Stash Utilization
Good afternoon everyone! I have a confession to make. I am a fibre-aholic. I collect flibre…preferably silk, wool, and cotton. I have it in yarn form and in fabric form. I rug hook, so I have a lot both types for that. I also spin, which makes the situation...
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Weekly Review – Travelling Along
We are busy having great fun with our company. We spent Thanksgiving Monday exploring Halifax and area. We walked the pier in DeWolf Park in Bedford. Then headed to Saint Mary’s University. Then to Point Pleasant Park. Tuesday we had a lot of errands to run....
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Blank Note Cards!
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I had ordered new blank note cards. Well they’re here! Each card is a standard note card size with a high quality image on the front. They are on high quality card stock. I am selling these for $5 CAD each, or 5 for $20, plus free...
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Weekly Review – Hectic Days
Hi everyone! It’s been a busy week! I am preparing for our Canadian Korean friend to visit for Thanksgiving. We are having a mixed Thanksgiving dinner - both Canadian and Korean food. I’ve been busy preparing ahead of time. I made trips to various Korean grocers...
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Recipe Sources
Good morning everyone! Yesterday was a full day…of cooking. I made cranberry jelly, apple peel and core jelly, red currant jelly, strawberry jam and roasted tomatoes. I used the Cranberry Sauce recipe from “Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens”, as well as the strawberry...
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Happy Saturday Everyone!
Good afternoon everyone! It’s been a busy week, what with being the end of one month and the beginning of another. The usual banking and shopping happened. The grocery shopping was a bit more complex this time. Canadian Thanksgiving is next weekend and I wanted to...
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Back From New Brunswick
We had a great weekend trip up to New Brunswick and back. We visited Kouchibouquac National Park and scouted it out for a potential bicycle trip for Hubby next year. We had an interesting time exploring New Brunswick. We were careful to stick to the car, have...
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Weekly Review
I’m back at it again! I am finished the main part of the field in “Doom”. I’m about one quarter done. I had the opportunity to hook on it during Beth Miller’s Parris House Thursday Zoom Hook-in yesterday. If you’re interested in joining the hook-in and are on...
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Having a wonderful time…
Company arrived Saturday and we’ve been having a blast! A couple of us drove the sag wagon while the rest bicycled to Chester, Nova Scotia from Halifax. Yes. It was 77.2 km. They were an pretty tired crew when they rode up to the Mecklenburgh Inn, where we were...
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Lovin’ My New Kitchen!
Hi everyone! No rug hooking this week…I’ve been making up for lost time in my new kitchen! What have I been making? cooking red kidney beans from dried, cooking chickpeas from dried, cooking black beans from dried, baking johnnycake (aka cornbread), baking...
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Running Late…
Good morning everyone! This past weekend was busy. The kitchen is mostly done. We have two stubborn parts to it. We want to replace the light fixture over the dining area and stain the wood threshold between the living room and kitchen. The light fixtures we pick are...
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Weekly Review
Hi everyone! My kitchen is 95% done! We need to take the new dining area light fixture back and exchange it for a different one. It was too big and the wrong configuration. Hubby is fixing some drywall the electricians wrecked. To be fair to the electricians, they...
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