Those were the days....

Arnold's Uncle recently posted a pic of all his brothers.

There are also two sisters but they haven't been in these pics!

When I saw it my first thought was....

 Can you imagine clothing everyone?

How much bread it took each day??

The amount of meat to cook for 9 working boys?

Woowzers!

They are all wearing spiffy clothes in this pic!

This is another one that was posted on Facebook recently.

NINE boys (and two girls)!!

These pictures were over 70 years ago!

Arnold's grandpa and grandma had quite the family!

Work ethic was definitely instilled in all of the Marcottes.

This was my mom, dad and me .......52 years ago!!

Crazy how a black and white pic can seem like centuries ago!

Larissa, Tannis, Mom, Dad, Christa 

To this many!!

Arnold and I had 4 kids. 

(our third child went to heaven at 6 months old)

Still as cute as buttons...

My daughter has two boys.

 

We gave them cameras for Christmas.

Since there was no family to take pics of...

Their first photo shoot was of Vanessa and Larry, the fish!

Love Brayden's pose....

He's a natural!

Look forward to seeing their view on the world!

In between quilting, I have been trying to keep up to my other job...

Making windsocks!

The socks are mostly sold to Oilfield Companies 

Justin does the custom labels on the socks.

He has been making a lot of custom orders

 for

 Christmas gifts this year!

I wonder where he gets his creativity from.....

There is no better place to be in the windsock business that Saskatchewan

Anywhere the wind blows....

Christa

 

Whispering Pines

Take one Northcott wide back 

Quilted it as a whole cloth...

I just stitched in the trees and valleys...

Keeping it pretty natural..

The flannel wood grain back is perfect! 

Love how it turned out!

Christa

A Different Kind of Christmas

Justin has been busy with custom windsocks

and

nativity banners.

He has definitely mastered the Cricut, that's for sure!

He got all the orders complete and delivered.

Thank goodness they are local...the  mail is soooo slow these days!

Speaking of local...

We were lucky to get the winning bid for a local fund raiser

to

win some tasty decident treats made

 by 

Something Sweet by Fadiah

She calls it a grazing plate! 

It was amazing!!

I had stiff competition to win this bid.

Rodney Phillips tried his best 

but

I asked Fadiah to make him a little tasting!

She was such a good sport!!

These are some of  cakes Justin purchased for the Community Future Staff

Fadiah is a local girl who makes the most spectacular cakes and cookies.

These cakes were purchased for some Christmas presents this year.

I had a challenger on my bids for Fadiah's treats

but

I was not giving up!

Since no one was supposed to  come over for Christmas dinners,

I have decided we will use the Christmas tree napkins anyways.

Going to pretend everything is 'normal'

These are so easy to make.

Just two half circles sewn together with a little stump

and folded to make a tree!

Great little Christmas gifts!

I hope there was some turkey and treats in your Christmas!

Happy Boxing Day....

Hope everyone stays home for that too!

Christa 

Merry Christmas to All

Eat, Drink and be Merry!

From my family to yours!

Christa

 

An Afternoon Date

Take one free Wednesday afternoon....

A theater offering a matinee in the middle of the week....

A movie about a farmer who lived in Saskatchewan...

'PERCY'

We are in!!

Social distancing you say???

EASY...there were SEVEN of us in the whole theater.

It was like a private showing!!

The movie was about a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan

 who stood up to Monsanto

 to

 keep his right to save his own seed.

Later we strolled the streets of Estevan 

and

stopped in at Art Concepts Gallery

It was another private tour as we were the only ones in there.

We got a tour of each artist's works.

I knew Lauren Daae from Torquay,Sk had her works hanging in there, too

This picture of a little church was there.

It was taken by Byron Fitcher.

This is Lac Qui Parle Church 

which

 is 4 miles straight north of my farm.

It's a beautiful and loved church. 

My dogs are often on a walkabout up there.

People call and tell me.

I say ...are they by the church?

YUP

They know their way home....they go to church almost every day!

For the final show.....

the sun has been in hiding for days now!

But it started to set on the way home

Perfect end to a nice day!!

Local adventure...

Christa 

Careful What You Wish For....

If you read my blog a couple days ago...

This blinged ornament went to it's new home.

Martha Cole had asked to purchase one 

I told her to have it

 as

 it was an honor that she thought they were fabulous!!

 I did tease Shelby Love who delivered it for me...

that I will trade her for one of her elevators!!

Picked up the mail today to find this little package...

Containing this fabulous book....

and 

A beautiful note about the new owner of my ornament.

The book is incredible.

It is a tribute to ALL of Martha's Elevators...

Such a great history of noble and majestic elevators.

One of our town's elevators just burned down a few weeks ago.

So this means even more!

Iconic statues of the Prairies

Can you believe these are fabric??

Such attention to detail...

They look like paintings.

Martha also has a write up explaining her inspiration

of 

works of art.

Her exhibition has traveled everywhere

and

I was lucky enough to see it in person.

That's the first time I had come across Martha's works

and

I was blown away by her talent.

Still am.

I now own some of Martha's elevators....Jaynie!!!

See...careful what you wish for!

What a nice gift!

Christa