Yesterday the fog began to clear over the lake and the sun started burning through the perpetual cloud-fog bank that has been our view for the past several months…and for a short time we had a lovely burst of sunshine streaming into our home! It was warm and lovely and uplifting! It made me begin thinking about spring and about freshening…
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Although Christmas is long since over and Valentines Day is literally around the corner, I am not a big Valentinian so I thought I would post about my favourite holiday of LOVE…Christmas!! My favourite part of the winter! If I didn’t love summer sooooooooooooo much I’d be wishing for Christmas again about now. In my dream climate the four seasons…
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4F Craftin’: How to Make a Sweater-tastic Winter Pillow
Need a little winter warm up? You could try a hot cuppa orange spice tea… or perhaps craft up a little sweater pillow to bring some warmth to your space. A super easy project that can be stitched up and sitting on your couch in the matter of an evening! The two I made are a feature in our “Winter”…
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Life: Birthdays – Will the Cake be a Bomb?? Part 2
It was a relatively successful mixing bowl cake baking experience but… a flat top. Not so much resembling a bomb at this point. What to do? Enter LOTS of chocolate icing, a marshmallow and “fuse” and some funky icing piped words to distract from the curious shape of said Bomb cake. Tah…
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Life: Birthdays – Will the Cake be a Bomb?? Part 1
My oldest son was invited to FOUR birthday parties this weekend! Many people warned me that once your kids hit kindergarten, the birthday invitations start pouring in, and that every weekend becomes Birthday Fest 3000. We haven’t really experienced that up until now… but I suppose the enslaught has begun. One of these parties is for the son of a good friend…
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