Living Creatively, Living the Dream
There are a few things I absolutely love about life…they include Friends, Food and Art. Combined…would be pretty freakin’ fantastic! A few years ago, two friends, Kara and Nic, started their blog Pepper + Paint. The idea, to combine Nic’s Continue reading Table Twenty-Five…
So here’s the thing…everyone needs to eat! Like…right away! Then…you have until Sunday to vote for your favourite dish because the thing is…the last finalist for Recipes to Riches was chosen Wednesday night…so, that leaves you until Sunday to vote Continue reading Recipe to Riches…eat NOW…then vote!!!
My nose was stuffed right up until the moment I tried President’s Choice Jammin’ Jamaican Lobster Bisque! I never dreamt it would be hot…maybe the fact that I live in Nova Scotia and lobster…in a soup form…is normally more creamy Continue reading Jammin’ Jamaican Lobster Bisque – Recipe to Riches…
I’ll admit, I haven’t read Divergent! However, I asked on the Curtains are Open Facebook Page if anyone had read the best selling novel and the responses were FANTASTIC. So…I’m on it. In fact, thanks to the folks at eOne Films, I’m on it Continue reading Divergent…
Logic would suggest that a baking beater on warp nine placed in an unruly container would cause a great amount of cupcake icing to find its way to the ceiling…and wall…and everything within a 14 foot radius. Then again, I Continue reading Baking Bad…
– – – – – – – – – To order a customized print for a loved one, please visit my Etsy Shop or Shopify Site. To learn about how I came up with the idea for this design… keep reading! Continue reading 70 things we love about you…
Spiderman and I were chatting about marriage and divorce. He told me about a friend who’d sent out a tweet saying how he’d always thought he was different because he was the only kid with divorced parents…but now it felt totally Continue reading Chocolate Dipped Strawberries & LOVE…
A few weeks ago, I answered a tweet: I was quick to respond. You see, Paige is a Graphic Design student at NSCC. We’d seen each other around and met once…maybe twice…before following each other on Twitter. Paige loves to Continue reading Take a Paige from her book…
I’ve been in a slump…but you know that. You’ve been reading…or to be a little more precise…not reading. I’ve a million posts in draft form (ok…fourteen) that are total crap. I pushed out the one about Breaking Bad but to be Continue reading I’ll trade your comment for a cookie…
For many years, if I asked my kids what they loved most about me, their response would always be “you make the best chocolate chip cookies.” I’d roll my eyes and try to get something better out of them…like maybe Continue reading What’s not to love about my cookies…
If I had no expectations at all then maybe, just maybe, the disappointments wouldn’t be so great. But then…where would I be without expectations? Without these over pumped-up goals and dreams that have me reaching far beyond what I’m capable Continue reading Expectations…
January sucks. For starters, if you read my blog for “inspiration, “I’d suggest you press that little x in the corner and back yourself out of here before I’m dragging you down with me! Thing is…I’ve never been a fan Continue reading January sucks…
Last night, sitting around with a couple of girlfriends…we chit chatted about the year ahead, our expectations and what we’re working towards. My friend, Spray (a name she received from a single hilarious moment involving a spray bottle), spoke quite Continue reading Being present…
Yeah I know…I know! It’s been multiple days since I’ve written anything but the thing is…I’ve got stuff going on. Here’s what I can tell you… There’s this thing where I’m in meetings and we’re trying to make decisions and Continue reading Non-bloggable blogging…
In slow motion, as I sat on my couch this morning drinking my tea and admiring the newly decorated Christmas tree…it fell to the ground. With a smash. I tried to jump, grab the tree, yell timber…anything, that would make Continue reading If a tree falls…
OK, so here’s what’s been going on this weekend. I sat! After weeks of writing and designing to get my book ready for the printer, a few contracts thrown in, Spiderman breaking his collar-bone causing me to jump into “mom Continue reading Sit.
I’ve tossed around the idea of a book for a while. For years…as in, I have one half written that someday, given the right amount of nerve, may actually find its way to a bookshelf. So, when folks started mentioning Continue reading I’m writing a book!
It’s quite possible that today was my favourite blogging day ever as in, I MET ERICA EHM TODAY!!! You see, this afternoon, I spent some time with the divine miss Ehm and if you’re close to my age, you’ll remember Continue reading Yummy Mummy Club…
With The Tall Blonde graduating from her undergrad this year and the two younger ones heading in that direction…add the fact that I went back to school and just finished my two-year course a few months ago…I’m all too aware Continue reading RBC RESP – The future is theirs…
I celebrated the day I pumped my own gas. We were heading home from hockey when the gas light came on. The station by our home had given up “full serve” and I’d found myself driving out of my way Continue reading Reasons to celebrate…