The Captive and Visiting the Grandkids

Another visit come and gone, 14 hours on the Greyhound Bus there and another 14 hours home.  It's a long trip, but worth every uncomfortable minute.

Whilst I was visiting the grandkids (and their mum and dad of course), I was invited to spend the evening with their day care provider, a delightful lady named Anna, and have dinner with her family.  After dinner we took in this movie, see what you think of it.

This is a Canadian thriller, directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Mireille Enos and Ryan Reynolds.  You may remember Mireille from "The Killing", a series of three distinct stories which revolved around a single murder.

The captive is essentially an abduction thriller, set over time span of eight years. Mireille Enos and Ryan Reynolds play the parents, whose daughter is kidnapped one day outside of coffee shop. The agonising search for leads on the identity of the kidnapper is set over a period of 8 years. Scott Speedman and Rosario Dawson provide strong support as the lead police officers assigned to the case. The audience is already aware of the identity of the kidnapper which allows us to empathise more with the parents and police officers involved.

There are frequent time shifts within the movie, centring around events just after the abduction, six years after the incident and finally eight years, leading to the film’s climax. Some reviewers have criticized this, as there was no indication, the audience is left to work out what has happened.

The main conflict which fleshes out the middle part of the movie are the themes of guilt, the distraught mother blames her husband for the abduction and in turn he blames him self.  I enjoyed this movie, they can't all be terrific but I think it was worth the price of entry.

As usual, I had a great time visiting and as usual, it went by way too fast.  Each time I try to stay a little longer.  Rhys is now in school full-time, in SK and seems to love it, Katherine still has a way to go before she starts JK.  Unfortunately both Niki and I came down with terrible colds (or was it flu) which put a little bit of a dampner on things, especially as my other son who lives in Toronto came to visit for a few days so I had to make an effort to at least go out with him a few times.  I'm still not over it two weeks later.

Just one little project to show you this time, gosh, I have been lazy, LOL  This is a rather unique shaped shelf.  Someone is going to love it for their knick-knacks.  I did it in grey and shabbied it.

It was another busy day at my little shop, The Church Street Boutique and this time I decided to give away one of my hand-crafted pendant necklaces with each purchase.  Everyone was delighted but some were reluctant to accept as they were already getting some great deals, but that's what we are all about, great deals and making people happy.

Not much to blog about this time taking into account my trip and my cold.

Here are a couple of photos of the darlings, they are always a joy to see.....

Rhys's first day at SK

Sweet Katherine

Rhys drying off

Katherine, finding Daddy amusing

And that's it for now my friends.  I hope you are all healthy and life is treating you well.  Until next time, take care....

Hugs, 

Summer feet, cushion covers and baubles

It really has been a week without much happening.  The weather has been so very warm for our small area of the world and all I've been doing is popping in and out of the local shopping mall to take advantage of their air conditioning.  I may have mentioned before that I do not drive so pretty well everywhere I go, I walk.  This is what happens to you when you do that, be warned, LOL............

My feet are pretty ugly (now there's an oxymoron) to begin with and could do without the bad nail polish job and the hideous tan, LOL.  Anyway, I had to show you as a very good friend of mine had a laugh at my expense when she noticed my feet without shoes.

Not everything is ugly.  I have made some more cushion covers. Hopefully I will be able to sell them.  I sold two sets this week to a really lovely lady and was quite impressed with how they looked on her couch.  These are the latest ones.....................

Went and helped Pat at The Queen's Cupboard today.  It was very, very humid and that on top of the road construction I think deterred people from coming out, I'm sure they spent their time at the beach today, me thinks.  Tomorrow, Pat is taking a lot of her outdoorsy stuff to St. Joseph's Island in the hopes of making a killing.  I hope she does well.  I could have gone with her but the thought of spending all day in the sun.... well, perish the thought!!!

