tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88058696450889704332024-03-05T07:27:07.945-05:00A PEEK INTO MY LIFEThis is my little place on the web. A place to record and share my life, my thoughts, my hobbies. A place to laugh and to cry, to create and to muse. A place to just be me.Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-50042711331260621042015-07-01T07:30:00.000-04:002015-07-01T07:30:01.918-04:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year for the Canada Day weekend we were relaxing at home. School had just ended and we had nowhere to be and nothing urgent to do. We spent the weekend painting my office in the basement. We've lived in this house for 13 years and it was still painted blue from the previous owners. Now that I have taken it over, it was definitely due for a change. I painted it white. So boring. I am already itching to repaint it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meredith had just passed her G1 so we took her out for a small driving lesson. I sat in the back with my eyes closed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isobel received a robot kit and she spent some time building it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That and we BBQ'd as much as possible and enjoyed some<b> <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Smores-Dip/" target="_blank">S'mores Dip</a></b> in the backyard. Have you tried that yet? It is DELISH!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did this page recently about last years' Canada and I'm really pleased with it. (Am I allowed to say that?) I like its clean lines and uncluttered look. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you have a lovely <span style="color: red;"><i>Canada Day</i></span> wherever you are and whatever you're doing. (Even if you're not Canadian and it's not a holiday for you.) xo</span></div>
<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-56389598003757105362015-05-25T11:11:00.000-04:002015-05-25T11:11:56.752-04:00Another Sketch for the Nerds<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's my take on the sketch. You'll notice most of my pages are almost direct duplicates but that is certainly not the case all the time. I'm finding when I do the sketch I follow it completely. But when I use someone else's it often ends up looking totally different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These photos were taken last summer when Meredith and I took a quick trip out to Vancouver Island to see my mother. While we were there we visited a Lavender Farm. When we pulled in a couple of dogs ran to the car barking and causing quite a stir. My mother is good with dogs so she got out and calmed them down, then Meredith and I emerged. Neither of us is good with barking, bouncing dogs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of them really took a shine to Meredith and wouldn't let her walk more than a couple of steps without flopping down on her feet and demanding a belly rub. Meredith had had a bad experience with a couple of foster dogs at a friends house that caused her to believe dogs just didn't like her. I had no idea!! </span></div>
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-91791541950731845372015-05-13T14:17:00.001-04:002015-05-13T14:17:47.314-04:00NSD Sketch and Page<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve been creating some sketches for the gals over at <a href="http://scrapbooknerd.com/" target="_blank">Scrapbook Nerd</a> and thought I could share some of them here. They’ve had some great challenges going on over there lately. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">One of them was a sketch challenge (created by me, yay!) for National Scrapbook Day. The ran a weekend long online crop. It was the Early Bird Challenge. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Here's my sketch:</span></span><br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-47691601475812729432014-12-05T18:03:00.004-05:002014-12-05T18:03:45.858-05:00December DailyWhat am I doing to myself?<br />
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I really struggle at this time of the year. It is so busy!1 And I don't do well with busy.<br />
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However, I have decided to do a <a href="http://aliedwards.com/projects/december-daily" target="_blank">December Daily</a> album. You can find details about it here on <a href="http://aliedwards.com/projects/december-daily" target="_blank">Ali Edwards</a> blog. Mine is going to be extremely simple. With Meredith heading off to University next year and Isobel going to High School, I'd really like to record what our Decembers are like right now, then do it again next year or in a couple of years' time and see how we have changed.<br />
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Given that we are 5 days into December already the first few photos are a little lame. Most of them will be taken on my iPhone so the quality may not be the best. Plus I'm really dumbing it down and going as simple as possible to make sure I stick to it. I'm doing it all digital and using <a href="http://www.cathyzielske.com/" target="_blank">Cathy Zielske's</a> <a href="http://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/supplies/product_info.php/products_id/16829" target="_blank">30 Days of Thankful templates</a> to complete it. The templates are designed for a 6x6 album, but I'm going to break that rule and do them all 4x4 and put them in these cute little albums from <a href="http://scrapbooknerd.com/xencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=105&products_id=2283" target="_blank">Scrapbook Nerd</a>. I'm going to do my best to get these done daily and post them here. Wish me luck!! I'm going to need it.<br />
