Queen of my Domain

So I needed a new watch band very bad. I've seen the ones posted on various blogs and loved them but I couldn't bring myself to buy them since I know "I could do that". Plus I wanted something flashier. This is what I came up with.... and I love it!!

The mosquitoes have been so bad this year, you got swarmed just dashing from the house to the car. Felicity doesn't care and loves to be outside. Every once in a while she gets a bite that swells up. Not all of her bites flair up but of course this one did. Before she went to bed one night we noticed that she had gotten a bite near the corner of her eye. This is what she looked like in the morning. Her eye was swollen for over 24hrs. I even tried to take the swelling down with Benydryl but it didn't help. At least it didn't bother her other than she couldn't see very well and her peripheral vision was altered causing her to walk and bump into things. But she still smiled and was a wonderful little girl!

So we had a crazy weekend!! We decided that because all of our family lives far away that we would host Aurora's Baptism and Gage's Baby Blessing on the May Long weekend. It went really well. We could have done without the mosquitos but what can you do.... nothing! These are some pictures that we took the weekend after the May Long because we forgot to take pictures on the May Long. I just love this picture of Aurora and Rayann.... so happy with their little baby brother. We had to get one with Felicity in there too, it's still hard to get her to smile on command!

I've always had somewhat of a green thumb. I love to have plants in my house and I love plants that grow flowers. I have a passion for african violets, not as deep as my grandmother, but I have one none the less. So Grandma Seely grew me some starts from her Christmas Castus a couple of years ago and I got one bloom all year from it last year but this year..... it took off!! Grandma even surprised me but putting more than one colour in the pot. Check it out! Light Pink Red Fushia

So I've been slowly working on a set of bridesmaid's dresses that are due at the end of this month. I've had the order since last may and the fabric since December but you know how I work.... under pressure. Anyways, so the bride and two maid's were here on Sunday for fittings and the bride, whom I know quite well (she's a friend) tells me that her mother picked up her dress and then took it back to the dress shop to have alterations done and the shop has now closed it's doors permenantley. So I told the bride, have your mom bring me the dress and I'll do the work. I think I should consider only making suggestions like this when I can actually see the light of day, ie when my head is seeing the light of day and not stuck up somewhere unpleasant. So the mother of the bride calls me ( I had gotten the impression from the bride that the dress just needed a little hem and maybe the side seams taken in)......... ooooohhhhhhh no, not the case. The mother of the br...

So for ever I have been saying that with girls they rarely get hurt, that you rarely have to take them to hospital for broken bones or stitches because they just don't rough house like boys do. Aurora decided that she should prove that theory wrong a couple of weeks ago. I had sent her to fetch a cassarole pan from the freezer for supper. I was feeding Gage and all I heard was screaming from the basement. Rayann ran to help and Aurora started barking orders and before I knew it, Daniel had gotten home from work, Rayann ran out to meet him and was crying and screaming and then Daniel was in the house and gone again with Aurora off to the hopsital for stitches. This was the pool of blood that I found on the floor. The blue is some of the glass from the casserole dish that she had accidentally dropped and broken everywhere. This is what her toe looked like after she had been to the hospital and had gotten liquid stitches. She was deathly afraid to go to get the stitches that Daniel ha...

I know that I said a very long time ago that I was going to post pictures of our house inside and out. Well we had to take some pictures to send to the insurance company and so I now have some pictures to post of the outside of the house. Once I get my house clean (hopefully sometime before school goes back in september) I will try to get some pictures up of the inside as well. This is from the south side of our house, essentially the front of the house. This a better shot of the veranda that wraps around the front of the house. I can't wait until I can afford to put up a swinging bench or get some rocking chairs for out there or something so that we can enjoy the veranda! The house came with beautiful mature trees in the front and this great hedge that runs up the east side. The two huge windows that you can see are in the dining room and then the back entry. We use the back entry because at back end of the house is where the garage and the back yard are and we park back there and...