With Friends on Friday

Wow. 11:16 p.m. and I’m just starting to write a few words. I am getting later rather than earlier. I really wanted to make this a Face the Future Friday based on a Mel Robbins podcast that I listened to recently, but that will have to wait for the future. I have spent a lot of time with friends today so of course the theme should be With Friends on Friday. We had a very leisurely breakfast at our Airbnb near Montebello and left about 11:00 for home with Sheela heading back to Montreal (just for 1 more week before leaving on a European bike trip to further celebrate her retirement). Karen and Flora drove back to Ottawa with me. After a quick lunch (the leftover tacos were delicious) Roland and I took Luna out for a walk. She managed to sneak in a few more snow angels but her snowy patches are getting few and far between. Then we went to IKEA where Roland was a firm negotiator on compensation for our dented lower drawer on the range he installed at the cottage on the weekend and he finally got some compensation from them for the broken exterior light on the shed that the IKEA delivery contractor had broken when delivering our kitchen components. I did a wee bit of cardmaking before it was time to give a lift to Diana to Floras for a very quick potluck (cheese fondue, Greek salad and sandwiches) before the Then and Now show at Ottawa Little Theatre. Then I did a bit more work on my Interactive Card 30 while Roland watched some TV. It was a great day with friends. And I am glad that I had some time with Roland and Luna and am looking forward to the weekend with family. Heidi’s at the cottage with friends and I’ll get to see her on Sunday when we head up there.

100DayProject Day 48 (working on Card 30)

It turns out that my hot glue gun is at the cottage so I will wait until Sunday when we head up there to put the finishing touches on this card. I coiled a few different types of jewelry wire that I had to try to make a ‘bobbly’ spring to put behind the bird in this card. It’s not a highly masculine card but the technique in this lesson is about interactive cards so I’m taking some liberties and adding florals since I don’t have much ‘for the guys’ types of images in my current Altenew product stash. I am trying to use the current colour combination from the Color Throwdown Challenge website on my projects.