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Here are the first few pages:<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-14979673096035618922014-11-11T14:25:00.000-05:002014-11-11T14:25:00.097-05:00Another Camp PageI don't think Camp was easy for Isobel. She likes her time alone. She likes her sleep. She's particular about her food and she likes her 'comforts' (eg. a soft bed).<br />
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The hardest part about the trip for her was the out trip. Her cabin canoed 18km. I'm sure it was exhausting. The 'Trippers' did the portaging for them and that impressed me. I have so much respect for these young women who head out in the wilderness with a group of tweens and help them navigate from campsite to campsite lugging canoes and food and setting up and taking down camp each night. Wow. I'm sure they had to deal with their fair share of tween drama too!!<br />
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One thing I wanted to stress for Isobel was for her to focus on the positive aspects of her out trip. Not the fact that it was hard. Not the fact that she had to use the wilderness as her bathroom. Not the fact that she had to navigate her canoe through some difficult rapids. And certainly not the fact that her canoe tipped and her gear floated away. But that she did something that was difficult and survived - more than survived - she experienced things not everyone gets to experience.<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-17393939131899450602014-11-09T14:18:00.000-05:002014-11-09T14:18:00.126-05:00CampWhen Isobel was younger (9?), she and Meredith went away to Camp for a week. Meredith loved it but Isobel really struggled. She didn't connect with the girls in her cabin and she really missed being home and she didn't go back. Meredith loved it and went until the time came that she was required to do a one week out trip and stay for a month.<br />
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In the summer of 2013 Isobel reconnected with a friend from preschool who had moved to the US. This friend had gone to a Camp in Ontario for years and loved it. She ended up moving back (yay!) and convinced Isobel to try Camp with her. It was a 2 week Camp and involved a 4 day out trip. Isobel thought it might be better to go with a friend and she really wanted to have the positive experience Meredith had.<br />
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Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-64465035375951577542014-11-07T14:01:00.000-05:002014-11-07T14:01:00.147-05:00A Page From HawaiiDuring my 'blogging hiatus' we took the most fantastic trip to Hawaii. We were able to meet friends who live in Australia for 2 weeks on the Island of Hawaii and it was amazing.<br />
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One thing that struck me when we were there was how early the sun set. Here in Canada the sun was setting around 9:30pm but in Hawaii, it was setting around 7pm. I actually quite liked it. First because it was very easy to be out and about while the sun was setting and enjoy the beautiful light that comes at sunset but it also provided a nice break from the heat. The nights were not hot at all and I'm sure it was partly because of how early dark arrived.<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-22795301823849654802014-11-03T14:06:00.000-05:002014-11-03T14:06:00.402-05:00Meredith And Her FluteMeredith is very serious about her music. Her intention is to go to University to study Music and hopefully, get into Music Therapy. She has it all figured out. She could teach, she could perform, she could practice Therapy. But most of all she gets to do what she loves the most - play.<br />
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She likes to practice every day. We were invited to a friends' cottage in August and I was sure she would look forward to the break from practicing, but no, she brought her flute with her and practiced with her music tacked to a tree.<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-12727520845102283652014-10-29T13:30:00.000-04:002014-10-29T13:30:02.097-04:00Three More Pages For YouI'm feeling like this blog is a little outdated. When did I set it up? At least 3-4 years ago. I'd really like to change things up a bit but there are so many things I like to do! The pages I post here are primarily digital pages. I'd say for each digi page I make, I do at least 6 paper pages. I haven't liked the way my scanner scans them and I haven't figured out the trick to take good photos of paper pages so those tend not to go up here. In addition to the scrapbooking, I love to read, I knit, I take photos, I try to exercise as close to daily as I can. I know it's ridiculous because I'm not working right now, but finding the time for this blogging business is tough!!<br />
