Our youngest has now graduated from high school. I can’t believe this is the end of public school for this family!

Yesterday was a fabulous day for such a momentous occasion. The weather was sunny and warm, not a cloud in the sky. We took several pictures at home before the ceremony. The picture above is Dana in the front yard.

This picture was taken after the ceremony. All the grads (57 in all) formed a receiving line in the hall just outside the school gym. You can see how happy Dana is in this picture. She did well, receiving the Jack Lapeyre Memorial Bursary in the amount of $500 from the British Columbia Old Age Pensioners’ Organization.

This grad class was described as “eclectic” by one of the teachers. This was evident in the different modes of transportation used to get to the ceremony. One grad and his date arrived in his father’s silage truck (see above).

But the award for the most unusual mode of transportation to the ceremony goes to this couple who arrived in a bicycle / carrier combination. Good thing the weather cooperated.

The banquet and dance after the ceremony were great. The theme was “Mardi Gras” and the decorations were top notch. I couldn’t resist taking a picture of this carved melon tray–a true work of art!

This was a dry grad event and there had been a year’s worth of fund raising efforts that had gone into providing entertainment for the entire evening in order to keep the grads occupied and safe. At midnight, the grads boarded a bus and were transported to a hall in a secret location for the rest of the evening. The theme at this event was a casino and all grads were given play money to gamble with. In the morning, the grads were transported back to town by bus to a local hotel for a buffet breakfast and then they were returned to where they had started at midnight the evening before.

I have just gotten back from picking up Dana with all her loot–she is apparently a great gambler! She had a colour TV, queen size bed spread, suitcase, and movie card with her. She says she even gave some of her money to a friend so she could “buy” something as well. She is exhausted, but it appears it was a great day! I expect her to crash for a few hours. I don’t know how she has any steam left!

Graduation from Grade 12 is a big event here in our town. Today is the day that our daughter graduates from Grade 12.

We started today at the hair salon to get a fancy “do”. The salon was very busy with all the girls getting their hair done for tonight’s big event. Each and every hair style was a work of art.

These are pictures of my daughter’s hair-do. Now we need to worry about make up…..
getting into the dress….. pictures……

There has been so much interest in my challenge project that I am going to post the steps as I go along.

I now have all the fabrics selected for my challenge. The rules around choosing fabrics were pretty liberal. You can use as many fabrics as you like as long as the colour(s) of the paint chip are the main focus of the quilt. You can see in the picture that two of my fabrics showcase two of the paint chips on the strip. I will use the three fabrics on the right in my blocks and the house fabric on the left in my border.

The next step is to draft out my blocks / quilt.

I have been disconnected from the world for the last few days as I waited for my sick computer to be discharged from the “computer hospital” I now have a new motherboard and more RAM. You would think I would be ready to go, wouldn’t you?

Yesterday, I went to take pictures to add to a post and my camera was dead. I had a “Lens Error” message which means that the camera needs to be sent in for repair.

There could not be a worse time for a camera to fail. My daughter’s Grad ceremony, dinner, and dance are tonight! Lucky for us that we decided to give her a digital camera for a grad present so we will be able to capture the event on “film” tonight. I also have my old 35mm, my old APS, and my video cameras for backup. You will be able to pick me out tonight because I will be the mother with several cameras hanging off her arms–just to make sure I don’t miss a capturing a thing. We sent my digital camera off to the “camera hospital” and it will not be discharged for 3 to 6 weeks. : (

So this morning I am ready to load pictures thanks to my daughter’s new digital camera and wouldn’t you know, Blogger has now failed me! This is what I see when I try to look at my blog:

Where did my blog go? Interesting that I can log into Blogger and create a new post and my daughter can see my blog on her computer! I give up–this technology is going to get the best of me yet!

Blogger has finally allowed me to upload this picture.

This is a picture of my paint chip for our Quilt Guild’s Summer Challenge. I have placed the chip on top of one of the fat quarters that was in my prize package. This fabric will be one of the fabrics that I use to make my challenge block.