100 Days Happ 57 - 63

I have to admit that this week I struggled a bit to find the happy, between working all seven days and really not liking who I was working with, and not really getting up to too much I feel a bit like I didn't have a very good week. I think my main problem was remembering the good things from this week, because I had a few cool things happen that I totally didn't remember to capture. And I found it really had to shake my bad mood even when I was at home. Luckily I had a really good weekend, even with working, Saturday was a nice evening in with Dixon and we watched movies and drank some beers, which can sometimes be all you need.
Plus looking back this week at the things I did in between work helped cheer me up too.

1. Postcards from Rosslyn Chapel posted
2. Shrove Tuesday, aka Pancake Day with eggs and veggie bacon
3. New Terry Pratchett for the collection
4. Highlight of Thursday, BEER
5. Progress is still progress, even if its slow
6. Movie night with Dixon
7. Photos from Rosslyn Chapel, more on those later!

I did have some good bits that are not up here, Dixon was away to a gig and I didn't feel well so I got a super glitter bath bomb and some peach cider, and that was magic. So I just need to remember to remember those.

100 Days Happy 50-56

So I had a weeks worth of holidays to use up and so use them up I did, so this weeks worth of happy has been especially good because its also been very relaxing. I didn't have too many plans but still got out and did stuff too. So its been a good week. And we are past the half way mark for 100 Days Happy, so that is also pretty cool. I can't help but wonder if it is helping me relax and feel happier and notice happy things, this week it would have been hard not to.

1. Started using my Valentines Threads for my cross stitch

2. Bath bombs!

3. The ever growing camera collection, they got some use this week.

4. First photos back from the Pentax

5. Roslin Chapel

6. Botanics greenhouses

7. Dr Sketchy's is back!

100 Days Happy 36-42

So, here we are again, and I've got my photos for another week. I would say nothing so exciting as getting word that my permanent residency has come through happened this week, but I did receive my actual physical card. So that is exciting as well as our passports, the two years of bank statements from Daniel and I and other miscellaneous papers needed for my application! So yay that is exciting, it isn't one of my photos though, not sure it would be a good idea to take a photo of my new visa and put it all out there, but it did indeed happen and so Saturday's happy, is probably a close second.

Anyway without further ado.

 

 

1. Light Exhibit in St Andrews Square

2. Parcels from Canada

3. Cross Stitch progress

4. Big Hair, good hair day

5. Valentines Day, I rememebered!

6. New Tunes, hanging out with pals

7. Mammoth Bus!

All Things Van Gogh

I recently started cross stitching again, and I thought I was doing pretty well so I wanted to challenge myself with something bigger and what better than to fuel my ever growing  love of Van Gogh than to do a cross stitch of one of his paintings. Now when I looked into it, I didn't think it would be as complex, but I am having a brilliant time working it all out and here's the progress over the past week and a wee bit.

You can totally start to see it come together, bu that is just on panel out of four, my plan is to do it a panel at a time, and move forward that way so I don't get too ahead of myself!

Also while we are on the Vincent Van Gogh topic, I stumbled upon a kickstarter for an entirely handpainted animated movie of the story of Vincient Van Gogh as told through his paintings, unfortunately the kickstarter wasn't funded but the good news is they are going to relaunch it! Its well worth checking out what they are doing!

You can find their Facebook here and hopefully a link will pop up for the kickstarter too!

And finally, I got a few surprises in the mail, one from Amber, she had been to Harry Potter; The Exhibition, in Edmonton and passed on some goodies to me! And a Parcel from my mom full of sweets and a Tim Hortons mug, now I will just need to get my hands on some Time Hortons Coffee!

100 Happy Days 29-35 and More

So at the beginning of this week I though that my next seven of the 100 Days Happy would be all about the new cross stitch I was starting, buuuut  I had amazing news on Friday. My application for permanent residency has been approved. So that shifted the whole week completely! Not that the new cross stitch isn't going well haha. But here they are, seven more days.

1. Mailing Birthday cards to Canada

2. New Cross stitch pattern, its gonna be huge!

3. Walking to get more thread, and the castle was being beautiful

4. Making Leak and Potato soup, YUM!

5. Celebratory Thai!

6. Lemsip for the cold

7. Sherlock and the Great Mouse Detective comparisons for the win!

To go into Friday a bit more, Dixon and I went for a meal, and to see the paper lantern terracotta warriors, that were on display too. I popped to see them in the daylight and at night, and it was more impressive to see at night but way harder to capture. But still really cool. And afterward we went to Chang Thai, for, you guessed it, Thai food! The food was so nice as the service was brilliant. I got a type of curry I had never had before, and Dixon had steak, and was feeling manly, and got it spicy, it was really spicy. But everything was so good even if it numbed Dixon's lip! So it was a brilliant day all around.

So this weeks Friday will be a Happy Day that will be hard to top!

We also had Champagne and Gingerbread with Gail and Gordon on Saturday, so that would have probably qualified for Saturdays happy, but I totally forgot to take a photo! I suck.

100 Days Happy 22-28

These posts are more self explanatory than most of mine, so here's this week.

1. Facetime-ing and creeping on Marsha

2. Completed Batman Cross stitch

3. A little Van Gogh in the morning

4. Sharmanka exhibit, so cool

5. Last months limited Pratchett 

6. Painting on canvas!

7. Watching Anime while doing dishes and laundry

I am trying to collect all the limited edition books being brought out monthly by Terry Pratchett, and I am doing well so far. February's just came out too, so maybe you will be seeing it Eric and Sourcery up here soon. They are awesome additions.