As I said earlier, there hasn't been much happening, so I'll take this opportunity of featuring a few more of my necklaces.  I have come to the end of making jewelry, it has run its course, but I do have oodles of items for which I would love to find homes.  I would even consider selling them to someone who would like to take up where I left off and do all the craft shows without the expense of purchasing the materials and creating them.  Most of the local stores where I had my creations for sale have closed (oh gosh, I hope I didn't have anything to do with that, LOL), no, most of them were newish businesses which couldn't make it past a couple of years through lack of support. I would even consider donating to fundraisers.  I have long given up on the idea of making a fortune!!!!  Well, here goes, just a few for you to look at...............

I had better get cracking with my other crafts.  I have another stool which I would like to fix up and add a water-slide decal (something French, I think), which I purchased from The Polka Dot Closet (http://thepolkadotcloset.blogspot.ca/).  I'm itching to do another one but have been put off because of the warm weather and the humidity.  Also, I have a few pictures to frame and even a few to paint.

No new pictures of the darlings to show you, but hope to get some new ones soon.  I'll put these in for now............

Until next post, take care of yourselves and each other.

"How's your day?" Mine is sew, sew!!

Another fabulous day in the neighbourhood.  Temperatures ranging from 24 to 29 celsius, a little too warm for my liking but nonetheless and beautiful day.  Living downtown has many advantages and most places of interest to myself are within walking distance.  One of those places is one of the local Churches which hosts a rummage sale every Wednesday morning.  This is Westminster Presbyterian Church, an artist's impression...............

So pretty.

Anyway, I sauntered over there first thing this morning and picked up a few bits and pieces and whilst I was there I saw a really lovely sewing box.  It had a twenty dollar price tag on it and whilst it was worth that, I wasn't in the mood to splurge, even if it was for a good cause!!  Got home and wasn't there more than two minutes when I realized that today they had a half off sale, so back I went hoping and praying that it was still there.  Surprisingly, it was and I scooped it up before anyone else had the chance.  This is my wonderful "find" of the day, worth every penny of the $10, and more..................

You saw in my previous posts how I have bravely attempted to make new cushion covers for my apartment, well, I figured I could make them for the whole of mankind now and sell them by the thousands at my craft displays.  I'm really going to make a fortune, LOL  Au contraire, I will be very lucky to sell a few, but that isn't stopping me from going full force and turning them out like a little factory.  No child labour here, but I am exploiting a certain senior citizen, but she won't remember tomorrow, LOL  Got all my fabric from "Fabricland", our only material store.  I have been making them in sets of three, here are some examples of the ones I have made so far........

These last two you have seen on previous blogs

Nothing much exciting is happening this week, no new painting projects on the go, so I'll just show you a few of my handmade necklaces..............

And that's just a tiny sample of what I still have left to sell.  I tried going the Etsy route but that didn't work for me so I'm now back to selling, or trying to sell, my crafts at local craft shows.

I will leave you with the only new photo I have of my darling grand-daughter Katherine.  It was Rhys, my grandson's third birthday last Saturday and how I wish I could have been there to celebrate with them.  Hopefully next year.  Here's Katherine..............

'Til we meet again, keep smiling.


Adding this two days later....  This is what was happening here last evening to celebrate 50 year anniversay of the Bridge between the two Saults.................


50th Anniversary Bridge LightingRed and white industrial rope light strands will grace the Canadian arch portion of the bridge, while red, white, and blue strands will grace the U.S. double-arch portion of the bridge. These strands will be lit in a community celebration at dusk on Thursday, June 28.

The primary celebration site will be at the Roberta Bondar Pavilion in Sault, Ontario, with a secondary celebration site at the Sault Locks viewing area in Sault, Mich. The public announcements, dignitary comments, and festivities leading up to and including the sequenced lighting of the rope light strands by the eight Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Authority board members will be broadcast live from the pavilion on radio station WSOO at about 9:45 p.m. There will be a bi-national fireworks display clearly visible from both Saults following the lighting ceremony.

Notice how the lights on the bridge itself are in red/white and blue.  So cool.  Sorry that the photos I took are not very good (I took them from my balcony) but I'm not that well acquainted with my camera and have only been taking ordinary photos so far.  I guess I should get out the manual, LOL