Self Reliance - Let's Work Together

Anyone want to learn or hone some homemaking skills like:

• baking bread
• making pies
• canning
• sewing
• budgetting
• crafting / 'home beautification'
• handiwork (crocheting, knitting, cross-stitching, etc)
• Blogging

Feel free to add to the list.

Maybe we could share skills? In other words, one or two people go to another person's house who knows a certain skill and we learn from each other. A few years ago 4 of us, including my amazing mother-in-law got together in the fall and made apple pies. It was so much fun, we got to know each other better and we made over 20 pies in an afternoon to divvy up between us. Someone taught me how to machine quilt.

I feel confident in my ability to preserve food (jams, canned fruit), make cinnamon buns and sew some basic things. If you want to learn more, please contact me.

I would like to learn how to trade stock on the internet (not now but someday) and how to get music onto my iPod.

If you have skills and want to share please comment.

If you want to learn skills please comment.

Then we can match people up.

Sounds like a good time to me. Total Win-Win situation.

Summer Fun - Deals

Here are a few fun things in and around Red Deer that I found:
This Wednesday is the Westerner Days parade. FREE
FREE Family swimming: City of Red Deer site is not available right now but I think it's Tuesday July 17 at Dawe and Thursday July 19 at Collicutt in the evening.
MAGnificent Saturdays at the Red Deer museum: fun things for your kids each Saturday afternnon, activity included in admission.
Drive in Movie Nights at Parkland Mall: $10 per car. July 21 Twister, Aug 10 Ferris Bueller's Day Off, August 24 ET: The Extra Terrestrial
July 27-29 - Centre Fest Street Performer's Festival FREE, good idea to bring some loonies and toonies for the performers
August 18 - Fiestaval Latin Festival - so much fun!! FREE (admission free, bring money if you want to eat)
August 18-19 Pioneer Days at Sunnybrook Farms (not sure of admission price but this is fun)

Google for more details.