Good Bye October...

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Like September, October is just whizzing by!.. My biggie finished installing the first week of October... then a little more work last week and it was completed!..

Just realized I'm sticking my tongue out in their photo... ha...

Luckily the sun was out for most of the final part hanging... it had gotten rather cold and rainy for the last few days of the installation...

Here are a few iPhone shots of this beauty all done... 

Check out Heavy's blog post on the piece... HERE!..

This past weekend I crashed... again... on Friday... and was asleep by 9:30... I'm still catching up on sleep... took yesterday and today off to chill out... I actually slept in...  

Saturday we went to the Tattoo Convention to see Alicia from home... she works at Trouble Bound in St. John's... 

...and we got tattoos!..

...as tiny as my tattoo is I was afraid to watch!.. hehe... it went really quickly... Chris and I both got anchors... and he got his nickname in script on his forearm... it's turned out awesome!..

...Sunday brought some sleeping in... combined with lunch and some shopping with coworkers... bought a few shirts and some skinny grey cords... check out the bunny shirt...

AND my anchor tattoo!..  a little bit of east coast connection... and Chris and I are each other's anchors... :)

<3

Sunday Furs and I went out for suppa...  I gave wine another try... it was okay... if you have any wine suggestions for a terribly un-informed wine drinker let me know!..

Last night work peeps and I went out to celebrate the finishing of the big install... to CRAFT... I've never been a fan of beer... at least I wasn't... they have 120 beers on tap... Wish I had gotten a few iPhone shots of the place... its pretty awesome... and they know what to bring you... they mixed a couple for me... were great... and their food was excellent...

Oh hi anchor!.. 

...curled my hair... hmmm... sorta makes me want to get a perm... ya perm... but not like 80s poodle perm... some texture... getting bored of straight hair... and its growing out so it's currently awkward... won't all go up in a pony... I look like a catfish because piece of hair from the sides just aren't long enough and they stick out...

...and curly is just so much more fun!..

What have you been up to so far this fine October?..

xo

The Rest Of My September...

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So... I dropped off the map there for awhile...  work has been INSANE!.. had two installations start on the same day two weeks ago... so was getting ready for and maintaining  those... one is now finished (check it out here)... and the other... my biggie should finish up this Friday!..

Coworker sent me flowers!.. came on a rough (meltdown) day... couple days before my two installs began... 

I've done a little bit of fall shopping... found a couple of sweaters... and a sweet pair of boots... 

A couple meals out... not much cooking has been going on... too tired... lazy?..

Muku!.. Cheshu rice!.. Mmm...

Oh yeah... before my two biggie installs kicked off this guy finally got installed in the Town of Edson!.. Eddie!.. sitting on a gfrc log... holding onto a bronze spruce cone...

The weather has been really nice... the mornings freezing... but the days have been getting nice and warm...

Two Friday's ago I celebrated the installation one of my installs that was completed (the one at the link above)... with some beverages with the neighbours...

...hopefully this coming Friday comes with more celebratory beverages for my biggie install!..  It's happening in downtown Calgary... so I've gotten to go work on it a little bit...

...three week long install... I'm so anxious for the piece to be completed now!..

On my way to check out the installation on this past Saturday we went with neibs A&B to the Italian Superstore on Edmonton Trail... OMFG... awesome pizza... yum!..

Then after we went to Chintz & Co. we checked out Jelly Modern Donuts... Their donuts look really pretty... the space is a bit too large for what they've got in there for seating...

...they have large and small donuts in each flavour...

...in a pile of flavours...

...om nom nom...

...donuts... the new cupcake?.. have you been to Jelly?.. what do you think!?.

...I had a small coconut one... t'was tasty!..

...decor was sweet... just the space way too large... 

Sunday... with FIVE layers of clothing on I headed to my biggie install site to lend a hand... it was FREEZING... hardhat hair is the worst!.. oh... and I drove the whole way from our house to downtown... working on getting my license... I know... totally lame that I don't have it... but I'm working on it...

This is how the install looked first thing Sunday morning...

...this picture... ya... I took it while 40ft up in a scissor lift... ugh!.. so high up!.. eek!..

...today on the way home... we picked up this roaster... wicked sale... it can hold a 24lb turkey... got about a 12lb'r for Turkey Day... Can't wait for turkey dins... turkey soup... hot turkey sammiches... What do you make with your left over turkey!?. c'mon hit me with your recipes!..

This evening while sitting on the couch... I left work at a reasonable time today... I received this picture from my biggie install site... half of the steel flappers are up!.. My install team is working so hard!.. It's looking so beautiful!.. I'm so proud!.. I started meetings for this project last November... lots of worry... and dreams about steel... and a ton of learning... and now it's almost done!.. 

What have you been up to lately!?.

xo

Lacey

Golf and Breakfast Sammiches...

