Well so much for regular blogging L Oh well “I’m here” but of course it’s not spring/summer like the picture above though the winter so far (knock on wood) has been reasonably mild and dry. We got rain whereas the States and other parts of Canada got lots of snow and bitter cold weather. That doesn’t say we won’t be “hit” come February or March!
I have resumed taking Sign Language classes for the winter months. This is the third winter, by now I thought I’d be able to “talk” sign but without practice with someone or reviewing through the year it didn’t happen. Though I am surprised at what I did retain. Reading finger spelling is my down fall. I can finger spell, though slowly, I just can’t seem to catch on reading someone else. I always think of Millie when I take classes as she was so kind and thoughtful to send some of her books from when she taught sign. Thanks Millie!
I am still trying to get the house and dungeon (alias basement) de-cluttered) I’ve joined “Freecycle” but so far only was able to part with one game. I got a new wood file cabinet for Christmas so posted the old metal one. Two people responded but couldn’t get out east were I live and wondered if I could deliver it to “town” but that couldn’t happen, so I guess it’s bound to be recycled with the metal pick-up on “blue bag” day. Yesterday I did go through shelves of books in the basement and got a box of magazines and a good size pile of books to get rid of. Just have to check out our waste watch site to find what goes into a bluebag and what is trash. Another sea glass collector came by and unburdened me of all my many jars of sea glass except some favourite pieces. She is one of the organizers of our Sea Glass Festival. Some she will use, some for a craft that she will teach next year at Community School and the remaining will be for “planting” at the Sea Glass Festival for the children’s scavenging hunt in the summer. I took some of my sea glass to this same woman before Christmas to make four sets of pendants/earrings for a friend, my daughters and daughter-in-law for Christmas presents. Pink for Megan, yellow for Krista, mauve for Adina and grey for my friend. I think they appreciated that it was from my own sea glass I had gathered on local beaches.
The biggest news in our family is our son and DIL buying there first home. It’s on the other side of Ch’town but it is on the Island. Next weekend we will be helping them move in. They will need lots of stuff as it’s a four bedroom home.
Hope all my friends have a great day!
Signing off,
Faye
Hi Faye! Nice to hear from you again. What a nice idea to make jewelery with your sea glass. How fun for the kids to "find" sea glass. I am no longer taking sign language, after two years of intensive classes. I needed a break. Maybe I will resume it again at another time. I needed more time for other things. I am thinking of taking Spanish with my husband.Congrats to your son and DIL. That is exciting – imagine a 4 bedroom home. Perhaps one day soon there will be little ones to fill those rooms. LOL
Hi Faye,Good to hear from you. I am on a mission "de-cluttering". It seems that I am pretty sentimental, but I just think the benefits of feeling free-er will be great around here. Stuffed animals have gotten out-of hand around here…….. after 34 years of kids! Out they are going, mostly.The sea glass jewelry sounds lovely. It would be fun to see pictures.I am going out to CA to see daughter Carole and husband in a couple of weeks. They have a four bedroom home and I will be helping to get a baby\’s room ready! Yayy!Dave is leaving for AZ with his brother for a few days so I hope to really get things under control in the clutter dept. I painted our living room/dining room and love it. Funny, this time of year I always get ambitious!Great that you are doing sign language. Take care…
Hi Faye, Belated Happy New Year.I had said to myself that I would start getting back to regular blogging, but it hasnt happened. I am posting more often, but I need to get back to visiting others more often. I miss all my bloggy friends. But life gets in the way sometimes as you know. Thats not such a bad thing though.The seaglass jewllery sounds lovely. Out here on the west coast of Canada, my neices collect seaglass. One of them has painted her bedroom white and uses coloured glas to decorate it. I got her a seaglass windchme for her birthday yesterday.Susan http://thousandwordsworthy.blogspot.com
Hi, Faye,Thanks for the update, sounds like you are as busy as ever. I need to get into the decluttering mode here too, in a big way. My daughter bought a house too so I\’m flying out there to see her next week. She just moved in last weekend so she\’s pretty excited.
Ever since I read about you and your sea glass now when ever I\’m near water I look too and I never did before. Congrats to your son and wife, how exciting for them. WTG on keeping up with the sign language but it has to be hard to reads what someone else is saying until you really get it. Good job.
Great to see a post from you Faye. Thanks for getting us caught up on what has been happening to you.
so nice to see you back!!
There she is again! And as usual with a nice update of what\’s going on in PEI. When I read the passage about the Sign Language I was thinking of Penny and I remembered that she also started a while ago to learn this way of talking.Is it possible for you to show us photos of what you can make of sea glass?Have a nice Sunday!