The town that was

I have a strange attraction to towns that were. I love to read and see the history of a place that once was, but over time has disappeared or died. While skimming through my daily reading of blogs I saw a post about this town that used to be, Pine Point in Canada. The center of the town was a mine, Pine Point Mine. When the mine closed, the town began to suffer. The people living in the town were later told that their town was going to be removed from the map. One of the most interesting things was that the town was not left to wither away, rather it was buried and removed from existence.

Here is a short documentary about the town.

Pine Garland

My life as usual has been extremely busy lately. I had decided that I need some side project arts and crafts time, and had found an idea of making garland with those cinnamon scented pine cones. I switched some things up with my garland and think it turned out pretty nice. He's the skinny on how to do it.

I went to Lowes and bought some scented pine cones, screw eyelet hook things, and a can of brown spray paint. At this point in the project I wasn't sure what I was going to attach my pine cones to to make the garland. The tutorial I had originally seen hooked the pine cones onto a ribbon, by punching holes in the ribbon.

Being my mother's daughter I knew I had a huge collection of ribbon at home and if I decided to go that route I was set.


Next step in the project I took all of the screw eyelet things out of their bags and spray painted them brown. Just a tip to keep in mind spray paint and cold weather do not work together. I cleared some space in my garage and spray painted in there with the help of a little space heater blowing on my workspace.



Once your screws are dry you need to screw them into the tops of your pine cones. By this point in the project it was several days later and I had found a premade jingle bell garland I decided to embellish with my pine cones. To make sure that my pine cones were going to stay on the garland I left a small opening big enough to slide the garland's wire into and then closed the gap with another twist of the screw into the pine cone.


I think the garland turned out pretty nice. And there is a faint smell of cinnamon in the air.

Craft Lake City

Craft Lake City is happening this Saturday, 2pm-9pm on Gallivan Avenue (behind the Wells Fargo Building). If you read my other blog, you have probably already seen a post about this.

If this is news to you here are the deets. I have a small little business selling vinyl chalkboard decals. We were accepted as a vendor for Craft Lake City. We participated last year and loved it, so we submitted our application this year and were accepted again. Woo Hoo!

I highly recommend making time to stop by Craft Lake City on Saturday. There are 130 vendors, live bands and food. The vendors all make their wares and have fabulous talent!

This is a great time to pick up gifts for others or just splurge and buy a ton for yourself. I know I left last year with several fabulous things.

Come check it out, and while you are there stop by and say hi.

Swagger Wagon

This is hilarious! Just try not to get the song stuck in your head.

Pioneer Day

This weekend Jon and I went to dinner with his brother Jason and his girlfriend. After dinner we walked to the car and could hear the fireworks in the distance. We spotted a parking garage and decided to see if we could see the fireworks from there.

We were in luck. We watched the show and it was awesome. No crowds and no traffic to fight with afterwards. Plus there was the fabulous atmosphere of downtown.

Closeout Price

Closeout Price...
Gee, I wonder why. Shouldn't everyone love a flavor called liquid fudge.

Loving...

Dear little beehive shaped beverage jar, I am in love with you. Will you please hitch a ride to my house where we can have BBQs and gatherings in the warm summer sun.

Thanks!