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Here are the next 3 months of my 2014 album:<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-90667645219193310932014-10-27T13:24:00.000-04:002014-10-27T13:24:00.474-04:00Just Like I Promised!! Another Post.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Things around here are moving along nicely. The girls are busy. Meredith is busy getting ready to apply to University (I know right? Where does the time go?). We're off for the next few weekends on Campus Tours. My plan is to encourage her to visit and apply to as many Universities as she's interested in to give her as many options as possible. She is still working at a local grocery store and participating in a local youth Orchestra. I'm so proud of her each and every day.<br />
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Isobel is busy as well. She loves her trampoline and her guitar but the highlight of her life right now is Robotics. She made it onto the school team again and is busy building her robot for the tournament in December. If you've never been to a Robotics Tournament - you're missing out. I know it sounds terribly dull but it really is the exact opposite. There is so much energy! It's great to be involved in a competitive venue for children who are not athletic. She is growing into a lovely young lady who is sure of who she is and what she wants out of life.<br />
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Here are my monthly pages for April, May and June. I'm enjoying doing the project this way but I am planning something completely different for next year! I'm just in the planning stages right now!!<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-7494723747287395302014-10-22T13:14:00.003-04:002014-10-22T13:35:19.220-04:00I'm Going To Try . . . AgainI think about this blog often. I love the idea of blogging, I just somehow seem to think of things to blog about when I'm not home, when I don't have the time or when I'm falling asleep at night and then I don't remember in the morning!!<br />
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I worry that my life isn't that interesting. I worry that people will get tired of my many scrapbook pages, but I've decided I'm going to just post when I can, if I can and what I can.<br />
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You may remember from my past posts that for a number of years I have tried to document our daily lives. First, with a Project 365 album where I took a photo a day for the entire year, then with a Project Life style album where I just documented our daily life. This year I did a page a month. These pages consist of photos I took but haven't turned into a stand alone page.<br />
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Here are the first 3 months of the year. (I'm feeling like I need to spread these out so I have more to blog about!!)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's nothing much going on around here so I wasn't really sure what to blog about. I thought I'd go back to those 2013 PL pages and share the last few of the year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, I did finish it but no, I'm not doing it again this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need a bit of a break. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll notice I switched to single pages to try and make things easier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am, of course, documenting 2014 in my own way and I'll share those pages later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for checking up on me. I'm still here!!!</span><br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-66550466468516254132014-01-06T16:47:00.000-05:002014-01-06T16:47:35.336-05:00UYS Weekly Challenge<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This weeks challenge on the <b><a href="http://useyourstuff.blogspot.ca/2014/01/challenge-117-new-beginnings.html" target="_blank">Use Your Stuff Blog</a></b> is to use the theme <i>'New Beginnings'</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each year, I start a new scrapbook album. Usually the pages I do take up at least 2. I've been very good about buying the albums and page protectors right away but am always bad at getting a cover page together. Most of my albums are missing cover pages which makes it hard to tell which year the album is for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used this challenge to get my cover page for 2014 done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(2013/2012/2011/etc. are not done yet!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found the quote <b><a href="http://thelinarstudio.typepad.com/embracelife/2014/01/real-right-now-in-this-year-to-come.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>.</span></div>
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It's been a long time since I posted here!!</div>
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Unfortunately blogging tends to take a back seat when things get busy around here.<br />
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This week on the <b><a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=2122471735&group=0&frame_type=a&blog=3382260&link=aHR0cDovL3VzZXlvdXJzdHVmZi5ibG9nc3BvdC5jb20vMjAxMy8xMi9hLW1vbnRoLWluLXJldmlldy1mcmVlLW9ubGluZS1jbGFzcy1ieS5odG1s&frame=1&click=0&user=0" target="_blank">UYS blog</a></b> we have a guest designer sharing her tips and tricks for doing a Month in Review album. Be sure to check it out. She's got lots of good tips, tricks and information on there.<br />
