Walkless Wednesday | 100DayProject Day 60 | Card 43a+b

100DayProject Day 60 | Card 43a+b

Phew, I stayed up way too late (it’s now almost 11:40), writing this post then deciding to finish off Cards 43a and 43b. I was pleased with how the ‘gold dipped’ effect on the bottom of my hello sentiments turned out using foil applied over the dried transfer gel. I had a sort of pinkish foil which turned out to go quite well with each of the pink colours as well as with the goldish/bronze of the pen that I had used to draw over the stitches on the die cut pocket as well as the stitches I drew in with a ruler around the edges of the cards. I should have used an uncut top cutting plate because the texture from the cutting plate came through onto the foil when I ran it through my die cut machine to better press the foil into the dry but still tacky transfer gel. It is also quite difficult to capture the foiled portions of the sentiment on the cards in photos, especially since I don’t yet have a new overhead light in my basement craft room.

I am using the Altenew blog inspiration challenge colours as well as the Color Throwdown challenge blog colours for inspiration as I make my way through the homework for my Altenew AECP classes. I’ve include the links to the April Altenew and the Color Throwdown challenge #831 blog posts in case you’re curious.

Card 43a | Altenew Let it Shine course | Lesson 6 | Foils | Altenew Inspiration Challenge colours
Card 43a | Altenew Let it Shine course | Lesson 6 | Foils | Color Throwdown Challenge #831

Walkless Wednesday

Heidi did a lovely job arranging the tulips that I bought for Jane’s retirement lunch tomorrow.

I fell back asleep after my 7:00 alarm went off this morning so didn’t have time for a walk with Luna before Roland and I set off for our 8:00-10:00 Pickleball. Roland did take her out for a short loop before we left and I did a wee bit of cleaning up of dead leaves and ornamental grasses that I had recently cut down to get a few minutes of sunlight into my eyes close to first thing in the morning. I did some some crafting when we got back. After lunch I went out with Roland to continue some yard cleanup, and boy did (and still does) our yard need a lot of cleanup. Lots of nutrients likely soaked into the soil in the portion of our backyard where all the leaves were still sitting since the fall. We definitely need to get on with a better, no maintenance backyard solution. The grass doesn’t grow that well in the shade of our trees so we are planning to put in a bit of a patio and some mulched areas. Just as we were calling it quits for the yardwork some neighbourhood friends, Donna and Jon, were finishing a chat with our neighbour so we had a great catch up talk with them. Roland put on my summer tires (and found a nail which luckily didn’t make the tire go flat over the winter but which I hope I can get repaired tomorrow) and I baked a date square then we had a quick dinner before heading to the RA centre for 7:00 for an Arctic Canoe presentation hosted by the RA’s Canoe Camping club (which used to be the Y Canoe Club – which we actually did a few white water trips with way back when). Our cottage neighbour, David Pelly, who will be a guest speaker on our upcoming September Arctic cruise with Adventure Canada spoke at the RA as did the owner of Jackpine Paddle. They both shared many stories and photos of the interesting landscape and people of the Arctic.

Of course I had to go up to look for a photo from the whitewater trip we did on the Petawawa with the Y Canoe Club back in June 1994. That’s Roland in the stern. I portaged that rapid and someone else went in the bow.

Happily, I didn’t end up actually having a walkless Wednesday because I took Luna out for a quick loop around the block while Roland gathered up a few things to head to the cottage tonight. I have a few things on for tomorrow (including a retirement lunch for Jane for which Heidi kindly arranged the bouquet of tulips that I bought when I was out at Costco buying desperately needed yard waste bags this afternoon) so I will head up to the cottage in the late afternoon tomorrow. As I took my selfie for today, I realized how impressive the night photography capabilities of our phones are these days. Crazy. And on the walk, I realized that while I love walking and do really feel off when I don’t get a good walk or two in during the day, an afternoon spent outside working on yard work goes a long way to compensating. And that I was still very happy to have a ‘less walking’ rather than totally ‘walkless’ Wednesday.

The date squares I made turned out pretty well. I think it was a recipe I got from Elaine years ago. I checked with Diane and it’s not the one that she got from our mom, so you can be sure I’ll be making another batch of date squares once she sends me a copy of that recipe when she’s back from her Florida golfing trip.
Luna looking a bit stricken as she waited for Roland to come back out to the car to head up to the cottage.

Picture This Year | Prompt 113 (pinch) | Prompt 91 (window)

I’m continuing to follow along with Tracey Clark’s Picture This Year 2025 photo prompts. I only started on April 7th so I’m also slowly working my backwards through the 96 prompts before I started.

Picture This Year | Prompt 113 (pinch) | today’s prompt and photo taken today | I was hoping that the date square recipe called for a pinch of salt so I could (legitimately) use this for today’s photo. It actually called for a teaspoon, but I added a pinch for good measure.
Picture This Year | Prompt 91 | April 1 prompt, photo taken today | I had thought about making a card featuring a window for this prompt, but who knows how long it would take me to get to making such a card, so I just took a photo of my kitchen window. You may recognize some of the flowers that I’ve been photographing lately. I’ve decided to keep up my Swarovski crystal ornaments year round because they are so pretty, especially in the morning when the sun hits them and they reflect the light and cast rainbows on throughout the kitchen. I love looking at the stained glass ornaments that Josee has made. The backyard is now mostly free of the vast collection of leaves that were on that side of the yard over the winter.

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