Glue Letters

I love pinning, in fact I have so many pins I wonder if I'll ever get the chance to try them all. Christina, The Frugal Homemaker, participated in The Nester's 31 Days with her series 31 Days of Pinterest: Pinned to Done.

What a fun month it was following Christina as she completed pins from her board and showed us the results. So much fun, she motivated me to get moving on my own boards! I now have a 'Pinned & Done' board and I love when I can transfer a pin to it.

I want to show off something I did that took maybe 10 minutes, not counting drying time.  I had pinned a recycled jar post from Brooke at Pure and Noble and knew I could have fun with this. 

I love the one with 'raindrops', I will be trying that soon!

I had some dollar store plastic containers and needed one for my elastics. Why not spruce it up a bit using Brooke's idea!

 I wrote elastics on the front and traced it with my glue gun. I was worried the glue would melt the plastic, but it worked fine. But I ran out of room for the last 's'.

After the glue dried I spray painted the outside of the container and lid.

 I did a couple more, one for screws and one for finishing nails using an old prescription bottle. 

At home in my cabinet.

I love my new little containers! Simple and so fast. Thanks Brooke, for the inspiration. Now that I feel comfortable with this, I plan on using old jars and bottles. Maybe I'm going overboard with this one...

Now it's time to take my computer in for service. I sure hope it doesn't take too long, but boy will it be great to have a computer that runs properly. See you in a few days. :)

Silence is Golden

My computer was hacked...I found out when my sister and a friend emailed saying they received spam from me. Oh no...everyone on my email list received this. If you did, I'm so so sorry. I hope the fact that there was only a link in the body alerted everyone that this isn't a type of email I send out. (aside from the fact I rarely send emails)

After 6 hours of a total scan I found I had not one, but two trojan viruses!

I spent my day off cleaning and searching...only to find I didn't have virus protection like I thought. I was offline...afraid to use my computer for fear it would happen again. After a lot of researching, I found out the protection I put on my husband's computer when he bought it was good for up to 3 computers. Why didn't I know this before? And why didn't I put it on mine? I'll never know, but now I'm protected.

So now I have over 300 emails to go through! Good heavens...I think most will be deleted after a quick glance...who has time for this? And I have completed a bunch of projects I'd like to blog about...now to find the time to edit the pictures and write about them. Feeling quite lost right now, aside from the fact I'm way behind on the above, I have so much to catch up with in blogville.

And this morning my computer crashed not once, but 3 times. I don't know what is going on, but I've spent hours today moving pictures and documents to disc and deleting lots of items I don't need any more. Larry has told me to take the tower to get cleaned & repaired. I'm so afraid I'm going to loose everything. So please bear with me while I work out these problems I'm having...hopefully I'll be back up and running soon.

Sharing some pictures of one of our gardens from last season. 

On a cold day, it's nice to remember the warmth and beauty of the summer gardens. 

Silence is golden...but I sure miss all the 'noise' on my computer. It will be good to be home when all this mess is over.

Remembrance Day

Today I'm remembering...family and veterans. 

 William (Scotty) McColgan, my grandfather served under Conn Smythe (long time owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs) and saved his life when they were under attack. Grandpa is mentioned often in the book about Smythe. He survived the war to live into his 90's.

 Margaret Borthwick (my mother-in-law) is marked with the red X

Charles Borthwick (my father-in-law), his brother Oliver and Marg's brother Hugh Davidson are marked with the Xs. 

 Newspaper articles from their time in World War II. 

Many families lost loved ones, and the Borthwick's were no exception. As the Chaplain quoted in the article about my husband's uncle, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 

I believe that verse of the Bible applies to all our men and women who serve their countries. And this is the day to remember and honour every one of them. 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

- John McCrae