I am turning into a bagel junkie, actually, I think I always have been a bagel junkie since I “discovered” bagels in Grade 7 music class. I bet you are wondering why our teacher brought in bagels and cream cheese into her music class that day, well, it was because we were studying the soundtrack for the 1970 rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar” by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. So what does...
Sometimes when I create new designs for weaving, I am not 100% sure of how it will actually translate to the woven cloth. Even though I use weaving software to design using approximate colours, at times there are variables that you might not be able to account for.
Not so with this design as between the use of colour and the weaving draft (pattern), these towels turned out EXACTLY how I envisioned...
Go look out the window, yup, right out the back door you will find my little herb garden patch, and in it, Spring bulbs poking their sunny, bright faces out of the soil after a long winters sleep.
Spring is my favourite time of year as all the new growth “springs forth” and finally dissolves the bland whites, greys and browns...
Leftovers. Some people love them, others not so much! I always like to try to reinvent leftovers into something else. Like when I repurpose old sheets into weaving strips for rag rug weaving. I have always been a big proponent of not wasting anything, especially food. I don’t like letting them sit in the fridge until whatever becomes a green, fuzzy science experiment.
In the freezer I had some leftover taco beef...
I have spent the last year gearing up for this moment. The moment I turn my “hobby” into a cottage industry…get it…cottage? Since I live in the Great White North in a cottage? hee hee, I love a good pun.
Most of you followers already know how crafty I am, sewing, knitting and in the last 8 years, weaving and spinning has crept into the lineup of things I love to create...
In a corner of the livingroom here at the Homestead sits a folding blue patio table adorned with 3 pots and a small overhead LED light strip.
What are the lights focused on?
Cilantro!
2 pots that are overflowing with bright green leaves and stems that are standing up amazingly well from my daily assault with the scissors since they sprouted...
Well, 2020 was a complete $hitshow. My only bright spot was my 2 week vacation in Cuba back in January 2020 before the pandemic and lockdown hit.
Hubby and I bailed southern Ontario on March 25th to spend the rest of the year at the Northern Homestead. Best decision ever. In our remote area, there is not a whole lot of people and the case numbers low compared to Toronto and expanding...
This morning I woke up to the sound of gunshots, don’t worry though, it wasn’t directed at any humans, just the annual Fall duck hunters blasting my duckie buddies out of the water. It makes me sad, but I know people hunt to put food on the table and I am ok with that aspect, after all, I am a meat eater myself.
So to keep my mind off the hunters, I headed to the kitchen...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
What a weird looking number. I thought the Year 2000 was strange looking, and now 20 years have flown by.
I have been pulled in many directions in recent months and there was the whole December holiday hoopla which basically rendered no...
It has been a very hectic Spring and Summer here at the Homestead, not just the usual busy gardening season (which is now winding down), but we have had a lot of excitement with the construction of a new garage as well as a 3 Season Room addition to the Homestead. Exciting, but also anxiety filled when dealing with a contractor, glad that part is now behind us! Now that the structures are...