Friday, June 24, 2016

Five on Friday: June 24, 2016

I've missed two Five on Friday posts and don't really know where the time has gone. I'm sure I'm writing to the choir when I say things are busy. Isn't this just a busy time of the year? Backpacks coming home loaded down with papers and proof of a completed school year. Year end events for piano, school and swimming. A last minute three day baseball tournament. And let's not forget the double birthday party one weekend and the family reunion the next weekend, both in one and two weekends time and both with me as chief organizer. Be still my palpitating heart.

With so much fuss I have found it difficult to stop and catch a photo here and there so it's taken me two weeks but here are five things to show you. As usual, I am linking up with the lovely Amy from her Love Made My Home blog and her Five on Friday link up party.


DH has been away and back and away and back again between Canada and Abu Dhabi and Ottawa and Paris... During his extended trip to Abu Dhabi, he took an hour drive to Dubai to visit the huge Mall of the Emirates, (which houses its own ski hill) where there is a Cath Kinston shop. We don't have a Cath Kinston shop near us and I'm a fan. He brought back this gorgeous table runner (complete with lace edges) and matching tea towels for me. I was pleased.


It's hard to believe it but this week marked the end of me and my children playing at the St. John's MFRC playgroup after seven years. Youngest doesn't really understand what a change this is as he is looking forward to going to Kindergarten in the fall. I understand and it was a bittersweet last meet up. We have met so many great friends through play group and the MFRC is a huge support for all of us. I'm not cutting my ties entirely and will be helping out with their crafting group come fall. For our last good-bye session, we brought a cake that I baked and decorated. I had fun using a new decorating icing tip for this one and it came out looking rather 'bridal' I thought.


There's nothing like a new pair of shoes in my opinion and new red ones are a cause for celebration!



Last week I took advance of Youngest's last opportunity to avail of the drop off childcare program at the MFRC and took a walk/run around Quidi Vidi Lake. I'm slowly working my way through a couch to 5K running program. You'll need to click on the following picture to enlarge it enough to see the duck family but they walked right up to me before retreating to the brook for cover. Ducklings are so cute!


Crafting remains my go to when my brain is feeling overwhelmed and my nerves fried. I have been making some progress on this lovely cross stitch pattern that I purchased in kit form during our stint in Germany. The kit itself was purchased in The Netherlands and I love the design and designer, Marjolein Bastien. I hope to have it finished around the Christmas holidays. It's an intricate and detailed pattern.


Thanks so much for dropping by. Now, take some time and check out the posts from other bloggers from around the world at Amy's place.

13 comments:

  1. Love your cross stitch project and the lovely Cath Kidston gift from your hubby, I am a big fan.

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  2. What a beautiful decorated cake and your red shoes are very pretty.
    Never saw a stitched Marjolein Bastin before, good luck with it (I have many of her books)
    Greetings from Germany

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  3. I am a big fan of Cath Kidston too. The Mall of the Emirates is fabulous. I love the cake and your new shoes, they are both gorgeous. Have a lovely weekend xx

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  4. The cross stitch is just gorgeous. What a lot of traveling your poor husband has done. We use to live in Germany, where were you?

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  5. Your cross stitch is wonderful. I bet your husband is happy to be home. It's a lot of travelling!

    Have a great weekend

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  6. No wonder your time has been flying by, you have been very busy indeed! Hope you get to sit back a bit and enjoy your very pretty embroidery! I am sorry to be so late visiting, we had a minor domestic drama yesterday - nothing serious in the end, all ok - but I didn't get a change to do any blogging. Thank you so much for taking part in Five On Friday, I do appreciate it! Hope you are having a great weekend!

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  7. Your Five was worth the wait. Your new linens are pretty, but the pitcher is breathtaking. LOVE it. Is your new decorating tip a Wilton? May we know the number? Your cake is lovely. As for the shoes - move over Dorothy; you're not the only one with ruby slippers. You'll feel like a million dollars when you wear those. The cross stitch will be worth the effort. Marjolein is one of my favorites. For some reason, people send me greeting cards with her designs and say, "this looks like something you'd enjoy", and they're right. I had one of those desk calendars where you tear off a page a day which she designed, so I got to enjoy her work for an entire year. Come back soon - I like your posts.

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  8. Hello,Patty,
    Lovely series of your photos.All of them are beautiful. It was good you bought the decorating icing tip for your cake. It looks very helpful.The decoration on the cake is perfectly beautiful.
    Have a happy day.

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  9. Hello,Patty,
    Lovely series of your photos.All of them are beautiful. It was good you bought the decorating icing tip for your cake. It looks very helpful.The decoration on the cake is perfectly beautiful.
    Have a happy day.

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  10. You certainly have been busy...family milestones, a pretty cake, red shoes, and some beautiful stitching along with receiving a lovely Cath Kidston gift. I hope you're having a great weekend. We are having a sunny day near Portland, Oregon, after a couple days of rain. Snow capped Mt. Hood is in its glory!

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  11. Lots going on at your place. Marjolein Bastien is such a wonderful artist. The stitching you are doing will be simply beautiful! Red shoes and the white cake look a little like Canada Day!

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  12. Love the cake decoration and the butterflies - looks a productive week!

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