I am taking the time to update my Banana Bread recipe from its current form to a low-sugar form. Hubby and I have embarked on our get healthy, get fit movement for a year now and collectively, we have lost about 65lbs! WooHoo for us! There is still some weight loss to go, but in order to achieve (and maintain) a healthy weight, you...
This is a blog update for my original post back in January of 2013 to which I have modified the pattern slightly to give a symmetrical border to the washcloths as well as to account for the weight (thickness of yarn) difference from Bernat’s Handi-Crafter cotton to KnitPick’s Dishie. With KP Dishie being slightly thinner, I have added extra stitches and pattern rows to get the...
As the skies opened to overdue and highly welcomed rains on Friday morning (we have been in a drought of late) and the rain forecast for well into Saturday, the outdoor gardening tasks were wiped off the whiteboard for the weekend to be replaced by indoor ones.
Hubs had a passle of work planned for us in the crawlspace, but the deluge of rain meant...
Here in Canada, June is a special month. It is when our strawberries come into season. The short, and I mean a very short season lasting barely 3 weeks, weather depending. So when the berries are ripe, people come en masse to pick their own or buy ready picked baskets and gorge themselves until there are no more.
Fert & Palladin are Alpacas living on a farm just outside Niagara Falls, ON. In October 2014, my daughter and her hubby went to go visit the farm on one of their very few days of the year that they allow visitors. Unfortunately I couldn’t go with them that day (boo), but they did bring me back...
Hubby says these are NOT cookies. Cookies are super sweet and bad for you.
I beg to differ.
I found this recipe in a magazine and as usual, tweaked it to add things to my liking. These are a great option for when you have zero time in the morning for breakfast before you run...
Everyone needs a beach buddy.
Meet my Beach Buddy.
Pretty much 95% of the time I am lugging my humongous purse around town on various errands. I love my large purse as it has oodles of space for all of my needs as well as space for my ever present sock knitting projects. But sometimes...
Sounds yummy doesn’t it? Cake Dyeing…. Unfortunately no yummy cakes were baked, dyed or consumed for this project.
Cake dyeing is taking a skein of yarn and winding it into a “cake” with a ball winder and then dyeing it. The word “cake” came about due to the resemblance of the wound yarn to a stacked layer cake. This creates a centre-pull “ball” of yarn...
He is a handsome fellow, showing very few wrinkles for his age, considering he was born in 1867. He is of slight build and heavy for his actual size, which would be the dense hardwood that makes up the bulk of his body. Although he may be heavy, he is delicate at the same time. Lovingly carved spokes on his drive wheel, curvacious turnings on the...
I am thrilled. I am absolutely REALLY Thrilled. No, wait, I think I am over-the-moon ECSTATIC that my horrid kitchen has been banished for good, maybe only haunting me in my dreams, but, I can finally say MY KITCHEN IS DONE!!! I want to run up to the 17th floor of the building and holler from someone’s balcony on the Penthouse level (cause it’s higher than...