Wooden Toys

Oh do I ever want lots of wooden toys for the baby! Maybe I should learn to make them...

1)Mini Forest of Woods (oh, for $300 these could be mine...)


2)looove these blocks by little sapling


3)Woodland Animals, Pull Toys by The Wood Garden


4)An Awesome Dollhouse


5)The Cheekeyes Africa Wooden Toys

Bighorn Sheepsies

Compliments of Craig. Which reminds me, I have more photos from that day...

Another Autumn Walk

21 Weeks and a new house

Hey look, I'm past the halfway mark!
Here's what I'm doing:
- Making lots of apple sauce.
- Going for pretty fall walks (pictures to come).
- Drawing but not sharing. Although I'll have one to show you soon.
- Working.

Here's what I'm not doing:
- Cleaning my house. It's tragic.

In other news, we are moving in a month! We currently live in a very nice but very small basement suite which lacks some things we need for baby time. Such as two bedrooms...and soundproofing. So happily a friend of mine from work hooked me up with her parent's rental house. It's a cute little two bedroom a little bit out of town. We can paint it. And a get a kitten! It has things I've previously taken for granted but greatly miss at the moment, like a bathtub and a washer and dryer. Also there is a full unfinished basement, which is lovely as it means that my freezer will no longer live in the living room and my canning in the bathroom. So here's a little tour, what colours do you think I should paint it?

You go in a little entryway (which also has the door to the basement) and enter the kitchen. Which is not hugely huge, but nice. And big enough for my table, which I miss.

The kitchen leads to the first bedroom (nursery) and the living room.


Nursery. The wood paneling will go. It shares a closet through a sneaky arrangement with the master bedroom. So we will just take that over. But it does have this little cabinet thing, and a linen closet.


Living Room. One wall of wood which miiiight stay. Very nice views of the horse pasture and the river. Leads to the master bedroom (obviously on the same side as the nursery)


And leads to another little entryway between the back door and the bathroom.


Master bedroom. Two big windows, so lots of nice light.


Bathroom. Nothing fancy. But ooooh a bathtub.


So there you go. It also has tiny little over-run garden bits all around the house that I might work on if I am feeling adventurous next spring.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canadaland and I am eagerly anticipating pumpkin pie. mmmmmm. It's easy to be thankful this fall as God has taken care of us awesomely well. I don't really have much of a deep post ready here though, so here's some pretty fall themed photography:

Do you believe? by Marina Filipovic


Vera by Alexciel


I love you, Nature by Wojciech Dziadosz


...autumn by Oprisco


.As I never Sleep. by Ikmal Fauzan

Hi baby!

We got to see our baby yesterday! So cool! Little hands and feet waving about. Saw it drinking...saw it take a while to figure out how to get it's thumb into it's mouth. We so love this little person already.

(sucking it's thumb)

And no we don't know if it's a boy or a girl. They don't tell you the gender here. And apparently our tech is not a rule breaker. She was super nice though, and a)let me pee after a couple shots so I could enjoy seeing the baby, and b)told us what everything was when she took the pictures.

(feet!)

So that was our sneak peek. See you in a few more months baby!

New Lens!

Meet my birthday present. It's a 50mm f/1.8 lens and a set of macro filters. Fun fun fun. These were taken earlier today at Gyro Park in Nelson.

28

It's my birthday! 28. Geez, is that 30 I see up ahead? Naw, can't be.

So this picture is over 20 years old...I'm going to guess that I'm seven...I think some of the candles on that cake were my great grampa's...was it his birthday too? This is all a mystery. Apparently there's something to the whole scrapbooking/journalling thing after all. Oh and the lovely lady behind me is my Gramma.

28 seems pretty rosey to me. I've got a great husband, a baby on the way. We're living in a beautiful part of the world and I'm only a few months away from retiring from lifeguarding and focusing on my family and my art. That sounds pretty perfect to me!

Also my mom has mentioned cake. Life is good.

Oh TV

So I work afternoon/evenings. And when I get home we curl up with tea and watch a saved TV show. It is delightful cuddle time. And we are apparently now TV addicts. What are you guys watching so far this season? We are all about:
Lie to Me
Castle
Big Bang Theory
Bones
Fringe
The Mentalist
aaand Dollhouse (which has improved since the beginning of season one, by the way)

also:
Defying Gravity (if it comes back on...I super hope it hasn't got the axe)
So you think you can Dance Canada (and this is just me...Craig refuses to have any part of it)
NCIS - I have been resisting, because seriously, we watch too many shows. But dude, did you see the season premiere? Epic. Now I have to watch. It's unfair.
Those other Monday sitcoms...because I'm waiting for Big Bang Theory, but not really paying attention...

What I am not watching:
Grey's Anatomy - Maybe I'll start again...but it lost me near the end of last season. Seriously, she was having sex with a ghost. Seriously.
Lost...or Heroes for that matter - why couldn't they manage more than two seasons of cool?
Glee - I tried to watch an episode because it gets so much love. I just didn't get it.
Terminator or Life - Because they got cancelled. Jerks.
Chuck - Because it doesn't come back on till March. March! Well at least I'll have something to watch in March.

Also, why is it impossible for anyone on crime dramas to ever get past the tension and actually have a relationship! They are all the same. It's full of sadness.

Okay that is all. I swear I have a life.