Oven mitts for Leanne

Leanne is such a HUGE Mickey Mouse/Disney fan.Accordingly, over the years, my family has found bits and pieces of Disney for her.

The most recent piece is a great pair of oven mitts that DS Carol found for her in Arizona!

What a great gift! Definitely oven mitts - but also could be works of art on the kitchen wall!

Just a quick update...

Monday, the movers came by on their way to Leanne's new place to pick up the dining room furniture, the china and crystal, and a few other odds and ends.

On Tuesday, I went over and spent the day at Leanne's. While she did a few on-site visits, I unpacked the china and crystal and got her dining room done and dealt with the Shaw hookup. When she returned with take-out, we unpacked the kitchen items. Her real estate agent has 100 large Rubbermaid totes that you can borrow so they had to be unpacked so they can be returned for the next client to borrow. Great idea!

Our building handyman came over in the afternoon and rekeyed her locks and her friend Marly came over and they did a lot of work in the basement organizing the family room.

This morning (Wednesday), my sister Carol and BIL Fred stopped by Mom's on their way home from Arizona. Shirley and I joined them for a good visit.

Then I set about getting my house back in order.

Sorted and priced items from Lorry's estate

Some of the roomboxes, etc., plus all the wallpaper.

The front opening dollhouse, the storage cabinet, and in the red box, an incredible collections of Renwal and other early dollhouse furniture.

Eight more boxes of fabric, ribbon and trims to be sorted, bagged and priced. This is something I can do while I watch TV.

I have some condo business to take care of tomorrow then I'm spending a long weekend rabbit-sitting for Leanne while she gets away for a couple days.

I'll be home Monday but probably won't post till sometime near the end of next week.

Nothing much going on...

After ten days on antibiotics, the worst of things seem to be over although I have absolutely no energy for anything. Have only been over to see Mom very briefly twice as I certainly don't want her to catch anything from me.

Shirley and I went with Leanne yesterday to pick up the keys to her new place. It's every bit as nice as I remember it from our first walk-through. The movers come on Monday afternoon so things are coming together. They'll pick up her things from her apartment then stop here for the dining room suite, china and crystal, and some other odds and ends of things I'm giving her.

I wasn't up to going to our MEE meeting on Tuesday night but Joanne delivered the last of the orders from Grandpa's Dollhouse for me and picked up both Barb R.'s and my club birthday gifts.

made by Barb S. Pot is about 1/2" in diameter.

Isn't it gorgeous!

Will be spending Tuesday at Leanne's new place waiting for deliveries then will spend the weekend there rabbit-sitting while Leanne and a friend take a quick trip to Montana.

I'm hoping that after all that I'll get some energy back and be able to, first of all, finish sorting and pricing Lorry's fabric and trims for the estate sale the first weekend in June, then hopefully actually do some work on my own minis.

Camp Mini Ha Ha, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia

Registration forms are now available for Camp Mini Ha Ha in Corwallis, Nova Scotia, from September 20 to 25, 2017.

This year’s project is a 1:24 scale enchanted storybook cottage or fairy house. Campers can create a natural and beautiful fairy house or if you prefer a hidden storybook cottage. There will also be some wonderful classes to enhance your projects. As always campers are free to make the project whatever their imaginations can come up with. So go on some special nature walks and find some natural items to share at camp and use on your project.

Check out the website for more information.

Lorry's Estate Sale

On Friday, my throat began to feel VERY scratchy! By Saturday, I was unable to help the crew move Lorry's estate things to my place.

But several of the ladies moved the remaining things to my place.

This front opening dollhouse is  beautiful! If I were to do a dollhouse again, this would be it!

Beautiful small dollhouse!

 All the boxes of supplies and accessories that will be on sale.

The supply cabinet on the lower right is wonderful! Still have to put the drawers back  in it.

The antibiotics kicked in this afternoon so I'm 'starting' to feel a bit better.

TOTALLY OFF TOPIC Garth Brooks...and where it all lead

DD Leanne is a  BIG TIME Garth Brooks fan and, as such, was interviewed by the Edmonton Journal

THEN This happened:

"Got a phone call at work from a wonderful lady who recognized my last name in the journal article....she grew up with my cousins, Bea Findlay, and her parents were friends with my grandparents. She was telling me stories about visiting my family's farm, the time that my dad stayed with her family while he finished high school, and teaching my brother Sunday school. She apologized for taking up my time and I had to reassure her that the phone call was an amazing gift as I was hearing stores I never knew. The article didn't lead to me meeting Garth, but this phone call was so much more precious than anything I could have ever imagined."

The last four days, I've been on  Read-a-thon. Great for me but not so great for minis or anything else. "Madame Tussaud", "Books of Rachel" and two Iris Johannsen books.

(Blush, blush) Barbara W. gifted me with the wonderful Nutcracker by Judy Mitchell at our last Show and Sale.I FINALLY placed it on the counter in the Christmas Shop between the gift box and the glass tree.

I took the computer desk down to KnitWit last night and gave it two coats of gloss varnish. And they didn't work at all. So I will try another coat or two and see if I can get the high gloss I want.

In the meantime, I found the computer and keyboard I meant for it and have put them in to show you.

The keyboard shelf still needs the silver strip to represent the sliding mechanism. I'll have to do some filing to get that right. And I need to put in wires to connect the PC and keyboard....and add a mouse and mousepad.

If the rest of the week is like today: (12 phone calls and 10 'need to answer today' emails), it's going to be very interesting!

Every day: go over and spend time with Mom
Finish packing up the china and crystal for Leanne.
Saturday: pick up the rest of Lorry's Estate and move to my place. HUGE!
Sunday: hope to meet with Leanne
Tuesday: concert at the Arden Theatre
Wednesday: Board meeting
Thursday: Mayfield theatre

Suddenly there is SO much going on in my life that minis are just going to have to take a backseat for awhile. But I will try to keep things going and let you know what's going on.