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Chris's company golf tournament was this past Friday... I'm not a golfer... we'll I'd never golfed before...  Do you golf?.. is it possible to actually improve?.. The way I played it doesn't seem so to me!..  

Unfortunately the batteries in our little camera were dead... and I didn't want to drag out the big slr... for fear of misplacing it... golfing with alcoholic beverages equals greater potential for losing important items...

iPhone took a few shots before it's battery died... I've noticed that I have quite a few looking down at my feet shots... from my whole photo library... not just golfing... I'll have to make a post of those shots... just don't want to attract foot creeps!..

Being a non golfer I was unsure of what to wear golfing... I went for the sailor look... can't go wrong with that...

The weather was beautiful... I chased some geese...  caught a lady bug... had a nap in a sand pit...

...got sand in my chucks...

Near the end I gave up the kicks... and socks... it got too hot...  our team kicked ass and had a ton of fun!

Yesterday the neibs and I had a yard sale... Not a big turnout of people though... it was sorta weird... maybe yardsaling is more of a spring/summer thing?..  it's sorta Fallish out... well not sorta... it is!.. it's cold in the mornings now... but its still getting quite hot out during the day...

Today?.. super lazy laundry day... we did groceries with tea early this morning... picked up a few paint chips at Home Depot... I think I wanna paint both of the upstairs bathrooms...

Then... from Pinterest I also found this wicked recipe... it's something sort of obvious... but I didn't realize that these could be frozen... so I've a doz. made for breakfasts this week... 

One of us just has to toss two in the oven when we get up... it can cook while we're getting ready for work... then we'll grab them on the way out the door!..

I sorta feel like making something... not sure what... finishing a project that is almost complete?.. hmm... I've also been feeling super tired the past two days... I somehow managed to tweak my neck... my knee... and my ankle golfing...  maybe a nap is in order... yes... a nap...

What have you gotten up to this weekend?

xo

Lacey

Just Made These...

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Thanks to Neib A I'm addicted to Pinterest... IT'S AWESOME... go check it out...  Usually when I find ideas that I like online I'll drop the web address on my desktop... then it'll get dropped into a folder and forgotten about... well Pinterest is an online pin board of ideas... endless...

Found this neat-o recipe there this morning... it's what I call a cheater recipe... like the Christopher's Pound Cake that I make using cake mix... this uses cookie mix... and you add some things too it... super easy... and effin tasty!..

It mixes up really easy... I think next time I'll use real butter... just threw in Lactancia this time...

Didn't have Cream de Menthe chocolate chips... just used regular old semisweet chips and chunks...

...sorta ended up eating cookie dough for supper... eating a super healthy salad now... hopefully it'll counteract the cookie dough...

...plop... drop them on... and bake away... I found 10 minutes worked best...

The first batch was sorta lame and flat... just look at the last picture... flat city... I was making potato roasters... on the rack underneath... I think that hindered the baking of this first batch...

The following batches came out looking great!.. bringing these to work in the morning... do not want these left in the house... we'd eat them all!..

Finished the big fall clean this morning... the kitchen and front room... walls and floors washed... carpet steamed... living room snuggle blankets all washed... all that is left is to wash the window blinds... and windows... then go through a few things like under the kitchen sink... spare bathroom closet... just little stuff... AHHH... it's so nice to have the house scrubbed down...  next weekend YARD SALE!.. time to get rid of some things that have not been used for awhile...  What did you get up to this long weekend?

xo

Lacey

Getting a Jump on Fall Cleaning...

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...I think it was late September last year when I Fall cleaned... yesterday Furs and I began the big Fall clean... and we're almost done... we washed walls... steamed carpets... washed all sheets and blankets... made it down and through the living room... kitchen and front room are all that are left... those are coming later today... I want to get cleaning finished today so that we can get the furnace cleaners in next weekend... I can't turn on the furnace until I get it cleaned... too effin dusty in there...  and its starting to be rather chilly in the mornings!.. 

...time for a shopping break!.. Ikea has an insane sale on their duvet's... $14.99 for any size... sale ends today... and then onto Homesense... *purrrr*...

Oh yeah!..got a BissellProHeat2x yesterday morning... you should see the dirt that thing takes up out of the carpet!.. AND COUCH!.. gonna have a super squeaky clean house after this Fall clean...  I can't wait... the cold weather is making me nesty... need to bake and cook... and make things... just don't feel like doing all of that in a house thats not been given a good scrub down in awhile... clean up a mess before making a new one!.. we may put in the faucets that we bought this spring today too... for the bathrooms...  I'll be sure to take photos and post...

...gotta get ready to go out with Neib Amy for a shopping adventure...

Oh... supper Friday night... Muku... deadly as ever... cheshu rice... JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH!.. OMFG... really... it's that good...

Om nom nom... and they have awesome mags to look at while you're waiting for food...

...these have fuelled my fire to shop...

What are you getting up to this lovely looong weekend!?.

xo

Lacey