Grandchildren

visited last evening for supper. A slightly different visit than some of the recent ones. DD is finding it stressful looking after the two litle ones and getting ready to move in three weeks, especialy with my SIL away most of the time. He usually gets home Satuday evening and then has to leave by about noon on Sunday. Yesterday my DH went over in the afternoon to help her figure out how the lawn mower works. After the grass was cut he brought the two girls home, while my DD dropped in on an all-day scrapbooking party down the street, only staying for about an hour. It good to see how much the short time away from the children was like a vacation for her. It helped that both of the children had had naps, and the older one was hungry enough to eat a good supper. For the first time the baby was able to sit at the table with us. We set up the special seat yesterday, and she can manage for at good half hour before she needs to be held for a bit. After supper, insteadof playing cards, DD and I ended up helping the 3 year old with the silliest bead craft I've seen in awhile. She first learned this at her sitter, and then DD bought a small set for her. GD will play with this for an hour or more, longer if she's getting some attention to go along with it. She isn't mature enough to deal with set patterns yet, and I, ever the artist, want her to learn to develop her own patterns, not just copy some one else's. But she will decide what colour to use, and then get the adults around to spend time sorting through thousands of little beads looking for the right colour.

On the artist side, I did a little more sunprinting yesterday, using dandelion leaves again. They worked up very well last year, and even sold fairly well. While the others were off cutting grass, I managed to get two small collages matted and packaged, and two small sun prints finished, matted and packaged. Now I very much need to work on a couple of larger sunprinted wall hangings. Not today however. I have a meeting out in Lac du Bonnet this afternoon, and want to take a little extra time to go as far as Pinawa to make hotel reservations for the big sale in July. This will take most of the day, so we've planned to eat supper out. A full day's adventure. There is a place on the highway out near Pinawa that I want a picture of. A row of very old, dying/dead trees, probably an ancient windbreak. They are all at odd angles, many of them s devoid of bark and white with age. I'm sure I can make some sort of arty piece out of it