Milk!

Today I bought this milk bottle and I am going to keep my milk in it from now on. I am SO excited! And it was only $6!

here lies the stardust

I miss my photography friend.

Dragon! and a Toadstool

Today I imagined up and made a toadstool pin cushion! I am in love with it.

And I made this dragon for Geordie's friend Luke.

I could never place the stars in the sky above you

Skating at the Arboretum at the University of Guelph.
There is a boardwalk that goes through a swampy/pond-ish area  and it has sticks and fallen trees frozen in it but the ice is quite smooth - albeit lightly dusted with snow - and we spent about an hour playing around on it. I love our adventures.

The battery in my camera was dead.....story of my life.. so I had to use my broken phone but this place was SO cool so I had to post a couple of these.

I could never pretend that I don't love you

My Geordie knows me well :)

This is what he got me for Christmas!

I haven't had too many chances to use it yet and I'm still experimenting but here are my very few results so far.

The lighthouse at one of the battle sites along the St.Lawrence that we went to

Geordie - at the location of the Battle for Chrysler Farm - on the St.Lawrence River

 We went ice skating on the frozen swampy parts of the Guelph Arboretum. 

Geordie jumping over a log in his skates in the frozen Arboretum

It works exceptionally well as far as I can tell in many different types of lighting and even when the subjects are moving. I love it!

That's exactly the way that I want it
That's exactly the way that I am

Crocheting up a Storm

First of all, I need a new camera. I desperatelyyyyy need an SLR. I wish I wasn't poor. Second, I apologize for how absolutely awful these pictures are.

point & shoot camera + the terrible lighting that comes with a basement apartment = disgustingly terrible photos

But here :)
I love to make things. These are the crocheting projects that I've finished so far. I have about four more on the go. I will post them as I finish them.

Owls! These blue and purple ones were for my Michael and Ava - two kids I babysat in Windsor - for Christmas. I also made a brown one last week for a friend. I'm going to attempt other animals this week! Geordie says they have banana eyes.

I had all of my DVD series boxes stacked on top of my TV and that just wasn't cutting it for me. So I made box/basket type things for them all.

I needed hot pads for my kitchen table for when I put hot dishes down! Soooo I made fruit ones!

I made a headband with a flower but now it's a bit too cold for it.. I will pull it out again in a month or so when it isn't so cold! .. or maybe next week. This winter has been so strange.

That's it for crochet projects for now!

gahhh..

My phone froze and I had to send it away to get fixed in the middle of December.
The loaner phone I had was the absolute worst. I hated it. I almost broke it in half and/or threw it across the room several times.
I got MY phone back December 23rd.
On January 11, this happened:

*sigh...

A House on the lake in Sault Sainte Marie

My cousin had me paint her in-laws house in Sault Sainte Marie so that she could give it to them for Christmas before they moved back to Essex County. I don't have a good picture of it.. this is the best I've got. This is the first painting I've ever done for people I don't know AND the first one I've ever been paid for!

Christmas Break #5 - A Bay of Glass

This water froze so quickly and without any snow. It was really thick but extremely clear and smooth. It was very easily the best ice I have ever seen. We wished we had had our skates.

It was so clear you could see right to the bottom, no problem. The water here is probably at least waist deep but it doesn't look it because of how perfect the ice is!

 This wall of tombstones was built in an old cemetery on Mohawk territory on the river.

And that is all for the wanderings we had during the break!

Christmas Break #4 - Ducks and Waves and Narnia

On the way to Kingston and Kingston:

We stopped at a couple of historical spots (as always!) and then wandered around Kingston on the river. It was really really cold but also very beautiful.

At a spot where a woman loyalist settled and built up a town off of the St. Lawrence River:

This was another historical spot to do with loyalists:

ducks!

 In Kingston:

"On this spot, more than 1500 Irish fleeing THE GREAT HUNGER along with compassionate citizens of many faiths who cared for them died of typhus in the fever sheds of Kingston. 1847-1848. WE HOLD THEIR MEMORY SACRED."
This sounds awful.

I like the clouds in this photo and that the white, red-roofed forts are visible along the shoreline.

We raced out down these rocks, jumping from one to the next. The lampposts remind me of Narnia.

SO many birds!

Christmas Break #3 - Hunting History and Love in the Grasses

Adventuring through Parrot Bay Conservation Area!
... we did a lot of adventuring :)

We accidentally stumbled upon a Geocache! In an awesome old ammunition box:

It was filled with film containers with laminated blank pieces of paper in them. ... still confused by that! We took one.

Beauuuutiful trails

We found the ruins of an old barn! Of course :) these types of things seem to find us everywhere we go. They were in the middle of a field. We then proceeded to wander around in the woods looking for the house and anything else we could find.

...trying to get a good picture..  except Geordie's eating a tree.

better..

love :)

A poor turtle fell into a crack and got stuck :(

Some of the old things we found - we found SO many all over the place!

And we found the house!!

...I just tried to do some research online about the house and farm. Instead I discovered that this place is apparently a huge hook up spot for homosexual men.. I am so glad that we did not go in the spring, summer, or fall with the amount of wandering we do off the trails. Wow haha..