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Thursday, January 19th ~ 2011 |
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Happy New Year to you ~ may this be your best year yet!
I've been absent a long time mainly due to the fact that my computer hasn't been playing nice with me. I ended up losing all my emails & contacts a few weeks ago, & in the end, had to get a Computer Tech to come by & recover them. Luckily, things are now restored & having everything disappear without warning forced me to clean out my computer, back up files & continue converting my web archives into book format. I finally finished Year 2006 ~ take a peak for yourself:
So, I've been here the whole time, but after spending up to 8 hours a day on this computer, I'm a little uninspired to blog. My apologies.
Aside from the computer fiasco, it's been a great start to the new year. Along with organizing all my files & photos on my computer, I've been organizing other things in my life ~ things around the house, paperwork, long overdue projects...
And some really exciting news ~ Chris & I will be celebrating my 40th birthday (coming up soon) in Hawaii! I will be swimming in the ocean with dolphins on that day if all goes well. Last weekend, my amazing sister-in-law, Pam threw her husband & I a birthday party complete with an Elvis Impersonator:
Yep, that was a very fun surprise!
I haven't torched since Christmas, but once back from our trip, I hope to be filled with lots of inspiration so stay tuned. |
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Saturday, December 31st ~ 2011
A pretty bird for you.
Happy New Year's Eve! I hope you have a fun & safe night. Remember to drink a couple of glasses of water before you go to bed if you have a few drinks. Makes all the difference in the morning.
I've been having some serious computer issues. Norton Antivirus automatically renewed itself on my computer & in the process my entire inbox, email folders & contacts have been wiped out completely. I guess if I wanted to start with a clean slate, the beginning of a new year is the time to do it, but I did have some very important information in there that I need to try to recover - it's off to the computer doctor I go, when they open up in the new year.
In the meantime, I am working on trying to get as much stuff off this computer as possible. It's been dodgy as of late, slow as molasses & randomly crashing. After losing 2000+ contacts in a blink of an eye, I'm feeling a little bit nervous. There's so much of my life crammed into this little box. I need to get certain things into safer places & delete the stuff that's slowing me down. So for now, I don't know how much updating I'll be doing until I'm back on track again, but I hope to be back soon.
Happy New Year! |
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Saturday, December 24th
Wow, Christmas Eve! Where did this week go? We are off to see Chris' Dad today & it will be a steady stream of food & family from then onwards so I'm wishing you a very, Merry Christmas & all the best during the Holidays. Enjoy Aunt Chip's Tips on How to Wrap a Fabulous Gift:
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Wednesday, December 14th
Beautiful Door
The patina on this door is divine - I wish to make beads that look like this some day.
Other things on my wish list:
What looks to be an Amazing Quarterly.
& the Iphone 4S. * I'm almost due for a new phone with my contract & was thinking that if I upgrade to this, I might be able to use it for vacations & bead photos. If you have this phone, how is the camera on it? Can you get away with using it on a holiday instead of a good point & shoot or D-SLR? How are close up shots?
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Tuesday, December 13th
Saw this video on Facebook (thanks Susan) ~ thought it was interesting:
Just a drive-by hello as it's kind of a busy week ~ I'm hosting the Fireflies (Bead Makers of Edmonton) Annual Christmas party this Thursday so I'm preparing for that & trying to squeeze in some time to make more owls.
Finished painting the kitchen & took some photos but they were too dark so I'll try again some time this week. Off to torch... |
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Wednesday, December 7th
I had my first flying dream (that I could remember) the other day. It was awesome! I just flapped my wings, err... arms & could fly. Then I saw this video:
Incredible! And scary.
The microwave & hood fan goes up today, hooray, hooray! Then it's just paint, trim and a window treatment & the kitchen will be fini! I will take pictures next week for sure.
Still some goodies for sale. If you haven't checked them out, click here & here. |
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