Beautiful Trail British Columbia

The other day I was walking from work to the swimming pool to meet my husband who had kindly taken our children to their swimming lessons and I wished so much that I could have taken a picture that would capture the smell of the warm spring air and the flowering trees and the feeling of well being that I had walking along the beautiful Columbia River in this most beautiful time of year in this beautiful small city...

This is Rotary Park.  I walked through it on my way.  The trees are much bigger now but the view is still wonderful and I all I could smell was sunshine and flowers.

At Home with My Husband

First of all let me say that I love my husband very much.

Each night as we settle in to our nightime activities I wait for it to start.  The soft rythmic snore.  He usually falls asleep in his chair around 10.  As I am a night person he gets about two solid hours of sleep in that chair every night. Tomorrow he will tell me how he only got about two hours sleep for this reason and that reason. So is all his sleep in his chair?

Join us June 17th at Sugar Shack for our FREE Janome Education Day!

Precision, power and reliabilty make Janome the perfect machine for the beginner to advanced sewer. This is event is a must for everyone who loves to sew!

Join us and receive a free gift valued at around $15, be entered to win a fabulous door prize valued at around $250, sip coffee or tea and nibble our delicious signature cookies while learning from Liz, Janome's pro!

9:30 until 11:30 am

We will be welcome the new Horizon 7700 into the shop! Liz will be here to demonstrate the 7700 as well as all of the fabulous accessories for your Janome machines. Learn an abundance of techniques that can be done on almost any Janome sewing machine - open the door to your creativity and discover new possibilities for your next project!

1:00 to 3:00

Stick around to attend the afternoon session and let Liz show you how an embroidery machine can kick your creativity up a notch! There will be a demonstration of the basics and Liz will show you some examples of the work she has mastered on her machine. Everyone will enjoy and be inspired by this session!

Don't miss this exciting event at Sugar Shack Quilting!

Kids Sewing Class

Don't miss out on the kids sewing class we have scheduled to begin on May 22!

Time Flies...

Wow.. where has the time gone? Time sure flies by when you are having fun - my Auntie Susie told me today that time flies when you get old.  I have been feeling old, does that count?

I have so much to blog about that you have been missing over the last few weeks. I have included some images from the West Kootenay Quilt Conference - just one of the places I have been and things I have been up to over the last few weeks.  I hope you love them!

Part of the trouble is I love to read other blogs and then I spend all night jumping from one blog to another... there is so much fun reading to do, so many great projects, and such precious little time.  Hmm, if only my DH's lucky streak would kick back in big time....

This quilt belongs to Paul Hertz - he made it at the Sugar Shack Quilting Beginner Sampler Class

I love crazy quilts.  They are the reason I learned to quilt although I have yet to make one!

I like the colours and the combinations of pieced and appliquéd blocks in this quilt.

There and Back Again - Creston Home & Garden Show 2010

Okay, so it wasn't the next day.  Give me a break, it has been a busy week!

These are the amazing mountains that you pass through to get from my home in Trail to Creston. We call it the Salmo Creston Highway - and to be honest I am not even sure what its official name is!

On the way there we saw a herd (?) of Big Horn Sheep ewes. On the way home, on the other side of the road, we saw the rams from my earlier post.  We also saw Wild Turkey, Elk (twice), and of course, lots of deer.  Beautiful British Columbia!

The Creston Home and Garden Show was fun as always!  We were lucky enough to have the Mountain FM booth next to ours so there was great music playing all the time and the staff was fun to spend the weekend with!

There were lots of interesting things to see in 100 or so booths, I only took pictures of the ones that I thought were esthetically pleasing or that has something I wanted (like a sink).  You can see all of the photos I took on Sugar Shack's Facebook page.

This booth was selling candles from the Kootenays!  They smell and looked so gorgeous I had to take some pictures of them.

The creamy yellow color of these beeswax ones was so beautiful.  It made me think of Christmas - maybe it was the trees, stars and pine cones!

I loved the colors of the dyed ones - and available in so many delicious scents!

This one was hand painted by one of the owners of the business (I think). I wish I could do this - or at the very least be brave enough to try. There were quite a few hand painted ones, I took the this picture because I really love lilac and lilac season is upon us!

This is What I Saw Today

Steve (the DH) spent the last two days in Creston at a the annual Home and Garden Show.  This is what we saw on our way home.

Tomorrow (when I am not so tired!) I will post all of the other cool stuff we saw between here and there - and of course while we were there!

British Columbia is the most amazing, beautiful place on earth.  We are so blessed to be able to live in such a wonderful place!