Blue Willow Pottery

My newest nail art... I love it!  Too tired to write tonight.  The Stampede started today.  That means I don't go to work until 1:00 tomorrow as many businesses close for the morning to allow staff to go see the parade if they want.  I no longer have anyone I need to take to the parade so the last couple years I have stayed home, slept in a little and watch some of the parade on t.v.  One and a half more days of work until the long weekend!  This summer is going by way too fast; especially because it had a slow start.  The next three days are supposed to feel like the low 30's so that means staying indoors with the air conditioning.

Scrapbooking Catch Up

I have finally scrapbooked some of my favourite memories of recent summers ~ annual camping trips that my sister, Carrie, and I made in B.C.   We started out tenting ... but by the third year we found many excuses why we couldn't camp in a particular area [an orchard in the Okanagan smelled of fermenting fruit; another campground had no privacy - sites were too close to each other;  another area had worm webs on the trees, etc. etc.]; and stayed in motels instead. 

I was disappointed when we couldn't seem to get our schedules to synch after that and the annual B.C. travel trips ended.  They have now been replaced with annual Scrapbook Retreats so, although we aren't sight-seeing together, we do get to spend a weekend together having fun.

I've taken so long to do these pages that I can't remember what the dates of the trips were and, I'm ashamed to admit, I can't even remember if I've got the right pictures in the right trip!  The first pictures are of Kaslo, the town where I was born.  The road is a very narrow switchback-type along Kootenay Lake and I hadn't been there for many yerars.   This was a first-ever Three Sisters Day and we had so much fun touring Kaslo, Ainsworth, and every place in between.

We happened upon the Kaslo Community Garden and had a photo op hay day!

On our trips back and forth across the Kootenay Lake ferry we often bumped into people we knew when we were growing up in Riondel.  And we always took pictures despite having dozens already at home from previous years.

This background paper for this next layout is Arches 140 lb. rough watercolour paper that Marlene painted when she and Ed visit on their way to Ontario in June.  Marlene had brought her special paper and watercolour paints to do a demo for me because she hadn't been able to attend this year's Retreat.  Marlene had planned to do a watercolour demo for all of us at the Retreat.

The title for this layout is very crooked (hand drawn letters on the backs of pieces of photographs that were cropped) because I was camping at the time and forgot to bring the mat for the Cricut machine!