Finding time to do it all …

The warmer weather is almost here! Yippee!  At this time of year, I find that there are so many more things to do, events happening, demands of my time.  

I love the way we inspire, uplift and praise one another, we share our skills and most importantly encourage one another with our comments.  

I find that I have less time for blogging and have not been a good blogging friend. I haven’t commented on a lot of the fabulous projects I see. I doubt very much that it’s just me that feels this way, but if I’m not commenting on others hard work, when I post my work, it just seems like I’m being boastful (I mean that in the most humble way).

So, I’m going to step back and will post occasionally as I have the time, but I won’t be joining in on any parties unless I have the time to look at AND comment on others posts. 

Please stop in every once in a while and heavens to Betsy, have a wonderful Summer!

7 things about me

My dear friends, thank you so much for this award. I have been reluctant to accept because I am not very good at speaking about myself. In true Canadian fashion, I am somewhat modest :)
So, if any of you care enough to read on, here are 7 things about me that you may not know.
1. I am a homebody.  After working all day, I love coming home. I often don’t answer the phone. My friends don’t usually just come over. They know that I love my alone time and have learned to love me with my quirkiness.
2. If I could do any job in the world, it would be decorating homes for marginalized people. People that often don’t have the resources to make their homes comfortable and aesthetically pleasing.  I am currently helping out a young mum with two wee girls. She needs everything and I’m scraping together bits and pieces here and there. After I get her the necessities, I want to create a great bedroom, just for her. She is the sweetest girl and a great mum to her little one’s. She tries her best every day. She is my niece.
3. I don’t like to cook
4. I love making things with balloons and I love face painting. I can be found twisting and painting at parties in the greater Toronto area. It has taken a back seat to my love of decorating and crafting, but it is still a true passion of mine. I hope to revive my business this coming summer.
5. I grew up in the projects. Yes, we have them here in Canada :)  I couldn’t wait for the day when I could kiss it goodbye. I have created a life for myself far removed from how I grew up and I am thankful for it.
6. I would love to spend another day with my maternal Grandmother. She loved me like no one else did, encouraged me and saw potential that others did not. She was beautiful. She loved to sing, but honestly, she wasn’t very good at it. LOL. I never told her that.
7. When I retire, I hope to move somewhere warm for 6 months of the year. I absolutely hate the cold.  Unfortunately, retirement is still a long way off.
So there you go. Not very interesting, but it’s me. 
I pass this on to all of the warm and wonderful blog friends I have met over the last year.  No pressure, but if you do decide to write about yourself, be sure to let me know.

Something pretty and something ugly

I thought I’d buy myself something pretty as I had an ugly week.
I decided to upgrade my laptop from XP to Windows 7 and it didn’t go so well. Fortunately, my friends husband is a computer guru and fixed it for me, but I lost all of my data, including my photos. I did a back up before I tried the update, but I can’t get the back up off of the disks :(
So for the ugly, I now have one of these… 1 Terabyte external hard drive. It ain’t purdy, but I won’t have to worry about losing my data any more.

I have spent the last few days reloading all of my software. I hope I’ll be able to recover the data.
Have a great weekend.