Memory Box Program

I found this website and thought it was a great idea! It is a memory box program; volunteers make artsy boxes and send them off. The boxes are then given to parents of newborns that have just passed away, to be used for their keepsakes.

The program started in 1998 and have provided over 113, 000 boxes for families.

For more information, visit http://memoryboxes.org/index.html

Fresh Ideas!

It was a crazy weekend/Monday. My parents asked me to 'babysit' for them while they went away for the weekend. Baby sitting for my parents involves dogsitting, catsitting, horse sitting (there's 2 quarter horses, 4 miniature horses, and one mini donkey) and housesitting. I was also working this weekend and trying to plan a surprise birthday party for my Mom's birthday (yesterday). Mothers are hard people to be sneaky around!

Anyways, my friend found this blog that I wanted to share with you. It's called "Stampin Pretty" and it is fantastic! The lady who owns the blog is a Stampin Up demonstrator; I have a lot of Stampin Up stuff and this blog is great for getting new ideas.

www.stampinpretty.com

Happy St Patrick's Day

(A photo I took in Dublin in 2004)

An Irish Blessing for all you Irish out there: May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. Happy St. Patty's day everyone!

One Million Giraffes!

If anyone has pictures of giraffes that they have hand-made themselves, take a photo and send it along!

This person is collecting giraffes and wants to get 1 million before the end of the year. This sounds like fun and I am going to send a couple :)

For more giraffey info http://www.olahelland.net/giraffes/?page=2

Sunday Special

When I saw this photo, my jaw just dropped. The butterflies that this artist makes are absolutely gorgeous and ridiculously tiny! This red-spotted purple butterfly is 12 times SMALLER than actual size with a 2mm wingspan! WOW!

Vinyl Cafe with Stuart Mclean

Most Canadians will be familiar with the name Stuart Mclean. He does the Vinyl Cafe show for the CBC.

Tonight is his show in the city of Lethbridge and very randomly, I ended up helping his crew set up the stage today! I did my morning shift at workplace #1 and then shuffled into workplace #2 after lunch only to be asked if I could help with the setup for the show tonight. The original helper from workplace #2 was unable to go so I got volunteered! I also got to do it on company time so I got paid too! Nice.

Cabin Fever

I started at my third job today- my usual seasonal work at a local garden centre- and had a great time! It's always nice to be around growing things! The official start of spring is less than 10 days away and the grass here in town is just starting to grow (despite the freezing temperatures).

I am nearly climbing the walls in excitement to get outside finally and go hiking, camping, gardening, painting outdoors...anything outdoors and in the sun :)

(photo: climbing Mt Snowdon in Wales. Snowdon is the peak on the far right. We climbed to the peak via the 3 peaks and the long ridge to the left of it.)