More Bentley Pics

Here are some more pics of Bentley interacting with Kodi & Peanut.

Meet Bentley

Last Sunday we picked up Bentley - he was 2 days shy of being 8 weeks old.

Peanut was wary of him at first but now likes him, as long as he isn't biting her - he is biting everything!

Kodi wants to play with him, but forgets how big he is himself and wants to hop like Bentley does.

Bentley checking out Kodi

Playing with Peanut - he gives as good as he gets!

Playing TUG

Peanut TUGGING Bentley across the floor

Trying to bite Kodi's ear

Being checked out by Peanut & Kodi

Trying to bite Kodi's wagging tail

All tuckered out from all that play

A day in the life - Monday

Hi all, long time no blog huh?

I was reading someone's blog the other day and they listed all that they had done all day, and it seemed like a neat idea, since lately I am not sure what I have been doing all day - it sometimes seems like lots of nothing.

So I figured I could also incorporate my To Do list and check things off as they are finished, so that I can see what I have actually accomplished each day.

So without further ado...

7:00 alarm goes off, I go and get Peanut out of J's bed to put her out. I pack his lunch, that I remembered to make last night. I make him an omelet  as he has started wanting eggs each morning. Between his 2 per day and my 2 (sometimes more if I have boiled eggs at lunch), we are using a lot of eggs each week. I wish we could raise laying hens but it is not allowed in this area. Then I go wake him up, and then yell up the stairs at least 3 more times before he actually gets up to eat a cold omelet.

7:30 Next I make my coffee with coconut oil, today I used the blender to make it frothy, it was yummy!

Then to watch Breakfast television until it is time for J to leave for school. During all this K got his things together and left for work by 7:30. J leaves at 7:45. 

I check Facebook and my addicting Hobbit game on my tablet. Spent too much time on the Hobbit game today, you see I have 2 cities in each of 2 world and I have to farm (rob) other cities to get resources to train armies and build my city so I can farm bigger cities for resources...wash, rinse, repeat :P 

Hey I can't let my virtual cities die now can I?!

9:00 Make & eat my breakfast

9:30 Take food waste bag out to garage bin

To Dos for today

Get dressed at some point

Laundry (I did J's yesterday) Did 2 loads

Bake banana muffins (have thawed bananas in fridge for 2 days so far :P) And ate 3!
Get garbage & recycling out of office, garbage day is tomorrow (its been piling up)

Hamburger rice for dinner, K's to be stuffed into red peppers about to spoil (I don't like peppers)

Package & freeze chicken breasts in fridge

Package and freeze ground beef in fridge

Make J's lunch for tomorrow

Put away clean dishes

Wash dishesThen dirtied a bunch more

Work on current craft project

9:45 - 10:30 Work on blog post, get dressed, read blogs, surf the net, decide what to tackle 1st.

11:00-2:00 Started a load of laundry, had leftover pasta salad for lunch, watched a couple shows I had taped.

2:00-4:00 Made 20 banana muffins, washed dishes, 2nd load of laundry, worked on current craft project a bit, watch another recorded show with J..

4:00-7:00 Started dinner, washed dishes, ate dinner, then made J's dinner (he didn't like what we had), watched news, made J's lunch, packed up dinner leftover, enough for tomorrow Yeah!

Relax time, I am tired :)

The Documented Life Project

So I only heard about this on New Years eve day, so I had to scramble to get ready.

The idea is to get a planner (or make one as I did) and use it as a planner & an art journal throughout 2014. Basically to document your life, for at least this year.

The people that posted this project will post a challenge each week as inspiration for you to art about - you can do any interpretation of the prompt that you want, you can draw, write, paint, sketch, scrap whatever.

Here is the Original blog post explaining the project - there are also links embedded to more ideas.

This is the Facebook group page where you can get tons of inspiration from over 2800 people also in the challenge.

Here is the materials I started with.

Month tabs added.

Here it is partially decorated with washi tape on the edges and many fold-out pages added.

This is how I changed the binding once it started getting too fluffy for its' spiral binding.

Here is my interpretation of the 1st Challenge - your front door.

My covers are plastic, so I can't paint or draw on them,but I was thinking I could make a fabric slip cover using lace and vintage fabric maybe.I still have plenty of time to decide on that though.

Another "where the heck have I been" type post

I know if has been ages since I have posted anything other than a book review. Life has been busy to say the least.

Currently, my mother in-law is living with us because of some health concerns & because she has early stage Alzheimer's and needs daily care. This has not been an easy thing for me to adjust to. My mother in-law & I never much liked each other to begin with and now I am with her 24/7 in a care giver role that I am really not cut out for. We are managing ok I guess. We are both somewhat stressed. She is overwhelmed with all the new things happening to her & doesn't remember most of what she is told about these new ailments. I am doing my best to be patient with her, and most days that works. Although I could really use a break.

She is going home to her daughter's house for the holidays while her daughter is off work to care for her, so I will get a bit of a break. But then she will be back here indefinitely until her other health concerns are worked out.

I haven't been looking for work as I really need to be home with her right now, so applying for anything would not be a good idea - she cannot be left alone for long.

I have had 3 craft shows this fall/winter. I did progressively better at each one. The last one with the Durham Region Community Crafters Guild was the best - I will be sure to enroll in their next sale. I like that it is all hand crafted items and no "gift" type booths such as Scentsy, Tupperware or Pampered Chef.

Otherwise, we are all doing well. Christmas has snuck up on me & I haven't even started shopping, not that I have many people to buy for.

Here are a couple pics from my most recent craft show.