End of November Memories today and tomorrow

Today on 29th November is the 28th anniversary of the death of my DH's 1st wife Phyl known as 'Babe' They were married in February 1960 and here is a wedding photo of them
Tomorrow is the Anniversary of my Father who died on 30th november 1975 aged 60yrs

Both of them are sadly missed and never forgotten xxxx

November in Canada

At the end of October I flew to Canada to look after Sue whilst her daughter returned to Ottawa to her partner and home and to sell their house, which they have done!
I returned to UK last Wednesday and was greeted by DH at Gatwick airport wwith a dozen red rosesLOL!! We had really missed each other for the month.

Here is my lovely friend Sue having a calcium IV since she has bone cancer and has to have this every month.
The first week I was there Sue managed to come out for a few meals at lunch time and I was able to take her by car on a few very short trips. These trips meant she would spend the rest of the day sleeping

Sue spent a lot of time sleeping so apart from DHW and cooking I managed to do some scrapping with kit's I took with me!
This LO was a class kit from Cardinal Colours retreat in September, I didn't do the class then but bought the kit

This LO was for a UKS House Challenge and I used papers from another Cardinal Colours class kit and followed the given sketch

This LO was for the WC and I bought 2 papers at a scrapping shop I found and the unusual object I scrapped was a card I had sent Sue in the summer and I found in a kitchen drawer! The flowers were all handcut from one of the papers as I had no diecuts or punches with me!

I missed 2 monthly classes that Anita M takes, so I brought the kits with me to do, this one was of Sue when she was in the UK in 2009

As well as cooking meals I managed to do some Christmas cooking for Sue and here is the prepping of the cake and the finished cake which is now wrapped and soaking in rum for her family to enjoy this Christmas, not sure if I will make a cake for us but enjoyed doing this one!

I arrived to see a most lovely Canadian Fall but after 3 weeks the temps dropped to 0C - -2C and 2 mornings a week ago we woke to snowfalls!!here are some of the photos I took.

Here are some photos of the Fraser River nr where I was staying

here is where I stayed at Harrison Hot Springs a small town on the edge of Harrison Lake, it was beautiful

I took photos at different times of the day, The scenery was forever changing with the clouds around the mountains

This was the Miami River which ran at the back of Sue's house!

Another view of Harrison Lake with the mountains in the background

Reflections on the Fraser River

Sunset by the Fraser River

Blueberry bushes with their leaves turning bright red.

Another class LO that I missed but did in Canada of my youngest DGD this summer

Our Wedding Anniversary 2 days before I left for Canada I had a surprise for DH, I booked a B&B in the building he used to work in as a printer!! The B&B of course is called The Printworks! We had the Caxton Suite!

The original floor of the entrance

and another class LO and a Christening mini book finished for a friend before going away!

and the rest of October

Suddenly I am off to Canada for a month to look after a very close friend Sue who is very poorly with bone cancer. A month without DH LOL!!
I am busy finishing off projects I started. I finished off this Karen Burnstein mini book I did at the Cardinal Colours retreat class in Sept. I decided to do a minibook of the times I have had with Sue since we met at Teacher training college when we were 18yrs old!
Then I made the Advent tree which I bought for DGD2 (the youngest of our 6 DGC) last year.It is all ready for Dec 1st.

The LO below was the House challenge for October UKS, I don't often do this challenge but I like following sketches and this challenge had a sketch! Another Egypt LO done!!

What has happened in October?

Here I am nearly at the end of October and playing catch up on my blog once more!!
I do have an excuse that my computer was sick and I lost it for 6 days!!
At the beginning of Oct my fab group of friends who were the 365ers in 2009 met once again for a retreat, this time we were at a village called Selborne in Hampshire.
Here is a collage of the property
A collage of the messy play we did with Shirley who does fantastic altered art stuff and showed us some of her fab work and then how to emboss foil and then distress is and use inks too, It was very messy and IDON'T DO MESS!!

Some of the peeps made silly finger puppets as you can see!! Below are some photos of us scrapping and enjoying the weekend

Barbara arranged for us to do a speed scrap in and hour and here are all our LO's completed in nearly an hour!!

As well as the messy play Shirley planned a matchbox activity kit for us all do do, what fun we had dressing our model LOL!!

Alli brought instructions to make these fab snowmen below but only she and Paula did them during the weekend

Here is my speed scrap LOLOther LO's done during the weekend

WC October week 1

and WC week 2 the following week, think all our mojos have returned!