Plans for a D.I.Y. hurricane

So I'm sitting at my desk at 2pm on the Friday before the long weekend counting the minutes until I can escape from my desk and head home. In order to pass the time I've decided to write about some of my plans for the next 72 hrs of freedom. I love long weekends when we get to stick close to home because in Saskatchewan, the land of lakes and cabins, people clear out of the city at a rapid pace leaving behind quiet streets and the perfect time to shop and walk by the river and enjoy a slower pace of life...it's amazing. Joel's family also owns a wonderful cabin on a beautiful lake and I love going up there...but not when everyone else is up there also. So here I am anticipating pure bliss. So what's on the menu for the next 3 days? Well first of all what I've been waiting for my entire life (o.k. that's a bit extreme), the designing of our first kitchen. We'll meet with the cabinet lady tomorrow morning and hopefully soon I'll have a picture of what life could be like cooking in a kitchen that will fit more then one person. The thought of being able to cook with my husband seriously gives me goose bumps. Also, I have some big plans for some DIY (Do-it- yourself) projects. Joel thinks I'm crazy and wishes I could join him in his weekend asperations of being a bum but I'm thinking not. He's been working really long hard days so I will support him if that's what he would like to do, he deffinetly deserves a break. Anyways, here are a few or 4 of the projects I have planned for the weekend

Project #1: Joel has been building a beautiful bench and coat hanger type thing for our front entrance so we're/I going to paint that and then I'm going to look for some fabric to make a bench cusion.

Project #2: turn some plain, nothing special, cheap wine glasses from wal-mart into something I'm very excited about. I saw this done on someone elses blog and I had to have some, so now I will...hopefully, assuming nothing goes wrong that is :/

Project #3: Joel's great aunt gave me all her canning stuff so I was thinking I would like to try and make Salsa and maybe some jam. I've never canned before so the outconme is to be determined

Project #4: last but not least involves some cheap lanterns I bought at Ikea, I'm not sure what the plan is with these yet so we'll just have to leave that one as a mystery

anyways, I've successfully wasted 47 minutes and at the same time figured out how to get paid for writting my blog. Although I tend to complain at times about my job it deffinetly has some perks and I am very blessed by it.

I'll keep you posted on my weekend progress.

have a great long weekend