Things that are making me happy…
1. Baking – I made these sea salted chocolate chop cookies after seeing Andrea at Kempt Life tweet about them and they are shockingly good. I just bought a little $10 kitchen scale so it was a fun way to try out baking according to weight.
2. Thrifted housewares – This [...]

Can we talk for a minute about how finished I am with the cold? This has been a mild winter, and for the first time in a while I’m not suffering through it on transit, but I’m still finished. Sparrows, I’m cold all the time. My toes are wrapped up in moccasins and mukluks and [...]
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In my part of the world, winter just kicked into gear again. It’s cold, and I mean it’s “you have to start brushing with sensitive toothpaste because the air will make your teeth hurt” cold*. In case you’re in need of a little comfort, I made my favourite winter comfort food recipes available to download.
I give [...]

Thank you all so much for entering, I was so excited to see so many people participate and…
Didn’t win? Don’t worry, it’s still winter in February and I’m hosting another giveaway with a different neck warmer. Come back February 1st to enter!
I’m doing battle with assignments this week, but I’ll be back on Monday with [...]

I’m officially passing the two week mark of having a head cold that make me sound like Batman in the morning and leaves my head stuffed with cotton for the rest of the day- but I’m resolving to come back on Tuesday in Full Force. I have pictures of how my garden transformed from cute [...]
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I think that sometime after reading one too many “and then I did this, and then I did this…” posts sometime in the spring I made a subconscious decision to move away from writing a running narrative on my life, and to move towards telling stories in bits and pieces. But after reading some very [...]
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