It’s finally here!! Spring! Warm temps. Green grass. Trees budding and flowering. This is why we all stick around Minnesota through the harsh winters. We can enjoy the great outdoors in all it’s glory.
Between the sweet smell of the blossoms and the light drone of the bees, it was hard to get myself to come back inside.
If you look closely you can see all the bees busy pollinating.
We’re back from our 4th annual Mother Daughter retreat in Northern MN.
It was another great weekend.
We had a really cool cabin that we shared with approx 50 mothers and daughters. I think I heard there were around 250 of us total this weekend.
The weekend was filled with lots of activities such as hay rides,
archery
farm animals
and of course, horse back riding.
Mini me had a horse named Patches
and mine was Quilta. It hard to tell without a frame of reference but this is a very tall horse but just a sweetheart to ride.
We also did some craft projects. Two projects came home unfinished as there just wasn’t enough time.
We did complete our fairy garden.
and a couple of stamped leather pieces.
We had a great time, over-indulged on treats, laughed, got soaked in the rain, walked countless miles up and down the hills at camp and slept very little.
Sounds like a blast huh?
Now that life has returned to normal, I’m trying to get back to eating healthy again.
I’ll start with this green monster smoothie. I have plans to walk with friends later this week. If it warms up enough today, I may walk or ride my bike over to Paisley Park to pay my respects.
What are you doing today?
I feel like I’m always behind in posting lately. Not sure why that is but it happens all too often in my opinion.
Last time at craft club, I was trying to replicate this card that I had found many years ago in my dad’s room at the nursing home. It was such a sweet card with a clever design. I knew one day I wanted to try it for myself.
I decided to use a pack of cards from Michael’s that were color-coordinated as my base.
Of course this is just a start.
I’ve also started work on a commission. I’m making a scrapbook album from a children’s board book.
I started by ripping the printed images off all the pages.
So far I’ve only gotten the outside background papers in place. I realize that I can’t force it…either I’m feeling creative or I’m not. Evidently I’m not feeling scrapbooky right now. 🙂
Mini-me and I were out of town this past weekend for our annual mother daughter retreat. More on that tomorrow.
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