December 16, 2009
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Going north, photo cards, dogs and holidays gatherings....
One might ask the connection of all of the above
but basically these items have been some primary themes in my life for the past few weeks. BTW just love this photo of my younger sister and wondered what she was thinking about!
Got waylaid in the craft store & ended up making photo greeting cards!
All started at the beginning of the month when I was at Michael’s where I was returning some left over supplies from the granddaughter’s Halloween costume and had enough of a refund to put towards buying winter boots. Bought some pre cut cards and envelopes but also just construction paper due to the variety of colors. A stop at the Kodak kiosk for another 2 hours to do about 75 prints from my memory card. That night I was the dining room table until about 11 PM with a glass of wine, supplies and my creativity!
Well it had been a while...(probably since I got my digital cameras and have thousands of photos on the lap top) so I think I should have used double sided tape and perhaps only done corners. As used craft glue the mounts were all curly in the morning or so involved in matching colors to photos that my card stock may have not been thick enough...well bring out the telephone books to flatten!
This project stayed on the dining room table (and yes some good results and hand made gifts) until needed to clear up for last weekend's rounds of dinners. Putting up Christmas decorations...ok
so minilights on the rubber plant and fig tree may be somewhat Charlie Brown like but it works.. 
Kitchen fridge and house cleaning, food prep etc. but really practical to get it over with all at once. A busy but rich weekend with gatherings at the house.
After Friday swim practice all went out for a Christmas brunch at Zuppa’s
and collected donations for Swim for Malaria.http://www.worldswimagainstmalaria.comMy grad student boarder also on Friday had a campus group of friends that ate and sang carols and praise songs until late; R. and I beetled off to Blue Chair http://www.bluechair.ca to see a guitarist with the first name of Gae;
Saturday a potluck drop in dinner
with many of my first cousins on mom’s side get together, 
first in at least 10 years, including my 89 year old uncle; 
stories told of past New Years dinners where elder cousins scared younger ones and 
labs have always been a part of this side so both mine were welcome. 
sitting here for a treat o leftover scrimp.Sunday night foyer more formal dinner of 8..., and so with 3 social workers in the room and the new university Med-Dental dean much discussion on health care.
Well Monday was zapped and hibernated….and going north, well, not right now but looks like March-April!
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