Made by MeghanYesterday I tried baking a couple of items out of Martha Stewart’s Holiday Cookies (a special issue of her magazine). Every now and then I find a recipe I really, really like via Martha Stewart (though I usually modify it to suit my particular taste), but I don’t regularly collect her magazine as I am […]
I will elaborate on these further in an upcoming post, but here is a teaser of Icing Sugar Chocolates being dipped: Sugar Cookies being iced: Santa Whiskers baked and ready for consumption: And rather perfect-looking shortbread (if I say so myself) (though please forgive the grungy cookie sheet – it is my favourite one and […]
Bramble, pattern found here – free – on Knitty, is supposed to be a beret, and honestly I passed it by when I first saw it, because I really am not a beret person, in fact I rarely wear hats at all. I think it is my short forehead that doesn’t play well with hats. […]
I know it seems like I am never happy when I experiment with baking and, unfortunately, this post does nothing to counter that general opinion. I had a bunch of apples. I had a brand new pie plate. I made a pie on a day that I had already been baking for 8 hours. I […]
While down at Granville Island two weekends ago, I slipped into Maiwa to find some bulky yarn… yes, the early snowfall had driven me into wanting a slouchy hat, one that would cover my entire head. Once there, I happened upon some lovely natural handspun llama and, after quick conversation with the owner of the shop, […]
I am currently swathed in cashmere [vintage, it tried to snow in Vancouver last night – crazy!!], sipping chocolate mint tea [from my own garden] and researching “dark” poetry for a young adult novel I am working on called ‘TIL DEATH [working title]. I wrote a short film with the same premise last summer when […]
Last September I took a weaving course at Birkeland Bros. Wool, taught by the famous Pearl. I had wanted to take this course for a while and I finally just signed up. Now, I thought Birkeland Bros and Pearl were great, but decided, after making 4 scarves, that weaving with the Ashford Knitter’s Loom really […]
I finally got shots of Michael’s newest socks – proudly modeled by himself by a blueberry bush in the backyard. These socks, paired with The Woolen Rabbit Kashmir yarn in the Oh! Ruby colourway, were knit from another fantastic pattern by Anne Hanson of KnitSpot. I really think the yarn perfectly suits the pattern. The […]
Using vague instructions from The New Self-Sufficient Gardener by John Seymour (see page 134), two old garbage bins [well-scrubbed] and seed potatoes from Westcoast Seeds we attempted to grow our own baked potatoes this year. We were cautioned, via instructions that came with the seed potatoes, to limit irrigation BEFORE we had growth, and I […]
Roasted Butternut Soup Recipe 1 kg squash (approx) [I used one large and one small butternut.] ¼ cup butter 1 onion, large, chopped 4 cups stock [I used homemade turkey, but usually use chicken from The Stock Market.] salt & pepper 1 cup cream Cooking Instructions: Roast squash – slice in half, dig out guts and […]