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I chose to do a page for my Project Life album for this weeks challenge. I am a bit behind so I jumped ahead and did week 52 of 2013. This will be my last full week for this album and my last post with Project Life pages. I have loved doing these albums but I have other projects on my list that need my attention.<br />
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Thanks for sticking with me. Have a wonderful New Year's Eve. See you in 2014!!<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-21254441040452930412013-12-03T12:32:00.002-05:002013-12-03T12:32:44.393-05:00Another Week, Another Challenge<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This weeks' challenge on the <b><a href="http://useyourstuff.blogspot.ca/2013/12/challenge-112-butterflies.html" target="_blank">UYS blog</a></b> was mine and it was to use Butterflies on your page. This page still needs a bit of work but everything going on around here these days, this is as far as I managed to take it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photos were taken of Isobel after her back to school haircut. She is a sassy little thing!!</span><br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-59521783691994731742013-11-25T15:36:00.001-05:002013-11-25T15:36:34.224-05:00Weekly Use Your Stuff Challenge<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems all I'm managing to get up on this blog lately are the weekly UYS challenges. And even then, they're not all making it. Between my photography class, upgrading my computer and Christmas preparations, there doesn't seem to be much time for scrapbooking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really like this ad. In fact, I really like most things from the Real Simple magazine!! I like the simplicity and clean lines. I chose to do a page about our annual end-of-the-summer trip to The Ex. I flipped the ad on its side, but basically left it the same.</span></div>
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-49555639172921624762013-11-18T12:02:00.002-05:002013-11-18T12:02:34.864-05:00Weekly Use Your Stuff Challenge<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week on the <b><a href="http://useyourstuff.blogspot.ca/2013/11/challenge-110-let-it-snow.html" target="_blank">Use Your Stuff Challenge blog</a></b>, Tammy challenged us all to do a project featuring snow. That's not a hard one for me. I love the winter and I love the snow. However, the only photos I had were of a car accident we were in a few years ago on a very snowy day, so here it is:</span><br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-35477949016117786732013-11-13T13:46:00.000-05:002013-11-13T13:46:24.217-05:00Weekly Use Your Stuff Challenge<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://useyourstuff.blogspot.ca/2013/11/challenge-109-limited-supplies.html" target="_blank"><strong>This week's challenge</strong></a> was to limit the supplies you used on your project. I took this quite literally and created an extremely simple page. I used just my photo, some plain cardstock and a single digital stamp across the bottom of the page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very simple indeed!! This is the cover page for our New York trip album that I hope to complete one day!!</span></div>
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I have not been a good UYS member lately. But the challenges are ongoing. Please be sure to head over to the <a href="http://useyourstuff.blogspot.ca/2013/11/challenge-108-how-do-you-stencil.html" target="_blank">Use Your Stuff</a> blog for this weeks' challenge. One of our new members, Julie, challenged us to use a stencil. I love stencils and I'd love to see what you can come up with.<br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-44025186810417582702013-10-31T18:20:00.000-04:002013-10-31T18:20:08.125-04:00Project Life | Week 43<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week on the <strong><a href="http://useyourstuff.blogspot.ca/2013/10/challenge-106-color-challenge.html" target="_blank">Use Your Stuff Blog,</a> </strong>Lynne challenged us to use Orange, Brown and Green on a layout. Not a difficult thing to do given the time of year here in Ontario!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went apple picking a few weeks ago and had a plethora of apples. So we baked. And we baked. And we baked some more. This page shows Isobel making an Apple Betty. That kid can cut in butter like nobody's business. It's now her official job.</span><br />
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<br />Milenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00162020146025300987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8805869645088970433.post-55850127125392263892013-10-19T16:08:00.000-04:002013-10-19T16:08:00.869-04:00Project Life Week 41<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well its that time of the week again. Project Life time!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I first saw this recipe on a <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2013/07/freezer-cooking/" target="_blank"><strong>Pioneer Woman Cooks blog post about freezer meals</strong></a> and I just had to try it. It is delish people. D.E.L.I.S.H. So good!!! It serves 12 so I divided it into 3 casserole dishes and froze the other two for later use.</span><br />
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