Wednesday, January 27th, 2010has come and gone, meaning, the District Governor's Dinner hosted by our Seeley's Bay Lions Club for District A-4 of International Lions Clubs is over and behind me. I must tell you that the floral arrangements which my mother made to dress the tables were absolutely gorgeous and she used the Lions colours in those arrangements. Meaning, one important event is now over and the last for this winter is still to come .......Frost Fest! Only 5 sleeps left before Frost Fest begins and this year from all accounts it will be BIGGER and hopefully BETTER than ever.
The rain has finally stopped but I know for a fact that many people were coping with water in their basements and with the colder temperatures on the way if that water doesn't dry up nicely before we'll all be skating on sidewalks and the streets, and our ice rinks will need more attention because the water flowed from the higher ground onto the ice and made it rough and untidy, but soon with the colder weather the rinks will once again become groomed with the help from our human zamboni's and Frost Fest day skaters will surely be enjoying the surfaces.
Dang I seem to be having sewing machine problems again, hopefully though I can work around this problem and finish off those much promised totes for the Frost Fest and some other quilted items to be donated as prizes.... I can't wait to see how well I progress in getting my to do list completed.
I am so busy I don't have time now to falter, sew, sew, sew that is my motto for this week and next, onwards to the finish line. I still have the Scavenger Hunt clues and items all packed up too... Wanna come help?
Thanks to a very special man, Rick my Scavenger Hunt Flyer is really neat, I am so hoping alot of families will come and join in on the Family Fun, seeing little ones try and solve the clues and then find the booty and win the Hunt....I am so looking forward to this event and praying it will be a huge success...In my links section you can get to our Fraost Fest web-site just with a click of your mouse.
I have also restocked my Esty Shop and connected it with Big Crumbs....SAVE AND SAVE AND SAVE through BIG CRUMBS. I mean if your already an online shopper whats the harm in checking this site out - it has 480 Large Retailers and counting and several hundreds smaller online entrepenurial shops, from Esty to e-Bay you'll find many of us there offering cash back, or free shipping, and other types of shopping incentives and this site provides the shoppers with savings and the rest of us benefit of traffic to our stores and savings as well as earnings for small business' earners. Another idea, if your non-profit group is planning fundraising, this site will provide you with earning for the group too! People shop, they save your group earns and your fundraising is supplimented with dollars too all done through Big Crumbs and the savings go directly into your fundraiser account, what a neat way to boost your groups earning for the fundraising power. Again, check out the ad at the top of my esty shop here in the sidebar, click on it and check out BIG CRUMBS for yourself.
The end of my day is now here, but it was a very good day, I was alive and well and that is the most important blessing of all, then to top this blessing off I got to spend time with good people who volunteer their time and energies in helping others.
Thank you for dropping in and have a wonderful day tomorrow.
Public Boat Docks in Seeley's Bay
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Rain, Rain
It has rained all night and all day today and the snow is quickly fading away. Well so I thought, but the wind has come up and the temperatures are dropping fast, but having gone hunting for the long range forecast, it leaves hope for good winter weather for our Towns Frost Fest. Our ice down at the Bay was like glass up until last nights rain. With the dropping temperatures and the snow forecast to be on its way gives hope that the glass conditions of the ice rink will once again make a reappearance.
Yesterday I took the plunge, I joined BIG CRUMBS to avail myself and anyone else I know of the great savings offered through it. It hooks up my online Esty Shop and affords me an opportunity to provide discounts to buyers willing to buy my hand made tote bags and quilted items. One can but hope it will help me to become a saver as well as an earner. People who shop online may as well benefit from the savings as well as those retailers gaining more custom. What a great combination. When you see the amount of savings you can snare shopping through that site and how much earners can earn, well its positively exciting. I couldn't help but join. 480 Retailers registered to date all offering huge savings. People refer other people who shop online anyway why not allow everyone to make a buck or two. Small entrepeneurs like myself really benefit. I am hoping to do well with it. Retailers and consumers working in concert and each benefiting from the exercise.
Having said that I needed to make time to list more inventory at the Esty shop which I have done, I feel much better now for having done just that. Once Frost Fest is over and done with I can finally go back to my beloved quilting, two weeks and counting.
Once I find more time to steal from my to do list I will post pictures of all the totes and bags I have been finishing.
In the meantime I have been thinking about giraffes, those wonderful graceful long necked creatures with legs to have made Betty Grable jealous. These creatures are my most favorite of all in the Animal Kingdom. I discovered MongaBay a web site and interview with Jeremy Hance a giraffe expert and Dr. Julian Fennessey. Want to be in awe, go see the photography.
In the meantime while your being captivated with my Giraffes I will leave and get back to the work I must do. Have a wonderful day what is left of it on your side of the computer screen and remember if your reading what it is I have written, then we're both above ground and very blessed.
Yesterday I took the plunge, I joined BIG CRUMBS to avail myself and anyone else I know of the great savings offered through it. It hooks up my online Esty Shop and affords me an opportunity to provide discounts to buyers willing to buy my hand made tote bags and quilted items. One can but hope it will help me to become a saver as well as an earner. People who shop online may as well benefit from the savings as well as those retailers gaining more custom. What a great combination. When you see the amount of savings you can snare shopping through that site and how much earners can earn, well its positively exciting. I couldn't help but join. 480 Retailers registered to date all offering huge savings. People refer other people who shop online anyway why not allow everyone to make a buck or two. Small entrepeneurs like myself really benefit. I am hoping to do well with it. Retailers and consumers working in concert and each benefiting from the exercise.
