Hi everyone, Here’s a brief update of the garage into an art studio project. Outside the big melt is happening. And inside we’re sweeping away the cobwebs, standing on ladders and work benches… Listening to tunes…(notice how that side of the garage has all…
Hi Hi. I’m back. I’ve had to take a few weeks days off of social media. Actually, I had my finger hovering over the delete button more than once. A few personal attacks on the ol’ FB, the state of the world, not enough…
Hello and Happy Chinese New Year everyone. I’m so over the Year of the Monkey. How about you? Was the monkey good to you? OMG! Trying to out monkey the monkey last year was so difficult for me. I’m so ready for the rooster.…
My cats!!! They feel like they’re the boss around here. This is Milo. He likes to sleep in my bed with me all night and always sleeps cuddled up in the fur blanket. But I like to make my bed in the morning, so…
Santa came after all!! So many prezzies. A whole harbour in a box. I made pillows for each of the girls with some vintage flannel which belonged to my grandmother and I appliqued their names on them. Morgan had the best time with the…
I’m sitting in front of an open fire here in my peaceful and quiet living room this night before Christmas thinking what a whirl-wind day this has been. I got the house ready last night and waited (a little anxiously) for my children to…
I’m so excited to have my older children and their families here for the Christmas holidays, and, since I don’t usually have such a large crowd I rarely bake the kinds of traditional Czech Christmas cookies my grandmother (babi in Czech) used to bake.…
Hi everyone, This post is long in coming and I’ve been looking at it for several days now, but the truth is that I’m finding Christmas very hard this year. Ok, I’m just going to stop writing about that now because it’s been two…
There was a bit of daylight already when I walked into the kitchen to make my second cup of tea. Some of us were resolutely still in bed, but the little over-wintering hummingbird was out sitting on his feeder outside my kitchen door trying…
Well, what a turn-up for the books! Our rare and lovely light dusting of snow was scheduled for a change. Driving X-town listening to CBC, the words “Vancouver” and “Snowmageddon” were being brandished about on the radio. OMG everyone take cover! Now the good…
