There’s always something so wonderful about the lead up to Christmas. The air is sizzling (often literally!), the “night noises” have turned on summer mode – this year with the added symphony of the pobblebonks in the frog pond going off their chops in excitement with all this rain. I’m not the kind of Christmas lover who is counting down […]
Over thirty years ago, a bunch of scrawny kids in shiny new school uniforms met in a great big terrifying playground. Seventeen years ago, we kicked off Very Grown Up Adulthood with the first wedding of the group. Saturday night, we all came together once more (well, most of us – it is 2021 after all, and travel isn’t what […]
Hello Advent!! I’m super excited to officially be in Christmas season. We’ve put up our tree, the diffuser is pumping out our favourite Christmas blend (Holiday Joy), my Spotify is tuned to a Christmas playlist, and I’m ready to dive head first into a gazillion advent challenges. Let the Christmas Craftapalooza begin! In other, non-secret-squirrel adventures around here, I have […]
…for secret squirrel making! It is quite the paradox that this last month or so in the run up to Christmas is full of creative adventures, and yet, so many of them, I can’t share. My instagram is deader than a graveyard. Ironic, really, considering next weekend I’m teaching a class about taking photos for Instagram! Even my stories, where […]
Yesterday, my Instagram memories showed me a photo from 2019. It was a picture of our vineyard, the vines struggling, the ground mostly bare. The sky was dull and grey, filled with smoke and dust, as it had been for months, and would continue to be so for months to come. I went out and shot a photo from the […]
It has been a funny kind of spring. A few hot days, and then over the weekend, in the middle of November, we had the fire on, two nights in a row. I’ve been thinking about spring sewing since the beginning of October, but it hasn’t really seemed necessary – between the few summery bits I made earlier in the […]
it’s been a reasonably crafty week, this one. Our school wrap up continues apace, though we paused for Remembrance Day lessons on Thursday. We also snuck in an hour or so of mulberry picking, with a huge haul ready for jam making. In crafty adventures, I’ve been jumping from stitching to journaling to watercolours to spending the weekend sewing costumes. […]
Advent 2019 was going to be a fabulous one. Over the past four years, I’d been partnering with another local business to provide Santa photos, and it was a raging success, culminating in a ridiculously busy 2018 that completely wiped me out. I love advent; I love Christmas crafts and parties and building the magic that is Christmas season. 2018 […]
I don’t think we’re in progress any more, Toto. Towards the end of the week last week, I was making solid progress on my Wizard of Oz cross stitch. So much so, the peanut gallery suggested I could be done by the end of the weekend. The C word wasn’t actually said out loud, but I screamed CHALLENGE ACCEPTED anyway, […]
What. A. WEEK. Like a lot of plans in the last 18 months, everything changed on a dime last Sunday night, and has been in flux ever since. There’s been a whole lot of doom scrolling. Mr15 had a couple of days off work unwell – thankfully just the garden variety unwell and not the plague variety unwell. I celebrated […]
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