The past week my prairie city has been warm. Beautifully and wonderfully warm, so you don’t have to brace when you go outside. I love this time of year because it reminds me of how relative everything is in life. In the fall -7°C (19°F) was a looming and frightening temperature that had me bundling [...]
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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 [...]

Current Inspiration
Canadian Pride – The Olympics have been amazing, and I’ve been kind of brimming with pride these past weeks. I love that everyone has been able to peek inside our borders to see how amazing embracing multiculturalism has made us. There isn’t anywhere in the world I would rather live than in the middle [...]

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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Over the past year I’ve received a lot of inquiries from bloggers asking for help- from how to embed vlogs on their blog, to how to network with other bloggers or host mix tapes. Ever since these questions started streaming in I’ve wanted to start a series on it- so welcome to Blog Basics!
A [...]

1. Old Book Masking Tape by PrettyTape – $15.50
2. Dark Colours A by studiokoizumi – $16
3. Weekdays three roll set by downtownfabrics – $10
4. Teal Grid Set by happytape – $22
5. Light Set of Five by washimatta- $16.25
Over the past year I’ve been swapping a lot of mail with and one of the things that [...]

I’m sure we’re all nearly Valentined out, so this weekend I have a project for you that’s about love but that doesn’t involve roses or expensive food. It’s even free.
If you own animals, show them you love them by getting an “In Case Of Emergency” sticker for your house or apartment. In case something goes [...]
