my version of a vintage camera (Laura's creation at followingthepapertrail) and am loving it....so many of the projects that my mentors are creating these days are quite works of architectural beauty and design....I make them more for my own satisfaction that I can actually re-create these wonders and have them set up as show and conversation pieces....for myself, I tend to not use them as mini albums for pictures....even just the thought of people constant handling of these creations as they check out the albums inside, might possibly freak me out!....

Here is the vintage camera....side and back views

 

LOST WAGES......

Some pix of our few days in Vegas this past week....

My daughter and brother trying to pass the time since the plane was late leaving for Vegas....

The casino floor at Bally's....

  

View of Caesar's Palace from our room....

  

South view of Las Vegas Boulevard.....

Mom trying her luck with the BIG slot....

Looks like Paris you say....nope...but it is the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel in Vegas.....

me and the King sharing a special moment at Madame Tussaud's.....

Although we all had a great time, it was still great to be back home!

KEYS FOR ARTS STORAGE UNIT.....

Got my door knobs and so another project is finally done!...YAY!.....Kathy (paperphenomenon), who designed the unit, left the middle section open, but I decided that I liked the look of a couple of shelves in this space.....I also added three little sections on the top shelf.......the bottom drawer was part of a mini album, but I turned it into a divided drawer....the side sections hold pullout pocket minis for pix or for storage of embossing folders, metal dies, whatever.....all in all I like it....I used Bo Bunny's Weekend Market paper....

I DID IT!........

First of all I have to apologize to my friend, Solucky,  who wanted to watch me put these bellows together and she was going to bring her camera!....YIKES....but my kit arrived and I was just too excited to wait....besides, I think the thought of her filming the whole process put me in a state of panic....I am proud to say that I didn't even do a test run first....besides, if I did screw up with the paper in the kit, heaven knows I have tons of other papers I could use....so here they are....did them in only an hour last night (while watching hockey) and looking pretty good if I do say so...now for the rest of the camera, which will have to wait for a week as Vegas is beckoning....