Having said that I needed to make time to list more inventory at the Esty shop which I have done, I feel much better now for having done just that. Once Frost Fest is over and done with I can finally go back to my beloved quilting, two weeks and counting.
Once I find more time to steal from my to do list I will post pictures of all the totes and bags I have been finishing.
In the meantime I have been thinking about giraffes, those wonderful graceful long necked creatures with legs to have made Betty Grable jealous. These creatures are my most favorite of all in the Animal Kingdom. I discovered MongaBay a web site and interview with Jeremy Hance a giraffe expert and Dr. Julian Fennessey. Want to be in awe, go see the photography.
In the meantime while your being captivated with my Giraffes I will leave and get back to the work I must do. Have a wonderful day what is left of it on your side of the computer screen and remember if your reading what it is I have written, then we're both above ground and very blessed.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Out Of Sick Bay
I don't believe it, here it is Friday again!!! I have accomplished nothing since Sunday past, all I have done is quarantine myself to my quarters, drunk water until I could feel my innards sloshing and slept until my bones and joints became stiffer than wood.
I'm such a fraidy cat and haven't bothered to contact the doctor. My mother has publicized my ailments and my brother has been badgering me to get an appointment, but all I want is to be left to myself and get over whatever it is that I managed to bring home with me from someone else somewhere else. Who really knows, but it can't last much longer, can it? WELL if it does I guess I will eventually have to make it to the doctors' office and take it all from there, but oh how I hate doing that, the images I conjure up are not mentally appetizing and so, I remain here in my quarters and taking my sweet time to get better. I am drinking gallons of water, eating lots of soups, had some fruit but so far only the cramping has disappeared, I still have the nasties!!!
I am certain some time in between the frequent handwashings while out shopping last week I picked up some nasty germ someone left lying about. I wash my hands by frequenting the store washroom facilities all of the time. I keep those anti-bacterial hand wipes in my pocket, I even use that anti-bacterial jell when I run out of those wipes and when good old fashioned soap isn't available. Obviously I wasn't careful enough.
I could have picked it up at the grocery store, or the craft shop, or the quilt store, the gas pump handle, or the restaurant where we finally all stopped for supper, who really knows on which surface that nasty germ lay in waiting for someone to come along and carry it off home with them? So be vigilant, you can't ever be too careful with your health, heaven only knows where the nasties are waiting to ambush you!
Frost Fest is rapidly approaching and I am so far behind in my list of things to have done, I only hope I can accomplish half of the "need to do list". Not today, today is needed for moving stuff out of the back room of the Hut where the Heater is for the In-Floor Radiant Heating. The darned thing decided to die this week. In order to get this old unit removed and the new unit installed, I need to empty out the room. The man told me I only needed to move so much, but heavens to betsy how can he work in a space already filled to the rafters with Stuff, so from Sick Bay I go to the Hut and make certain that man can do his job properly and not be hampered by all of this junk.
To top off my totally unproductive week the International Lions Club Govenors' Dinner is also rapidly approaching and I have obligations to my Club to get certain things done too. Who knows how I will accomplish it all, but try is all I can ask of me.
Since having told you all of this I assure you I am still above ground and if your reading this you are too, so have a totally FRIENDTASTIC day and enjoy all of your blessings, I know I will.
I'm such a fraidy cat and haven't bothered to contact the doctor. My mother has publicized my ailments and my brother has been badgering me to get an appointment, but all I want is to be left to myself and get over whatever it is that I managed to bring home with me from someone else somewhere else. Who really knows, but it can't last much longer, can it? WELL if it does I guess I will eventually have to make it to the doctors' office and take it all from there, but oh how I hate doing that, the images I conjure up are not mentally appetizing and so, I remain here in my quarters and taking my sweet time to get better. I am drinking gallons of water, eating lots of soups, had some fruit but so far only the cramping has disappeared, I still have the nasties!!!
I am certain some time in between the frequent handwashings while out shopping last week I picked up some nasty germ someone left lying about. I wash my hands by frequenting the store washroom facilities all of the time. I keep those anti-bacterial hand wipes in my pocket, I even use that anti-bacterial jell when I run out of those wipes and when good old fashioned soap isn't available. Obviously I wasn't careful enough.
I could have picked it up at the grocery store, or the craft shop, or the quilt store, the gas pump handle, or the restaurant where we finally all stopped for supper, who really knows on which surface that nasty germ lay in waiting for someone to come along and carry it off home with them? So be vigilant, you can't ever be too careful with your health, heaven only knows where the nasties are waiting to ambush you!
Frost Fest is rapidly approaching and I am so far behind in my list of things to have done, I only hope I can accomplish half of the "need to do list". Not today, today is needed for moving stuff out of the back room of the Hut where the Heater is for the In-Floor Radiant Heating. The darned thing decided to die this week. In order to get this old unit removed and the new unit installed, I need to empty out the room. The man told me I only needed to move so much, but heavens to betsy how can he work in a space already filled to the rafters with Stuff, so from Sick Bay I go to the Hut and make certain that man can do his job properly and not be hampered by all of this junk.
To top off my totally unproductive week the International Lions Club Govenors' Dinner is also rapidly approaching and I have obligations to my Club to get certain things done too. Who knows how I will accomplish it all, but try is all I can ask of me.
Since having told you all of this I assure you I am still above ground and if your reading this you are too, so have a totally FRIENDTASTIC day and enjoy all of your blessings, I know I will.
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