Fawned Fridays

 Well, I hope Friday treated you all well.  I can’t remember Friday, in fact all of last week was rather a blur… but that just means I must have been good and busy.  The holiday season makes for far too much activity, and an very messy kitchen!  I absolutely love fall, the weather, the clothing […]

Adventures with Gluten – Basic Challah

This is my first challah baked with wheat flour, wow, very different from my usual gluten-free challah!  I feel that the gluten-free challah is much faster and easier to make, but, although it tastes delicious, it is dryer and much more difficult to make the strands and braid them. This wheat challah recipe is easy to […]

Fawned Fridays

Games to play with my baby this week. This is hilarious Who wants to learn this with me? It looks like sketching with thread instead of pencils! More on stitch direction in embroidery Pick your flavour; Challah cover quilting tutorial, Crochet challah cover pattern or painted challah cover. Short one today, I am inexplicably exhausted.  Too much life […]

Fawned Fridays – Pride Week

It’s that day again!  And wow, what a rainy one here.  It’s seems appropriate with Peterborough Pride week beginning that the rain bring us some appropriate displays of rainbows.  Send me some rainbow photos and I’ll display them here. Seeing as tomorrow is the Peterborough Pride Parade, this post will be all about rainbows.  Check […]

Mmmm Beets, Fresh Out of the Garden

A while ago I put the word out in my neighbourhood that I was looking for any fresh produce people would be willing to share out of their gardens in exchange for some of my artwork or my labour in their garden.  This offer is still on, and I love squash and pumpkin by the […]

Music Monday

Because, who doesn’t need a little music on Mondays?  Especially from a Ukrainian rock-folk-polka band! The Los Colorados Band does covers of all sorts of popular music.  You can check out their website. And just in case you missed it on Friday, a little grim humour wrapped in manic music: Join me next Monday!

Fawned Fridays

Had a wonderful road trip to Gatineau to unwind with the husband and baby for the long weekend.  Now back to the grind. I could feel the stress flooding back as soon as we neared our city limits… Ah well, look on the bright side, we have lots going on these days so we are definitely […]