Our calendar :)

I bought this great calendar from one of our local education stores engaging minds. It is such a fantastic store!!! Anyway, the lady who was working suggested I cut slits and use paper clips because the lame slots they have cut for you make it just about impossible to use from the front only without pushing from behind the poster. So, I decided to take pictures of my journey of getting the calendar ready for use :)

Here are some of the supplies I used:



It took a little while to get the positioning of the hole right!!




But I got into a good groove :)


and here is what it looks like, it is so easy to slide the number in under the paper clip!!!




If you look closely, in the bottom corners of each squares, you can see the tiny slots you are supposed to use... ugh... that was not fun!!




Here it is all set up for the day I did it!! (I meant to blog end of August as shown here, but my computer broke and needed to go to the store for repairs for 2 weeks)!!




Now for the weather wheel :)




I needed to put in a little brad so we could use the arrows to point to the appropriate weather each day :) Here is my cute little brad:




and the finished product!! Eeek... lame I know, but I am soooo proud!! haha :)





Here is the finished wall :)

two dayz of garage sales :)

Out of business sale!! So happy we have a kitchen now!!! $20 for this :)



and then my friend found me another one for $20...I couldn't resist!




Got this (thrown in with furniture) at a great garage sale...you could walk through the yard, garage and whole 4 floors of the house :) It was great!! There was just prices on everything. I thought the veggies and the large picture of fruits and other healthy food might inspire us to eat healthier!! lol :)




These were painted by the lady we bought them from!! Aren't they beautiful!!!!




These were from the same sale as the fruit picture and food/basket




Got this whole box of craft stuff for $3.50...includes glue gun, paint and string among other things...I haven't fully gone through it yet!




This cradle was from a going out of business sale, along with the bunny puppet in it and the stuffie under that :)




new couch (and chair, not shown), globe and some school supplies... white board, blackboard, crayons, colouring books, organizer, calculators...






Our new set up downstairs:





Bought some chairs from the out of business sale...it was a preschool or daycare







Not from a garage sale, but here is a new bookshelf I bought from wal-mart $130




Some big tubs I bought for sand play and water play!! Can't wait to try them out!!





Another going out of business sale... Bought this patio set for $100... it is very sturdy.. built well :) I'm so happy with it :)



I bought this stuff for $1 each.. I thought they would go great in Raenen's bathroom :)




So I did buy even more, but that is all that I took pics of!! I am overall quite happy with it all :)

more downstairs...

This is where I moved the air hockey table...toys and stuff will be in that corner



TV area... I will have to do something about the 'crampiness'




The current choice for where the desks go, and the space on the wall would be where the kitchen will go... so this will make that corner even squishy-er...




The "I'm a little teapot" poster I wanted to be in the kitchen area

Our day at the Japanese Gardens in Lethbridge, AB

Japanese flower arrangement.. was very very interesting!!!




The Japanese dancers :) The instructor pulled Ky out to teach her some moves :)






The sand art demo :)





The drummers




The bonsai demo which would have been WAY cooler without the DRUMS playing at the same time he was trying to talk!! This part was poorly planned, I really would have liked to hear what he was saying AND separately listen to the drums!



The girls getting their pic together in front of the waterfall :)




This is where we watched a tea ceremony :)



The calligraphy demonstration, Raenen was able to choose the word she wanted, and she chose "Love", her middle name :)





Raenen and her friend took turns at the friendship bell :) You can make the bell sound all across the garden!